On May 2, 2018, a strategic cooperative agreement was signed in Shenzhen by the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and AME Publishing Company, which announced both parties to jointly found an international academic journal Digestive Medicine Research (Dig Med Res; DMR).
This strategic cooperation is based on AME's rich international experience in publishing and the solid clinical and scientific resources of the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, with an aim to build an international platform for academic exchange in the field of digestive diseases. DMR will focus on basic, translational and clinical research on digestive diseases, and facilitate the academic exchanges between China and the other parts of the world.
Professor Yulong He, President of the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and Editor-in-Chief of DMR, expressed his good hope that DMR is going to be built as the first-class international journal on digestive diseases in the shortest time through proactive communication.
About the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
The Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University is funded by the Shenzhen government and is directly affiliated as well as operated by Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). The Hospital covers an area of 235,000 square meters and will have a capacity of 4,000 hospital beds. The first phase of construction started with 800 beds and opened for admissions in 2018; and the second phase of construction will start soon and be completed and operational in 2020. It will become the largest hospital in Southern China, providing a suite of the most comprehensive clinical specialties, the high patient flow, the best advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies, the highest talent pool and the best medical ethics.
About AME Publishing Company
AME Publishing Company is a globally active Open Access publisher specializing in the publication of medical journals and books across the broad spectrum of science, technology and medicine. It is known for its diverse and innovative publication approaches in promoting and expediting scientific research. Its library of products includes medical journals, books, academic activities, electronic and web-based media, and a variety of academic platforms.
Founded in 2009, AME has rapidly burst into the international market with a dozen of branches set up all over mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Sydney. Combining the highest editorial standards with cutting-edge publishing technologies, AME has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journals (5 indexed in SCIE and 18 indexed in PubMed), predominantly in English (some are translated into Chinese), covering various fields of medicine including oncology, pulmonology, cardiothoracic disease, andrology, urology and so forth.
Every day, AME comes across renowned scholars from all corners of the world, with whom we share our vision for life. We endeavor to have their profound insights and amusing anecdotes committed to written, audio or visual forms, and further spread among their peers, students and patients of the globe. May AME take you through a myriad of crags and torrents to let the flame of knowledge in every corner of the universe blaze your own trail.