Abstract
Dean Ho, Ph.D. JALA Editor in Chief Northwestern University
ALA knows its members are always eager to learn more about new technologies and methodologies that can enable them to do things better, faster, and cheaper. Our scientific community and its resources are expanding at an amazing rate and even the subtlest changes are being harnessed to achieve significant gains by laboratory automation professionals.
To honor work that has made seminal impact toward addressing key biological and medical quandaries, JALA is introducing a new annual feature entitled “The JALA Ten.” This special feature will highlight the top 10 technological breakthroughs across a spectrum of fields that include but are not limited to laboratory automation, drug discovery, drug screening, novel therapeutic strategies and delivery technologies, diagnostics, nanotechnology, nanomedicine, microtechnology as it relates to biology and medicine, novel characterization techniques, and more.
Nominations are open to anyone and everyone (i.e., ALA members and nonmembers alike). A JALA Ten Selection Committee comprised of members of the JALA Editorial Board and other professionals from the broader science and engineering community with representation from the academic, industrial, and government sectors will evaluate all nominations received. The committee will specifically search for work that has generated profound impact on the general fields of biology and medicine. Fundamental and applied breakthroughs are eligible, and all fields of innovation with specific relevance toward biology and medicine will be considered.
Nominations must include a concise, 100-word description of the work, which if selected, will be published in The JALA Ten feature story. To assist the Selection Committee, nominators also must provide a 500-word detailed report of why the nominated work merits selection to the The JALA Ten. Nominations must have been reported in a peer-reviewed publication to ensure that its technical merit has been previously evaluated. To be eligible for The JALA Ten, the work must be officially published (online is acceptable).
We hope that you will participate in this exciting new program as we recognize the discoveries that are forging a bright future for the bio/medical research community.
Sincerely,
