Editor-in-Chief
Lindsay A. Farrer, PhD
Chief, Biomedical Genetics; BUSM Distinguished Professor of Genetics; Professor of Medicine, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Email: farrer@bu.edu
Associate Editors
Margaret M. DeAngelis, PhD
Section: Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Derek M. Dykxhoorn, PhD
Section: Genetics & Genome Biology, Computational Biomedicine
Associate Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
Elizabeth Ann L. Enninga, PhD
Section: Women's Health
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, USA
Gaetano Isola, PhD
Section: Dentistry
Associate Professor of Periodontology, Department of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, School of Dentistry, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Amedeo Lonardo, MD
Section: Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy
Akiko Mammoto, MD, PhD
Section: Cardiovascular Medicine and Hematology
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Shannon L. Risacher, PhD
Section: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Imaging
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
Hua Su, MD
Section: Neuroscience & Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Giovanni Targher, MD
Section: Endocrinology & Metabolism
Associate Professor, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy
Lee M. Wetzler, MD
Section: Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Disease
Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Yingyong Zhao, MD, PhD
Section: Urology & Nephrology
Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
Editorial Board Members
Carmela R. Abraham, PhD
Interests: neuroprotection; neuroinflammation; klotho protein; Alzheimer’s disease; multiple sclerosis
Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Boston, USA
Guangwen Cao, PhD
Interests: HBV; HCC; evolution; prophylaxis; therapeutic option; predicative and prognostic biomarkers
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
Marco Cascella, MD
Interests: anesthesia and pain medicine; opioids; cannabinoids; simulation; gamification; telemedicine; artificial intelligence; clinical research
Professor of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
Gabriele Cervino, PhD
Interests: restorative dentistry; esthetic dentistry; dental materials; oral surgery; implant dentistry; clinical dentistry; periodontology; endodontics
Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphological and Functional Imaging, Messina University, Messina, Italy
Min Cheol Chang, MD
Interests: brain; chronic pain; spine; ultrasound; intervention; peripheral nerve
Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
William C.W. Chen, MD, PhD
Interests: stem cells; regenerative medicine; cardiovascular disease; drug delivery; controlled release
Assistant Professor, Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA
Tzu-Hurng Cheng, MD
Interests: biochemistry; signal transduction; molecular cardiology; natural products; cardiovascular pharmacology
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taiwan, China
Paolo Chieffi, MD, PhD
Interests: spermatogenesis; spermatogonia; estrogens; testicular tumors; seminoma; embryonal carcinoma
Full Professor, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
Gennaro Daniele, PhD
Interests: drug development; precision oncology; early phase clinical trials; gynaecologic cancer; lung cancer; clinical trials
Director, Phase 1 Program at the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Undurti N Das, MD
Interests: lipids; immunology; rheumatology; endocrinology; diabetes mellitus; inflammation; sepsis; lipidology; clinical immunology
CEO and CSO, UND Life Sciences, Battle Ground, WA 98604, USA
Naranjan S. Dhalla, PhD
Interests: Ca2+-transport; myocardial metabolism; signal transduction; heart failure; diabetic cardiomyopathy
Professor, University of Manitoba, St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
Guo-Chang Fan, PhD, FAHA
Interests: cardiac inflammation; heart failure; vascular leakage; myocardial infarction; sepsis
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, USA
Carlos M. Ferrario, MD
Interests: renin angiotensin aldosterone system; blood pressure; hypertension
Dewitt-Cordell Professor of Surgical Sciences; Professor, General Surgery; Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA
Co-Founder and Immediate Past-President, Inter-American Society of Hypertension (IASH)
Founder, Consortium Southeastern Hypertension Control (COSEHC)
Co-Founder and Immediate Past-President, Inter-American Society of Hypertension (IASH)
Founder, Consortium Southeastern Hypertension Control (COSEHC)
Luca Fiorillo, PhD
Interests: oral surgery; biomaterials; biomechanics; periodontology; prosthodontics; dental implant; oral health
Research Assistant and Adjunct Professor of Prosthodontics (MED/28), Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences, Morphological and Functional Images, School of Dentistry University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Federica Fogacci, PhD
Interests: lipids; lipoproteins; hypertension; uric acid; women health
Professor, Medical and Surgical Sciences Department, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Yingbin Fu, PhD
Interests: macular degeneration; angiogenesis; immunometabolism; inflammation; in vivo imaging; ocular drug delivery
Associate Professor, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Endowed Chair, Ophthalmology & Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Tamas Fulop, MD, PhD
Interests: aging; geriatrics; immunology; neurosceinces; nutrition
Full professor, Department of Medicine, Geriatric Division and Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
George N. Goulielmos, PhD
Interests: autoimmune diseases; autoinflammatory diseases; molecular medicine; gene polymorphisms; endometriosis
Professor of Human Molecular Genetics, Head of the Molecular Pathology and Human Genetics Section, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Alessandro Granito, PhD
