Accepting the challenge: maintaining AJP-Lung as the best place to publish basic and translational studies in lung biology and pathophysiology

Rory E Morty

doi:10.1152/ajplung.00488.2017

Accepting the challenge: maintaining AJP-Lung as the best place to publish basic and translational studies in lung biology and pathophysiology

Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2018 Jan 1;314(1):L1-L5. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00488.2017. Epub 2017 Nov 16.

Author

Rory E Morty¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Lung Development and Remodelling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research , Bad Nauheim , Germany ; and the Department of Internal Medicine (Pulmonology), University of Giessen and Marburg campus of the German Center for Lung Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Lungenforschung) , Giessen , Germany.

PMID: 29146576
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00488.2017

Abstract

Rory E. Morty takes over from Sadis Matalon as Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology in January 2018. Here, key achievements and new and noteworthy additions to the editorial portfolio of the journal will be reviewed. Additionally, selected recent reports will be highlighted and used to illustrate how the broad spectrum of the journal's editorial content promotes methodological innovation and scientific advances in lung biology and pathophysiology.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Humans
Lung / physiopathology*
Lung Diseases / pathology*
Periodicals as Topic*
Publishing*
Translational Research, Biomedical*