Biomedicine and biotechnology encompasses a wide range of disciplines within its purview. Keeping this in mind, we propose to bring out a special issue focusing on the impact of biomedicine and biotechnology on public health. We aim to include articles highlighting medical interventions, including drugs, diagnostics, and vaccines as well as medical devices that have made a dramatic impact on public health. We also encourage submitting manuscripts that report basic scientific research that have led to the development of important public health interventions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Infectious Diseases:
  • Innovations in epidemiology of infectious diseases
  • Tracking infectious pathogens: innovations in imaging technologies
  • Drug discovery and development: role of structural biology
  • Drug delivery: role of nanotechnology
  • Innovations in diagnostics for infectious diseases
  • Vaccine design: new platforms
  • Mapping drug resistance: new innovations
• Genetics, Genomics, and Proteomics in Medicine:
  • Mapping genetic diversity: implications in human health
  • Reverse genetics: implications for vaccine design
  • Genomics and proteomics: role in human health
  • Cancer: implications of epigenetics and genomics
  • Transgenics and gene knock-out technology: new innovations
• Neuroscience in Modern Medicine:
  • Mapping brain activity: innovations in imaging technologies
  • Understanding brain function: implications of optogenetics
  • Neurological and psychiatric disorders: new innovations and interventions
  • Sleep disorders: technological innovations
  • The brain-pathogen interface: role of infections in brain disorders
  • The blood brain barrier: neuropharmacological agents and therapeutics
  • Devices in neuromedicine and neurorehabilitation: new innovations

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jbb/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: