Editorial board of the Russian journal of immunology: the 2003 update.

The year 2002 has been, probably, the most complicated and eventful in the short history of the RJI. During that year many projects planned by the Editorial Board in the beginning-middle of the year 2001 started to become a reality. Unfortunately, one of the main initiators of these projects - Editor-in-Chief of the RJI, Professor Anatoly N. Cheredeev - cannot witness this success. On May 3rd, 2003 it will be a year since A.N. Cheredeev died. One of the important projects that we have accomplished is the creation of a joint Internet site of the RSI and the RJI that provides online access to the full text of articles of the journal. Although this «Russian Immunology» site (www.rji.ru) still needs a lot of work, it already takes a noteworthy place among other immunology resources on the Internet. The number of visitors of this site increased in four times during 2002, reaching more than 1500 users a month. A second important project accomplished during the past year has been the inclusion of the RJI to the biggest international bibliographic databases. At the beginning of 2002 the RJI was added to the list of indexed and cited journals of the oldest database - the Chemical Abstracts. In addition, we are glad to announce that the complete archive of articles published in the RJI has just been added to the most popular and visited bibliographic database, the Index Medicus/Medline/PubMed. Following the tradition every two years the RJI makes changes in the Editorial Board. The reasons for these changes are the advances in the field of Immunology, the establishment of new research directions, the opening of new laboratories, and the appearance of new scientific leaders. The incorporation of these new leaders into the Editorial Board improves the journal productivity, making the review process more effective and attracting new interesting authors. We would like to introduce the new members of our Editorial Board.