Editorial Board

Graham Pawelec, PhD

Experimental Immunology, Department of Immunology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Cancer Solutions Program, Health Sciences North Research Institute, Sudbury, ON, Canada

Interests: cancer immunotherapy; immune monitoring; vaccination; immune ageing in humans

Xueji Zhang, PhD

Vice President of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China; School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Interests: Chemistry; Biology; Materials and medicine with anemphasis on studies of biosensing; Biomedicine; Biomaterials

Ioanna-Katerina Aggeli, PhD

Section of Animal and Human Physiology, Department of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus, Athens, Greece

Interests: cardiac and skeletal muscle physiology; cell death mechanisms; stress-regulated molecular pathways; anti-oxidants effects; ER stress mediators; MAPKs

Rosa Alduina, PhD

Department of Biological, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Palermo, Italy

Interests: regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis; environmental microbiome; gut microbiome; microbial biotechnology; epigenetics in bacteria; antibiotic resistance and resistome

Brenda M. Alexander, PhD

Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA

Interests: Reproductive behavior; Reproduction; Endocrinology; Behavior

Gianfranco Alpini, PhD

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Interests: Cholangiocyte proliferation/damage; Cholangiopathies; Autocrine/paracrine mechanisms; Hepatocytes; Hepatic stellate cells; Vascular endothelial cells; Cell mitosis; Apoptosis; Epithelial transport mechanisms; Non-coding RNA

Amedeo Amedei, PhD

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Interests: Immunity; T cells; Microbiota; Microbiota-Immunity axis; Cancer (gastrointestinal; breast); Infectious diseases; Autoimmunity (Crohn Disease; Systemic Sclerosis); Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Human Addiction (cocaine)

Vasso Apostolopoulos, PhD

Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Interests: immunology; protein crystallography; medicinal chemistry; cellular and molecular biology; extensive translational research expertise with development of drugs and vaccines; cancer; autoimmunity; chronic diseases

Ricardo Jorge Pinto Araujo, PhD

i3S, Instituto de Inovação e Investigação da Universidade do Porto, R. Alfredo Allen, Porto, Portugal

Interests: Molecular microbiology; Mycology; Microbiome; Diagnostics; Biodiversity; Genetic diversity; Metagenomics; Bioinformatics

Ilaria Baglivo, PhD

Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli",via Vivaldi 43, Caserta, Italy

Interests: Interaction of prokaryotic transcription factors with DNA; DNA interaction mechanism of prokariotyc nucleoid-structuring proteins; Prokaryotic and eukaryotic zinc-finger proteins and their interaction with DNA; Structural and functional properties of prokaryotic and eukaryotic transcription factors; Interaction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic transcription factors with their own protein partners; Gene expression regulation

Zsolt Janos Balogh, MD, PhD

Department of Traumatology, John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle, Locked Bag 1, Hunter Region Mail Centre, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Interests: Trauma surgery; Polytrauma; Pelvic and acetabular fractures; Traumatic shock; Postinjury inflammatory response; Regeneration after injury; Mitochondrial function; Rewilding; conservation biology; Restoration ecology

Andrea Battistoni, PhD

Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc, Roma, Italy

Interests: My research interests are mainly focused on the role of metalloenzymes and transition metal ion in the host-pathogen interaction, with special focus on the role of metals in Cystic Fibrosis patients

Roberto Bei, MD, PhD

Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy

Interests: cancer cell lines; polyphenols; dietary compounds and cancer; cancer immunotherapy, immune response; cancer treatment in animal models, monoclonal antibodies

Elisa Belluzzi, PhD

Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy,Musculoskeletal pathology and Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy

Interests: Musculoskeletal Diseases; Biomarkers; Bone Cancer; Chondrosarcoma; Osteoarthritis; Inflammation; Aging; Infrapatellar Fat Pad; Meniscus; Cartilage; Synovial Membrane; Synovial Fluid

Ahmed Bettaieb, PhD

Department of Nutrition, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA

Interests: Metabolic diseases; Obesity; Type 2 diabetes; Protein tyrosine phosphatases; Protein kinases; Hydrolases

Ranieri Bizzarri, PhD

Department of Surgical, Medical and Molecular Pathology, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pisa, via Roma 55, Pisa, Italy

Interests: Fluorescence microscopy; Nanobiophysics; Nanobiochemistry; Epigenetics; Fluorescent proteins; Intracellular dynamics

Stephen C. Bondy, PhD

Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Interests: Neurotoxicology; Nutririon; Aging; Protein aggregates

Christian Borgo, PhD

Department Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Interests: protein kinase CK2; cystic fibrosis; chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cells

Peter Brenneisen, PhD

Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Interests: Metabolism in cancer; Tumor-stroma interaction; Redox biology; Oxidative stress; (redox active) nanoparticles; Cancer therapy

Alfredo Budillon, MD, PhD

Experimental Pharmacology Unit and of Laboratory of Metabolomics & Proteomics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy

Interests: Molecular mechanisms of novel anticancer drugs; Epigenetic drugs; Combination approaches and drug repurposing in oncology; Gastrointestinal cancers; Cancer stem cells; Cancer proteomics and metabolomic

Yudong Cai, MD

School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shainghai, P.R. China

Interests: Systems Biology; Bioinformatics; Protein Sequence; Machine Learning

George Calin, MD, PhD

Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Center for RNA Interference and Non-coding RNAs, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Interests: Non-coding RNA; microRNA; Cancer; Metastasis

Antoni Camins, PhD

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Science, University of Barcelona, Spain

Interests: Alzheimer; aging; apoptosis; neuropharmacology; epilepsy

Chuanwang Cao, PhD

Department of forest protection, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Interests: insect biochemistry, physiology and molecular toxicology; environmental toxicology

Francesco Caruso, PhD

Department of Chemistry, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Interests: Antioxidants; Natural products; Docking; Structure-activity relationship; Antitumor metal compounds

Mariafrancesca Cascione, PhD

Department of Mathematics and Physics “Ennio De Giorgi” Via Monteroni, University of Salento, c/o Campus Ecotekne, Lecce (LE), Italy

