Call for papers

Open for submissions

Carcinogens and human health

Guest Editors:

Harriet Rumgay, PhD, International Agency for Research on Cancer, France
Clare Weeden, PhD, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Pei Yu, PhD, Monash University, Australia

Submission Status: open until 29 January 2026

Healthy aging and longevity: the role of preventive medicine and risk factors

Guest Editors:

Rajkumar Dorajoo, PhD, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Htet Lin Htun, MBBS, MPH, Monash University, Australia
Mariona Jové, PhD, University of Lleida, Spain
Yanan Luo, PhD, Peking University, China
Lene Juel Rasmussen, MSc, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Yao Yao, MPH, MD, Peking University, China

Submission Status: open until 29 January 2026

Diabetes and infectious disease

Guest Editors:

Fawaz Alzaid, PhD, HDR, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait
Jean Joel Bigna, MD, MPH, MSc, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon
Yuichi Nishioka, MD, PhD, Nara Medical University, Japan
Arnaud Zaldumbide, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Submission Status: open until 29 December 2025

Psychoactives: Recreational drugs repurposed as novel therapies

Guest Editors:

Riccardo De Giorgi, MD, DPhil, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Agata Faron-Górecka, PhD, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jibran Khokhar, PhD, Western University, Canada
Francisco Navarrete Rueda, PhD, Miguel Hernández University, Spain
Getinet Ayano Yaya, PhD, Curtin University, Australia

Submission Status: open until 31 December 2025

Clinical trials for gastrointestinal cancer

Guest Editors:

Pingan Ding, MD, Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, China
Christiana Kartsonaki, DPhil, University of Oxford, UK
Xiaotao ‘Rony’ Zhang, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Submission Status: open until 11 December 2025

Cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrhythmias

Guest Editors:

Muhammad Usman Almani, MD, Jefferson Einstein Hospital, USA
Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, MBBS, PhD, MRCP, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Giulio Francesco Romiti, MD, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Gaetano Santulli, MD, PhD, FAHA, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

Submission Status: open until 1 December 2025

Sleep and mental health

Guest Editors:

Shahnawaz Anwer, PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Kinjal Doshi, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Fabian-Xosé Fernandez, PhD, University of Arizona, USA
Renske Lok, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Laisa Liane Paineiras-Domingos, PhD, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

Submission Status: open until 17 October 2025

Epilepsy: Seizure prevention, treatment, and epidemiology

Guest Editors:

Wen-Han Hu, MD, Capital Medical University, China
Antonella Riva, MD, PhD, University of Genoa, Italy
Johan Zelano, PhD, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Submission Status: open until 19 August 2025

Gut microbiota: New treatments of human disease

Guest Editors:

Yuanqing Fu, PhD, Westlake University, China
Rochellys Diaz Heijtz, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Elena Niccolai, BSc, PhD, University of Florence, Italy
Marloes Dekker Nitert, MSc, PhD, University of Queensland, Australia
Ju-Sheng Zheng, PhD, School of Medicine, Westlake University, China
Tao Zuo, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Submission Status: open until 21 July 2025

Autoimmune disorders

Guest Editors:

Bieke Broux, PhD, Hasselt University, Belgium
Chi-Chen Lin, PhD, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan
Dunfang Zhang, PhD, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Jiuliang Zhao, MD, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China
Ali R. Zomorrodi, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

Submission Status: open until 28 June 2025

Biodefense and antimicrobial resistance

Guest Editors:

Wael A H Hegazy, PhD, Zagazig University, Egypt
Bongyoung Kim, MD, PhD, Hanyang University College of Medicine, South Korea

Submission Status: open until 19 May 2025

Published

Mpox: Epidemiology, prevention, and treatment

Guest Editors:

Richard B Kennedy, PhD, Mayo Clinic, USA
Jason Zucker, MD, Columbia University, USA

Human papillomavirus

Guest Editors:

Johannes Antonie Bogaards, PhD, Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Julia Brotherton, B Med(Hons), MPH(Hons), Grad Dip App Epi, FAFPHM, PhD, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Ashish A. Deshmukh, PhD, MPH, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Claire Nightingale, PhD, MSc, BSc(Hons), The University of Melbourne, Australia
Kalyani Sonawane, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

Regenerative medicine

Guest Editors:

Hirak K Patra, PhD, FRSB, FHEA, FIBMS, University College London, UK
Agata Przekora, PhD, Medical University of Lublin, Poland
Richard Schäfer, MD, FRSB, University of Freiburg, Germany

Endometriosis

Guest Editors:

Henriette Svarre Nielsen, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ina Schuppe-Koistinen, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Kilian Vomstein, MD, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark

Food environments and health

Guest Editors:

Camila Corvalán, MD, MPH, PhD, University of Chile, Chile
Jasmine Fledderjohann, PhD, Lancaster University, UK
Marisa Miraldo, PhD, Imperial College Business School, UK
Paraskevi Seferidi, PhD, Imperial College London, UK

Cancer prevention

Guest Editors:

Kajal Gokal, PhD, Loughborough University, England
Jianguang Ji, PhD, Lund University, Sweden
Brigid Lynch, PhD, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
Noah Peeri, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Hongmei Zeng, PhD, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, China
Wen Zhang, PhD, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, China
Xiaotao "Rony" Zhang, PhD, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Dementia prevention and therapies

Guest Editors:

Shanquan Chen: The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Feng Sha: Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Zhirong Yang: Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Neurodevelopmental disorders

Guest Editors:

Michael Absoud: King's College London, UK
Victoria Cosgrove: Stanford University, USA
Kirsty Donald: University of Cape Town, South Africa