Dear Reader,


Welcome to the final issue of Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy for 2020.

This year has presented many challenges, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed to ensuring the journal has thrived despite the extraordinary circumstances that the science community, and the world in general, has faced.

I would like to start by thanking the authors of the articles published in Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy over the course of 2020. The enthusiasm of all authors for their chosen fields and their willingness to contribute content to the journal are crucial for its continued success.

The quality of published articles is also testament to the diligence of the peer reviewers, whose willingness to share their expertise ensures that the journal’s content is held to the highest standard. I would like to acknowledge the following individuals who acted as reviewers for Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy in the last 12 months:

Hanin Abdel-Haq, Italy

Archana Agarwal, USA

Radica Z. Alicic, USA

James E. Allison, USA

Raquel Almeida, Portugal

Graça Almeida-Porada, USA

Hideyuki Arita, Japan

Bahar K. Atakul, Turkey

Chun Hang Au, Hong Kong, China

Sara Baldassari, France

Lisa F. Barcellos, USA

Eva Barragán, Spain

Jared J. Barrott, USA

Lars O. Baumbusch, Norway

Carmen O. Benito, Spain

Rossana Berardi, Italy

Gloria Bertoli, Italy

Naren Bharathy, USA

Elfriede Bollschweiler, Germany

Eric M. Bomberg, USA

Georgios Bontzos, Greece

Joseph J. Borg, Malta

Monica Borgatti, Italy

Theresa A. Boyle, USA

Jeroen Bremer, the Netherlands

Francesco Broccolo, Italy

Adam M. Brufsky, USA

John M. Buatti, USA

Michele Caggana, USA

Wenqing Cao, USA

Diptiman Chanda, USA

Kai-Yun Chen, Taiwan, ROC

Tao Chen, China

Tirumala K. Chowdary, India

Alessandro Contini, Italy

Lynsey Cree, New Zealand

Reena Das, India

Anna L. David, UK

José Antonio A.M. de Carvalho, Brazil

Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari, USA

Pieterjan Debie, Belgium

Phyllis Della-Latta, USA

Ulf Dettmer, USA

Krishnakumar Devadas, USA

Valentina Di Pietro, UK

Francisco Diez-Fuertes, Spain

James J. Dowling, Canada

Asude Durmaz, Turkey

Yogesh Dwivedi, USA

Tomas Eckschlager, Czech Republic

Costanza Emanueli, UK

Jesper Eugen-Olsen, Denmark

Harriet Feilotter, Canada

Diana Ferraro, Italy

Richard G. Fiscella, USA

Thomas Folkman Hansen, Denmark

Donald S. Fong, USA

Sotirios Fortis, Greece

Isabel Fragata, Portugal

Georg-Nikolaus Franke, Germany

Mark S. Freedman, Canada

Steven Gallinger, Canada

Marco Galluzzo, Italy

D. García-Azorin, Spain

Daniela Gasperikova, Slovakia

Anette Prior Gjesing, Denmark

Olga Golubnitschaja, Germany

Taichiro Goto, Japan

Steven J. Gray, USA

Wayne W. Grody, USA

Berkley E. Gryder, USA

Renzo Guerrini, Italy

Jinhong Guo, China

Manoj K. Gupta, India

William M. Hague, Australia

Thomas V.O. Hansen, Denmark

Torben Hansen, Denmark

Lutz Hein, Germany

Matthew L. Hemming, USA

Daniel L. Hertz, USA

Ekkehard Hewer, Switzerland

Brian Hill, USA

Megan Hitchins, USA

Chi-Yuan Hsu, USA

Shuiying Hu, USA

Steven K. Huang, USA

Jon Hyett, Australia

Arun K. Jain, India

Miroslaw Janowski, USA

Manoe J. Janssen, the Netherlands

Edward J. Jarman, UK

Rama Jayaraj, Australia

Joon Jeong, Republic of Korea

Félix Javier Jiménez-Jiménez, Spain

Yuan-Yuan Jin, USA

Ivana Jovčevska, Slovenia

Edwaldo E. Joviliano, Brazil

Klaus Jung, Germany

Yasmin Kamal, USA

Stephen M. Kaminsky, USA

Hirokazu Kanegane, Japan

Min-Jong Kang, USA

Prabhakar S. Kedar, India

Lasse Kjaer, Denmark

Ulrich Koller, Austria

Prasad R. Konkalmatt, USA

Pavlina Konstantinova, the Netherlands

Christos K. Kontos, Greece

Daniël Korevaar, the Netherlands

Olga A. Koval, The Russian Federation

Mark Kriegsmann, Germany

Andi Krumbholz, Germany

Ashok Kumar, USA

Niansheng Lai, China

Anastasia Lambrianides, Greece

Fernando Larcher, Spain

Helen Lee, UK

Xiujuan Lei, China

Anthony Lemarié, France

Uwe Lendeckel, Germany

Theodore R. Levin, USA

Feng Li, USA

Guifa Li, USA

Tian Li, China

Yuansheng Liu, Australia

Bruno V. Luukinen, Finland

