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”.