Interests: Cytomechanics; Atomic force microscopy; Cytotoxicity; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition

Andrea Cavalli, PhD

Computational & Chemical Biology, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy

Interests: Molecular dynamics; Computational chemistry; Drug discovery; Cancer; Alzheimer's disease

Seon-Heui Cha, PhD

Department of Marine Bio and Medical Sciences, Hanseo University, Seosan, Chungcheongman-do, Republic of Korea

Interests: Marine Biology; Aquatic Life Disease; Aquaculture Disease; Aquatic (Food) Hygiene; Marine Drug (Prevention/Treatment: Diabetes, Diabetes Complication, Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease); Environmental Casing Disease

Ru Chen, PhD

Department of Medicine- Gastroenterology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Interests: cancer; cancer progression; gut microbiome; diagnostics; biomarker

Chen Chen, MD, PhD

Endocrinology and Metabolism Group (Chen Lab), School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld, Australia

Interests: Neuroendocrinology; Patch-clamp; Growth hormone; Diabetes; Obesity

Jen-Tsung Chen, PhD

Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Interests: Bioactive compounds; Chromatography techniques; Medicinal plants; Phytochemicals; Plant biotechnology; Plant growth regulators; Plant secondary metabolites

Indrajit Chowdhury, PhD

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Science Research Program, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive Southwest, Atlanta, GA, USA

Interests: Folliculogenesisis; Steroid and hormone action; Uterine abnormalities; Endometriosis

Kevin Cianfaglione, PhD

UMR UL/AgroParisTech/INRAE 1434 Silva, Université de Lorraine, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques - BP 70239 - 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Interests: Ecology; Plant Science; Natural Sciences; Landscape; Territory and Natural Resources Management; Ethnoecology; Physioecology

Katarzyna Anna Cieslik, PhD

Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, MS: BCM 285, Houston, TX, USA

Interests: Aging heart; Fibrosis; Extracellular matrix; Inflammation; Fibroblasts

Luigi Cipolloni, MD, PhD

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Forensic Medicine, University of Foggia, 71122 Foggia FG, Italy

Interests: Forensic Pathology; Forensic Histopathology

Gea Oliveri Conti, PhD

Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Catania CT, Italy

Interests: Food and Environmental Hygiene; Environmental Epidemiology; Cancer Risk Assessment; No Communicable Diseases Risk Assessment; Water Management

Jorge M.L. Marques da Silva, PhD

BioISI – Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute and Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Interests: Plant stress detection and management; Plant-water relations; Drought resistance; Photosynthesis; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Optical methods; High-throughput plant phenotyping; Characterization and valuation of agricultural landraces

Ivana De La Serna, PhD

University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, USA

Interests: Chromatin; SWI/SNF Enzymes; Melanoma

Hans-Peter Deigner, PhD

Institute of Precision Medicine, Furtwangen University, Jakob-Kienzle Str. 17, 78054 VS-Schwenningen, Germany

Interests: Dintibiagnostics in precision medicine; Biomarkers; Sensors and test systems; Nanobiotechnology; Metabolomics; Aotics resistance; Medicinal chemistry and drug mechanisms

Viviana di Giacomo, MD

Department of Pharmacy, University "G. d'Annunzio", Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Interests: Biomaterials; Bone regeneration; Stem cells; Oxidative stress; Apoptosis; Neuroprotection; Antitumoral drugs; Cell culture; In vitro systems; Flow cytometry

Erika Di Zazzo, PhD

Department of Medicine and Health science, università del Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy

Interests: Cancers; PRDM genes; Steroid receptors; Signal transduction; Cell cycle

Nadia Diano, PhD

Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy

Interests: Environmental pollution and health; Spectrometry and spectroscopy technology for characterization of biological tissues; Bioanalysis for exposure markers; Analytical methods for lipid analyses; Environmental biotechnology; Food safety; Fatty liver; Metabolic syndrome; Stem cell

Francesca Diomede, PhD

Department of Innovative Technologies in Medicine & Dentistry, University of "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy

Interests: Mesenchymal Stem Cells; Biomaterials; Regenerative Medicine; Tissue Engineering

Qingping Dou, PhD

Departments of Oncology, Pharmacology and Pathology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

Interests: Molecular targeting; Cancer prevention; Drug discovery; Ubiquitin-proteasome pathways; Proteasome inhibitors; Natural products; Signaling; Therapeutics

Thomas Efferth, PhD

Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Interests: Natural Products; Transcriptomics; Network Pharmacology; Personalized Medicine; Virtual Drug Screening

Charles E. Egwuagu, PhD

Molecular Immunology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1857, USA

Interests: Regulatory B cells; Bregs; Uveitis; CNS autoimmune diseases

Islam El-Sharkawy, MD

Center for Viticulture and Small Fruit Research, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32308, USA

Interests: Aroma spectrum; Beneficial bioactive metabolome; Biotic/abiotic stress; Fruit ripening; Fruit quality traits; Omics technologies; Phytohormones; Postharvest biology; Warm region grapes

Fazle Elahi, PhD

Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 24341, Republic of Korea

Interests: Immunity; Antibody; Antibiotic; Microbiology; Probiotic and Prebiotics; Natural Compound and Functional Food Development toward Global Health Solution; Gut Microbiota; Antioxidant; Industrilaization of the R&D; Neuro-Immune modulation

Marco Falasca, PhD

Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Perth, WA, Australia

Interests: Metabolism signalling; Including signal transduction in cancer cells; Role of ABC transporters in cancer progression and cell signalling; The identification of novel therapeutic strategies for pancreatic cancer and metabolic diseases

Soldano Ferrone, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Interests: HLA antigen defects; Monoclonal antibody; Immunotherapy; Cholangiocarcinoma; Melanoma; Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; Triple negative breast cancer

Vittorio Fineschi, MD, PhD

Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedic Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Interests: Forensic sciences; ART; Medical ethics; Pathology

Daniela Frasca, MD

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Interests: B-Lymphocytes; Elderly; AICDA (activation-induced cytidine deaminase); Influenza Vaccines; Vaccination; Aging

Richard H.W. Funk, MD

Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Institute of Anatomy, University of Technology (TU) Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Interests: Anatomy; Physiology; Biophysics

Esteban C. Gabazza, MD, PhD

Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Mie University, Mie, Japan

Interests: Pulmonary Medicine; Diabetes; Tissue Fibrosis

Joaquin Gadea, MD

Department of Physiology, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain

Interests: Reproductive biology; Fertility; Reproduction; Andrology; Spermatozoa

Valentina Gatta, PhD

Department of Psychological, Health and Territory Sciences, University of G. d'Annunzio, Chieti- Pescara, Italy

Interests: Genetic; Epigenetic basis of male and female infertility

Francesco Gavelli, PhD, MD

Emergency Medicine Unit, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy

Interests: sepsis; haemodynamics; diagnostics; therapeutics; critical care

Pietro Gentile, MD, PhD

Researcher of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy

Interests: Adipose stem cells; Stromal vascular fraction; Platelet rich plasma; Growth factors; Fat graft; Platelet rich lipotransfert; Fat tissue; Regenerative surgery; Regenerative medicine; Plastic surgery

Piergiorgio Gentile, PhD

School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

Interests: Biomaterials; Tissue engineering; Scaffolds

Alexandros G. Georgakilas, PhD

DNA Damage Laboratory, Physics Department, School of Applied Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Interests: Radiation biology; DNA damage and repair; Biomarker discovery for efficient radiation therapy; Bioinformatics

Patrizia Giannoni, MD

UPR CHROME, University of Nîmes, Nîmes, France

Interests: Neuroscience; Toxicology; Ecotoxicology

Emiliano Giardina, PhD

Molecular Genetics Laboratory UILDM, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy; Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

Interests: Genes and genetics

Shaodong Guo, MD

Department of Nutrition | Texas A&M University, USA

Interests: Insulin resistance; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Fatty liver disease; Diabetic cardiomyopathy; Forkhead transcription factor foxo1; Metabolic inflammation

Vsevolod V. Gurevich, PhD

Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Interests: Arrestin; GPCRs; Cell signaling

Azizul Haque, PhD

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Interests: Inflammation; Immunity; Neurodegeneration; Cancer

Shikun He, MD

Department of Pathology and USC Roski Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Interests: Recent advances in eye and vision research

Thomas Heinbockel, PhD

Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

Interests: translational medicine; drug discovery; neural signaling and synaptic transmission in the central nervous system; functional organization of the olfactory and limbic system; cellular and network mechanisms of brain function and dysfunction studied with electrophysiological, optical, anatomical, and pharmacological methods

Kebin Hu, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State University College of Medicine, H040, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA17033, USA

Interests: Blood and bone marrow; Cardiovascular system; Cell biology; Immune system; Inflammatory responses; Molecular biology; Respiratory tract; Signaling

Xudong Huang, PhD

Neurochemistry Laboratory, MGH Psychiatry, 149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA, USA

Interests: Aging; Exposome; Alzheimer’s disease; Parkinson’s disease; Depression; Artificial intelligence; Machine and deep learning; Blockchain; Drug discovery; Molecular imaging

Jianfei Huang, MD

Director of Clinical Biobank & Institute of Oncology, Nantong University Affiliated Hospital, 226001 Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Interests: Tumor immune microenvironment; Tumor pathology; Cancer biomarker

Eun Sook Hwang, PhD

College of Pharmacy and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Science bldg C206, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Interests: Transcriptional regulation; T helper cell differentiation; Inflammation; Hippo signaling

Giuseppe Ingravallo, MD

Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO) - Pathology Section, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy

Interests: Lymphoma diagnosis; Skin pathology; Neoplastic microenvironment; Bone marrow pathology; Sjögren syndrome and gastrointestinal carcinogenesis

Marcello Iriti, PhD

Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Interests: bioactive phytochemicals; bioavailability of phytochemicals; funcitonal foods; nutraceuticals; medicinal plants; herbal remedies; mediterranean diet; traditional diets; ethnonutrition; ethnopharmacology; food security; food safety

Marina Ivanišević, MD

Clinical Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Interests: Maternal-fetal medicine; Reproductive medicine; Diabetes in pregnancy, Fetal growth, Hypertension in pregnancy

Margarita M Ivanova, PhD

Lysosomal and Rare Disorders Research and Treatment Center, Fairfax, VA, USA

Interests: lysosomal storage diseases; gaucher disease; fabry disease; biomarkers; cellular biology

Vesna Jacevic, PhD

Head of Department of Experimental Toxicology & Pharmacology, National Poison Control Centre, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia; Medical Faculty of the Military Medical Academy, University of Defence, Belgrade, Serbia; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

Interests: experimental toxicology, pharmacology, and pathology; experimental toxicology pathology; mycotoxins; cholinesterase inhibitors; neuromuscular transmission; nanoparticles and different drugs affecting heart and cardiovascular system, gut, liver, and kidney

Ananda Ayyappan Jaguva Vasudevan, PhD

Structural Cell Biology Group, Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

Interests: Molecular retrovirology; Restriction factors; APOBEC3 cytidine deaminases; Protein-nucleic acid interactions; Biochemistry and molecular biology; HDACs; HIV-1

Margaret O. James, PhD

Department of Medicinal Chemistry, P.O. Box 100485, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville

Interests: Mechanisms of metabolism and toxicity of chemicals; Enzymes of steroid biotransformation; Bioavailability

Josef Jampílek, PhD

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Institute of Neuroimmunology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Interests: Medicinal chemistry; Drug design; Structure-activity relationships; ADME; Pharmaceutical analysis

Lin-Hua Jiang, PhD

Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, China; School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Interests: TRP channels; P2X receptors; Piezo1 channels; neurodegeneration; neuroinflammation

