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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.
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]
After graduating, Kvajo undertook postdoctoral research work at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.[1]
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]
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