Highlights of Translational Pediatrics 2015

Two special issues on topics of “Metabolism of childhood cancer” and “Studies on genetic diseases for better therapies in pediatrics” will be released early 2015 in Translational Pediatrics (TP). Free submissions on these topics are welcomed to be included to the special issues after standard peer-review process and the guest editors’ final review.

Metabolism of childhood cancer

2015 January issue of TP has the focus on metabolism of childhood cancer organized by Dr. Dinesh Rakheja, Chief of Pediatric Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center. Metabolism of childhood cancer like neurodevelopment and medulloblastoma, neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, and hepatoblastoma are included with contributors from University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Paracelsus Medical University, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Texas Children’s Hospital and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Table 1). Hopefully, it will benefit researchers interested in metabolism of cancer in unique view of childhood cancer. Further updates in the area with more topics to be included will be provided by TP.

Table 1 Topics included in the January issue of Translational Pediatrics, with focus on “Metabolism of childhood cancer” (Guest editor: Dr. Dinesh Rakheja, Chief of Pediatric Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Texas, USA)
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Studies on genetic diseases for better therapies in pediatrics

Australia researchers Dr. Zhanhe Wu (The Children’s Hospital at Westmead) and Prof. Jennifer A. Byrne (Kids Research Institute) are invited to organize a special issue on “Studies on genetic diseases for better therapies in pediatrics” with the focus on genetic studies in cancer and non-cancer diseases (Table 2). Prof. David Sillence will also contribute to this issue by introducing the history and advances of genetic studies. This special issue includes researchers mostly from research groups of Asia and Australia. It will be a thorough edition on genetic diseases study and will include more various regions in the future updated edition.

Table 2 Special issue on “Studies on genetic diseases for better therapies in pediatrics” guest edited by Dr. Zhanhe Wu, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and Prof. Jennifer A. Byrne, Children’s Cancer Research Unit, Kids Research Institute, Australia
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Dr. Zhanhe Wu, cooperating with Prof. John Christodoulou, also edited a special issue on “Genomic studies of pediatrics”, published in April 2014 of TP (1). The issue receives warm welcomes among genomic researchers. Since TP is open accessed, full articles are accessible via TP website of http://www.thetp.org/issue/view/179.

Acknowledgements

Disclosure: The author declares no conflict of interest.

References

1. Translational Pediatrics April 2014 (Genomic studies of pediatrics). Available online: http://www.thetp.org/issue/view/179