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The 2012 Ming K Jeang award for excellence in cell & bioscience

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Three research groups led by Dr. Lixin Feng of Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Dr. Walter Wahli of University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Dr. Gutian Xiao of University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, USA, won the 2012 Ming K Jeang Award for Excellence in Cell & Bioscience.

Editorial

We are very pleased to announce that three research groups, who each published an outstanding research article in Cell & Bioscience in 2012, have been selected to receive the Ming K Jeang Award for Excellence in Cell & Bioscience. The Ming K Jeang Award for Excellence in Cell & Bioscience was established in 2011 with a generous donation from the Ming K. Jeang Foundation to honor outstanding research articles published in Cell & Bioscience, the official journal of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA; http://www.scbasociety.org). A committee of Cell & Bioscience Editors, chaired by Dr. Chris Lau, considered all research articles published in the journal in 2012 to select the three articles to receive the award [1–3]:

PDLIM2 restricts Th1 and Th17 differentiation and prevents autoimmune disease

Zhaoxia Qu, Jing Fu, Huihui Ma, Jingjiao Zhou, Meihua Jin, Markus Y Mapara, Michael J Grusby, Gutian Xiao

Cell & Bioscience 2012, 2:23 (25 June 2012)

Oocyte-like cells induced from mouse spermatogonial stem cells

Lu Wang, Jinping Cao, Ping Ji, Di Zhang, Lianghong Ma, Martin Dym, Zhuo Yu, Lixin Feng

Cell & Bioscience 2012, 2:27 (6 August 2012)

GW501516-activated PPARβ/δ promotes liver fibrosis via p38-JNK MAPK-induced hepatic stellate cell proliferation

Radina Kostadinova, Alexandra Montagner, Erwan Gouranton, Sébastien Fleury, Hervé Guillou, David Dombrowicz, Pierre Desreumaux, Walter Wahli

Cell & Bioscience 2012, 2:34 (10 October 2012)

Congratulations to these three groups of investigators for jobs well done!

We are looking forward to receiving contributions of outstanding research articles from the scientific community in 2013 and beyond.

References

  1. Qu Z, Fu J, Ma H, Zhou J, Jin M, Mapara MY, Grusby MJ, Xiao G: PDLIM2 restricts Th1 and Th17 differentiation and prevents autoimmune disease. Cell & Bioscience. 2012, 2: 23. 10.1186/2045-3701-2-23

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  2. Wang L, Cao J, Ji P, Zhang D, Ma L, Dym M, Yu Z, Feng L: Oocyte-like cells induced from mouse spermatogonial stem cells. Cell & Bioscience. 2012, 2: 27. 10.1186/2045-3701-2-27

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  3. Kostadinova R, Montagner A, Gouranton E, Fleury S, Guillou H, Dombrowicz D, Desreumaux P, Wahli W: GW501516-activated PPARβ/δ promotes liver fibrosis via p38-JNK MAPK-induced hepatic stellate cell proliferation. Cell & Bioscience. 2012, 2: 34. 10.1186/2045-3701-2-34

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I would like to thank Dr. Chris Lau and the other editors for reviewing and selecting the awardees. The opinions expressed in this Editorial are the author’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of his employer, the National Institutes of Health, USA.

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Shi, YB. The 2012 Ming K Jeang award for excellence in cell & bioscience. Cell Biosci 3, 23 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/2045-3701-3-23

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