Simone König, PhD

IZKF Core Unit Proteomics, Medical Faculty of the University of Münster, Germany

Interests: Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Peripheric Techniques: Instrumentation, Applications, Method Development

Agnieszka Kaczor, MD, PhD

Medical University of Lublin, Poland

Interests: Computer-aided drug design; Medicinal chemistry; G protein-coupled receptors; Central nervous system diseases

Nikos Karamanos, PhD

Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, 26504 Rio, Greece

Interests: Matrix pathobiology; Cell signaling; Cell functional properties; Pharmacological targeting; Preclinical evaluation; Cytotoxicity; Structure analysis; Glycosaminoglycans; Matrix metalloproteinases

Rajesh Katare, MBBS, PhD

Department of Physiology-HeartOtago, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Interests: microRNA; gene therapy; stem cells; chronic heart failure; diabetes mellitus; cardiomyopathy; tissue engineering

Kavindra Kumar Kesari, PhD

Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Interests: cancer and radiation biology; genomic instability; DNA damage

Haseeb Ahmad Khan, PhD

Department of Biochemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Interests: Biomedical sciences (clinical biochemistry, biomarkers, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, inflammation, metabolomics, animal models, pharmacology, toxicology, molecular genetics); Nanomedicine (immunological response of nanomaterials, safety and biocompatibility, targeted drug delivery, diagnostic and therapeutic potentials of nanomaterials); Bioinformatics and digital health (biomedical software development, clinical trials, evolutionary bioinformatics, microarray data analysis, phylogenetic analysis); Animal biotechnology (cytotoxicity assays, cellular responses to environmental stressors, oxygen consumption rate, DNA barcoding, molecular conservation)

Haroon Khan, PhD

Department of Pharmacy, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan

Interests: Phytochemistry

Khaleque N Khan, MD, PhD

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTREC), Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Interests: molecular reproductive biology, reproductive endocrinology, reproductive immunology

Naeem Khan, PhD

Department of Agronomy, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Interests: plant physiology; plant-microbe interactions; plant hormones; plant metabolites; plant breeding

Marek Kieliszek, PhD

Institute of Food Sciences, Department of Food Biotechnology and Microbiology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences − SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159C, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland

Interests: Genetics; Proteins; Protein purification; PCR; Gel electrophoresis; SDS-PAGE; Molecular biology; Protein expression; Cloning; Electrophoresis

Changsoo Kim, MD

Crop Genomics and Breeding Laboratory, Chungnam National University, Deajeon, Republic of Korea

Interests: Plant genetics; Plant physiology; Plant breeding; Molecular markers; Plant biotechnology; Plant biology; Plant molecular biology; Abiotic stress tolerance; Agricultural biotechnology; Crop improvement

Sung Eun Kim, MD

Department of Biosystems & Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Interests: cancer metabolism; SLC transporters; macropinocytosis; cell death; ferroptosis; entosis

Jee In Kim, MD

Keimyung University School of Medicine, Department of Molecular Medicine 1095 Dalgubeoldaero, Dalseo-Gu, Daegu42601, Republic of Korea

Interests: Mechanisms of pathogenesis of hypertension; Obesity-induced hypertension; Epigenetic regulation relating obesity; Renal pathophysiology; Mechanism of exocytosis-related hypertension

Ki Hyun Kim, PhD

Natural Product Research Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, (16419) 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Interests: Discovery and structural elucidation of novel compounds with biological activities from various natural resources

Sung-Kun Kim, PhD

Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University, Broken Arrow, OK, USA

Interests: biochemistry; enzymology; medicinal chemistry; molecular dynamics; biophysics

Agnes S. Klar, PhD

Tissue Biology Research Unit, University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland

Interests: Wound healing; Skin regeneration; Biomaterials; Tissue engineering; Immunomodulation

Vijay Kumar, PhD

Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, School of Medicine Louisiana State University Health Science Center (LSUHSC), New Orleans, LA, USA

Interests: sepsis; innate immunity; inflammation; pneumonia; COVID-19; acute lung inflammation or injury

Taeg Kyu Kwon, MD

Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Keimyung University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Interests: Apoptosis; Cancer cells; Cell signaling; Cancer biology; Cancer cell biology; Cancer biomarkers; Tumor biology; Gene expression; Signal transduction

Julia Kzhyshkowska, PhD

Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Interests: Innate immunity; Mechanism of chronic inflammation; Diabetes; Immunometabolism; Cancer immunology; Bioinformatics; Epigenetics; Biomarkers; Therapeutic targeting of macrophages in cancer and regenerative medicine

Liang-Chuan Lai, MD

Graduate Institute of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Interests: Genomic; Microarrays; Next generation sequencing; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Epigenetics; DNA methylation; MicroRNA; Long non-coding RNA; Lung cancer; Breast cancer; Esophageal cancer

Igor Lavrov, MD, PhD

Department of Neurology & Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mayo clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Interests: Neuromodulation; Spinal cord injury; Neuroprosthetics; Neurorehabilitation; Motor control

David A. Lawrence, PhD

Head, Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA,Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University at Albany School of Public Health, Rensselaer, NY, USA,Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany School of Public Health, Rensselaer, NY, USA

Interests: Autoimmune diseases; Neuroendocrine immune network; Infectious diseases; Neural and immune development; Environmental health sciences

Seok-Geun Lee, MD

Department of Science in Korean Medicine, Graduate School Bionanocomposite Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Interests: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Genetics; AEG-1; Anti-Cancer Agents; Phytochemicals; Cancer; Glioma; Neurodegenerative Diseases

Chaeyoung Lee, PhD

School of Systems Biomedical Science, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea

Interests: Expression 1uantitative trait locus; Gene mapping; Genomewide association sudy; Heritability; Linkage analysis; Mixed model

Sukmook Lee, PhD

Laboratory of Cancer Immunotherapy, Biopharmaceutical Chemistry Major, School of Applied Chemistry, Kookmin University, Seoul 02707, Republic of Korea

Interests: Cancer immunotherapy; Monoclonal antibodies; Theragnosis; Cancer; Therapeutic target; Chimeric antigen rector T cells; T cell engager; Bispecific antibodies; Antibody drug conjugate

