To publish:
A collection of review articles (and associated features) written specifically for the journal in the area of molecular medicine.
The journal has text plus schematic diagrams, photographs, tables, animations and videos, and is:

1. designed to support research and medicine, and for teaching use;
2. generously written by experts in their field, who review information that has been published in peer-reviewed primary journals and comment on it;
3. professionally edited by the editorial team;
4. easily available worldwide;
5. of high quality;
6. suitable for specialists and non-specialists, with fundamental concepts explained (e.g. in diagrammatic or animated form);
7. suitable for archiving in the long term;
8. able to be updated;
9. in an electronic form (HTML and PDF versions).
   

Expert Reviews will not:

1. publish original research results;
2. publish systematic reviews of treatments or diagnostic tests;
3. try to replicate what is already available in specialist websites and the print medium;
4. provide facilities to search existing databases of articles;
5. provide extensive lists of links to other sites (but see our Links Database of websites we think are useful).

History of this journal and website:

• Autumn 1997: Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine was established as a non-profit project by the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, in the Clinical and Biomedical Computing Unit (CBCU).
• January 1998: Cambridge University Press publish the journal in association with the CBCU.
• May 2001: Editorial office relocates to the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) and continues to be published by CUP, now in association with CARET.
• April 2003: Articles become available from Cambridge Journals Online (CJO), the Cambridge University Press facility that provides full text for purchase or subscription (accessible via the ERMM CJO homepage or via the article of interest on this website). All articles published before January 2003 will remain free. All figures, tables, animations and videos for all articles (including new articles) will also remain free.

Our definition of molecular medicine?

The understanding of health and disease at the cellular and molecular level; the use of this information to design new approaches to promote health, and prevent, diagnose, cure and treat disease; examples include gene therapy, DNA-based testing, vaccine design, the study of disease processes at the molecular level (including the epidemiological study of large numbers of people). In brief, molecular medicine is:

• a relatively new concept as a multidisciplinary subject;
• a rapidly moving, relatively well-funded field of research;
• of central relevance to medical training;
• of great interest to the general public;
• fraught with complicated and confusing nomenclature and jargon (e.g. a neuroscientist and an immunologist might use very different jargon and concepts);
• a multidisciplinary field, but with many common techniques.

For more information, please contact The Editors

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Editorial Office: Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET), 1st Floor, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1SB, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 765 375; Fax: +44(0)1223 765 505; E-mail: ermm@caret.cam.ac.uk