MedMicroEnvironment
MedMicroEnvironment
Chengjiang Gao
Fan Yi
Chuan-Ju Liu
MedMicroEnvironment (MME) is a peer-reviewed and fully open access journal sponsored by Shandong University. The journal is dedicated to publishing rigorous, high-quality research，authoritative review...
MedMicroEnvironment (MME) is a peer-reviewed and fully open access journal sponsored by Shandong University. The journal is dedicated to publishing rigorous, high-quality research，authoritative reviews，and forward-looking perspectives that advance our understanding of how the cellular, molecular, chemical, physical, and spatial properties of tissue microenvironments regulate physiological homeostasis, disease initiation and progression, and therapeutic response. MME aims to bridge fundamental discoveries in microenvironmental biology with translational and clinical applications.
The journal covers fundamental and translational research on medical and tissue micro environments, including but not limited to:
1. Pathological Microenvironment:
Tumour and Inflammation: Immune evasion, stromal crosstalk, and chronic inflammatory signalling.
Fibrosis and Autoimmunity: The transition from tissue repair to pathological scarring and self-attack.
Infection: Local environment factors governing pathogen survival and host response.
2. Physiological Microenvironment:
Organ-specific Physiology: Renal, Digestive, Cardiovascular, and Neuro-physiological niches.
Systemic Regulation: Metabolic, Reproduction, and Aging microenvironment.
MME also welcomes studies that use or develop advanced approaches, including single-cell and spatial omics, advanced imaging, organoids, organ-on-chip models, engineered extracellular matrices, biomaterials, and computational or systems-level methods to investigate biologically or clinically meaningful questions relating to medical microenvironments.
Society affiliation
Shandong University, or SDU – under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education – is a key comprehensive university with a long and honorable history, a broad variety of disciplines, strong academic strength and distinctive characteristics, which has had a great influence both at home and abroad. In 2017, the SDU was chosen as one of the...
Shandong University, or SDU – under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education – is a key comprehensive university with a long and honorable history, a broad variety of disciplines, strong academic strength and distinctive characteristics, which has had a great influence both at home and abroad. In 2017, the SDU was chosen as one of the first group of China's high-level universities to be listed in the double first-class university program released by the central government of China.
Shandong University has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years. At present, 18 subjects have been listed in the top one percent of subjects in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI), an index showing the competitiveness of a subject published by the Institute for Scientific Information. In addition, five of the university’s subjects – chemistry, engineering, material sciences, clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology – were listed in the top 1‰ in the ESI rankings. SDU has also established cooperation with nearly 200 universities in more than 30 countries or regions.
Shandong University is a comprehensive university in China with full-fledged academic disciplines. There are at present 12 general disciplines for undergraduates and postgraduates: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and the fine arts. There are 44 first-level doctorate programs, 51 first-level master's degree programs, 95 programs for undergraduates and 42 post-doctorate research programs – forming a complete system for the cultivation of first-class talent. With professional research advantages and excellent human resource, SDU publishes scientific journals in different subjects regularly, including chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, clinical medicine, energy, civil engineering, control science, mathematics, computer, etc., promoting discipline exchange and enhancing international influence.