Translational Medicine calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine: Medical Humanitarianism: Culture, Health, and States of Emergency

Guest Editors:

Sharon Abramowitz, University of South Florida
Mary-Jo Good, Harvard University
Byron Good, Harvard University
Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
Catherine Panter-Brick, Yale University

Social Science & Medicine is soliciting papers for an Interdisciplinary Special Issue on Medical humanitarianism, broadly defined as the health care delivery by relief organizations.  Social scientists find themselves increasingly working alongside humanitarians in states of emergency, armed conflict, food crises, and natural disasters.  The goal of this Special Issue is to provide state-of-the-art analyses of medical humanitarianism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.  For this issue, we seek to develop a base for comparative analysis and insight, and promote dialogue between social scientists and humanitarian practitioners.

We seek: (i) systematic, comprehensive, or critical reviews of the literature, (ii) original research articles that make a substantive empirical contribution, and (iii) well-articulated critiques that go further than a simple overview or commentary. Papers must make strong empirical and/or theoretical research contributions, speak to an interdisciplinary audience, and have strong policy relevance.

Of interest are the following issues:

The content of medical humanitarian services, and their uniqueness in terms of healthcare delivery.

Insights generated from a comparative perspective on medical humanitarianism.

The characteristics of relations and transactions in medical humanitarian encounters.

How medical humanitarian actors bring culture, social relations, and issues of demography, equity, and justice into quotidian practice.

How personal relations structure the dynamics and shape of medical humanitarianism.

How medical humanitarians negotiate need vs. scarcity, limits vs. access, independence vs. negotiation, and other critical conflicts in humanitarian practice.

Medical humanitarianism’s integration into International Criminal Court proceedings, human rights testimonies, or political witnessing.

Social, political, and historical analyses of the growth of medical humanitarianism, and assessment of risk and resilience in populations facing health crises.

Other issues of funding, policy, translational research, legal protection, clinical care, and public health interventions.

Authors may submit their papers at any time after 30th August 2013 up until 15th October 2013. Please consult our ‘Guide for Authors’ (http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm). All submissions must meet author guidelines, and publication is contingent on a rigorous peer-review process.  Please contact sabramowitz@ufl.edu and Catherine.Panter-Brick@yale.edu for further questions.

Call for Papers for the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine on Research to Reality: The Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Behavioral Medicine

Public health programs are only effective if they are widely disseminated and implemented. The different values and perspectives of practitioners, program implementers, policy makers and researchers may be a significant barrier to this. Practitioners often find generic evidence-based interventions difficult to implement in community settings, especially when there is limited information about how to adapt programs to the local context. Furthermore, public health decision makers and program implementers are often reluctant to consider new interventions when effectiveness has not been demonstrated in their particular setting or country. In contrast, researchers place greater emphasis on internal validity than on generalizability and external validity.

“Dissemination” refers to the flow of evidence-based but customised information or intervention to well-defined target audiences.  “Implementation” refers to the adoption and integration of evidence-based health interventions into specific settings. “Translation” refers to applying or adapting research findings or evidence to different community or population settings.

Effective dissemination, implementation and translation of public health and behavioral medicine interventions require the triangulation of evidence from formal trials with case studies, expert opinion, network analysis, and systems thinking, as well as assessment of the local context.

As a follow-up to a highly successful satellite forum on dissemination and implementation at the 11th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Budapest, August 2012, the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine is issuing an international call for papers to address issues pertaining to dissemination, implementation and translation in behavioral medicine. Manuscript submissions are due July 1, 2013.

Research Questions: We are particularly interested in papers that address, but are not limited to, these topics:

What theoretical models and approaches are relevant to understanding and improving dissemination, implementation and translation in Behavioral Medicine? What evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of these models and approaches?

What methods and strategies are being used in dissemination and implementation studies in behavioral medicine?

How can we maximize the impact of behavioral medicine evidence on public health policy and practice?

We will consider papers that report original research, conceptual or theoretical papers, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and papers that highlight innovative methodologies. Papers from studies conducted in both developed and developing countries are welcome.

Instructions: Please submit your manuscript by July 1, 2013 following the standard requirements for IJBM articles and are subject to standard editorial and peer review processes. See http://www.springer.com/medicine/journal/12529#.

Please address any questions regarding this special issue to the Guest Editors: Dr. Carina Chan (carina.chan@monash.edu), Dr. Brian Oldenburg (brian.oldenburg@monash.edu) and Dr. Vish Viswanath (vish_viswanath@dfci.harvard.edu).

