Mirna Kvajo

Mirna Kvajo was a Croatian scientist and the chief editor of the academic journal BMC Biology. She died on May 16, 2023, in New York.

Education

Kvajo has a bachelor's degree from the University of Zagreb and a Ph.D. from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and the University of Basel.

Career

After graduating, Kvajo undertook postdoctoral research work at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
She was most recently the chief editor of the academic journal BMC Biology. She previously worked at Cell Press as an editor of the journal Cell. In 2019, she initiated a policy change at BMC Biology whereby the journal started sharing peer reviews of rejected articles with other academic journal editors.

Selected publications

Kvajo, Mirna, et al. , ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105.19 : 7076–7081.
Koike H, Arguello PA, Kvajo M, Karayiorgou M, Gogos JA. ''. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2006 Mar 7;103:3693-7.