ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Aims and scope of journal

Molecular Therapy is the leading journal for research in the areas of gene transfer, vector development and design, stem cell manipulation, development of gene-, peptide- and protein-, oligonucleotide- and cell-based therapeutics to correct genetic and acquired diseases, vaccine development, pre-clinical target validation, safety/efficacy studies, and clinical trials. Available in print and online, Molecular Therapy is dedicated to promoting the sciences in genetics, medicine and biotechnology. Publishing important peer-reviewed research and cutting-edge reviews and commentaries, the journal continues to attract the best material in the field. Molecular Therapy's 2007 impact factor is 5.970*.

Impact Factor

Impact Factor: 5.970*

Rank:
10/144 in Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology
17/138 in Genetics and Heredity
6/82 in Medicine, Research and Experimental


*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009)

Abstracted/indexed in

AIDS Abstracts
BIOBASE
Biotechnology Citation Index
Chemical Abstracts
Current Contents
Excerpta Medica
Abstract Journals
Inpharma Weekly
MEDLINE
Pharmacogenomics and Outcomes News
Reactions Weekly
EMBase
EMBiology
Scopus.

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Molecular Therapy is 1525-0016 and the electronic standard serial number (eISSN) is 1525-0024.

Editors

Editor-in-Chief

David A Williams
Boston, MA

Editor

Robert M Frederickson
Seattle, WA

Associate Editors

John Bell, Ottawa, Canada
Beverly Davidson, Iowa City, IA
Hildegund C J Ertl, Philadelphia, PA
Loren J Field, Indianapolis, IN
Shiroh Futaki, Kyoto, Japan
Helen E Heslop, Houston, TX
Katherine High, Philadelphia, PA
Mark A Kay, Stanford, CA
Darwin J Prockop, Temple, TX
John J Rossi, Los Angeles, CA
Adrian J Thrasher, London, UK
Jacques Tremblay, Quebec, Canada
Ernst Wagner, Munich, Germany
James Wilson, Philadelphia, PA
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, Kuopio, Finland

Editorial Board

Valder Arruda, Philadelphia, PA
Alberto Auricchio, Naples, Italy
Andrew Baker, Glasgow, UK
Christopher Baum, Hannover, Germany
Mark Behlke, Coralville, IA
Ben Berkhout, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mick Bhatia, Hamilton, Canada
David Bodine, Bethesda, MD
Xandra O Breakefield, Charlestown, MA
Malcolm Brenner, Houston, TX
Bruce A Bunnell, New Orleans, LA
Peter A Campochiaro, Baltimore, MD
Barrie J Carter, Seattle, WA
Toni Cathomen, Berlin, Germany
Sunil Chada, Blacksburg, VA
Jeffrey Chamberlain, Seattle, WA
Seng H Cheng, Framingham, MA
E Antonio Chiocca, Columbus, OH
John A Chiorini, Bethesda, MD
Odile Cohen-Haguenauer, Paris, France
Ken Cornetta, Indianapolis, IN
Tim Cripe, Cincinnati, OH
Ronald G Crystal, New York, NY
Albert Deisseroth, San Diego, CA
Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Houston, TX
Dong-Sheng Duan, Columbia, MO
Cynthia E Dunbar, Bethesda, MD
Paul B Fisher, Richmond, VA
Svend O Freytag, Detroit, MI
Theodore Friedmann, San Diego, CA
Steven Craig Ghivizzani, Gainesville, FL
Joseph C Glorioso, Pittsburgh, PA
Perry B Hackett, St Paul, MN
Hideyoshi Harashima, Sapporo, Japan
Gunther Hartmann, Bonn, Germany
Stephen D Hauschka, Seattle, WA
Ronald Herzog, Gainesville, FL
Johnny Huard, Pittsburgh, PA
Zoltan Ivics, Berlin Germany
Yasufumi Kaneda, Osaka, Japan
George Karpati, Montreal, Canada
Brian S Kaspar, Columbus, OH
Dave Kirn, San Francisco, CA
Stephan Kochanek, Ulm, Germany
Don B Kohn, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Langer, Cambridge, MA
Kam Leong, Durham, NC
Andre Lieber, Seattle, WA
Dexi Liu, Pittsburgh, PA
Pedro Lowenstein, Los Angeles, CA
Ian MacLachlan, Burnaby, Canada
Ron Mandel, Gainesville, FL
R Scott McIvor, Minneapolis, MN
Phillipe Menasché, Paris, France
Phillipe Moullier, Nantes, France
John D Mountz, Birmingham, AL
Nicholas Muzyczka, Gainesville, FL
Glen R Nemerow, La Jolla, CA
Philip Ng, Houston, TX
James Norris, Charleston, SC
Robin Parks, Ottawa, Canada
Derek A Persons, Memphis, TN
Glenn Pierce, Berkeley, CA
Katherine Ponder, St Louis, MO
Jesus Prieto, Pamplona, Spain
Samuel D Rabkin, Charlestown, MA
Dave Russell, Seattle, WA
Stephen J Russell, Rochester, MN
Michel Sadelain, New York, NY
Richard J Samulski, Chapel Hill, NC
David Schaffer, Berkeley, CA
Dmitry Shayakhmetov, Seattle, WA
Lonnie D Shea, Evanston, IL
Evan Snyder, La Jolla, CA
Cy Stein, New York, NY
Francis Szoka, Jr, San Francisco, CA
Kenazaburo Tani, Fukuoka, Japan
Thierry Van den Driessche, Leuven, Belgium
Richard Vile, Rochester, MN
Daniel Weiss, Burlington, VT
Matthew D Weitzman, La Jolla, CA
Dominic J Wells, London, UK
John H Wolfe, Philadelphia, PA
Jon Wolff, Madison, WI
Savio LC Woo, New York, NY

Founding Editor

Inder M Verma, La Jolla, CA

Statistics Consultant

Mi-Ok Kim, Cincinnati, OH