Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM) will be granting the Travel Award to two junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the JPM Editorial Board.

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of personalized medicine to be held in 2024, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2024 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winners (two awardees) will each be awarded CHF 800 and a certificate.

Please submit your applications for the JPM 2024 Travel Award online by 31 January 2024. Prizes will be awarded at the end of March 2024 and announced on the JPM website.

Kind regards,
JPM Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The journal JPM is inviting applications for the 2023 Best PhD thesis award. This prize will be awarded to a PhD student or recently qualified PhD student who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee led by Prof. Dr. David Alan Rizzieri.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD student who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential;
– The PhD thesis must be their original work;
– The PhD thesis must be defended in 2023.

Required Application Documents:
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words;
– A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
– A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of proof of study at a school or research institute as a PhD student who will be going on to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria:
– Quality of resume and publications;
– Relevance of the candidate and research description;
– Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
– Strength of the recommendation letter;
– Anticipated academic potential;
– Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes:
– Bonus (CHF 800);
– Certificate;
– Offer to publish one paper free of charge in JPM after peer review before the end of 2024.

The application deadline is 29 February 2024. The winner will be announced on the JPM website by the end of May 2024.

Kind regards,
JPM Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM) is now inviting nominations for the JPM 2023 Young Investigator Award. 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 Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. David Alan Rizzieri.

The Prize:
– CHF 1000 for each winner;
– Option to publish one paper free of charge in the Journal of Personalized Medicine after peer review before the end of 2024;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 January 2024;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of personalized medicine;
– Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination:
– 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: 7 June 2023
Nomination deadline: 31 December 2023
Winner announcement: 31 March 2024

How to Submit Nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact:
Email: [email protected]

Kind regards,
JPM Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the JPM 2022 Young Investigator Award are Dr. Anda Mihaela Naciu and Dr. Jerome Lechien.

Dr. Anda Mihaela Naciu is a Consultant Endocrinologist at the Unit of Metabolic Bone and Thyroid Disorders, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico (Via Alvaro del Portillo 200, 00128 Rome, Italy). Dr. Anda Mihaela Naciu’s research interests include osteoporosis, thyroid disorders, thyroid ultrasound, parathyroid disorders, calcium metabolism disorders, type 2 diabetes and cancer-related endocrine disorders. Dr. Naciu received her PhD in 2021 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 32 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 1 international patent. Dr. Anda Mihaela Naciu’s Scopus Scientific Citations number 341 and her Hirsch index is 10. She is clearly a rising star in the field of endocrine research and the clinical arena. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Naciu for her outstanding achievements.

Dr. Jerome Lechien is a Professor of Otolaryngology, Anatomy & Physiology, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium. Dr. Lechien’s research interests include many research fields, including COVID-19, chronic rhinosinusitis, reflux, personalized medicine, artificial intelligence, and head and neck cancer. Dr. Lechien received his PhD in 2017 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 419 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Jerome Lechien’s Scopus Scientific Citations number 6,655 and his Hirsch index is 36. He is clearly a rising star in the field of otolaryngology. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Lechien for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardees, Dr. Naciu and Dr. Lechien will receive an honorarium of CHF 1000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge in 2023 in JPM after peer-review, and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

JPM 2022 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the JPM 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The JPM Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge 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 JPM and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Eleonora Topino
Department of Human Sciences, Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA), Rome, Italy
Research interests: alexithymia; mentalizing; mentalization; gambling; addictions; behavioral addictions; mental health

Dr. Rodolfo Reda
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Research interests: restaurative dentistry; endodontics; prosthodontics; implantology; dental imaging

Dr. Giulio Francesco Romiti
Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Research interests: atrial fibrillation; anticoagulants; thrombosis; ischemic heart disease; cardiovascular diseases and relationship with infectious disease; pneumonia

Dr. Maria Gabriella Melchiorre
Centre for Socio-Economic Research on Ageing, IRCCS INRCA—National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing, Ancona, Italy
Research interests: family caregiving of older people; long-term care; prevention of abuse and neglect in old age; migrant care workers; multimorbidity; frailty; eHealth

Dr. James Walter
1. Hines VA Hospital, Research Service, Hines, IL, USA
2. Department of Urology, Loyola Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA
Research interests: neurourology research and practice

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in JPM in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
JPM Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of JPM, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the JPM 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted to:

“An Epidemiological Approach to Study The Interplay between Genome, Epigenome and Exposome in Women” By Roberta Magnano San Lio, University of Catania, Italy

The winner will receive CHF 800, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in JPM in 2023.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate the winner on her accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. David Alan Rizzieri
Editor-in-Chief, JPM

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM) 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 in JPM were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.

One Review
Breast Cancer Treatments: Updates and New Challenges
By Anna Burguin, Caroline Diorio and Francine Durocher*
J. Pers. Med. 2021, 11(8), 808; doi:10.3390/jpm11080808

One Article
Myocarditis and Pericarditis following COVID-19 Vaccination: Inequalities in Age and Vaccine Types
By Minghui Li, Jing Yuan, Gang Lv, Jacob Brown, Xiangxiang Jiang and Zhiqiang Kevin Lu*
J. Pers. Med. 2021, 11(11), 1106; doi:10.3390/jpm11111106

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in JPM in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the JPM 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of JPM.

Kind regards,
JPM Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the JPM 2021 Reviewer Award. The JPM Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge 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 are maintained.

