The First Online Editorial Board Meeting of Journal of Translational Genetics and Genomics Successfully Held

On 23 Sept 2022, the first online Editorial Board meeting of Journal of Translational Genetics and Genomics (JTGG, Online ISSN: 2578-5281) was successfully held. Thirteen Editorial Board members attended the meeting to discuss the progress and development plan of JTGG.

Program of the meeting:
1. Current progress of JTGG in publication, citation, readership, authorship and databases application;
2. Acknowledgment to Editorial Board members who made great contributions to JTGG in Special Issues, publication, and manuscript processing;
3. Development plan of JTGG in Special Issues, webinars, interviews, and databases application;
4. Free discussion about the development of JTGG.

Firstly, Prof. Sanjay Gupta, the Editor-in-Chief, stated the current progress of JTGG from the aspects of publication, citation, distribution of readers, acknowledgments, and so on.

Then, Jane Lee, the Managing Editor, reported the development plan of JTGG, including manuscript processing, Special Issues, webinars, interviews and databases application.
Following the two parts, Prof. Sanjay Gupta, the Editor-in-Chief, organized a free discussion.

The Editorial Board members Prof. Bernhard HF Weber, Prof. Margaret DeAngelis, Prof. Jin-Hua Wang, Prof. Nathan A. Berger, Prof. Shailesh Singh, and Prof. Francesc Palau put forward many constructive suggestions on the aspects of the topics of the Special Issue, manuscripts solicitation, content setting, databases application and the future development of the journal. These suggestions are critical to the future development of JTGG.

Here, the Editorial Office of JTGG would like to convey deep gratitude and best wishes to all the Editorial Board members. JTGG will continue adhering to the principle of high-quality publishing, explore innovative academic topics, publish valuable academic research and advance the field of translational genetics and genomics.

Attendees list (in no particular order):
Sanjay Gupta, Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Nathan A. Berger, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Wai-Yee Chan, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Fredrick R. Schumacher, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Bernhard HF Weber, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Angel Aledo-Serrano, Epilepsy Program, Department of Neurology, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid, Spain.
David N. Cooper, Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Margaret DeAngelis, Department of Ophthalmology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.
Antonio Orlacchio, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, European Center for Brain Research, CERC-IRCCS Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Francesc Palau, Department of Genetic and Molecular Medicine, Sant Joan de Déu Children's Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
Shailesh Singh, Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Margaret R. Wallace, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida Health, FL, USA.
Jin-Hua Wang, Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Respectfully submitted by the Editorial Office of Journal of Translational Genetics and Genomics.