10th Anniversary of JCDD—'Cardiac Development and Regeneration' Section — from Development to Regeneration

Dear Colleagues,

We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the section “Cardiac Development and Regeneration” of the Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease with a Special Issue focusing on the advances in cardiac regeneration, including relevant discoveries in heart development during the last 10 years. 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, peer reviewers, editors, journal staff, and all other people that have contributed to the success of the Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease.

In the last 10 years, major advances have been made in understanding heart development and in identifying potential therapeutic strategies to treat heart diseases. Examples include the identification of pdgfrb+ cells regulating coronary vessel development and revascularization during heart regeneration, the establishment of cardiac organoids, 3D bioprinting of a four-chambered heart, understanding the nuclear MTOC in cardiomyocytes, modRNA-based heart therapies, and utilizing the Hippo pathway for heart regeneration based on cardiomyocyte proliferation. The purpose of this Special Issue is to review and comment on these and similar advances and to present novel related findings.

It is a real pleasure to serve as guest editors of this Special Issue. We invite you to contribute original research manuscripts, short communications, up-to-date review articles, and commentaries on a trendy or hot topic for peer-review and possible publication.

Prof. Dr. Felix B. Engel
Dr. Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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