Dr. Onofrio Laselva
Department of Medical and Surgical Science, University of Foggia, Italy
Research Interests: epithelial biology; cystic fibrosis; molecular biology; CFTR; pluripotent stem (iPS) cells; cell culture

Dr. Ping-Hsun Wu
Division of Nephrology, Department of internal medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Research Interests: clinical epidemiology; pharmacoepidemiology; molecular epidemiology; multi-omics; microbiota; uremic toxins; chronic kidney disease; hemodialysis; cardiovascular disease; mineral bone disease

Dr. Vladimir Vladimirov
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Biomarker Research and Precision Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Research Interests: psychiatric disorders; biochemistry; genetics and molecular biology; bioinformatics; neuroscience; epigenetics; schizophrenia; bipolar disorders; PTSD; alcohol dependence; major depression

Dr. Mauro Giuffrè
Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy;
Fondazione Italiana Fegato, Italy
Research Interests: hepatology; portal hypertension; liver elastography; spleen elastography; microbiota

Prizes:
– 500 CHF per researcher;
– Electronic certificate;
– Waiver of article processing fee for a manuscript submitted in JPM before the 30 June 2022.

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. David Alan Rizzieri
Editor-in-Chief, JPM

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the JPM 2021 Young Investigator Awards are Dr. Simone Di Franco and Dr. Catriona Hippman.

Dr. Simone Di Franco is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Surgical Oncological and Stomatological Sciences at University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. Dr. Di Franco’s research interests are in Cancer Stem Cells, Tumor Microenvironment, Combinatorial and Targeted Therapies, Cancer Biology, Cell Signaling, Molecular Cloning, and Gene Expression. He received his PhD in 2014 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 32 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Di Franco’s Scopus Scientific Citations number 1060 and his Hirsch index is 16. He is clearly a rising star in the field of Molecular Oncology. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Di Franco for his outstanding achievements.

Dr. Catriona Hippman is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Hippman’s research interests are in pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine, psychiatric genetic counselling and reproductive mental health. She received her PhD in 2020 and has an outstanding publication record, with 33 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Hippman’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 285 and her Hirsch index is 11. She is clearly a rising star in the field of personalized medicine. In the past year, Dr. Hippman has secured 4 fellowship awards in support of her work, which is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Hippman for her outstanding achievements.

As the awardees, they will each receive a prize of 1000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 31st May in JPM after peer-review, and an engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. David Alan Rizzieri
Editor-in-Chief, JPM

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the JPM 2019–2020 Best Paper Award. All of the papers that were published in JPM from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020 were considered for these awards. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the published papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. David Alan Rizzieri, were selected.

Rank 1 Award: (CHF 500 and the publication of one paper free of charge before 31 August 2022 following the normal peer-review procedure)
Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Affected in ALS
By Laura Le Gall, Ekene Anakor, Owen Connolly, Udaya G. Vijayakumar, William J. Duddy and Stephanie Duguez
J. Pers. Med. 2020, 10(3), 101; doi: 10.3390/jpm10030101

Rank 2 Award: (CHF 300 and the publication of one paper free of charge before 31 August 2022 following the normal peer-review procedure)
Postulated Adjuvant Therapeutic Strategies for COVID-19
By Anderson O. Ferreira, Hudson C. Polonini and Eli C. F. Dijkers
J. Pers. Med. 2020, 10(3), 80; doi: 10.3390/jpm10030080

Rank 3 Award: (CHF 200 and the publication of one paper free of charge before 31 August 2022 following the normal peer-review procedure)
Evidences of CTLA-4 and PD-1 Blocking Agents-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Cellular and Preclinical Models
By Vincenzo Quagliariello, Margherita Passariello, Domenica Rea, Antonio Barbieri, Martina Iovine, Annamaria Bonelli, Antonietta Caronna, Gerardo Botti, Claudia De Lorenzo and Nicola Maurea
J. Pers. Med. 2020, 10(4), 179; doi: 10.3390/jpm10040179

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of the nominated research groups of the abovementioned exceptional papers for their contributions to JPM and thank the award committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. David Alan Rizzieri, JPM
Editor-in-Chief

Dear colleagues,

As the editor-in-chief of JPM, I am pleased to announce the winners of the JPM 2020 Highly Cited Paper Awards.

The awards have been granted to:

One Review

Ten Years’ Experience with the CYP2D6 Activity Score: A Perspective on Future Investigations to Improve Clinical Predictions for Precision Therapeutics
Authors: Andrea Gaedigk; Jean C. Dinh, Hyunyoung Jeong, Bhagwat Prasad and J. Steven Leeder
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/8/2/15
Award: 700 Swiss Francs and a quota of one free publication

Two research articles:

Physician-Reported Benefits and Barriers to Clinical Implementation of Genomic Medicine: A Multi-Site IGNITE-Network Survey
Authors: Aniwaa Owusu Obeng, Kezhen Fei, Kenneth D. Levy, Amanda R. Elsey, Toni I. Pollin, Andrea H. Ramirez, Kristin W. Weitzel and Carol R. Horowitz
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/8/3/24
Award: 500 Swiss Francs and a quota of one free publication

The Developing Story of Predictive Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer
Authors: Stergios Boussios, Mehmet Akif Ozturk, Michele Moschetta, Afroditi Karathanasi, Nikolaos Zakynthinakis-Kyriakou, Konstantinos H. Katsanos, Dimitrios K. Christodoulou and Nicholas Pavlidis
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/9/1/12
Award: 300 Swiss Francs and a quota of one free publication

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their
contributions to JPM, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. David Alan Rizzieri

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”.