Interests: celiac disease; autoimmune liver diseases (autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis); clinical immunology; liver imaging; hepatocellular carcinoma
Associate Professor, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences - DIMEC, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Esma R. Isenovic, PhD
Interests: diabetes; cardiovascular diseases; ROS; metabolic syndrome; obesity; molecular biology; signal transduction
Full Professor, VINČA Institute of Nuclear Sciences - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Department of Radiobiology and Molecular Genetics, Belgrade, Serbia
Lin-Hua Jiang, PhD
Interests: calcium channels; neurodegenerative disease; mood disorders; neuroinflammation; cancers
Distinguished Professor, Sino-UK Joint Laboratory of Brain Function and Injury of Henan Province, and Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
Yoon Ki Joung, PhD
Interests: biomaterials; anti-thrombogenicity; anti-microbial immunoregulation; nanovesicles
Principal Research Scientist, Biomaterials Research Center, Bio-Medical Research Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, Republic of Korea
Jannis Kountouras, MD, PhD
Interests: H. pylori-related metabolic syndrome and pathologies
Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine-Gastroenterology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Giuseppe Lanza, MD, PhD
Interests: clinical neurophysiology; neuropsychiatry; sleep disorders; neurodegeneration; neuroceliac disease
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Ning Li, MD
Interests: lung cancer; thymic tumours; malignant mesothelioma; soft tissue sarcoma; small bowel tumours; malignant neurofibroma; neuroendocrine carcinoma; adrenal cortical carcinoma
Professor, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
Hongzhou Lu, MD, PhD
Interests: fever of unknown origin; rational use of antibiotics; infection of the central nervous system; infection of the respiratory system
President, The Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China; Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Kenneth Herbert Lundstrom, PhD
Interests: viral vectors; gene therapy; vaccines; cancer therapy; epigenetics
CEO and President, PanTherapeutics, Switzerland
Jixuan Ma, PhD
Interests: silicosis; occupational health; COPD; environmental epidemiology
Associate Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Icro Maremmani, MD
Interests: addiction medicine; addiction psychiatry; dual disorders; agonist opioid treatments; heroin addiction
Adjunct Professor, Addiction Research Methods Institute, World Federation for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, New York, NY, USA
Peng Mi, PhD
Interests: nanocarriers; molecular imaging; drug delivery systems; gene delivery; immunotherapy
Professor, Department of Radiology, Center for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Vincenzo Giorgio Mirante, MD
Interests: ultrasound; digestive pathophysiology; endoscopy
Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Nicola Montemurro, MD, PhD, MBA, MSc, FACS
Interests: brain tumor, glioma, spinal tumor, traumatic brain injury, cervical spine
Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Neurosurgery, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana (AOUP), Pisa, Italy
Fabio Monzani, PhD
Interests: geriatrics; geriatric endocrinology; frailty; fragility fractures; geriatric cardiology; thyroid
Full professor, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Kathleen G. Morgan, PhD
Interests: cardiovascular diseases; vascular dementia; aging-induced aortic stiffness
Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, USA.
Gheyath K. Nasrallah, PhD
Interests: infectious diseases; serological testing; toxicology; biomedical applications of nanparticles
Associate professor, Department of Biomedical Science, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Luis Gabriel Navar, PhD
Interests: renal hemodynamics; hypertension; renin-angiotensin system; diabetes; body fluid regulation
Professor, Department of Physiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA
Attila Nemes, MD, PhD, DSc
Interests: echocardiography; cardiac; myocardial; valvular; vascular
Professor, Department of Medicine, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Le Nguyen Quoc Khanh, PhD
Interests: artificial intelligence; bioinformatics; medical imaging; medical informatics; radiomics
Assistant Professor, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, China
John I. Nurnberger, MD, PhD
Interests: genetics of psychiatric disorders; bipolar affective disorder; alcohol dependence; autism
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
Maria Paz Ocaranza, PhD
Interests: heart failure; hypertension; cardiovascular remodeling; renin angiotensin system; ACE2; angiotesin-(1-9)
Full Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Stuart Jay Olshansky, PhD
Interests: extension of life; evolutionary and biological theories of aging; tropical medicine; public health
Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Alessandro Ottaiano, MD
Interests: genetics and prognostic factors in cancer; oncology; oligo- and poly-metastatic disease
Istituto Nazionale Tumori di Napoli, IRCCS "G. Pascale", Naples, Italy
Leah A. Owen, MD, PhD
Interests: pediatric eye conditions; strabismus; amblyopia; heritable retinal disease; retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA
Nikolaos Papanas, PhD
Interests: diabetes mellitus; diabetic complications; diabetic foot; diabetic neuropathy; medical writing; vascular disease; metabolic syndrome in OSAS and obesity
Professor, Diabetes Centre-Diabetic Foot Clinic, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece
Prabir Patra, PhD
Interests: nanomaterials; polymeric nanocomposites; bioinspired nanomaterials; biomedical materials; tissue engineering
Jerome A Gilbert Endowed Chair Professor and Founding Department Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA
Tuan D. Pham, PhD
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; medical imaging; physiological signal classification; pattern recognition; information fusion