Elena Levantini, PhD

Istituto Di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Area Della Ricerca Di Pisa, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa, Italy

Interests: Oncology; Lung cancer; Hematopoiesis

Paolo Emanuele Levi-Setti, MD

Department of Gynecology, Division of Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Fertility Center, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

Interests: Mechanisms of Implantation; Preservation of female; Male fertility; Assisted reproduction

Dunhui Li, MD

Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia

Interests: molecular medicine; antisense therapeutics; neuroscience; PTEN-induced Putative Kinase; Parkin Protein; Protein Deglycase DJ-1; Alpha Synuclein; Lewy Bodies; Parkinson DiseaseMachado-Joseph Disease; Spinocerebellar Ataxias; Polyglutamine

Shengwen Calvin Li, MD

CHOC Children's Research Institute, Children’s Hospital of Orange, County/UC Irvine, Orange, CA, USA

Interests: Pediatric cancer and therapy; Tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy; Cancer stem cells; iPSC; Brain tumor stem cells; Ex vivo, in vitro, in vivo models; Organoid culture; 3D-tissue culture; Cancer genome; Single-cell transcriptome; Caveolin-regulated signal transduction; Caveolin-1; Caveolae; Human subject research

Bo Li, MD

Department of Orthopedics, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Interests: spine surgery; spinal cord injury; osteoporosis; nerve repair; bone tumor

Zhaoguo Liu, PhD

Department of pharmacology, School of pharmacy, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Interests: Colon cancer; Liver fibrosis; Liver cancer; Anticancer effect of traditional chinese medicine; Tumor metastasis; Angiogenesis

Shaoyong Lu, PhD

Department of Pathophysiology, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China,Medicinal Chemistry and Bioinformatics Centre, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Interests: Chemical biology; Medicinal chemistry; Computational biology; Bioinformatics; Drug design

Yakun Luo, PhD

Distinguished professor of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China; National Health Commission and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Key Laboratory of Molecular Probe and Targeted Theranostics, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Interests: molecular and cellular biology; urinary tract malignancies; cancer biology; bio-medicine

Gabriella Lupo, PhD

Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences Section of Medical Biochemistry, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Interests: cell adhesiveness on biocompatible surfaces; diabetic retinopathy and retinal angiogenesis; in vivo transport studies across blood-brain and blood-retinal barriers; preparation of in vitro models for the study of blood-brain and blood-retinal barriers; role of the enzymatic isoforms of Phospholipase A2 in the processes of cerebral and retinal inflammation

Hong Ma, MD

Research Institute of Resources Insects, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Kunming 650224, China

Interests: Genetic structure; Conservation genome and molecular biology of botany

Mateusz Maciejczyk, PhD, PharmD

Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Ergonomics, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

Interests: salivary antioxidants and oxidative stress; salivary gland dysfunction; protein glycoxidation and nitrosative stress; salivary; blood and urine redox biomarkers; mitochondrial dysfunction; redox homeostasis; inflammation and apoptosis in metabolic diseases; neurodegeneration; immunodeficiency and cancer; effects of diet on mitochondrial function and oxidative stress; antioxidant activity of drugs and dietary supplements

Akiko Mammoto, MD, PhD

Department of Pediatrics, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

Interests: Angiogenesis; Lung biology; Pulmonary vascular disease

Tadanori Mammoto, MD

Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA

Interests: Angiogenesis; Endothelial biology; Lung biology

Alika K. Maunakea, MD

Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 651 Ilalo St, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA

Interests: Epigenetics; Epigenomics; DNA methylation; Histone modifications; Transcriptional regulation; Chromatin biology; Neurodevelopment; Health disparities

Janet E. McElhaney, MD

Health Sciences North Research Institute, 41 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 5J1, Canada

Interests: Aging; Immunology; Inflammation

Othmane Merah, PhD

Laboratoire de Chimie Agro-industrielle, LCA, Université de Toulouse, INRA-INP, Toulouse, France

Interests: Agronomy; Genetics; Plant bioactives; Cereals; Oilseed crops; Legumes; Lipids; Sterols; Antioxidants

Letteria Minutoli, MD

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Interests: inflammation; oxidative stress; apoptosis; male infertility; nutraceutical

Simona Maria Monti, MD, PhD

Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging—National Research Council, Napoli, Italy

Interests: Biochemistry; Molecular biology; Carbonic anhydrases

Alessandra Morana, MD

Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council of Italy, Via Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy

Interests: Green chemistry; Molecular biology; Microbiology; Biotechnology; Food science; Environmental science

Amancio Carnero Moya, PhD

Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Universidad, de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones cientificas, CIBERONC, Spain

Interests: Cancer stem/initiating cells; Cell signaling; Cancer biology; Cancer biomarkers; Cancer metabolism; Gene expression; Signal transduction; Aging; Senescence; Non coding RNA; Cancer therapy

Giuseppe Murdaca, PhD

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Interests: immunodeficiency; autoimmunity; neuro-endocrino-immunology; pharmacogenomics; vaccine and autoimmune diseases

Shanmugam Muruganandan, PhD

Department of Biology, Northeastern University, College of Science, Boston, MA, USA

Interests: molecular biology; endocrinology; cell biology

Gheyath K. Nasrallah, PhD

College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Interests: Microbiology; Serology; Zebrafish Research

Patricia K. Nguyen, MD

Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Interests: Atherosclerosis; Cardio immunology; Imaging

Steve Oghumu, PhD

Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

Interests: Oral cancer; Cancer biology; Cell biology; Gene expression

Valentyn Oksenych, MD

Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7028 Trondheim, Norway,Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway

Interests: DNA repair; DNA camage response; B cell development; Mouse models; Chromatin

Chunlin Ou, MD

Department of Pathology, Xiangya Hospital Central South University, Changsha, 410008, China

