Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the Cells 2021 Best Paper Awards, who were chosen by a selection committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Alexander E. Kalyuzhny. Following a review process by the Evaluation Committee, four winners were selected. The recipients of the “Cells 2021 Best Paper Awards” are as follows:

Article:

Combined Inhibition of TGF-β Signaling and the PD-L1 Immune Checkpoint Is Differentially Effective in Tumor Models
By Heng Sheng Sow, Jiang Ren, Marcel Camps, Ferry Ossendorp and Peter ten Dijke
Cells 2019, 8(4), 320.

Exosome Treatment Enhances Anti-Inflammatory M2 Macrophages and Reduces Inflammation-Induced Pyroptosis in Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiomyopathy
By Dinender K. Singla, Taylor A. Johnson and Zahra Tavakoli Dargani
Cells 2019, 8(10), 1224.

Prizes: the winning articles will receive 500 CHF, one free publication in 2021 after normal peer review procedure.

Review:

Overview of Extracellular Vesicles, Their Origin, Composition, Purpose, and Methods for Exosome Isolation and Analysis
By Laura M. Doyle and Michael Zhuo Wang
Cells 2019, 8(7), 727.

Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
By Yu Han, Xuezhou Li, Yanbo Zhang, Yuping Han, Fei Chang and Jianxun Ding
Cells 2019, 8(8), 886.

Prizes: the winning reviews will receive one free publication in 2021 after normal peer review procedure.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Cells 2021 Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Cells.

Kind regards,
Cells Editorial Office

 
Cells 2021 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Cells will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

18 pages, 2150 KiB  
Article
Highly Specific Memory B Cells Generation after the 2nd Dose of BNT162b2 Vaccine Compensate for the Decline of Serum Antibodies and Absence of Mucosal IgA
by Eva Piano Mortari, Cristina Russo, Maria Rosaria Vinci, Sara Terreri, Ane Fernandez Salinas, Livia Piccioni, Claudia Alteri, Luna Colagrossi, Luana Coltella, Stefania Ranno, Giulia Linardos, Marilena Agosta, Christian Albano, Chiara Agrati, Concetta Castilletti, Silvia Meschi, Paolo Romania, Giuseppe Roscilli, Emiliano Pavoni, Vincenzo Camisa, Annapaola Santoro, Rita Brugaletta, Nicola Magnavita, Alessandra Ruggiero, Nicola Cotugno, Donato Amodio, Marta Luisa Ciofi Degli Atti, Daniela Giorgio, Nicoletta Russo, Guglielmo Salvatori, Tiziana Corsetti, Franco Locatelli, Carlo Federico Perno, Salvatore Zaffina and Rita Carsettiadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
Cells 2021, 10(10), 2541; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10102541 - 26 Sep 2021
17 pages, 3151 KiB  
Article
Alterations in the Gut-Microbial-Inflammasome-Brain Axis in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
by Pradeep K. Shukla, David F. Delotterie, Jianfeng Xiao, Joseph F. Pierre, RadhaKrishna Rao, Michael P. McDonald and Mohammad Moshahid Khan
Cells 2021, 10(4), 779; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10040779 - 01 Apr 2021
23 pages, 3439 KiB  
Article
Beyond the Warburg Effect: Oxidative and Glycolytic Phenotypes Coexist within the Metabolic Heterogeneity of Glioblastoma
by Tomás Duraj, Noemí García-Romero, Josefa Carrión-Navarro, Rodrigo Madurga, Ana Ortiz de Mendivil, Ricardo Prat-Acin, Lina Garcia-Cañamaque and Angel Ayuso-Sacido
Cells 2021, 10(2), 202; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10020202 - 20 Jan 2021
13 pages, 1017 KiB  
Review
Butyrate and the Intestinal Epithelium: Modulation of Proliferation and Inflammation in Homeostasis and Disease
by Pooja S. Salvi and Robert A. Cowles
Cells 2021, 10(7), 1775; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10071775 - 14 Jul 2021
48 pages, 5371 KiB  
Review
Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes: Applications in Regenerative Medicine
by Mangesh D. Hade, Caitlin N. Suire and Zucai Suo
Cells 2021, 10(8), 1959; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10081959 - 01 Aug 2021
19 pages, 2032 KiB  
Review
The Role of Macrophages in the Development of Acute and Chronic Inflammatory Lung Diseases
by Jae-Won Lee, Wanjoo Chun, Hee Jae Lee, Jae-Hong Min, Seong-Man Kim, Ji-Yun Seo, Kyung-Seop Ahn and Sei-Ryang Oh
Cells 2021, 10(4), 897; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10040897 - 14 Apr 2021

Award Committee

Dr. Alexander E. Kalyuzhny Chairman
University of Minnesota
Prof. Hiroshi Miyamoto
University of Rochester Medical Center
Dr. Kay-Dietrich Wagner
iBV
Dr. Francisco Rivero
University of Hull
Prof. Christian Neri

Winner

16 pages, 3080 KiB  
Article
Boosting the Biogenesis and Secretion of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes
by Jinli Wang, Emily E. Bonacquisti, Adam D. Brown and Juliane Nguyen
Cells 2020, 9(3), 660; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9030660 - 09 Mar 2020
17 pages, 1911 KiB  
Article
Disharmonic Inflammatory Signatures in COVID-19: Augmented Neutrophils’ but Impaired Monocytes’ and Dendritic Cells’ Responsiveness
by Zuzana Parackova, Irena Zentsova, Marketa Bloomfield, Petra Vrabcova, Jitka Smetanova, Adam Klocperk, Grigorij Mesežnikov, Luis Fernando Casas Mendez, Tomas Vymazal and Anna Sediva
Cells 2020, 9(10), 2206; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9102206 - 29 Sep 2020
22 pages, 4622 KiB  
Review
A Structural View of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Replication Machinery: RNA Synthesis, Proofreading and Final Capping
by Maria Romano, Alessia Ruggiero, Flavia Squeglia, Giovanni Maga and Rita Berisio
Cells 2020, 9(5), 1267; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9051267 - 20 May 2020
14 pages, 835 KiB  
Review
Osteoblast-Osteoclast Communication and Bone Homeostasis
by Jung-Min Kim, Chujiao Lin, Zheni Stavre, Matthew B. Greenblatt and Jae-Hyuck Shim
Cells 2020, 9(9), 2073; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9092073 - 10 Sep 2020

Winner

Ferry Ossendorp
Leiden University Medical Center
Peter ten Dijke
Leiden University Medical Center
Dinender K. Singla
University of Central Florida
Michael Zhuo Wang
University of Kansas
Yanbo Zhang
China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University
Yuping Han
China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University
Fei Chang
The Second Hospital of Jilin University

Award Committee

Dr. Alexander E. Kalyuzhny Chairman
University of Minnesota

Winner

Chiara Sassoli
Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Section of Anatomy and Histology, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/7/9/142
Ferdinando Chiaradonna
Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan 20126, Italy paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/7/6/53
Benny Abraham Kaipparettu
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA;Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/7/3/21
Irene Meyer
Department of Cell Biology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/7/4/32
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