Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by BioMed Central, has announced the appointment of Prof Lester Drewes (University of Minnesota) and Prof Richard Keep (University of Michigan) as co-Editors-in-Chief of Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, working alongside Hazel Jones (King's College London, UK). Prof. Tetsuya Terasaki (Tohoku University) has stepped down as co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
Lester Drewes is Professor and Head of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Minnesota Duluth Medical School. Prof Drewes is a leading expert known to many researchers in the blood-brain barrier field. He is founding President of the International Brain Barriers Society (IBBS), a forum for scientists to share their research and fast track discoveries related to the blood-brain barrier.
Richard Keep is Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan. He is also Director of the Crosby Neurosurgical Laboratories and Associate Chair for Research in Neurosurgery. His main research interests are transport at the blood-brain and blood- blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier barriers, effects of neurological disorders on the barriers, and hemorrhagic and ischemic brain injury (stroke). Richard has been a much-valued member of the Editorial Board since inception.
Fluids and Barrier of the CNS considers manuscripts on all aspects of CNS fluids and barrier systems in health and disease.