Interests: Non-coding RNAs; Novel biomarkers; Drug targets

Roberto Paganelli, MD

Department of Medicine and Science of Aging, Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging, University "G. d’Annunzio" Chieti - campus Via dei Vestini 5, 66013 Chieti scalo, Italy,YDA, Institute of Clinical Immunotherapy and Advanced Biological Treatments, Pescara, Italy

Interests: Clinical immunology; Allergology; Immunodeficienze; Aging; Autoimmunity

Michele Papa, MD

Human Anatomy School of Medicine, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Via Luciano Armanni, 5, 80138, Naples, Italy

Interests: Study of striatal neurons by double labeling techniques

Catarina M. Paquete, MD

Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal

Interests: Microbial electrochemical technologies; Electron transfer mechanisms; Redox proteins; Multiheme cytochromes

Agnieszka Paradowska-Gorycka, PhD

Department of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Warsaw, Poland

Interests: genetics; epigenetics; molecular biology; rheumatology/rheumatic diseases/pathogenesis; autoimmunity; T cells; transcriptional factors; cytokines; angiogenesis; signaling pathways in immune responses; inflammation; toll like receptors

Maria Giovanna Parisi, MD

Marine Immunobiology Laboratory, Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy

Interests: Zoology; Immunology; Biological monitoring in marine environments; Macroinvertebrates; Fish

Gianluca Paventi, PhD

Department of Medicine and Health Sciences “V. Tiberio”, University of Molise, via de Sanctis, 86100 Campobasso, Italy

Interests: mitochondrial transport; cell bioenergetics; sperm energy metabolism; lactate dehydrogenase ; mitochondria-cytosol cross-talk; laser light biostimulation; plant mitochondria; cancer bioenergetics

Godefridus J. Peters, PhD

Department of Biochemistry, Medical University of Gdansk, Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 3a, 80-210, Gdańsk, Poland,Department of Medical Oncology, Lab of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, VU University, De Boelelaan 1118, 1081 HZ, Postbus 7057, 1007 MB, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Interests: Pharmacology; Anti-signalling protein kinase inhibitors; Antifolates; Antimetabolites; Platinum analogs; Topoisomerase inhibitors; miRNAs

Gianfranco Pintus, PhD

Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Interests: Multiple aspects of vascular biology including i) the impact of natural antioxidants on the mechanisms that modulate vascular cells functions ii) the study of redox regulated signals that orchestrate vascular remodelling during health and chronic diseases iii) the dissection of the signalling pathways impacted by antiangiogenic and anti-vascular remodelling drugs

Alessandro Poggi, MD

Molecular Oncology and Angiogenesis Unit, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16132 Genova GE, Italy

Interests: Blood and Bone Marrow; Cancer; Immune System; Signaling

Cristoforo Pomara, MD, PhD

Department of Medical, Surgical and Advanced Technologies "G.F. Ingrassia", University of Catania, 95121 Catania, Italy

Interests: Forensics sciences; Clinical and dorensic autosy; Post-mortem investigation; Forensic pathology; Immunistochemistry; Histological investigation; Medical risk management

Giordano Pula, PhD

Centre for Biomedicine, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK

Interests: Haemostasis; Thrombosis; Inflammation; Oxidative stress; Platelets; Endothelial cells; Regenerative medicine; Vascular pharmacology

Khondaker Miraz Rahman, PhD

School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK

Interests: Medicinal chemistry; Drug discovery; Computational chemistry

Dilip Rai, PhD

Department of Food BioSciences, Teagasc Food Research Centre Ashtown, Dublin, D15 KN3K, Ireland

Interests: Food and health; Phytochemicals; Bioactivity of phytochemicals; Functional foods; Nutraceuticals; Phyto-pharmaceuticals; Chromatography; Mass spectrometry

Emerito Carlos Rodriguez-Merchan, MD

Osteoarticular Surgery Research, Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research – IdiPAZ (La Paz University Hospital – Autonomous University of Madrid), Madrid, Spain,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Interests: Diseases such as osteoarthritis and osteoarticular injuries (Cartilage, Ligaments), and conservative and surgical treatment of all the aforementioned problems and related diseases

Catarina Rosado, PhD

CBIOS–Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies, Lusófona University, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal

Interests: Drug delivery; Transdermal; Topical therapy; Human skin; Cosmetics; Natural products

Rodrigo Rosario-Cruz, PhD

Department of Molecular Biology from the Natural Sciences College, Autonomous Guerrero State University, Chilpancingo Guerrero, Mexico

Interests: Ticks and tick borne diseases; Genes and genetics

Eugene Rosenberg, PhD

Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Interests: Microbiome; Microbiota; Holobiont; Hologenome; Evolution; Corals

Barbara Ruaro, MD

Pulmonology Department, University Hospital of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Interests: Pneumology; Rheumatic diseases; Imaging; Musculoskeletal and Lung ultrasound; High-resoltion computed tomograph; Laser technology

Dario Rusciano, PhD

Fidia Pharmaceuticals, Research Center (Retired), Catania, Italy

Interests: oncology; organ-specific cancer metastasis; personalized cancer therapies; ophthalmology; glaucoma; AMD; diabetic retinopathy; dry eye; keratoconus

Luigi Santacroce, MD

Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Interests: Human Microbiota; Probiotics; Nutraceuticals; Essential Oils; Oncology; Regenerative Medicine; Stem Cells; History of Medicine

Ganesh D. Saratale, PhD

Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Interests: Biopolymers production; Biohydrogen; Lignocellulosic/algae biorefineries; Nanobiotechnology; Wastewater treatment; Bioelectrochemistry; Nanosensors

Jordi Sastre-Serra, MD

Grupo Multidisciplinar de Oncología Traslacional, Institut Universitari d´Investigació en Ciències de la Salut (IUNICS), Universitat de les Illes Balears. Ctra. Valldemossa km 7.5, Illes Balears, Spain and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Baleares (IdISBa), Hospital Universitario Son Espases, edificio S. Ctra. Valldemossa 79, Illes Balears, Spain,Ciber Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CB06/03) Instituto Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Interests: Cancer; Breast cancer; Sexual hormones; Mitochondria; Oxidative stress; Metastasis

