eLife, a non-profit organisation, has appointed two new Deputy Editors, Mone Zaidi and Diane Harper, to lead the journal’s expansion into medical research and explore fresh approaches to peer review and publishing.
Mone Zaidi is Professor of Medicine, of Pharmacological Sciences, and of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, and Founding Director of the Mount Sinai Bone Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Diane Harper is a Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Biomedical Engineering, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan.
Harper and Zaidi will lead expert review of significant translational research and clinical studies that deal with the etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, genetics, prevention and treatments to improve human health. Formerly Reviewing Editors for eLife, they now work alongside Deputy Editors Detlef Weigel, Anna Akhmanova, and Tim Behrens, and in collaboration with Editor-in-Chief Michael Eisen and the broader editorial team.
eLife is a non-profit backed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US), Max Planck Society (Germany), Wellcome (UK), and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden) to transform research communication. eLife is actively promoting a new vision for publishing in which journals review papers already published by authors as preprints, providing expert feedback to authors and an indication of the reliability and potential significance of the findings to readers.
Zaidi’s research over the past three decades has crossed disciplines and focused on common and rare diseases of the skeleton. This work has been funded by the NIH, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Research Council (UK) and other private and commercial agencies. He is widely recognised for his discovery of biological circuits of medical significance through which bone communicates with the pituitary gland, fat tissue and the brain. He has created a new antibody to a pituitary hormone for the future therapy of osteoporosis and obesity. Zaidi is also a passionate advocate for ensuring integrity and transparency in biomedical research.
Information on accessing the latest research published in eLife’s medicine section can be found at https://elifesciences.org/subjects/medicine.
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