Call for papers from Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine

Dear Professor,I am writing you to cordially invite you to contribute an article to an upcoming special issue in the journal Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine, which was launched in January 2017 asthe first English language journal in the field of laboratory medicine in China.Prof. Alan WU, University of California, San Francisco and Prof. WeilingFU, Southwest Hospital,the Army Medical University, act as the twin Editors-in-Chief of the journal.This special issue will focus on COVID-19 which has been a worldwide pandemic. Over the past few months, thiscoronavirus has been spreading globally and affected 211 countries, with more than 2.2 million confirmed cases and 160,000 death. The diagnostics and related detective techniques of COVID-19 has become one of the most critical topics for medical scientists worldwide. The biosafety protection strategy of laboratory, the collaborative study of laboratory and clinical medicine and the application of big data in laboratory medicine are also expected to shape the future of laboratory medicine post-pandemic.In light of your great achievement and academic reputation in the laboratory medicine, we hope that you may consider to address one or more COVID-19 related topics in your article, which can be either an original research article or a review article.We believe that the contribution from you, and perhaps co-authors of your choice, will be a significant resource to this special issue and will also promote the success of our journal.The proposed manuscript submission deadline is 31st May 2020 and the special issue is expected to be printed by the end of June 2020. In total 10-12 articles will be included and all the submissions will be subject to a quick peer-review before publication to ensure the high quality of the journal.No publication fees would be charged for any papers published in 2020.You can find further information on the journal Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine through the following links:Journal homepage: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/frontiers-in-laboratory-medicinePaper online submission: https://www.editorialmanager.com/FLM/default.aspxShould you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me (luoy@cqu.edu.cn) or editor Yang Bai (annever1216@sina.com).We look forward to receiving your response and contributions.Yours sincerely,Yang Luo, MD and ProfessorDeputy Editor of Frontiers in Laboratory MedicineDirector of Center of Smart Laboratory and Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Chongqing UniversityBioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, ChinaE-mail: luoy@cqu.edu.cnAddress: No.174 Shazhengjie, Shapingba District, Chongqing, 400044, ChinaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0166-9027
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