Editor-in-Chief
Fernando Albericio, PhD
Emeritus Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Research Professor, School of Chemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Email: Albericio@ukzn.ac.za
Associate Editors
Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai, MD
Interests: artificial intelligence; biostatistics; coronary artery disease; percutaneous coronary intervention; structural heart disease
Associate Professor, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome and IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Neal M. Davies, PhD
Interests: pharmacokinetics; pharmacology; toxicology; drug delivery; anti-inflammatory/anti-cancer nutraceuticals
Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences,University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Ayman El-Faham, PhD
Interests: amino acids; peptide coupling reagents; peptide synthesis; green chemistry; bioactive molecules-based s-triazine
Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Dar Al Uloom University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Emeritus Professor, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt
Renyou Gan, PhD
Interests: natural products; phytochemicals; bioactivities; gut microbiome; biotransformation
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Marcello Iriti, PhD
Interests: bioactive phytochemicals; nutraceuticals; nutritional therapy; ethnopharmacology; medicinal plants; traditional medicine
Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology at the Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Milan State University, Milan, Italy
Rangasamy Jayakumar, PhD
Interests: drug delivery; infectious diseases; hemostasis; wound healing; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine
Professor, Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kerala, India
Xiqun Jiang, PhD
Interests: drug delivery systems; macromolecular biotherapeutics; antibody-drug conjugates; targeting drug and liposomes
Professor, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering in College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Xuechen Li, PhD
Interests: peptide; synthetic protein; antibiotics; glycoconjugates; drug conjugates
Professor of Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Xinyong Liu, PhD
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; chemical synthesis; antiviral drug; anti-gout drug
Professor, Director of Medicinal Chemistry Institute; School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Amedeo Lonardo, MD
Interests: NAFLD; NASH; MAFLD; gastroenterology; metabolic syndrome
Professor, Internal Medicine at the School of Specialization in Allergology and Clinical Immunology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Francisco Javier Luque Garriga, PhD
Interests: computational chemistry; molecular simulations; biomolecular recognition; protein dynamics; drug design
Full Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Sciences and Gastronomy; Full Professor, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Full Professor, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Giuseppe Murdaca, PhD
Interests: immunodeficiency; autoimmunity; neuro-endocrino-immunology; pharmacogenomics
Associate professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy
Juergen Reichardt, PhD
Interests: human genetics; human genomics; biochemistry; pharmacogenetics; molecular biology
Adjunct Professor, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM), James Cook University, Smithfield QLD, Australia
Paolo Rovero, PhD
Interests: bioactive and therapeutic peptides; cosmeceuticals; auto-antibodies
Co-founder, PeptLab Research Unit, Department of NeuroFarBa, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Jean-Marc Sabatier, PhD
Interests: peptide and protein engineering; microbes; drug design; structure-activity relationships
Director, Institute of Neurophysiopathology (INP), CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
Aamer Saeed, PhD
Interests: synthetic; bioorganic; medicinal; heterocyclic chemistry; natural products; enzyme inhibitors; dyes & pigments
Chairman & Professor, Department of Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Xiangyang Shi, PhD
Interests: dendrimers; polymer nanogels; cancer nanomedicine; drug/gene delivery; theranostics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China
Andreimar Martins Soares, PhD
Interests: biotechnological and medical applications of bioactive compounds; protein biochemistry; toxinology; venomic and anti-venomic; snake venoms; toxins
Research Professor, Laboratory of Biotechnology of Proteins and Bioactive Compounds Applied to Health, LABIOPROT, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ, Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil
Felipe Francisco Tuon, MD, PhD
Interests: antibiotics; infections; biofilms; polylactic acid; 3d printing
Professor of Escola de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
