Mirna Kvajo was a Croatian scientist and the chief editor of the academic journal BMC Biology. She died on May 16, 2023, in New York.

Education

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Kvajo has a bachelor's degree from the University of Zagreb and a Ph.D. from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and the University of Basel.[1]

Career

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After graduating, Kvajo undertook postdoctoral research work at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.[1]

She was most recently the chief editor of the academic journal BMC Biology.[2][3] She previously worked at Cell Press as an editor of the journal Cell.[4] In 2019, she initiated a policy change at BMC Biology whereby the journal started sharing peer reviews of rejected articles with other academic journal editors.[5][6]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b "BMC Biology". BioMed Central. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  2. ^ "BMC Biology Shares Rejected Papers' Peer Reviews with Other Journals". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  3. ^ "BMC Biology – NPRC". Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  4. ^ Caputo, Joseph. "The editors are in—Let's Chat with Cell". crosstalk.cell.com. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  5. ^ "Journal shares peer reviews of rejected papers with rival titles". Times Higher Education (THE). 2019-01-02. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  6. ^ Smits, R. H. M., Pells, R. (2022). Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed.. United Kingdom: Ubiquity Press. p165
  7. ^ Penzes, Peter, et al. "Dendritic spine pathology in neuropsychiatric disorders." Nature neuroscience 14.3 (2011): 285-293.
  8. ^ Keane, Thomas M.; Goodstadt, Leo; Danecek, Petr; White, Michael A.; Wong, Kim; Yalcin, Binnaz; Heger, Andreas; Agam, Avigail; Slater, Guy; Goodson, Martin; Furlotte, Nicholas A. (Sep 2011). "Mouse genomic variation and its effect on phenotypes and gene regulation". Nature. 477 (7364): 289–294. doi:10.1038/nature10413. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 3276836.