STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of an open access journal - Pathogenesis.
Pathogenesis will be published on behalf of The Royal College of Pathologists a professional membership organisation committed to setting and maintaining professional standards and promoting excellence in the practice of Pathology. The College represents 19 pathology specialties and has over 10,000 members working in hospital laboratories, universities and industry, worldwide.
Pathogenesis will provide a home for research covering all areas of illness and normal cellular and molecular development in human and veterinary disease. The journal will publish peer reviewed original scientific research articles and high quality reviews, editorials and letters to the editor which report on multidisciplinary areas of Molecular and Diagnostic Pathology, Cellular Mechanisms as well as aspects of Haematology, Proteomics, Virology, Microbiology and Chemical Pathology.
The Editor-in-Chief of the journal is Professor Finbarr Cotter of Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Professor Cotter will work closely with Section Editors: Professor Ian Cree University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, UK and Dr George Vassilou, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.