Tirayut Vilaivan, PhD
Interests: organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; peptide nucleic acid; molecular diagnostics
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Narendra Vyavahare, PhD
Interests: targeted therapies; heart valve implants; cardiovascular diseases; aortic aneurysms; atherosclerosis
Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
Junmei Wang, PhD
Interests: molecular modeling; molecular dynamics; machine learning; force field development; PK/PD modeling and simulation
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Ralf Weiskirchen, PhD
Interests: liver; cytokines; chemokines; biomarkers; cellular signaling
Professor and Head, Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry (IFMPEGKC), RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Liang Xu, MD, PhD
Interests: cancer drug discovery; translational cancer; molecularly targeted cancer therapy; drug resistance
Professor of Cancer Biology, Department of Molecular Biosciences; Director, Experimental and Preclinical Imaging Core, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
Wei Yi, PhD
Interests: medicinal chemistry; chemical biology; organic chemistry; DNA-encoded library; drug design and discovery
Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Christos C. Zouboulis, MD, PhD
Interests: dermato-pharmacology; dermato-endocrinology; sebaceous gland; acne; hidradenitis suppurativa; adamantiades-behçet’s disease; malignant atrophic papulosis; cryosurgery
Founding Professor of Dermatology and Venereology, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane; Coopted Professor of Dermatology and Venereology, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg; Director, Departments of Dermatology and Immunology, Staedtisches Klinikum Dessau, Dessau, Germany
Editorial Board Members
Iqbal Ahmad, PhD
Interests: applied microbiology, medical plants, biofilms, natural and synthetic products
Professor at the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Esra Kupeli Akkol, PhD
Interests: phytochemistry; analytical pharmacognosy; natural compounds; gynecological disorders; anti-carcinogenic
Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
Othman Al Musaimi, PhD
Interests: peptides synthesis; drug discovery; therapeutic peptides; green chemistry
Fellow, Newcastle University, Imperial College London, Orthogonal peptides Limited
Farooq Anwar, PhD
Interests: analytical chemistry; food science technology; pharmacology pharmacy
Professor at Faculty of Food Science & Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Matteo Conti, PhD
Interests: anticancer drugs; immunotherapy; antimicrobial drugs; nanotechnology; mass spectrometry
Dr, Public Hralth Department, AUSL Imola , Italy
Alessandro Contini, PhD
Interests: molecular dynamics; protein-protein interactions; quantum chemistry; reaction mechanisms; structure-based molecular design
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz, PhD
Interests: pharmacogenomics; nutrigenomics; pharmacognosy; aging; amazonian phytotherapics
Associate Professor of University Federal do Santa Maria, RioGrande do Sul, Brazil
Ahmed O. Elzoghby, MD, PhD
Interests: nanomedicine; drug delivery; stromal reprogramming; cancer immunoenginnering; tumor microenvironment targeting
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS); Associate Bioengineer, Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston, MA, USA
Pedro Fonte, PhD
Interests: drug delivery; nanomedicine; freeze-drying; biopharmaceutical; therapeutic proteins; biomaterials
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Frédéric Jean Georges Frézard, PhD
Interests: drug delivery; liposomes; membrane biophysics; antimicrobials; infectious diseases
Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil
Ricardo P. Garay, MD, PhD
Interests: aging; clinical trials; therapeutics; pharmacology; longevity
Director of Research at CNRS (French National Council of Scientific Research), Paris, France
Rosario Gonzalez-Muniz, PhD
Interests: peptides; Peptidomimetics; ion channel modulators; protein-protein interactions; pain; antivirals
Scientific Researcher, Medicinal Chemistry Institute (IQM-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Thomas Heinbockel, PhD
Interests: neuroscience; cannabinoid; substance use disorder; olfaction; limbic system; electrophysiology
Professor, Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Zhengwei Huang, PhD
Interests: nanomedicine; drug delivery; ferroptosis; lung cancer therapy; protein corona
Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, China
Noah Isakov, PhD
Interests: cancer immunobiology; T cell activation; signal transduction; protooncogenes; adaptor proteins; kinase; phosphatase; isomerase
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Weilin Jin, MD, PhD
Interests: Drug repurposing; Cancer Neuroscience; Tumor microenvironment; Immunotherapy; Neurodegeneration.
