Editorial Board

Baohong Zhang, PhD

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

Interests: cellular and molecular biology; biotechnology; environmental toxicology; genomics; cotton

Tsong-Long Hwang, PhD

College of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Natural Products, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Interests: pharmacology; inflammopharmacology; innate immunity; signal transduction; phytomedicine; drug discovery

Yehia Mechref, MD, PhD

Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor; Associate Vice President for Research and Innovation; Director, TTU Center for Biotechnology & Genomics; d Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA

Interests: Analytical; Bioanalytical; Chemical separation; Glycomics; Glycoproeomics/proteomics

Giuseppe Annunziata, PhD

Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Interests: Nutrition; Endocrinology; Nutraceuticals; Food Chemistry

Agostinho Antunes, PhD

CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Av. General Norton de Matos, s/n, 4450-208 Porto, Portugal,Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal

Interests: Evolutionary Genomics; Microbial Genomics; Toxicogenomics; Conservation Genomics; Bioinformatics; Biotechnology

Essaid Ait Barka, PhD

Résistance Induite et Bio-protection des Plantes (RIBP), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

Interests: biological control; plant physiology; plant diseases; plant mcrobe interaction; applied microbiology

Ozal Beylerli, MD, PhD

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), 6 Miklukho-Maklaya Street, Moscow, Russian

Interests: neurosurgery; neurology; healthcare organization; biomedical materials; information technologies in medicine

Mihail Lucian Birsa, PhD

Department of Chemistry, Al.I. Cuza University of Iasi, 11 Carol I, Iasi, Romania

Interests: organic synthesis; drug design and development; sulfur compounds; cyclophanes; flavonoids; acetylenes; allenes

Emanuele Luigi Carniel, PhD

Head of the Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials, University of Padova, 35122 Padova PD, Italy

Interests: Mechanical functionality of biological Tissues and structures

Samuela Cataldi, PhD

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, 06126 Perugia, Italy

Interests: Lipid metabolism; Cell signaling; Vitamin D; Cancer; Neurodegeneration; Exosomes

Vincent Courdavault, PhD

EA2106 Plant Biocompounds and biotechnology (BBV), Université de Tours, Tours, France

Interests: natural products; metabolic engineering; alkaloids; pathway elucidation; protein subcellular localization

Alessandro Delitala, MD, PhD

Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari 07100, Italy

Interests: Thyroid disorders; Subclinical hypothyroidism; Subclinical hyperthyroidism; Cardiovascular disease; Pulse wave velocity

Pierre Devaux, PhD, ScD

Florimond-Desprez—Recherche & Innovation, 3 rue Florimond Desprez, Cappelle-en-Pévèle, France

Interests: biotechnology; plant breeding; omics; marker-assisted selection; genome editing; cellular biology

Graziana Digiacomo, PhD

Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Interests: Cell Culture; Oncology; Molecular and Cell Biology; Signaling Pathways; Hepatocarcinoma; Lung Cancer; CDK4/6-Inhibitors; Macrophages; Angiogenesis; Cell Migration and Invasion; Target Therapy; Western Blot Analysis; Gene Expression

Richard H.W. Funk, MD, PhD

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

Interests: Anatomy; Physiology; Biophysics

Piergiorgio Gentile, PhD

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

Interests: Biomaterials; Tissue engineering; Scaffolds

Edgar Grinstein, PhD

Department of Haematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Interests: hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells; signal transduction; gene transcription; molecular medicine; molecular cancer; molecular targets for therapy

Gary Hardiman, MD, PhD

School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS), Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA

Interests: Computational Biology; Genomics and Genetics; Big Data; Endocrine Disruption; Contaminants of Emerging Concern; Bisphenol A; Impacts of MNPs on Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems; Bioplastics; Prostate Cancer; Non Coding RNAs

Sherif T.S. Hassan, PhD

Department of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Interests: infectious diseases; herpesviruses; tumor viruses; pharmacology and toxicology; molecular medicine; natural products; oncology; drug discovery

Gaetano Isola, DDS, PhD

Department of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, Unit of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Interests: periodontology; oral surgery; oral medicine; oral diseases; biomaterials; oral biomarkers

Suresh G. Joshi, MD, MSc, PhD

Center for Plasma in Health & Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Center for Surgical Infections & Biofilms, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Infectious diseases, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Interests: molecular medicine; infectious disease & infection control; epidemiology; surgical infections & wound healing; medical devices; novel strategies in antimicrobial agents and resistance; biofilm; plasma medicine; oxidative stress; vaccine biology; biotechnology

Ruslan Kalendar, PhD

Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Interests: genomics and evolution; biology of mobile elements; applications as markers for biodiversity and breeding; identification of mobile elements; bioinformatics (string searching and complexity analysis, search of repeats, DNA alignment and assembly, PCR primer/probe design)

Hidetsugu Kohzaki, PhD

Faculty of Nursing, Shumei University, Yachiyo, Chiba, Japan

Interests: anatomy; physiology; immunology; microbiology; molecular biology; genetics

Christos K. Kontos, PhD

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Interests: transcriptomics; circular RNA; microRNAs; tRNA fragments; alternative splicing; apoptosis; anticancer drugs; colorectal cancer; hematological malignancies; tumor biomarkers

Yiannis Kourkoutas, MD, PhD

Laboratory of Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Interests: Functional cultures; Food & gut microbiome; Probiotics/prebiotics; Human nutrition; Antimicrobials

Dirk W Lachenmeier, PhD

Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Agency (CVUA) Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Interests: food toxicology; food safety; exposure assessment; food contaminants; acetaldehyde; cannabis; CBD; unrecorded alcohol

Guangbi Li, PhD

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, MMRB, Room 3055, 1220 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23298, USA

Interests: Chronic kidney disease; Nephrotic syndrome; Glomerular disease; Renal medullary regulation of blood pressure

Fabiola Marino, PhD

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, CZ, Italy

Interests: stem cells; regeneration; cell therapy; cardiac organoids; senescence

Gianluca Nazzaro, MD

Department of Physiopathology and Transplantation, University of Milan Dermatology Unit - IRCCS Ca' Granda Foundation Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy

Interests: dermatology; melanoma; hidradenitis suppurativa; skin cancer; acne

Emmanouil H. Papaioannou, PhD

School of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Interests: biotechnology; downstream processing; membranes technology; chemistry of surfaces; natural products and food chemistry

Angela Roberta Lo Piero, MD, PhD

Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 98, 95123, Catania, Italy

Interests: Plant Genetics; Plant Epigenetics; Plant Transcriptomics; Abiotic and Biotic Stress

David González Pérez, PhD

Department of Biocatalysis, Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry, CSIC, C/Marie Curie 2, Madrid, Spain

Interests: directed evolution; high-throughput screening; applied biocatalysis; plastic degradation; sustainable chemistry; computational design

Roberto Scicali, MD, PhD

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Internal Medicine, Garibaldi Hospital, Catania, Italy

Interests: dyslipidemias; lipid lowering therapies; diabetes; familial hypercholesterolemia; coronary artery calcium score; atherosclerotic burden

Yasuhito Shimada, MD, PhD

Department of Integrative Pharmacology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan

Interests: zebrafish; obesity; cancer; aging; chemical screening; drug discovery; transcriptome; microbiome; bioinformatics

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

Muthu Thiruvengadam, PhD

Department of Applied Bioscience, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Interests: biomedical sciences; metabolic engineering; nanotechnology; metabolic diseases; food science and technology

Tao Wang, MD, PhD

Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Interests: Molecular mechanisms of genetic cardiovascular diseases; iPSC modelling of genetic vascular and neurovascular conditions; Neurovascular interactions and vascular dementia; Notch signalling in human cardiovascular system; Vascular engineering and Nano-medicine

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

Jinwei Zhang, PhD

University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK

Interests: antimicrobial resistance; disease biology; drug discovery; biotechnology