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Improvement of diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases (NTD) in resource-limited settings

Guest Editor
Ahmed Hassan Fahal, MBBS, FRCS, FRCSI, FRCS(Gal), MD, MS, FRCPath, FRCA(London), University of Khartoum, Sudan

Submission Status: Open until 5 May 2026

Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of genomic research

Guest Editors
Nanibaa’ Garrison, PhD, University of California, USA
Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD, AdE, OC, OQ, FRSC, FCAHS, McGill University, Canada
Eric Meslin, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS, ICDD, University of Toronto, Canada

Submission Status: Open until 4 March 2026

Genomic characterization of novel resistance mechanisms

Guest Editor
Govindan Rajamohan, PhD, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR-IMTECH), India

Submission Status: Open until 23 February 2026

Impact of nosocomial infections on health

Guest Editors
Ana R Freitas, PhD, University of Porto, Portugal
Guido Werner, PhD, Georg August University Göttingen & Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany

Submission Status: Open until 9 January 2026

Clinical genomics in sexually transmitted infections

Guest Editor:
Hannah Charles, PhD, UK Health Security Agency, UK

Submission Status: Open until 30 November 2025

Emerging viral diseases

Guest Editors:
Antonio Charlys da Costa, PhD, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Mohamad S. Hakim, MD, PhD, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia 

Submission Status: Open until 22 November 2025

Tumor microenvironment (TME) in cancer genomics

Guest Editors:
Manoj Kumar Kashyap, PhD, Amity University Haryana, India
Anuja Sathe, PhD, Stanford University, USA

Submission Status: Open until 19 November 2025

Cell-Based therapeutics in human disease

Guest Editors:
Yan Ma, PhD, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, USA
Mohd Hussain Shah, PhD, National Eye Institute (NEI), USA
Meijie Tian, PhD, National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
 

Long-read sequencing technologies for medical diagnostics

Guest Editor:
Laia Bassaganyas,  PhD, Institut de Genómique Fonctionnelle (IGF), France
 

Genomics of cardiovascular diseases

Guest Editors:
Zhe Wang,  PhD, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Chen Yao, PhD, Bristol Myers Squibb, USA

 

Mechanistic insight into health and disease using spatial transcriptomics

Guest Editor:
Zixuan Cang, PhD, North Carolina State University, USA

Multi-omics in metabolic diseases

Guest Editor:
Isabella Zanella, PhD, University of Brescia, Italy
 

Genomics of underrepresented populations

Guest Editors:
Sally N. Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, FAHA, University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center & University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Hoh Boon-Peng, PhD, International Medical University, Malaysia
Mohit Divakar, PhD, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India
Kumarasamy Thangaraj, PhD, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India

 

Genomics of neurodevelopmental disorders

Guest Editors:
Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Umair, PhD, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Guest Editor:
Zhi Ruan,PhD, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China

Microbiomes in human disease

Guest Editor:
Munawar Sultana, PhD, Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Personalised Medicine and Gene Therapy

Guest Editor: 
William Cho: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong

Spliceosome Mutations in Human Disease

Guest Editor: 
Alejandro Ibáñez-Costa: University of Córdoba, Spain

Advanced machine learning and health-related multi-omics data

Guest Editors:
Alejandro Rodríguez-González: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Wei Lan: Guangxi University, China

Generalisation of genomic findings and applications of polygenic risk scores

Guest Editors: 
Manuel Corpas: University of Westminster, UK
Segun Fatumo: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
 

Single-cell technologies

Guest edited by David Casero and Baohua Wang