Management Team

Prof. Dr. Kari Syrjänen joined MRE Press as Publishing Director in August 2022. He served almost 40 years in different academic positions, e.g. as Professor of Pathology, Head of Clinical Pathology, and Dean of the Medical Faculty (University of Eastern Finland). He also holds the status of a Visiting Professor, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Brazil (since 2012). Prof. Syrjänen is one of the pioneers in HPV research, with 948 published original papers, reviews and book chapters as well as 530 other scientific communications. He has coordinated 3 European Commission (EC)-funded international multi-center studies (a Nobel laureate among partners), supervised 25 doctoral thesis (domestic and abroad), and published 9 international textbooks, including two major Papillomavirus Textbooks (Springer 1987; Wiley 2000). His research has received over 33,600 citations in the literature, with current Hirsch Index (HI) of 91 (i10 index 594). He has participated as an invited speaker in nearly 300 international congresses (with over 500 oral presentations), and as organizing committee member in over 40 of those. In 2013, KS was appointed as Editor-in-Chief, Acta Cytologica (Karger). He has also served as the Editorial Board members of more than 20 international journals, and has been the Member of more than 20 professional societies/research organizations. Prof. Syrjänen is an Honorary Member of the American- (ASCPC), Italian- (ISCPC) and Hungarian (HSCPC) Society of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy. In 2006, he received EUROGIN Distinguished Service Award, and in 2010, the Maurice Goldblatt Award (from IAC). He is the first recipient of the IPVS Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Papillomavirus Society (2015). In 2022, he was invited as an Honorary Member of the Finnish Society of Clinical Cytology.

Ms. Jiayi Xu joined MRE Press as Ethics Manager in November 2023. After receiving a Master’s degree in Information Technology Management from Hong Kong Baptist University, Jiayi Xu joined Chongqing University of Technology, China as a managing editor of CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology. She works as an Advisory Cabinet in Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE). From 2020 to 2023, she volunteered for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as an associate editor, and now serves as an editor. She is a member of Youth Committee of Society of China University Journals and council member of Chongqing Editology Society of Science Periodicals. She also works as Council Member of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) in 2021.

Prof. Dr. Roberto Manfredini works as the Chair of Internal Medicine, University of Ferrara, and the Head Clinica Medica Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria 'S.Anna', Ferrara, Italy. He graduated (Medicine & Surgery) at the University of Ferrara (Italy), and has achieved a specialization degree in Endocrinology (University of Modena, Italy), Internal Medicine (University of Parma, Italy), and Cardiology (University of Ferrara, Italy). He also got a Doctorate (PhD) in Biomedicine, at the University of Cordoba, Spain. He is certified among the Top Italian Scientists (TIS) (University of Manchester), and has published more than 500 in Impact Factor International Journals (Scopus & ISI WOS databases), with more than 9400 citations in Scopus and 15599 in Google Scholar. He took more than 150 invited lectures at national and international congresses. He served as the Board member & Vice-President of Academy of Sciences of Ferrara, and the President of Medical-Surgical Society of Ferrara. He also serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals including Journal of Acute Diseases, Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, Heart and Mind, Signa Vitae, Journal of Personalized Medicine. He is the Advisory Editor of Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science, and the Editorial Consultant of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. His research interests include: Clinical chronobiology, Peripheral vascular diseases, Internal medicine, Cardiovascular disease, and Gender-oriented medicine etc. He actively participates in peer review process, and is the peer reviewer of many journals, such American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Medicine, Angiology, Circulation, Heart, Internal and Emergency Medicine, International Journal of Cardiology, JAMA Cardiology, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Cardiology, Nutrients, PLOS One, Sleep Medicine Reviews, Stroke etc.