Professor, Institute of Cancer Neuroscience, Medical Frontier Innovation Research Center, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Prasat Kittakoop, PhD
Interests: natural products; antiviral compounds; medicinal chemistry; green chemistry; food chemistry
Associate Professor, Chulabhorn Graduate Institute, Bangkok,Thailand
George Kokotos, PhD
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; enzyme inhibitors; anti-inflammatory; anticancer
Professor, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Anil Koul, PhD
Interests: drug discovery; drug development; global public health; infectious diseases; tuberculosis
Professor of Translational Discovery, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK; Vice President and Head - Global Public Health & Infectious Diseases Discovery, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, Beerse, Belgium
Michio Kurosu, PhD
Interests: drug discovery; target validation; medicinal chemistry
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Giuseppe Lanza, MD, PhD
Interests: neurosciences; neuroplasticity; neuromodulation; neurostimulation; neuropsychiatry
Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Researcher, Department of Neurology IC, Oasi Research Institute-IRCCS, Troina, Italy.
Christian Legros, PhD
Interests: voltage-gated ion channels; GABA-A receptors; neuropharmacology; electrophysiology; vascular function
Professor, Mitovasc Laboratory, UMR CNRS 6015, INSERM U1083, University of Angers, Angers, France
Jun F. (James) Liang, PhD
Interests: drug resistance; nano-formulation; therapeutic peptide; artificial enzyme; biomedical device
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA
Tania Limongi, PhD
Interests: biochemistry; biomaterials; drug delivery; nanomedicine; extracellular vesicles; drug technology
Tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Drug Science and Technology of the University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Dazhi Liu, PhD
Interests: cell cycle; tumor suppressor micoRNA; kinase/oncoprotein; brain trauma; post-traumatic stress
Professor, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA; Founder and President, Mirnova Therapeutics, Inc., Fairfield, NJ, USA
Chao Lu, PhD
Interests: peptide delivery; nanomedicine; microneedles; hydrogels; biomaterials
Associate professor, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Tanaka Masaru, MD, PhD
Interests: depression; anxiety; dementia; comorbidity; translational research
ELHK-SZTE Neuroscience Research Group, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, University of Szeged (ELKH-SZTE), Szeged, Hungary
Serafina Perrone, MD, PhD
Interests: oxidative stress; antioxidants; newborn infants; brain injury; fetal programming
Professor of Pediatrics, Head of Neonatology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy
Ravi P. Sahu, PhD
Interests: oxidative stressors and lipid mediators; cancer pharmacology and chemoprevention; anticancer therapeutics and immunomodulation; photobiology and environmental factors; cellular signaling pathways in tumor resistance mechanisms and antitumor immune respons
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
Amnon Sintov, PhD
Interests: biopharmaceutics; microemulsions; nanoparticles; transdermal and topical administration; intranasal administration
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Laboratory for Biopharmaceutics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Dmitry Stetsenko, PhD
Interests: macromolecular drug delivery; oligonucleotide synthesis and therapeutics; DNA nanotechnology; nucleic acid chemistry; design of DNA and RNA analogues
Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; Department of Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Myron R. Szewczuk, PhD
Interests: cancer; inflammation; insulin receptor signaling; glycosylation; cannabis; nanomedicine
Professor, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Alessandra Tolomelli, PhD
Interests: organic synthesis; small molecule ligands; adhesion molecules; peptides; oligonucleotides
Associate professor Department of Chemistry “G.Ciamician”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Marco Tutone, PhD
Interests: computational medicinal chemistry; anti-cancers; rare diseases; nonsense mutations
Associate Professor, Dept. STEBICEF, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Ernst Wagner, PhD
Interests: drug delivery; targeted protein and nucleic acid delivery; pharmaceutical biotechnology; nanotechnology; gene therapy
Professor, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Pharmacy, Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität(LMU), München, Germany
Paul Zarogoulidis, M.D, Ph.D
Interests: drug design development and therapy; lung cancer; interventional pulmonology; cancer; thoracic desease
Director of Pulmonary Medicine Department, General Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece
Hailu Zhang, PhD
Interests: pharmaceutical crystallography; pharmaceutical cocrystal; polymorphism; co-amorphous; chiral resolution; solid-state NMR; tautomerism
Professor, Interdisciplinary Institute of NMR and Molecular Sciences (NMR-X), Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Jinwei Zhang, PhD
Interests: medicinal chemistry; chemical biology; organic chemistry; DNA-encoded library; drug design and discovery
Research Professor, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Research Center of Chemical Kinomics, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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