Editor-in-Chief Zhong Lin Wang introduces MedMat
A personal introduction to the journal’s mission, community and ambition from the Editor-in-Chief.
A journal built for convergence
In this editorial introduction, founding Editor-in-Chief Zhong Lin Wang presents MedMat as an international home for research created where materials science, engineering and medicine meet. The journal is designed for work that connects a material concept to a meaningful biological or clinical question.
MedMat welcomes the communities developing medical materials, devices and systems for diagnosis, therapy, tissue repair, organ replacement, sensing, drug delivery and regenerative medicine. Its purpose is to make consequential interdisciplinary work visible to both materials researchers and medical specialists.
Editorial ambition
The journal’s editorial programme prioritizes scientific rigor, clear clinical relevance and international participation. Original research, authoritative reviews and rapid communications are evaluated for both technical quality and their capacity to move medicine forward.
MedMat is open access and is published globally through the Wolters Kluwer Lippincott platform. The editorial team invites researchers, clinicians and engineers to use the journal as a shared forum for the next generation of biomedical materials research.