Sergey V. Sennikov, PhD

Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Research Institute of Fundamental and Clinical Immunology" (RIFCI), Novosibirsk, Russia Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Interests: dendritic cells; cytokine; immune tolerance; immune regulation; immunotherapy; immunooncology

Raffaele Serra, MD, PhD

Department of Medical and Surgical Science, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

Interests: wound healing; vascular surgery; metabolic syndrome; treatment; vascular medicine; reconstructive surgery; general surgery; surgery; diabetes; atherosclerosis

Francesco Sessa, PhD

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

Interests: Genetics and molecular biology; Forensics and biological sciences; Forensic genetics; Genomic physiology; Aging and genetics; Pharmacology; Toxicology; Health professions; Translational pharmacology; Biochemistry

Said El Shamieh, PhD

Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beirut Arab University, Beirut 115020, Lebanon

Interests: Next-Generation Sequencing; Mutations; Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms; Human Genome; Inherited Retinal Diseases; Genetic Association Studies

Andrej Shevchenko, PhD

MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Pfotenhauerstr. 108 01307 Dresden, Germany

Interests: Lipidomics; Proteomics; Metabolic disorders

Nobuo Shimamoto, PhD

National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan; Department of Genetics, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Interests: Nanobioloigy; Protein-DNA interaction; One-dimensional diffusion; Antenna effect; Chemical ratchet; Abortive initiation; Moribund complex; RNA polymerase

Yong Shin‬, MD

Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Interests: Development of Medical Diagnostic Applications and Devices to early detection of Human diseases using Biophotonic Device (Neurological diseases and Cancer, and infectious diseases); Development of novel DNA amplification techniques (iNAD; Isothermal Solid phase Nucleic Acids Amplification/Detection) in field of POC (point-of-care) based clinical applications; Development of novel sample processing techniques (SLIM; homobifunctional imidoesters/thin film) in field of POC (point-of-care) based clinical applications; Identification and characterization of DNA Biomarkers (Neurological diseas, Cancer, Infectious); Identification of Cells, Proteins or Nucleic acids (Genetic; DNA/RNA, and Epigenetic; miRNAs, DNA methylation) from Human Fluidics (Blood, Urine, CSF and so on); Drug Delivery System & Antifungal agents using Nanomaterials

Jesus Simal-Gandara, PhD

Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Vigo, Ourense Campus, E-32004 Ourense, Spain

Interests: Phenolic Compounds; Antioxidants; Marine Drugs; Food Safety; Bioaccessibility; Functional Foods

Ravindra Singh, PhD, MSc

Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lowa State University, USA

Interests: RNA Splicing; RNA-protein Interactions; SMN Protein; RNA Biology; Spinal Muscular Atrophy; Antisense Oligonucleotide

Yizhi Song, PhD

CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Medical Diagnostics, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Interests: pathogen; single-cell analysis; Raman spectroscopy; antimicrobial resistance; biosensing

Giulia M. Stella, MD, PhD

Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, Pneumology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Interests: Identification of target biomarkers of malignant pleural mesothelioma and design of new therapeutic approaches based on the application of nanotechnologies; Study of biomarkers of lung cancer, with particular reference to the role of the MET oncogene in the process of metastatic dissemination; Study of the molecular profile of metastatic tumors with occult primitiveness; More recently I have been interested in studying the common biomolecular mechanisms between cancer and pulmonary fibrosis

Per thor Straten, PhD

Department of Oncology, National Center for Cancer Immune Therapy (CCIT-DK), Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev, Herlev, Denmark; Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Interests: Cancer immunology and immunotherapy; Immunological effects of exercise

Guohui Sun, PhD

Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental and Viral Oncology, College of Life Science and Chemistry, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

Interests: Molecular toxicology; Cancer prevention and treatment

Wenbin Tan, PhD

Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, School of Medicine/Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29209, USA

Interests: Vascular biology; Vascular malformations; Port wine stain; Sturge-weber syndrome; Neurovascular interaction; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19

Xiaolei Tang, MD, PhD

Physiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, USA

Interests: regulatory T cells; adult stem cells; intestinal stem cells; type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease; multiple sclerosis, vitamin D; retinoic acid; dendritic cells

Paramjit S. Tappia, MD

St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada

Interests: Nutrition and human health; Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes

Gian Carlo Tenore, PhD

Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Via Domenico Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy

Interests: Food science; Nutraceutical; Nutrition; Metabolism; Polyphenols; Antioxidants; Oxidative stress; Inflammation

Luca Testarelli, PhD

Department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Interests: endodontics; restorative dentistry; implantology; oral surgery; dental imaging

Gian Mario Tiboni, MD

Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, University G. D’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Interests: Reproductive Medicine; Ovulation Induction; Reproductive; Developmental Toxicology

Jonathan L. Tilly, PhD

Laboratory of Aging and Infertility Research, Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

Interests: aging; germ cell biology; infertility; mitochondrial biology; regenerative medicine; stem cell biology

Natascia Tiso, PhD

Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Interests: disease modeling in zebrafish (Danio rerio); mitochondria; heart; genetic disease; inherited arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy; cancer cell xenograft; tumor xenotransplantation; pancreas organogenesis; thyroid; melanoma; transgenesis; signaling pathway reporter; mutant; CRISPR editing; POLG disorders

Dilip K. Tosh, PhD

Molecular Recognition Section, Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Interests: G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) based new drug discovery; Medicinal chemistry; Nucleoside chemistry; Adenosine receptors; P2Y receptors; Serotonin receptors; Opioid receptors; Dopamine transporters; Glycoprotein inhibitors and anti-viral research

Alfonso Urbanucci, MD

Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Norway

Interests: Prostate cancer; Bromodomain; Cancer research; Chromatin; DNA damage response; Gene regulation; Nuclear receptors; Breast cancer; Transcriptomics; Precision medicine

Madelon Vonk, MD, PhD

Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Rheumatology - Eular centre of Excellence Postbus 9101, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Interests: Systemic sclerosis; Pulmonary hypertension; Myositis; Interstitial lung disease