Call for Papers: Cancer Gene Therapy

Cancer Gene Therapy is the essential gene and cellular therapy resource for cancer researchers and clinicians, keeping readers up to date with the latest developments in gene and cellular therapies for cancer. The journal publishes original laboratory and clinical research papers, case reports and review articles. Publication topics include RNAi approaches, drug resistance, hematopoietic progenitor cell gene transfer, cancer stem cells, cellular therapies, homologous recombination, ribozyme technology, antisense technology, tumor immunotherapy and tumor suppressors, translational research, cancer therapy, gene delivery systems (viral and non-viral), anti-gene therapy (antisense, siRNA & ribozymes), apoptosis; mechanisms and therapies, vaccine development, immunology and immunotherapy, DNA synthesis and repair.

The Journal of Cancer Gene and Cellular Therapies

Cancer Gene Therapy expanded its scope in 2011 to include greater coverage of cellular therapies. Following the recent expansion of research into genetically modified dendritic cells and pluripotent progenitor cells, the journal's new subtitle — "The Journal of Cancer Gene and Cellular Therapies" — reflects its larger mission of supporting the concurrent advancement of gene and cellular therapies.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Applied & Translational Genomics: From Biobanks to the Clinic

First submission expected: July 5, 2013
Submission deadline: August 23, 2013
Acceptance deadline: December 6, 2013

Bartha Maria Knoppers
Professor, Director
Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
740 Dr. Penfield Avenue
Montreal, (Quebec) Canada
H3A 0G1
E-mail: bartha.knoppers@mcgill.ca
Tel: +1-514-398-8155
Fax: +1-514-398-8954

Ma'n H. Zawati
Academic Coordinator, Lawyer
Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
740, Dr Penfield Avenue
Montréal (Québec) Canada
H3A 0G1
E-Mail: man.zawati@mcgill.ca
Tel.: +1-514-398-4806
Fax.: +1-514-398-8954

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Applied and Translational Genomics: Public Health Genomics: From the Science of Translation to the Science of Action

First submission expected: end July 2013
Submission deadline: December 31, 2013
Acceptance deadline: July 15, 2014

Guest editor:

Muin J. Khoury M.D., Ph.D.,
Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, NCI
1600 Clifton Road, Mail Stop E61 Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone: 404-498-0001
Fax: 404-498-0140
E-Mail: muk1@cdc.gov
http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/

Call for Papers on the Topic of Translational Research in Acute Lung Injury and Pulmonary Fibrosis for the American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

The American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology is seeking high-quality manuscripts in the area of translational research in acute lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis.  The last decade has seen major progress in our understanding of the molecular and cellular pathogenesis of lung inflammation, injury and fibrosis.  Translation of this understanding into novel insights and therapies for acute lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis in patients is a critical area of current research. This call for papers requests high-quality studies that extend observations made in experimental systems to human disease through study of patients, patient samples, and tissues.  Examples of appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) 1) studies of biomarkers measured in biological samples from patients that expand our understanding of the pathogenesis of clinical acute lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis; 2) physiological measurements in patients such as studies of the determinants of the rate of alveolar fluid clearance in patients with acute lung injury; 3) studies in animals or in vitro systems to determine the functional significance of polymorphisms in candidate genes, of novel gene signatures and/or epigenetic modifications identified in clinical studies of patients with acute lung injury or pulmonary fibrosis.

Articles must be submitted by July 1, 2013.

All papers will be reviewed promptly, thoroughly, and fairly by members of the Editorial Board and guest reviewers who are recognized experts in this field. Accepted manuscripts will be published under a distinct heading and will receive special attention and handling. Only those papers not requiring extensive revision will be published under this call. If you currently have a manuscript on this topic that has already been submitted and would like it to be included in this Special Call, please contact Dr. Sadis Matalon, Editor-in-Chief via e-mail at sadis@uab.edu.

Call for Manuscripts on Inflammation and Immunity in Organ System Physiology for the American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology

The American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology is soliciting submission of original manuscripts and review articles, addressing novel roles for inflammation and immunity in organ system physiology and pathophysiology.

