Editorial

The past year had a special significance for Planta Medica, since the journal celebrated its 60th anniversary. To mark this festive occasion, a special anniversary ceremony, hosted by Prof. Dr. Luc Pieters (Editor-in-Chief), Prof. Dr. Adolf Nahrstedt (Senior Editor) and Prof. Dr. Matthias Hamburger (Review Editor) was organized at the 2013 International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) in Münster, 1st – 5th of September 2013. This ceremony also provided the occasion to present the first Thieme Award for the Most Innovative Paper of the Year, to the research group headed by Dr. Susan Murch of the University of British Columbia (Canada) for their ground-breaking work on plant metabolomics [1]. The “Most Innovative Paper of the Year” will also be awarded in 2014.

• References

• 1 Brown PN, Turi CE, Shipley PR, Murch SJ. Comparisons of large (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) and small (Vaccinium oxycoccos L., Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) cranberry in British Columbia by phytochemical determination, antioxidant potential, and metabolomic profiling with chemometric analysis. Planta Med 2012; 78: 630-640
• 2 Vollmer G. Editorial. Planta Med 2013; 79: 513