We are delighted to announce the 2019 recipients of the Ming K. Jeang Award for Excellence in Cell & Bioscience. Two research groups, who each published an outstanding research article in Cell & Bioscience in 2019 [1, 2], have been selected to receive this prestigious award by a panel of Editors, chaired by Dr. Dong Yan Jin. The Ming K. Jeang Awards for Excellence in Cell & Bioscience was established in 2011 with a generous endowment from the Ming K. Jeang Foundation to honor outstanding research articles published in Cell & Bioscience, the society journal of the Society for Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA), a non-profit scientific society, based in North America, https://scbasociety.org/. The selected articles are listed as below.

  1. 1.

    Exosomes from hyperglycemia-stimulated vascular endothelial cells contain versican that regulate calcification/senescence in vascular smooth muscle cells. Shuang Li, Jun-Kun Zhan, Yan-Jiao Wang, Xiao Lin, Jia-Yu Zhong, Yi Wang, Pan Tan, Jie-Yu He, Xing-Jun Cui, Yi-Yin Chen, Wu Huang and You-Shuo Liu. Cell & Bioscience 2019 9:1

  2. 2.

    IL-33 ameliorates experimental colitis involving regulation of autophagy of macrophages in mice. Zhongyan Wang, Lifeng Shi, Shuyao Hua, Chang Qi and Min Fang. Cell & Bioscience 2019 9:10.

Congratulations to these two groups of investigators for publishing their outstanding research results in Cell & Bioscience and winning the 2019 Ming K. Jeang Award.

We are looking forwards to receiving contributions of outstanding research articles and reviews from the scientific community in 2020 and beyond.