SLAS Scientific Journals Honor Excellence and Achievement
CHICAGO – The Journal of Biomolecular Screening (JBS) and the Journal of Laboratory Automation (JALA), both published by the Society of Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) in partnership with SAGE Publications, announced and honored achievements by authors, reviewers and the JALA & JBS Art of Science Contest winners at the Second Annual SLAS Annual Conference and Exhibition, Jan. 12-16, 2012, in Orlando, FL.
JBS Editor-in-Chief Robert M. Campbell, Ph.D., of Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, and JALA
Editor-in-Chief Dean Ho, Ph.D., of University of California, Los Angeles, CA, announced the 2013 SLAS Journal Achievement Award honorees in three categories:
2013 Readers’ Choice Awards
Reflecting popularity among readers throughout 2012.
2013 JALA Readers’ Choice Award
A Review of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks Available in the Market Today
By Michael Rubacha, Anil Rattan and Stephen Hosselet
From JALA Volume 16, Issue 1, February 2011, Pages 90-98
2013 JBS Readers’ Choice Award
Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1): The Misunderstood HDAC
By Walter Stunkel and Robert Campbell
From JBS Volume 16, Issue 10, December 2011, Pages 1153-1169
2013 Authors’ Choice Awards
Reflecting popularity among authors (citations) throughout 2012.
2013 JALA Authors’ Choice Award
Microfluidic Immunoassays
By Chun-Che Lin, Jung-Hao Wang and Gwo-Bin Lee
From JALA Volume 15, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 253-274
2013 JBS Authors’ Choice Award
Automated Image Analysis for High-Content Screening and Analysis
By Aabid Shariff, Joshue Kangas, Luis Pedro Coelho, Shannon Quinn and Robert F. Murphy
From JBS Volume 15, Issue 7, August 2010, Pages 726-734
2013 JBS Reviewer Excellence Awards
Reflecting review quality, timeliness and volunteer service to JBS in 2012.
Robert Talanian of Abbott Laboratories, Worcester, MA (USA)
Yichin Liu of Genentech, South San Francisco, CA (USA)
Eric Goedken of Abbott Laboratories, Worcester, MA (USA)
Martin Brandt of GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, PA (USA)
Drs. Campbell and Ho also announced the grand prize winner and 10 honorable mentions in the 2013 JALA & JBS Art of Science Contest. Contestants submitted original scientific images of their favorite cell structures, assay results or other lab creations. The grand prize winner received The New iPad and those named as honorable mentions each received a $50 Amazon.com gift card. To view the winning entries, visit www.SLAS.org.
2013 JALA & JBS Art of Science Contest Winners
Grand Prize Winner
• Yi Zhang and Cyrus Beh of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (USA)
Honorable Mentions
• Mark Bray of the Broad Institute, Cambridge MA (USA)
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Xianting Ding of the University of California, Los Angeles, CA (USA)•
Carolina Haass-Koffler of UCSF Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, San Francisco, CA (USA)•
George Hanson of Life Technologies, Eugene, OR (USA)•
Lorena Kallal of GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, PA (USA)•
Anand Krishnan of Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, AB (CANADA)•
Jerry Shay of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (USA)•
Manju Swaroop of NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Science TRND, Rockville, MD (USA)•
Constantinos Zeinalipour-Yazdi of C. CySilicoTech Research Limited, Nicosia (CYPRUS)•
Li Zhang of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin NT (HONG KONG)In their 18th year of peer-reviewed publication, the Journal of Biomolecular Screening (JBS) publishes 10 issues each year and has an impact factor of 2.049; and the Journal of Laboratory Automation (JALA) publishes six issues each year and has an impact factor of 1.420. Both journals are published by SLAS in partnership with SAGE Publications. For more information about SLAS, JALA and JBS, please visit