Professor of AI in Imaging, Diagnostics, and Trauma, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Irfan Rahman, PhD
Interests: inflammation; cellular senescence; circadian clock; oxidative stress; inhaled toxicants
Dean’s Professor of Environmental Medicine, Medicine (Pulmonary) and Public Health Sciences, Director of Center for Flavoring Inhalation Toxicology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, USA
Shahzad G. Raja, FRCS(CTh)
Interests: surgical myocardial revascularization; total arterial grafting; off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting; aortic valve; aortovascular surgery
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK
Dante Romagnoli, MD, PhD
Interests: viral hepatitis; hepatocellular carcinoma; liver transplantation; ultrasonography; diabetes
Assistant, Gastroenterology Unit, AOU Polyclinic Modena, Modena, Italy
Luigi Santacroce, MD
Interests: human microbiota; probiotics; periodontitis; essential oils; nutraceuticals; oncology
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Ferdinando Carlo Sasso, MD, PhD
Interests: diabetes; CV risk; atherosclerosis; NAFLD
Full Professor of Internal medicine at University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
Laura Sciacca, MD, PhD
Interests: diabetes and cancer; diabetes in pregnancy; insulin therapy
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Vladimir F. Semiglazov, MD, PhD
Interests: breast cancer; breast cancer surgery
Professor, Head of Scientific Department of Breast Cancer (Clinical and Basic Research), N.N. Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation; Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Tamim H. Shaikh, PhD
Interests: rare disease genetics; genomic structural variation; repetitive DNA elements
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics and Metabolism, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, USA
Dimitra Skondra, MD, PhD
Interests: advanced retinal imaging; age-related macular degeneration; diabetic eye disease; eye trauma
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Jesse Slone, PhD
Interests: mitochondria; mitochondrial genome; neurodegenerative disorders; molecular genetics; aging; mitochondrial optic neuropathies
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Anna Maria Spagnolo, PhD
Interests: infectious disease; epidemiology; infectious disease control and prevention; infectious disease surveillance
Professor, Department of Health Sciences, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Patricia Tai, MD
Interests: merkel cell carcinoma; skin cancer; prostate cancer; radiation therapy
Department of Oncology, University Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. Prof. Tai is the UpToDate author on Merkel cell carcinoma and sebaceous carcinoma.
Weihong Tan, PhD
Interests: aptamer; bioanalytical chemistry; chemical biology; cancer theranostics; molecular medicine
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, China
Luca Testarelli, PhD
Interests: oral surgery; endodontics; dental materials; implantology; 3D imaging; oral pathology; prosthodontics; dentistry
Associate Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, PhD
Interests: general medicine; dentistry; public health; pathology; pathophysiology
Professor, Department of Research Analytics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Chennai, India
Aristidis Tsatsakis, PhD
Interests: molecular biology; cell biology; biochemistry; microscopy; pesticides; toxicology clinical; spectroscopy; clinical research; cancer
Professor, Laboratory of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Division of Morphology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Pietro Vajro, MD
Interests: pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology; obesity; nutrition
Full Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Chao Wang, PhD
Interests: immunoengineering; biomaterials; drug delivery; extracellular vesicles; nanomedicine
Professor, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Jiangsu, China
Xiaofeng Wang, PhD
Interests: machine learning; radiomics; clinical trial designs with imaging biomarkers; clinical informatics; bayesian inference
Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Zeneng Wang, PhD
Interests: gut microbiome; cardiovascular disease; atherosclerosis; metabolomics; mass spectrometry
Staff Scientist, Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA
Zhong Wang, PhD
Interests: heart repair and regeneration; epigenetic regulation; epigenetics and metabolism; cardiac reprogramming; heart cell therapy
Professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Ellen Lori Weisberg, PhD
Interests: acute myeloid leukemia; chronic myeloid leukemia; acute lymphoblastic leukemia; drug resistance; kinase inhibitors; bromodomain; SWI/SNF signaling
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Haim Werner, PhD
Interests: cancer biology; molecular endocrinology; insulin-like growth factors (IGF1); IGF receptor; gene regulation; hormones and cancer
Professor Emeritus at the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Yun-Long Wu, PhD
Interests: drug delivery; gene delivery; polymeric carrier; hydrogel; cancer therapy
Professor and Vice Dean, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Haijun Yu, PhD
Interests: nanomedicine; immunotherapy; drug delivery; gene therapy; biomedical engineering
Principal Investigator, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Apostolos Zaravinos, PhD
Interests: cancer genetics; molecular medicine; Next Generation Sequencing (NGS); systems biology; microRNAs; genomics; cancer imunogenetics; tumor immunology
Professor, Department of Life Sciences, School of Sciences, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Paul Zarogoulidis, MD, PhD
Interests: drug design development and therapy; lung cancer; immunotherapy; interventional pulmonary medicine
Director of Pulmonary Department, "General Clinic Euromedica" Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
