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MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising young researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2022 in medicine and pharmacology. The winners were selected by the journals’ Award Evaluation Committee.

We would like to warmly congratulate the awarded young investigators for their outstanding contributions. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Biomedicines:

• Yuyan Jiang, Stanford University, USA
• Billy Wai-Lung Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Cancers:

• Ashleigh Poh, The Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, Australia
• Miranda Fidler-Benaoudia, University of Calgary, Canada

Current Oncology:

• Bishal Gyawali, Queen’s University, Canada

Healthcare:

• Shahnawaz Anwer, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

JCM:

• Jan Bednarsch, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

JPM:

• Anda Mihaela Naciu, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Italy
• Jerome Lechien, University of Mons, Belgium

Pharmaceuticals:

• Daniele Bertoglio, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Pharmaceutics:

• Gregor Fuhrmann, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

TropicalMed:

• Haley Adcox, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

About MDPI Awards:

In order to support the academic community, especially young researchers, and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and a form of recognition, help to promote the influence of talented individuals who have made outstanding achievements and are making significant contributions to the advancement of their fields.

For more MDPI awards, please click here.

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2022 Travel Awards in medicine and pharmacology category for their outstanding presentations.

MDPI journals regularly offer Travel Awards to encourage talented junior scientists to present their research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to enhance their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2022 Travel Awards and wish them success with their future research endeavors. MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Antibiotics:

• Filip Jansåker, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
• Vanessa Silva, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal

Cancers:

• Diego de Miguel Perez, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
• Luigi Russo, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy

Current Oncology:

• Sneha Sethi, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Xiyin Wang, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA

Dentistry Journal:

• Sonia Nath, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Konstantina Kritikou, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania

Diagnostics:

• Adrien Holzgreve, The University Hospital of Munich, Germany

Hemato:

• Antonella Padella, Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori "Dino Amadori" - IRST S.r.l., Italy

JCDD:

• Susanna Cooper, St. George’s University of London, UK
• Renée Tillie, Maastricht University Medical Center, the Netherlands

JCM:

• Max Lennart Eckstein, University of Bayreuth, Germany
• Lorenzo Bertani, University of Pisa, Italy

Pharmaceutics:

• Yuxue Cao, University of Queensland, Australia
• Flávia Sousa, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

About MDPI Awards:

In order to support the academic community, especially young researchers, and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and form ot recognition, help to promote the influence of talented individuals who have made outstanding achievements and are making significant contributions to their fields.

See more MDPI awards, please click here.

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize the winners for the year 2022 in medicine and pharmacology for their outstanding contributions among the extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the winners on their achievements. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Antibiotics:

• Maxime Pichon, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers, France
• Violeta Popovici, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania
• Yosra A. Helmy, University of Kentucky, USA

Cancers:

• Antonio G. Solimando, Aldo Moro University of Bari, Italy
• Linlin Guo, The Ohio State University Medical Center, USA
• Ravindra Deshpande, Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA
• Songli Zhu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
• Antonella Argentiero, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II” of Bari, Italy
• Camelia Coada, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Italy
• Chenghui Li, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
• Laurentiu Pop, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
• Muhammad Fazal Ijaz, Dongguk University, Republic of Korea
• Rafał Watrowski, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Ruben C. Petreaca, The Ohio State University, USA
• Ruchi Roy, Rush University Medical Center, USA
• Salvatore Cocuzza, University of Catania, Italy
• Santosh Kumar Singh, Morehouse School of Medicine, USA
• Sergei Boichuk, Kazan State Medical University, Russia
• Simon John Christoph Soerensen, Stanford University, USA
• Takuya Koie, Gifu University, Japan
• Teresa Rubio-Tomás, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
• Teruki Nii, Kyushu University, Japan
• Tomasz Marjanski, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland

Current Oncology:

• Kristen Haase, The University of British Columbia, Canada
• Ravi Ramjeesingh, Nova Scotia Cancer Centre and Dalhousie University, Canada
• Makoto Endo, Kyushu University, Japan

Healthcare:

• Tefera Tadesse, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• Ravi Ramjeesingh, Nova Scotia Cancer Centre and Dalhousie University, Canada
• Ryuichi Ohta, Unnan City Hospital, Japan

JCM:

• Henry Sutanto, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, the Netherlands
• José-María Sánchez-González, University of Seville, Spain
• Emmanouil Kapetanakis, General Hospital of Piraeus “Tzaneio”, Greece

JPM:

• Eleonora Topino, Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA), Italy
• Rodolfo Reda, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Giulio Francesco Romiti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Maria Gabriella Melchiorre, IRCCS INRCA—National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing, Italy
• James Walter, ¹Hines VA Hospital, USA; ² Loyola Medical Center, USA

Medical Sciences:

• Vasiliki Tsigkou, Sotiria Hospital, Greece

Pharmaceutics:

• Flavia Zacconi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
• Bhupendra Prajapati, Ganpat University, India
• Van-An Duong, Gachon University, Republic of Korea
• Ashish Agrawal, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India

Tomography:

• Aydin Eresen, University of California Irvine, USA

About MDPI Awards:

In order to support the academic community, especially young researchers, and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and form of recognition, help to promote the influence of talented individuals who have made outstanding achievements and are making significant contributions to their fields.

See more MDPI awards, please click here.

MDPI’s Best PhD Thesis Awards aim to recognize young scholars who are deemed to have produced the most outstanding PhD thesis in their fields of research and to encourage them to continue their outstanding work and further contributions to their field.

We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2022 Best PhD Thesis Awards in medicine and pharmacology and wish them success with their future research endeavors. MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Cancers:

• “Uncovering Novel Prognostic and Predictive Epigenetic Biomarkers in Malignant Testicular Germ Cell Tumors”

by João Pedro da Silva Machado Lobo, University of Porto, Portugal

• “Metastatic Recurrence in Colorectal Cancer Arises from Residual EMP1+ Cells”

by Adrià Cañellas Socias, University of Barcelona, Spain

Healthcare:

• “Investigating Novel Aspects of the Blood–Brain Barrier Using High-Resolution Electron Microscopy”

by Shireen Mentor, University of Cape Town, South Africa

JPM:

• “An Epidemiological Approach to Study The Interplay between Genome, Epigenome and Exposome in Women”

by Roberta Magnano San Lio, University of Catania, Italy

Pharmaceutics:

• “Intravitreal Liposomes as Ocular Drug Delivery Systems: Vitreal Interactions, Retinal Permeation and Drug Release Characteristics”

by Shirin Tavakoli, University of Helsinki, Finland

TropicalMed:

• “Microbiome-Mediated Colonization Resistance: Defense against Enteropathogens and Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms”

by Quinten Ducarmon, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands

About MDPI Awards:

In order to support the academic community, especially young researchers, and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and form of recognition, help to promote the influence of talented individuals who have made outstanding achievements and are making significant contributions to their fields.

For more MDPI awards, please click here.

The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The editors of each journal carefully selected review and research papers through a rigorous evaluative process based on criteria such as the scientific merit, overall impact, and quality of presentation of the papers published in the journal.

We are honored to present the winners for the year 2022 in medicine and pharmacology, who were selected amongst extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Antibiotics:

• “Development and Challenges of Antimicrobial Peptides for Therapeutic Applications”
  by Charles H. Chen and Timothy K. Lu
  Antibiotics 2020, 9(1), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9010024

• “Antimicrobial Usage and Resistance in Companion Animals: A Cross-Sectional Study in Three European Countries”
  by Philip Joosten, Daniela Ceccarelli, Evelien Odent, Steven Sarrazin, Haitske Graveland, Liese Van Gompel, Antonio Battisti, Andrea Caprioli, Alessia Franco, Jaap A. Wagenaar et al.
  Antibiotics 2020, 9(2), 87; https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9020087

Dentistry Journal:

• “Management of Peri-Implantitis Lesions without the Use of Systemic Antibiotics: A Systematic Review”
  by Ahsen Khan, Ankit Goyal, Scott D. Currell and Dileep Sharma
  Dent. J. 2020, 8(3), 106; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj8030106

• “Associations among Primary Stability, Histomorphometric Findings, and Bone Density: A Prospective Randomized Study after Alveolar Ridge Preservation with a Collagen Cone”
  by Sigmar Schnutenhaus, Werner Götz, Jens Dreyhaupt, Heike Rudolph, Ralph G. Luthardt and Cornelia Edelmann
  Dent. J. 2020, 8(4), 112; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj8040112

Healthcare:

• “Novel Prefrontal Synthesis Intervention Improves Language in Children with Autism”
  by Andrey Vyshedskiy, Edward Khokhlovich, Rita Dunn, Alexander Faisman, Jonah Elgart, Lisa Lokshina, Yuriy Gankin, Simone Ostrovsky, Lauren deTorres, Stephen M. Edelson et al.
  Healthcare 2020, 8(4), 566; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040566

• “The Effects of Long-Term 40-Hz Physioacoustic Vibrations on Motor Impairments in Parkinson’s Disease: A Double-Blinded Randomized Control Trial”
  by Abdullah Mosabbir, Quincy J. Almeida and Heidi Ahonen
  Healthcare 2020, 8(2), 113; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8020113

JCM:

• “Racial Disparities-Associated COVID-19 Mortality among Minority Populations in the US”
  by Donald J. Alcendor
  J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(8), 2442; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082442

• “Hypertension, Thrombosis, Kidney Failure, and Diabetes: Is COVID-19 an Endothelial Disease? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Clinical and Basic Evidence”
  by Celestino Sardu, Jessica Gambardella, Marco Bruno Morelli, Xujun Wang, Raffaele Marfella and Gaetano Santulli
  J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(5), 1417; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9051417

• “Estimation of the Transmission Risk of the 2019-nCoy and Its Implication for Public Health Interventions”
  by Biao Tang, Xia Wang, Qian Li, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Sanyi Tang, Yanni Xiao and Jianhong Wu
  J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(2), 462; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9020462

JPM:

• “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; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm10030101

• “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; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm10030080

• “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; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm10040179

Pharmaceutics:

• "Manufacturing Considerations for the Development of Lipid Nanoparticles Using Microfluidics”
  by Carla B. Roces, Gustavo Lou, Nikita Jain, Suraj Abraham, Anitha Thomas, Gavin W. Halbert and Yvonne Perrie
  Pharmaceutics 2020, 12(11), 1095; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12111095

• “Development of Remdesivir as a Dry Powder for Inhalation by Thin Film Freezing”
  by Sawittree Sahakijpijarn, Chaeho Moon, John J. Koleng, Dale J. Christensen and Robert O. Williams III
  Pharmaceutics 2020, 12(11), 1002; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12111002

• “Skin Wound Healing Process and New Emerging Technologies for Skin Wound Care and Regeneration”
  by Erika Maria Tottoli, Rossella Dorati, Ida Genta, Enrica Chiesa, Silvia Pisani and Bice Conti
  Pharmaceutics 2020, 12(8), 735; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics12080735

Pharmacy:

• “The Role of Hospital and Community Pharmacists in the Management of COVID-19: Towards an Expanded Definition of the Roles, Responsibilities, and Duties of the Pharmacist”
  by Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Muhammad Mansour, Alessandro Bonsignore and Rosagemma Ciliberti
  Pharmacy 2020, 8(3), 140; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8030140

• “Association of a Novel Medication Risk Score with Adverse Drug Events and Other Pertinent Outcomes Among Participants of the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly”
  by David L. Bankes, Hubert Jin, Stephanie Finnel, Veronique Michaud, Calvin H. Knowlton, Jacques Turgeon and Alan Stein
  Pharmacy 2020, 8(2), 87; doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8020087

About MDPI Awards:

In order to support the academic community, especially young researchers, and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and form of recognition, help to promote the influence of talented individuals who have made outstanding achievements and are making significant contributions to their fields.

See more MDPI awards, please click here.

We are pleased to announce that Tomography (ISSN: 2379-139X) held a successful meeting with the journal’s Editorial Board Members on 29 June 2023, chaired by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Emilio Quaia. With the Editorial Board Members’ suggestion and for the better development of Tomography in the future, we adjusted the aims and scope of Tomography, which are outlined below.

Aims and Scope

Mission statement: Tomography (ISSN: 2379-139X) publishes peer-reviewed original articles spanning all aspects of (bio)medical imaging in healthcare and life biological science including microscopy, ranging from basic research to clinical science, clinical applications, and innovations in imaging data science, as well as artificial intelligence.

Topics of interest: Topics of interest include the advancement of (bio)medical imaging technologies across multiple scales in space and time, including cross-sectional imaging modalities (for example: US, CT, MRI, and PET), as well as other imaging modalities (for example, bioluminescence, photoacoustic, optical and electronic microscopy, optical imaging, cryo-electron microscopy, fiber optic imaging, and optical computed tomography). Original articles on advances in biomedical imaging hardware and software, novel imaging contrast mechanisms and agents, imaging informatics, imaging analysis, and AI applications in biomedical imaging, as well as on chemical and molecular probe developments are welcome.

For more journal information, please check the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/tomography/about.

With the first issue released in June 2023, five new MDPI journals disseminating multi-disciplinary science are due to launch, which will cover the subjects of medicine & pharmacology, biology and physical sciences.

The newly launched journals will be overseen by professional Editorial Board Members and Editors to ensure an accurate and rapid publication, rigorous peer review and broad visibility.

Please feel free to browse and discover more about the new journals below.

Journal	Founding Editor-in-Chief	Journal topics (selected)
	Prof. Dr. Jun Ma, Peking University, China| Editorial | view inaugural issue	growth and development; diet and nutrients; school health promotion policies and practices; child health and care; adolescent health and wellbeing | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Bernd Rehm, Griffith University, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	DNA and gene synthesis; synthetic transcription factors; protein engineering; viral engineering; metabolic engineering | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Varsha Gandhi, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	lymphatics; cancers associated with lymphocytes and lymphoblasts; lymphatic tissues; lymphoma; lymphoid leukemia | view journal scope | submit an article
	Dr. Bradley Turner, University of Melbourne, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	multiple sclerosis; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; primary lateral sclerosis; atherosclerosis; systemic sclerosis | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Clemens Burda, Case Western Reserve University, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	Gamma ray, X-ray, and UV–Vis spectroscopies; NIR/mid-infrared/Raman spectroscopy; microwave and THz spectroscopy; high-resolution gas-phase atomic, molecular, and cluster spectroscopy; MS, NMR, and EPR spectroscopy | view journal scope | submit an article

We wish to thank everyone who has supported the development of open access publishing. You are welcome to submit an application to the New Journal Committee (newjournal-committee@mdpi.com) if you would like to create more new journals.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Pascal N. Tyrrell has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging” Section in Tomography (IF: 1.9, ISSN: 2379-139X).

Name: Prof. Dr. Pascal N. Tyrrell

Affiliation:
1. Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1W7, Canada;
2. Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1W7, Canada;
3. Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1W7, Canada.

Interests: artificial Intelligence; biostatistics; machine learning; medical images

Website: https://medical-imaging.utoronto.ca/faculty/pascal-tyrrell

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Pascal N. Tyrrell, who shared his vision for the journal with us, as well as his views of the research area and open access publishing:

1. What appealed to you about Tomography that made you want to take the role as its Section Editor-in-Chief?
The aims and scope of our journal Tomography fit my area of research perfectly! I also enjoy the fact that the journal includes both imaging and optical modalities which provides ample opportunity for cross-pollination in this interesting area of science.

2. What is your vision for the Section?
I think artificial intelligence is an inevitable technological advance that will provide incredible progress in all areas of research and development it is applied to. As a journal, we should get out in front of these advances in order to contribute and be a part of the change that is happening in the field of tomography.

3. What does the future of this field of research look like?
The future of AI in tomography is bright. What an exciting time for scientists! Be prepared for a tsunami of impactful AI research applications.

4. What do you think of the development of open access in publishing?
Open access publishing’s main advantage is free access to scientific literature (especially for researchers in developing countries) resulting in a wider readership. The biggest challenge, of course, is quality control. If done right, open access publishing will contribute to the democratization of science in a sustainable way.

We look forward to Prof. Dr. Pascal N. Tyrrell’s contribution to the continued success of the journal.

We are pleased to announce that four new scholars were appointed Editorial Board Members (EBMs) of Tomography (ISSN: 2379-139X) in May 2023. We wish our new members success in both their research and the development of the journal.

Further details about the Editorial Board can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/tomography/editors.

Tomography is recruiting prestigious scholars from around the world to join our Editorial Board. To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Tomography Editorial Office (tomography@mdpi.com) with the following two files attached:

• A full academic CV;
• A short cover letter that details your interest in and enthusiasm for the position.

Tomography Editorial Office