Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced plans to launch IEEE Life Sciences Letters (LSL), a new digital, peer reviewed open-access journal dedicated to the timely publication of high-quality manuscripts that apply methods of quantitative analysis to biological problems at the molecular, cellular, organ, human and/or population levels. The key scientific themes addressed will include personalised medicine, pharmaceutical engineering, synthetic biology, and systems biology. IEEE LSL will serve as the latest platform for a meeting of the brightest minds in the industry and their contributions to advance the life sciences field.
As an open-access publication, IEEE LSL provides authors with unique benefits, including rapid turnaround time to publication, short article format, and the broadest global dissemination online including access to the vast IEEE audience immediately upon publication with one of the best known and stable publishing operations in the world.
The newly established Editorial Board for IEEE LSL consists of distinguished leaders in these research fields, including: Editor-in-Chief, Frank Doyle, Mellichamp Professor of Process Control, Department of Chemical Engineering, and Co-Director, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Deputy Editor, Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, Cecil & Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, IEEE Life Fellow; Sr. Editor for Pharmaceutical Engineering, Richard D. Braatz, Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sr. Editor for Personalized Medicine, Leroy Hood, Co-Founder and President of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington and pioneer of P4 Medicine; Sr. Editor for Systems Biology, Hiroaki Kitano, Professor of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, President of The Systems Biology Institute, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.; Sr. Editor for Synthetic Biology, Ron Weiss, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of the Synthetic Biology Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
IEEE Life Sciences Letters is part of a growing portfolio of open-access publishing options offered by IEEE. Adhering to the longstanding publishing hallmarks of quality, methodological rigor and clear communication that IEEE is known for, IEEE LSL gives authors the opportunity to reach a global audience through open access publishing with the fully peer-reviewed tenets that quantitative researchers require to further the understanding of all aspects of the life sciences.
Submissions for IEEE Life Sciences Letters will be accepted in Fall 2014. The first issue will be published in Q1 2015.
