Mirna Kvajo Explained

Mirna Kvajo was a Croatian scientist and the chief editor of the academic journal BMC Biology. She died on May 16, 2023, in New York.

Education

Kvajo has a bachelor's degree from the University of Zagreb and a Ph.D. from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and the University of Basel.^[1]

Career

After graduating, Kvajo undertook postdoctoral research work at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

She was most recently the chief editor of the academic journal BMC Biology.^{[2] [3]} She previously worked at Cell Press as an editor of the journal Cell.^[4] In 2019, she initiated a policy change at BMC Biology whereby the journal started sharing peer reviews of rejected articles with other academic journal editors.^{[5] [6]}

Selected publications

• Kvajo, Mirna, et al. A mutation in mouse Disc1 that models a schizophrenia risk allele leads to specific alterations in neuronal architecture and cognition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105.19 (2008): 7076–7081.^[7]
• Koike H, Arguello PA, Kvajo M, Karayiorgou M, Gogos JA. Disc1 is mutated in the 129S6/SvEv strain and modulates working memory in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2006 Mar 7;103(10):3693-7.^[8]

References

1. Web site: BMC Biology . 2022-04-03 . BioMed Central . en.
2. Web site: BMC Biology Shares Rejected Papers' Peer Reviews with Other Journals . 2022-04-03 . The Scientist Magazine® . en.
3. Web site: BMC Biology – NPRC . 2022-04-03 . en-US.
4. Web site: Caputo . Joseph . The editors are in—Let's Chat with Cell . 2022-04-03 . crosstalk.cell.com . en-us.
5. Web site: 2019-01-02 . Journal shares peer reviews of rejected papers with rival titles . 2022-04-03 . Times Higher Education (THE) . en.
6. Smits, R. H. M., Pells, R. (2022). Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed.. United Kingdom: Ubiquity Press. p165
7. Penzes, Peter, et al. "Dendritic spine pathology in neuropsychiatric disorders." Nature neuroscience 14.3 (2011): 285-293.
8. Keane . Thomas M. . Goodstadt . Leo . Danecek . Petr . White . Michael A. . Wong . Kim . Yalcin . Binnaz . Heger . Andreas . Agam . Avigail . Slater . Guy . Goodson . Martin . Furlotte . Nicholas A. . Sep 2011 . Mouse genomic variation and its effect on phenotypes and gene regulation . Nature . 477 . 7364 . 289–294 . 10.1038/nature10413 . 0028-0836. free . 3276836 .