Lechun Lyu, China

Milan Macek Jr, Czech Republic

M.S. Madhusudhan, India

Manisha Madkaikar, India

Anil K. Madugundu, USA

Michelangelo Mancuso, Italy

Aki Manninen, Finland

Fei Mao, China

Catalin Marian, Romania

Jose J.G. Marin, Spain

Sofia Masouri, Greece

Daddy Mata-Mbemba, Canada

Massimiliano Mazza, Italy

Thomas J. McCown, USA

John A. McGrath, UK

Andrew McQuillin, UK

Juliana G. Melgaço, Brazil

Sónia Melo, Portugal

Steven W. Mes, the Netherlands

Caterina Mian, Italy

Viswanathan Mohan, India

Rikke S. Møller, Denmark

Srabani Mukherjee, India

Serge Muyldermans, Belgium

Bálint Nagy, Hungary

Mark Nellist, the Netherlands

Heli Nevanlinna, Finland

Nicolas Nicolaides, Greece

Yo Niida, Japan

Christian Nusshag, Germany

Fumiharu Ohka, Japan

Siti N. Othman, Malaysia

David Paez, Spain

Simona Paraschiv, Romania

Lucilla Parnetti, Italy

Carlos Parra-Herran, Canada

Attila Patócs, Hungary

Lykke Pedersen, Denmark

Davut Pehlivan, USA

Joanna Pera, Poland

Lilian Pereira-Ferrari, Brazil

Ljubica Perisic Matic, Sweden

Andrea K. Petersen, USA

Nina Petrović, Serbia

Carmen Pheiffer, South Africa

Claudio Pignata, Italy

Michael J. Pishvaian, USA

Jossimara Polettini, Brazil

Naomi A. Porret, Switzerland

Chiara Porro, Italy

Marek Postula, Poland

Patrick R. Potts, USA

Aahish Priye, USA

Zengpei Qiao, China

Jianbing Qin, USA

Jochen Reiser, USA

Alejandra Reolid, Spain

Nilo Riva, Italy

Noemi B.A. Roy, UK

Roberta Russo, Italy

Ibrahim Sahin, USA

Emmanouil Saloustros, Greece

Anna Sapino, Italy

Kimiya Sato, Japan

Marco Savarese, Finland

Oliver Schildgen, Germany

Verena Schildgen, Germany

A. Sekizawa, Japan

Lorenzo Sempere, USA

Gianluca Serafini, Italy

Ankush Sharma, Norway

Reuven Sharony, Israel

Lee P. Shulman, USA

Michael Sierks, USA

Marianne Skov, Denmark

Eniko Sonkoly, Sweden

John H. Stewart IV, USA

Wu-Chou Su, Taiwan, ROC

Viranuj Sueblinvong, USA

Daniel Sussman, USA

Larisa V. Suturina, The Russian Federation

Russell Swerdlow, USA

Marina Talamonti, Italy

Hannah Tamary, Israel

Milena G. Teles, Brazil

Salvatore Terrazzino, Italy

Tiago Torres, Portugal

Mouna Trabelsi, Tunisia

Yiu Huen Tsang, USA

Vincent Tutino, USA

Barbara Van Der Pol, USA

Yiannis Vasilopoulos, Greece

Edgar R. Vázquez-Martínez, Mexico

Poornima Venkat, USA

Lokeswari Venkataramana, India

Claudia Verderio, Italy

Paola Viganò, Italy

Margaret von Mehren, USA

Liesbeth Vossaert, USA

Liang Wang, USA

Paul Waring, Australia

Kristina Warton, Australia

Bernhard Weber, Germany

Eric Wickstrom, USA

Hao Wu, China

Xiaowei Xi, China

Jinyu Xu, USA

Masaki Yamamoto, Japan

Haiou Yang, China

Runkuan Yang, Norway

Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Greece

Qinyan Yin, USA

Jeong-Yeol Yoon, USA

Martina Zaninotto, Italy

Guangyun Zhang, China

Lubo Zhang, USA

Bernhard Zimmermann, USA

I am also very grateful to the members of the journal’s Honorary Editorial Board, who have acted as peer reviewers and authors and have provided guidance on journal content, policy and processes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of rapid and wide dissemination of high-quality information. Springer Nature is supporting the global response to COVID-19 by making all relevant content immediately and freely available. Indeed, Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy has published a number of papers relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic that are free to access, including the following:

The high quality of the content published in Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy has been reflected in the most recent impact factor of 3.380 and CiteScore of 5.4. Further, the journal has published content in a timely manner, with an average time from submission to first decision of 28 days and from acceptance to online publication of 90 days.

In 2021, Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy will continue to provide you with high-interest, clinically relevant content in the latest molecular diagnostic and therapeutic techniques and their use in precision medicine.

I thank you for your continued support.


With best wishes,

Alison Fitches