Publishing Invited Reviews

The importance of lipids as one of the fundamental classes of biological compounds is well established. The application of our of the biochemistry, chemistry and physiology of lipids to biotechnology, the fats and oils industry and medicine have continued to expand apace. In addition new dimensions such as lipid biophysics, especially with relevance to membranes and lipoproteins, and basic liposome research and applications have been added. To cope with all these advances in knowledge a journal is needed to review recent progress in particular fields and to set current research against its historical background. Progress in Lipid Research fulfils this role.

Each volume contains up-to-date surveys of special aspects of lipid research. The invited reviews are comprehensive enough to provide sufficient overview but concentrate on reporting and critically appraising the most recent data. Subjects are chosen for their timeliness or because major developments have taken place in the last few years. They include methodological reviews as well as chemical, biochemical and medical articles. All lipid compounds and derivatives are covered, ranging from fatty acids and other simple molecules, through steroids, terpenoids and phospho- or glycolipids to complex structures such as lipoproteins and biological membranes. We hope that those whose main interest is in lipid biophysics and liposome research will join as new readers, benefiting from the journal's classical aspects of lipid metabolism, lipids in signal transduction and lipid enzymology, and that current readers will benefit from the exposure to top quality research on the new aspects.

PLR solely publishes review articles and submissions are by invitation only. If you have not been invited, but would like to have a review article considered, please send your proposal to the Editorial Office (Ms. Carly Middendorp at c.middendorp@elsevier.com), thereby indicating which editor has the most appropriate expertise to handle the manuscript.Proposals must include a short abstract, proposed table of contents/chapters, a representative figure (if relevant) and list of key references. If possible please supply a timeline for submission of your article. After assessment of the proposal by the Editors, we will let you know whether it is suitable for inclusion in the journal.

Editors and their expertise:

Makoto Arita: Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA)-derived mediators; LC-MS/MS-based lipidomics; role of lipid mediators in inflammation and tissue homeostatis; eosinophils; cyclooxygenases, lipoxygenases, and cytochrome P450 monooxygenases.



Kent Chapman: Plant lipid metabolism; plant lipid signaling; membranes; oilseeds; lipid storage; compartmentalization; organelle biogenesis; lipid analysis.



John Harwood: Metabolism and function of acyl lipids; n-3 polyunsatruated fatty acids; oil accumulation in crops; algal lipids; regulation of metabolism; lipids in disease.



Gabor Tigyi: Lysophospholipids, lysophosphatidic acid, sphingosine-1-phosphate, lipid signaling, radiation biology, drug discovery.



Markus Wenk: Structure, function and metabolism of membrane lipids; application of lipidomics in drug and biomarker development; role of lipid metabolism in neurobiology.

Submission of Reviews is by invitation only. 

Executive Editors
Makoto Arita
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan Email Makoto Arita
Kent Chapman
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States Email Kent Chapman plant lipid metabolism, plant lipid signaling, membranes, oilseeds, lipid storage, compartmentalization, organelle biogenesis, lipid analysis
Guenther Daum
Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria Email Guenther Daum Biochemical, Molecular, and cell biological methods addressing problems of lipid metabolism, Lipid depot formation and membrane biogenesis, Analyses of lipid metabolism and lipid trafficking among ER, Mitochondria, Peroxisomes, Lipid bodies and plasma membrane.
John Harwood
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom Email John Harwood
Gabor Tigyi
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United StatesEmail Gabor Tigyi lipid mediators, LPA, phospholipid growth factors, sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors and LPA receptors
Markus Wenk
National University of Singapore Email Markus Wenk
Founding Editor
Ralph T. Holman
University of Minnesota Hormel Institute, Austin, Minnesota, United States
Editorial Advisory Board
Thomas Bach
University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Wonhwa Cho
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Rosalind Coleman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Stephen Cunnane, PharmD
University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Manohar Garg
The University of Newcastle School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
James Hamilton
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Bernd Helms
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Suzanne Jackowski
Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Anna Nicolaou, BSc PhD CChem FRSC
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Daniel Raben
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Charles Serhan
Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Arthur Spector
University of Iowa Healthcare, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Keizo Waku
Teikyo University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Itabashi-Ku, Japan
Vic Zammit
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom