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Paul Tchounwou to Receive the 2013 AAAS Mentor Award
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Board has chosen Paul Tchounwou, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), to...
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Leon Terstappen on Circulating Tumor Cells: Biology and Technology
Tumor metastases cause ninety percent of cancer deaths, and occur when cells detach from a primary tumor and form new malignancies elsewhere. This process involves circulating tumor cells (CTC) which...
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Controlling Sugar Intake: A Platform to Predict Glycosylation for Therapeutic...
Glycoproteins are formed through protein glycosylation, the post-translational addition and processing of covalently bound oligosaccharide chains. Variations in the glycoform of proteins result from...
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Brain Jelly – An Organic, Brain-Like Computer without Circuits or Logic Gates
The human brain is the most powerful computer the world has ever seen. With its 86 billion neurons [1], less than originally thought (~100 billion, a myth of unknown origin [2]), the human brain is...
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Interview with Eric Freed, Editor-in-Chief of Viruses
Dr. Eric Freed, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Viruses, received his Ph.D. in 1990 with Rex Risser and Howard Temin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he investigated the function of the...
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Interview with Gerhard Litscher, Editor-in-Chief of Medicines
Professor Gerhard Litscher, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Medicines, received his Doctor of technical sciences at the Graz University of Technology and a Doctor of medical sciences at the Medical...
View ArticleQ&A Feedback: Part I
We always enjoy opportunities to get direct face-to-face feedback from authors and readers, and the recent open access week was an excellent opportunity. We were asked a number of interesting questions...
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Non-Coding RNAs in Cancer: An Interview with Dr. Martin Pichler
We are pleased to post an interview with Professor Martin Pichler, who is the Collection Editor for the International Journal of Molecular Sciences Topical Collection of “Regulation by Non-Coding RNAs”...
View ArticleMeet and Greet: Arjen Hoekstra, Editor-in-Chief of Water
Prof. Arjen Hoekstra is a professor of Water Management at the University of Twente, in Enschede, the Netherlands. Throughout his career he has led a variety of interdisciplinary research projects and...
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Non-Coding RNAs and Epigenetics in Cancer: An interview with Dr. Carlo Croce
One of the most unexpected and fascinating discoveries in oncology over the past decade has been the interplay between abnormalities in protein-coding genes and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), which are...
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DOAJ—A Quality Control System for Open Access Publishers
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)—a community-curated list of open access journals—was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with the aim of promoting high quality, peer-reviewed,...
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Open Access for Sustainable Development
On September 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development were officially adopted. Supporting countries have committed themselves to “mobilizing...
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Moving Forwards on Open Access—Interview with Drs. Saskia de Vries
We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Drs. Saskia de Vries. She is the co-founder and first director of both Amsterdam University Press and Leiden University Press, founder of Sampan–academia...
View ArticleGyorgy Szekely: An Expert Reviewer
This week, we were fortunate to interview one of the top rated reviewers for MDPI in 2017, Dr Gyorgy Szekely. He is currently a lecturer at the School of chemical engineering and analytical science at...
View Article“‘Sounds Reasonable’ is Never a Good Idea” – An Interview with Michael Hofreiter
This post gives some important lessons the Guest Editor of the Genes Special Issue “Novel and Neglected Areas of Ancient DNA Research” has learned from his work. Michael Hofreiter, who edits the Genes...
View Article“Only when humans understand the reason for animal life they will realize...
This post gives some important lessons the Editor in Chief of Animals has learned from his work. “We need to find whether there is a reason for animal life, and if so what it is, since this will help...
View ArticleLearn about MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program
In a fast-changing Open Access environment, research institutions and libraries are adjusting their workflows and taking on additional administrative and advocacy work. MDPI’s Institutional Open Access...
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World Sustainability Awards Winners – A Short Interview
The second World Sustainability Awards were presented during the 7th World Sustainability Forum in Beijing, China on 19 September 2018. These awards recognized the winners’ outstanding contribution to...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Interview with Neus Feliu, researcher and guest editor in...
Why are there fewer women than men in science? Female scientists are under-represented in research, being only a third of researchers globally. Despite the progress in gender equality during the last...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Interview with Sylvia Beyer, researcher and guest editor in...
In a previous post, we looked at the under-representation of women in research in our interview with Neus Feliu, from the University of Hamburg. We continue this series of interviews with female...
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