Manel Esteller, Director of Epigenetics and Cancer Biology at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), ICREA Research Professor and Professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona, has been appointed Member of the Editorial Board of Genome Research.

The journal publishes outstanding original research worldwide since 1995 and is recognized internationally as the most current source of information of the changeable field of Genetics and Genome Biology and Medicine. Genome Research is published by Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, New York.

In recent years, Genome Research has been ranked as one of the most cited journals in the research on genetics by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in its annual report citation (JCR) with a current impact factor of 14,397.

Esteller is the only Spanish scientist elected for this position