19 June 2017

As of 1 July 2017, Werner Koopman from the Dept. of Biochemistry. theme Mitochondrial diseases is appointed as Editor of the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IJBCB) of Elsevier.

He will edit a special section of the journal focusing on organelles. Topics of interest for IJBCB include, but are not limited to: mechanistic studies of cells, cell organelles, subcellular molecular pathways and metabolism, novel insights into disease pathogenesis, nanotechnology with implication to biological and medical processes, genomics and bioinformatics.

Website Elsevier IJBCB: link

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