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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:
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Zhang L, Miao S, Qin Z, et al. Preliminary analysis of B- and T-cell responses to SARS-CoV-2. Mol Diagn Ther. 2020;24:601–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40291-020-00486-3
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Chalkias A, Mouzarou A, Samara E, et al. Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor: A biomarker for predicting complications and critical care admission of COVID-19 patients. Mol Diagn Ther. 2020;24:517–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40291-020-00481-8
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Usherwood T, Zhang L, Tripathi A. The path forward for COVID-19 diagnostics. Mol Diagn Ther. Epub 14 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40291-020-00492-5
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Farshidfar N, Hamedani S. The potential role of smartphone-based microfluidic systems for rapid detection of COVID-19 using saliva specimen. Mol Diagn Ther. 2020;24:371–3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40291-020-00477-4
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Land WG. Use of DAMPs and SAMPs as therapeutic targets or therapeutics: A note of caution. Mol Diagn Ther. 2020;24:251–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40291-020-00460-z
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
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Acknowledgement to Referees. Mol Diagn Ther 24, 633–636 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40291-020-00501-7
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