Peng George Wang, PhD

Nanshan University of Science and Technology, 1088 Nanshan Academy Avenue, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Interests: Glycoscience on glycobiolgy; Glycochemistry; Glycoanalysis; glycomics; Carbohydrate chemistry; Carbohydrate biology and Glycomics; Pharmaceutical chemistry; Green chemistry; Medicinal chemistry of natural products; Chemical biology of active nitrogen and oxygen in life

Wei Wang, PhD

School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

Interests: Global health; Glycomics

Leyi Wei, MD

School of Software, Shandong University, Jinan 250000, China

Interests: Bioinformatics; Machine learning; AI-based drug discovery; Peptide identification

Yau-Huei Wei, PhD

Director, Center for Mitochondrial Medicine and Free Radical Research, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua City, Taiwan

Interests: Mitochondrial disease; Mitochondrial DNA mutation; Stem cells; iPSC; Metabolic reprogramming

Cornelia M. Weyand, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, Palo Alto Veterans Administration Healthcare System, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Interests: Telomere biology in autoimmunity and inflammation; Immunometabolism

Chung F Wong, PhD

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

Interests: Computer-Aided Drug Design; Simulation of Biological Systems; Protein Kinases and Phosphatases; Computational Genomics

Peter Wong, PhD

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Fels Institute for Cancer Research & Molecular Biology, 3307 N Broad Street, AHB, Rm 552, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA

Interests: Cell Biology; Immune System; Microbiology; Molecular Biology

Guoyao Wu, PhD

Animal Science and Nutrition, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Interests: Amino acids and protein; Nutrition; Health

Guangyu Wu, PhD

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Georgia (MCG), Augusta University, 1459 Laney Walker Blvd, Augusta, GA, USA

Interests: G protein-coupled receptor; G protein; Small GTPase; Rab GTPase; Trafficking; Signaling; Maturation; Biosynthesis

Rongling Wu, PhD

Center for Statistical Genetics, Departments of Public Health Sciences and Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA

Interests: Develop an interdisciplinary computational tool to unveil the genetic mechanisms underlying biological complexities; Design experiments based on new theory and hypotheses to gain New insight into biological phenomena and processes

Changxue Xu, PhD

Department of Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA

Interests: 3D bioprinting and biofabrication of vascular structures; Filament thinning and droplet formation of viscoelastic bioink; Guided cell migration on microtopographic surfaces; Fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces for drag reduction and oil/water separation

Shi Xu, PhD

Shenzhen Longhua District Central Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Guangdong, China

Interests: the anticancer effect and drug resistance of recombinant human arginase; the anticancer effect and toxicological mechanism of arsenic trioxide and its intermediate metabolites; the mechanism of concentrated growth factor in wound healing

Ying Yan, PhD

Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Department of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Winchester Str. 2, 35394 Giessen, Germany

Interests: Genetic engineering and editing; Sterile insect technique; Developmental biology; Agricultural biotechnology

Shan Yan, PhD

Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC, USA

Interests: Molecular Mechanisms of Genome Integrity and Cancer Etiology

Shengyu Yang, PhD

Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA

Interests: Cancer metastasis, Cancer metabolism, Mitochondria; Actin cytoskeleton, Calcium signaling

Gustavo Yannarelli, PhD

Principal Investigator, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina; Director, Gene Regulation & Stem Cells Laboratory, Institute for Translational Medicine, Transplantation and Bioengineering (IMeTTyB), Favaloro University–CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Interests: Mesenchymal Stem Cells; Extracellular Vesicles; Tissue Regeneration; OCT4; Multipotency; Differentiation

Hongwei Yao, PhD

Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry (Research), Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, 185 Meeting Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA

Interests: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Pulmonary fibrosis; Oxidative stress; Inflammatory responses; Cellular senescence/premature aging; Mitochondrial dysfunction; Metabolism

Qing Ye, MD

The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Interests: pathogenesis of pediatric kidney disease; development of novel biomarkers in pediatrics

Kun Yu, MD

Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Center, Cancer Center, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (Affiliated People's Hospital), Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Interests: Studying the tumor development of papillary thyroid cancer, The cell typing of undifferentiated thyroid cancer, Application of materials for postoperative reconstruction of head and neck malignant tumors

Neven Zarkovic, PhD, MD

Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Division of Molecular Medicine, Bijenicka 54, HR-1000 Zagreb, Croatia

Interests: Oxidative stress; Lipid peroxidation; Cancer growth control; Immunochemistry; Pathophysiology

Jian Zhang, PhD

Institute of Immunopharmacology and Immunotherapy, School of Pharmacy, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Interests: Liver cancer; Immune tolerance; HBV escape; Innate immunity; NK cells

Kezhong Zhang, PhD

Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA

Interests: Cellular stress Rresponses; Endoplasmic reticulum (ER); Metabolic disease; Autoimmune disease; Cancer

Baohong Zhang, PhD

Department of Biology, East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858, USA

Interests: Cellular and molecular biology; Biotechnology; Environmental toxicology; Genomics; Cotton

Jin Zhou, PhD

Institute for Ocean Engineering, Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China

Interests: Environmental microorganisms; Molecular ecology, especially in Marine microbial biodiversity and function

Zhengxi Zhu, PhD

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225002, P.R. China

Interests: Nanomedicine; Nanoagrochemicals; Nanotechnology; Micro chemical engineering and process intensification; Turbulent mixing technology; Coatings and film; Polymer science and engineering; Multi-scale and meso-scale competitive kinetics

Christian Zidorn, PhD

Pharmazeutisches Institut, Abteilung Pharmazeutische Biologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Interests: Bioactive plant natural products; Chemophenetics; Chemical ecology; Marine natural products; Natural products from vegetables

Xin Zong, PhD

College of Animal Science, Zhejiang University, 310058 Hangzhou, China

Interests: Nutritional regulation; Intestinal barrier; Mucosal immunity; RNA methylation; Microbiota