Introduction to Issue 48-2

Welcome to the Journal of Biocommunication, the professional journal of the Association of Medical Illustrators and the BioCommunications Association. This JBC issue represents our second issue of the 2024 publishing year. We would like to thank our entire Management Board, editors, advisors, and authors for their important contributions.

 

Our Open Journal Systems (OJS) management system continues to serve us well, providing rich online features for our authors, as well as editors. Authors are able to submit content online, and then track their article's progress throughout the review and editing processes. For those authors and content creators wanting to submit an article to the JBC, please visit: https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/jbc/about/submissions.

 

We appreciate the ongoing support from the JBC community around the world. In particular, we acknowledge the support of the Association of Medical Illustrators and the BioCommunications Association. It is a privilege to be the professional academic journal of these two great organizations.

 

 

JBC Showcase - BioImages: 10 Years of Best In Show Winners

We are excited to showcase a collection of the BCA's BioImages Best In Show Winners from the past 10 years. This gallery is a celebration of some of the best visual photography and imagery in life sciences and medicine created in the past decade, which is only a small slice of the rich and vivid history of the BioImages salon that traces its origins back to 1934. We hope you enjoy this collection of visually stunning work.

 

JBC Gallery

Our JBC 48-2 Gallery includes the Professional Category winners from AMI's 2024 Salon Exhibition. The annual Salon represents the AMI's visual media competition showcasing some of the finest medical illustration, animation, graphics, and media in the life sciences and medicine. The 2024 AMI annual meeting was held in Rochester, New York.

 

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Authors of this Publisher's Comment

Sam Bond is a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago with appointments in the Department of Physical Therapy and the Biomedical Visualization (BVIS) graduate program. Her work in physical therapy focuses on patient education for the department's faculty practice, as well as game design for patient behavior modification. Within the BVIS program, Sam teaches two Interactive Visualization courses in beginner to advanced interactive development. These courses cover scripting in Unity, with applications for 2D games, 3D games, and Virtual Reality development, and additional interactive topics such as Articulate Storyline, advanced web development, and interactive PDF creation.

Kelly Cloninger is a Clinical Assistant Professor within the Biomedical Visualization Graduate program (BVIS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formerly a multimedia developer in pharmaceutical medical communications, she specializes in visualizing the mechanism of action for new drugs. Her work focuses on the utilization of 3D visualization for medical animations and applications, and in the graduate program she teaches the 3D modeling track. Her expertise in software includes Zbrush, 3DS Max, the Substance Suite, Blender3D, Cinema4D, and more.

 

 

 

Licensing

The authors have chosen to license this content under a Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial, NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Conflict of Interest Statement

The Journal of Biocommunication Management Board and Editors believe that transparency in academic research is essential. Our JBC authors are now required to disclose any possible conflict of interest when submitting a manuscript. In accordance with the Journal of Biocommunication's editorial policy, no potential conflict of interest has been reported or declared by these authors.