HFSP Publishing Launches New Journal

["Janet Fisher" <jfisher@pcgplus.com>]

Human Frontier Science Program Publishing launches the HFSP Journal

Strasbourg, November 2nd

HFSP Publishing is proud to announce the launch of the HFSP 
Journal, Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research in the Life 
Sciences.

The HFSP Journal aims to foster communication between scientists 
publishing high quality, innovative interdisciplinary research at 
the interface between biology and the physical sciences.

Scientists working in fields at the interface between the life 
sciences and physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, or 
informatics tend to publish in a wide variety of often 
specialized, discipline-specific journals and as a result their 
work may not be read by the professional audience for whom it is 
most relevant. The HFSP Journal will establish a forum that 
unites and engages researchers from a wide range of backgrounds. 
By also publishing Commentaries and Perspectives, which provide 
context to the basic research articles, the HFSP Journal will 
encourage broader understanding and synthesis of the exciting 
work being done across different scientific fields of research.

"The HFSP Journal is unique in that the peer-review process of 
articles submitted for consideration by the HFSP Journal will be 
truly interdisciplinary," says Editor-in-Chief, Arturo Falaschi. 
"This is because every member of the Editorial Board is actively 
involved in interdisciplinary research, and will consult with 
colleagues on the Board to take advantage of their distinct 
scientific backgrounds in making editorial decisions. This is in 
contrast to other journals where the editorial decision-making is 
often divided between disciplines."

The Editorial Board of the HFSP Journal represents 5 
distinguished scientists from different disciplines but each with 
a strong focus on living systems:

* Arturo Falaschi (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and
   Biotechnology, Trieste and Scuola Normale of Pisa)
* Marcelo Magnasco (Department of Physics, Rockefeller University)
* Peter Seeberger (Department of Chemistry, ETH Zurich)
* Dan Kiehart (Department of Biology, Duke University) and
* Mitsuo Kawato (ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto
   University)

The HFSP Journal offers its authors the option to pay a fee to 
make their research articles Open Access immediately upon 
publication. For other articles, access is limited to subscribers 
for the first 6 months after publication, and access will be free 
thereafter. The HFSP Journal will be published online and in 
print.

HFSPO Secretary General and Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel 
comments, "Due to its reputation for excellence in 
interdisciplinary research in biology, HFSPO is well placed to 
endorse the establishment of a high-level journal that shares its 
scientific values and will increase the visibility of the 
Program. This is the main reason I had no hesitation to agree to 
chair the Editorial Advisory Council of the HFSP Journal."

The first articles will appear online in December 2006 and the 
first issue will be published in March 2007.

The HFSP Journal is operated by HFSP Publishing the 
not-for-profit publisher of the leading international funding 
agency the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO). 
This international funding agency has been supporting innovative 
research at the frontier of biology since its establishment in 
1989.

Contact:
Dr. Valerie Ferrier
Managing Editor
Tel + 33 (0) 3 88 21 52 83
info@hfsp-publishing.org
HFSP Journal homepage http://hfspj.aip.org