Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that JPM is now inviting nominations for the JPM 2021 Young Investigator Awards. This prize will be given to two young investigators in recognition of their excellence in the field of personalized medicine. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Stephen B. Liggett.

The prize:
– 1000 CHF/per researcher;
– Electronic certificate, and also a paper certificate to be issued in a specific conference;
– Waiver of article processing fee for a manuscript accepted for publication in JPM.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– Below 40 years of age and have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 30 September 2021;
– Have ground-breaking research and a significant contribution to the advancement of personalized medicine;
– Candidates must be nominated by senior researchers, research directors, or department heads.

List of Documents for Nomination
– Birth certificate or other proof of age;
– Detailed Curriculum Vitae including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule
Open for nominations: 15 January 2021.
Nomination deadline: 30 September 2021.
Winners announced: 30 October 2021.

How to submit nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact
Ms. Xu
Marketing Specialist
Email: [email protected]

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce that the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM) will be presenting its 2020 Highly Cited Paper Awards, which will recognize the most cited papers in the past 2 years. We hope that these awards will encourage the publication of more high-quality papers in JPM.

Requirements:

Papers published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2019 are eligible to compete for these awards. Three research or review articles will receive these awards, following a thorough evaluation by the Editorial Office of JPM. 

Selection Guidelines:

In August 2021, the Editorial Office of JPM will select and award the winners. Paper citation data are based on citations in Web of Science in 2020.

Prizes:

Each of the three winners will receive a certificate from MDPI. The paper with the highest number of citations will receive the first prize of 700 Swiss Francs. The paper with the second-highest number of citations will receive the second prize of 500 Swiss Francs. The paper with the third-highest number of citations will receive the third prize of 300 Swiss Francs. Each of the three winners will also be granted the opportunity to publish a paper in JPM for free (following the standard peer-review process).

The winners will be announced on the journal website in August 2021.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the JPM 2020 10th Anniversary Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The JPM Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to express their gratitude for the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to JPM. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround have been maintained.

Each of them will receive a chance to publish one paper in JPM free of charge before 1 August 2021, 500 Swiss Francs, and a certificate to recognize their outstanding work. Please join us in congratulating the following winners:

1. Dr. Alain R. Thierry
   Cancer Research Institute of Montpellier, INSERM, Montpellier, France
   Research Interest: circulating DNA; clinical diagnostic and cancer; DNA auto-organization: synthetic biology, nanotechnology and gene therapy

2. Prof. Dr. Dirk Henrich
   Department for Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
   Research Interest: cell culture; gene expression; flow cytometry; primary cell culture; inflammation; resuscitation; sepsis; tissue engineering; diabetes; immunology; innate immunity; stem cell biology

3. Dr. Francesca Mancuso
   Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
   Research Interest: diabetes; transplant immunology; microencapsulation; pancreatic islets

4. Dr. Jacob J. Michaelson
   Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
   Research Interest: gene expression; genomics; gene regulation; regulation of gene expression; mutation; computational biology; genome sequencing; gene expression and chromatin biology; methylation; computational genomics

Kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Stephen B. Liggett

Editor-in-Chief, JPM

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of JPM, I am pleased to announce the Best Paper Award in JPM 2018.

S. Pamela K. Shiao, James Grayson, Chong Ho Yu, Brandi Wasek, Teodoro Bottiglieri. Gene Environment Interactions and Predictors of Colorectal Cancer in Family-Based, Multi-Ethnic Groups. J. Pers. Med. 2018, 8, 10.

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/8/1/10

We believe the above paper represents a valuable contribution to JPM and the scientific literature. Warmly congratulate Dr. S. Pamela K. Shiao and her group. They will receive a 500 Swiss Francs (CHF) cash prize.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Stephen B. Liggett
University of South Florida College of Medicine,
Tampa, USA

Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426; CODEN: JPMOB3) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on personalized medicine published quarterly online by MDPI.

As Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), on behalf of the Travel Award 2017 Committee, it is my pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2017 JPM Travel Award is Chiara Fabbri. Chiara Fabbri graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2011 and she is now finishing her training as a psychiatrist at Bologna University and writing her Ph.D. thesis.
She performs research on the genetics of mood disorders and pharmacogenetics of antidepressants at Bologna University and she spent one year as visiting researcher at the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) King’s College London. She has co-authored around 50 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals. WINNER 2017 TRAVEL AWARD
On behalf of JPM, she will be awarded 800 Swiss Francs to attend the 17th World Congress of Psychiatry that will be held 8–12 October 2017 in Berlin, Germany. There, she will present her work on “Pharmacogenomic meta-analysis of antidepressant treatment response in GENDEP and STAR*D” as an oral presentation in the symposium entitled Pharmacogenomics of Mood Disorders.

As Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), on behalf of the Travel Award 2016 Committee, it is my pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2016 JPM Travel Award is Claudia Ojeda Granados.
Claudia Ojeda-Granados is a third-year Ph.D. student in Molecular Biology in the Medicine Doctoral Program at the Universidad of Guadalajara, Mexico. She has been involved in both basic and clinical protocols regarding nutrigenetics and nutritional intervention therapy in patients with liver disease since 2013 and she has already co-authored more than ten publications in the field. On behalf of JPM, she will be awarded 800 Swiss Francs to attend the HGM2017 “From Genomics to Therapy” that will be held 5–7 February 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. There, she will present her work on “Nutritional Genomic Therapy as an Intervention Strategy in Patients with Obesity from West Mexico”.