Call for papers - Omics approaches to understand cardiovascular disease

Guest Editors

Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Goo Jun, PhD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 30 June 2025

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is calling for submissions to our Collection on Omics approaches to understand cardiovascular disease. Omics technologies, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and epigenomics, offer powerful tools for comprehensively characterizing the molecular landscape of cardiovascular diseases. Leveraging these cutting-edge approaches, researchers can unravel the intricate molecular mechanisms underlying disease pathogenesis, identify novel biomarkers for early detection and risk stratification, and elucidate potential therapeutic targets.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA

Dr Zeeshan Ahmed is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Core Faculty Member at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers Health. His lab at Rutgers is focused on implementing novel Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), and orthodox bioinformatics and biomedical informatics approaches to investigate multi-modal multi-omics and phenotypic data for the identification of patterns revealing predictive biomarkers and risk factors to support earlier diagnosis of patients with complex, common, and rare diseases.

Goo Jun, PhD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA

Dr Goo Jun is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. After receiving a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Statistical Genetics at the University of Michigan. He works on statistical genetics, computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics and multi-omics data analysis. His research is focused on development of computational and statistical methods for analysis of massive data to understand genetics and biology of complex traits.

About the Collection

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is calling for submissions to our Collection on Omics approaches to understand cardiovascular disease. Omics approaches have emerged as indispensable tools in unraveling the intricate molecular landscape of cardiovascular disease (CVD) by providing comprehensive insights into the underlying mechanisms driving CVD pathogenesis, progression, and response to therapy. Integrative omics approaches further enhance our understanding by integrating multi-omics data to explain complex molecular networks and identify novel disease pathways.

The application of omics technologies holds immense promise in advancing precision medicine approaches for CVD management. By leveraging omics data, clinicians can stratify patients based on their molecular profiles, enabling tailored treatment strategies and improving therapeutic outcomes. Omics-based biomarkers offer non-invasive tools for early disease detection, risk prediction, and monitoring disease progression. Omics approaches represent a transformative paradigm in cardiovascular research, and clinical practice, offering unprecedented opportunities to decipher the molecular intricacies of CVD and revolutionize patient care.

In support of SDG 3: Good Health & Well-being, this Collection seeks contributions that address a spectrum of topics, including but not limited to:

• Genomics
• Transcriptomics
• Proteomics
• Metabolomics
• Epigenomics
• Integrative omics analyses
• Omics-based biomarker discovery
• Molecular pathways in cardiovascular disease
• Personalized medicine approaches
• Therapeutic targets and drug development
• Clinical applications of omics technologies in cardiovascular medicine

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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Omics approaches to understand cardiovascular disease" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.