This Call for Papers is in recognition of advances in our understanding of the participation of innate and adaptive immune responses in diverse conditions such as obesity, insulin resistance, atherosclerosis, hypertension, neoplasia, lung disease, and bone biology. Appropriate topics include the role of phagocytes, T cells, and B cells, as well as the effect of cytokines, pattern recognition receptors, and inflammatory signaling molecules in modulation of normal and abnormal organ function. Papers addressing how inflammation and immunity are triggered to perturb organ function are particularly encouraged. These could include but are not limited to those dealing with exercise, aging, sex differences, and/or various cellular stressors (i.e., hypoxia, temperature, etc.) and specific disorders, including obesity, diabetes, cancer, and diseases of the cardiovascular, kidney, respiratory, and central nervous systems. This Call for Papers includes cellular/molecular, biochemical, integrative, comparative, and translational studies.

The Organizing Editor is David Pollock. David G. Harrison from Vanderbilt University will be the Guest Editor for this Call for Papers. Dr. Harrison is an internationally recognized leader in research exploring the role of the immune system in cardiovascular physiology.

Organizing Editor:

David M. Pollock: dpollock@georgiahealth.edu

Guest Editor:

David G. Harrison: david.g.harrison@vanderbilt.edu

Note to Authors: All manuscripts should be submitted online via eJournal Press. During the online submission, under the “Keywords, Categories, Special Section” tab, please choose “Inflammation, Immunity, and Organ System Physiology” under “Category.” In addition, include a note in your cover letter indicating you are responding to the “Inflammation, Immunity, and Organ System Physiology” Call for Papers.

The manuscript will undergo normal peer review. If accepted, the article will be highlighted simultaneously with other papers appearing in response to this announcement, if possible. Submissions will be reviewed as they are received, and will be published online immediately upon acceptance.

Manuscripts can be submitted anytime, but to be eligible for inclusion in this Call for Papers, manuscripts must be submitted by June 30, 2013. If you have any questions or already have a manuscript in this area submitted to the American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology and would like to have it included in this series, please contact the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Curt D. Sigmund (phone: 319-384-2857; e-mail: ajp-regulatory@uiowa.edu).

An editorial introducing the topic is available at: http://ajpregu.physiology.org/lookup/doi/10.1152/ajpregu.00167.2011.

Call for Papers on Fetal and Neonatal Programming: Epigenetic Modification of Phenotype for the American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology

The American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology is soliciting original manuscripts and review articles addressing the physiological outcomes of perturbations of the environment during the fetal and neonatal period. We particularly encourage submissions that address the involvement of epigenetic processes in outcomes that result in, or contribute to disease in adulthood.

The Call for Papers is in recognition of the remarkable advances thathave followed the publication of the hypothesis advanced over 20 years ago by Barker and colleagues on Fetal and Infant Origins of Adult Disease. It is now recognized that maternal stress, diet and reproductive environment as well as various aspects of the neonatal environment ranging from level of maternal care to exposure to pathogens and physical stressors can have long lasting effects on the health, well-being and physiology of the adult. Submissions on the effects of these interventions as well as other aspects of programming are appropriate topics for the Call for Papers. In addition, we particularly encourage original work that explores mechanisms responsible for these changes, as well as the critical periods that are involved. Thus, we are interested in the role of epigenetic mechanisms including DNA methylation and histone acetylation, and micro RNA modification as possible mechanistic factors in trans- generational phenotype transmission. Interventions that may reverse the programming effects are also suitable topics. The Call of Papers includes studies at levels of analysis ranging from the molecular/genetic to population and translational studies.

The organizing editor for this call for papers will be Dr. Quentin Pittman.

Organizing Editor:Quentin J Pittman: pittman@ucalgary.ca

Note to Authors: All manuscripts should be submitted online via eJournal Press. During the online submission, under the “Keywords, Categories, Special Section” tab, please choose: “Fetal and Neonatal Programming”. In addition , include a note in your cover letter indicating that you are responding to the “Fetal and Neonatal Programming: Epigenetic modification of Phenotype” Call for Papers.

The manuscript will undergo normal peer review. If accepted, the article will be highlighted simultaneously with other papers appearing in response to this announcement, if possible. Submissions will be reviewed as they are received, and will be published online immediately upon acceptance.

Manuscripts can be submitted anytime, but to be eligible for inclusion in this Call for Papers, manuscripts must be submitted by June 30, 2013. If you have questions or already have a manuscript in this area submitted to the American Journal of Physiology- Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology and would like to have it included in this series, please contact the Editor-in-Chief, Dr Curt D. Sigmund (phone: 319-384-2857; e-mail: ajp-regulatory@uiowa.edu).