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Latest collections open to submissions

We are welcoming submissions to the following article collections.


Microbiome in the First 1000 Days of Life

Guest Edited by Souhaila Al Khodor
Open until 10 December 2025


Harnessing Innovative Machine Learning Techniques to Combat Drug Resistance in Solid Tumors

Guest Edited by Wendy Mao and Hao Zhang
Open until 28 November 2025


Regeneration and Remodeling after Brain Injury: Implications for Stem Cell Therapy

Guest Edited by Hailiang Tang and Francisco Silva
Open until 25 June 2025


Prevention and Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Guest Edited by Monica Pernia Marin, Caren Greenstein, and Mary Salvatore
Open until 31 August 2025

Article Collections

Fibrosis and Cancer Intersection

This article collection aims to clarify the correlation between tissue fibrosis and cancer origination and progression. 

"Planeterranean" Diet: Globally Extending the Health Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet

This article collection focuses on the challenge of transferring the Mediterranean Diet key concept to non-Mediterranean areas within a “One Health” perspective.

Join the Editorial Board

We are recruiting new Associate Editors to join our international Editorial Board. Learn more about the role and how to apply here.

Meet the Editors

Get to know the Editors behind Journal of Translational Medicine! 

Articles

Featured Research: Single-cell and spatial transcriptome profiling reveal CTHRC1+ fibroblasts promote EMT through WNT5A signaling in colorectal cancer

This study explores the role of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in colorectal cancer (CRC). It finds that CTHRC1+ CAFs promote tumor invasiveness by releasing WNT5A, which triggers epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in nearby tumor cells. Targeting the CTHRC1+ CAF-WNT5A-MSLN pathway may offer a promising therapeutic strategy for advanced CRC.

Featured Review: Analysis of the measurements used as potency tests for the 31 US FDA-approved cell therapy products

This review examines potency tests for 31 FDA-approved cell therapy products (CTPs). It found 104 potency tests, with 33 redacted. The most common tests were "Viability and count" (52%) and "Expression" (27%), often used together. Bioassays were reported in 23% of CTPs but could be more common due to redactions. These findings offer guidance for developing potency tests for future CTPs.

Outstanding Abstract for Young Researchers 2025 Award

Journal of Translational Medicine will be sponsoring a prize for the winner of the Outstanding Abstract for Young Researchers 2025 Award. It will be presented at the Clinical Nutrition Days of the Alto Tavoliere Congress (2nd Edition), San Severo taking place on May 22nd-24th, 2025.

Abstracts must be submitted by May 4, 2025. Find out how to apply here

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Q&A: Dr Souhaila Al Khodor

In this Q&A, Dr Al Khodor discusses her career and research focus on women's and infants health, her efforts to contribute directly to achieving SDG3, and the Microbiome in the First 1000 Days of Life collection launch.

Fibrosis, Cancer, and SDG3

Read about how the article collection Fibrosis and Cancer Intersection contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing goal.

Journal of Translational Medicine has launched In Review, a new option that provides authors with on-demand information on the status of their manuscript, enables them to share their work with funders and their research community, and allows their colleagues to comment and collaborate - all whilst their manuscript is under review.

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Aims and scope

Journal of Translational Medicine is an open access journal publishing articles focusing on information derived from human experimentation so as to optimise the communication between basic and clinical science.

The journal covers all areas of translational medicine but also has several special sections:

Editor-in-Chief: Francesco Marincola, USA

Francesco (Franco) Marincola is the Chief Scientific Officer of Translational and Advanced Medicine (TAM) Biosciences, Nashville, TN.  Franco brings over 30 years of research and development experience in immunology, oncology and cell therapy.

Most recently, Franco served as Chief Scientific Officer at Sonata Therapeutics, Boston, Massachusetts. Before he was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Research at Kite Pharma where he led the research organization to identify novel therapies for hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. Prior to Kite, he was President and Chief Scientific Officer at Refuge Biotechnologies, where he developed research strategies for adoptive cell therapy products and led therapeutic programs based on nuclease deactivated CRISPR circuits. Prior to Refuge, Franco was Distinguished Research Fellow in Immune Oncology at AbbVie, and Chief Research Officer at Sidra Medical and Research Centre.

Before joining the biopharma industry, Franco spent more than two decades at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI), as a tenured senior investigator in cancer immunotherapy and biomarker research and as Chief Infectious Disease and Immunogenetics Investigator at the NIH Clinical Center.

Franco is the former President of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC). He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for multiple peer-reviewed publications, including Journal of Translational Medicine, and Immunotherapy, and is the author of more than 700 peer-reviewed publications. 

Franco is also a fiction writer and his collections can be found at: 
https://wordpress.com/home/authorfrancomarincola.wordpress.com.

Franco received his M.D. from the University of Milan, Italy and completed his residency and training in immunology at Stanford University, California.

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