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ActaDV ActaDV Advances in dermatology and venereology Acta Dermato-Venereologica
ActaDV Soon Celebrates 100-year Anniversary
Acta Dermato-Venereologica ( Acta DV ) will be celebrating a centennial anniversary in 2020 ( more on this later !). We are moving forward in the new era of publishing ; Acta DV aims to be one of the leading journals within Dermatology and Venereology , spanning from basic , translational research , to clinical studies . The journal has a rapid acceptance and rejection rate and is online with immediate access . Recent developments include an internal database for improved selection of referees , inclusion of a significance summary ( lay abstract ), and new front page , website , and article layouts . On the manuscript handling side , we have implemented checklists for submission , and an automatic size check is underway for our Short Communications . Four new Deputy Editors have strengthened our capacity to evaluate and handle manuscripts . Acta DV depends very much on the work and expert input of our Section Editors ( SEs ), all specialized in different fields of dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases . In order to expand and strengthen specific areas I am therefore happy to welcome two new highly competent scientists as SEs ; Drs Matthias Schmuth , MD , and Jürgen Harder , PhD .
Dr Matthias Schmuth is Professor and Chair of Dermatology and Venereology at Innsbruck Medical University , Innsbruck , Austria . He received his basic training in medicine at the University of Vienna , gaining a Medical License in 1996 , and Board Certification in Dermatology in 2002 . He worked as a Research Scientist , New York
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University in 2002 – 2003 , followed by Associate Professor , University of Innsbruck in 2003 – 2006 , and Adjunct Professor , University of California San Francisco in 2006 – 2008 . In 2009 he was appointed Full Professor at the Medical University Innsbruck . Dr Schmuth ’ s special research interests are in the molecular biology of epidermal differentiation , and disorders of cornification . He has extensively studied nuclear hormone receptors in cutaneous homeostasis and inflammation and is the recipient of the Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund . He is president of the Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venereology ( ŐGDV ) and past president of the European Society for Dermatological Research ( ESDR ).
Dr Jürgen Harder is Professor of Epithelial Infection Biology , University of Kiel , Department of Dermatology . He gained his PhD in Microbiology at the University of Kiel in 2000 , followed by a position as Research Associate in the research group at the Department of Dermatology , University of Kiel . After Habilitation in Molecular Medicine , University of Kiel , he was appointed Privatdozent ( Assistant Professor ) in 2005 – 2007 , a Heisenberg-Fellow of the German Research Foundation in 2007 – 2009 , and worked as a Visiting Scientist in the laboratory of Professor Gabriel Nunez , Department of Pathology , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , USA in 2007 – 2008 . Since 2009 he has held a Heisenberg-Professorship (“ Epithelial Infection Biology ”), at the University of Kiel .
doi : 10.2340 / 00015555-2946 Acta Derm Venereol 2018 ; 98 : 480
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