Reviewer Board

Youssra Al-Hilaly, PhD

Chemistry Department, College of Science, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq

Interests: Alzheimer’s Disease; Protein Misfolding; Tau Protein; Amyloid Assembly; Functional Amyloid-like Peptides

Jaya Aseervatham, PhD

Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Interests: Cancer Biology; Cell Signaling; Protein Biochemistry; Diabetes; Neurological Disorders and Neurology

May T. Aung-Htut, BSc, PhD

Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics, Murdoch University, Western Australia. Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Western Australia

Interests: Molecular biology; Cell biology; Genetics; Rare diseases; Antisense therapy

Nicolo Baranzini, PhD

Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences (DBSV), Unisversity of Insubira, Varese, 21100, Italy

Interests: Invertebrates; Immune System; Microscopy; Molecular Biology; Evolution; Cellular Pathways

Martin Bartas, PhD

Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho street 10, Ostrava, 710 00, Czech Republic

Interests: Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics; Public Health

Jordan Blondelle, PhD

University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, Cardiology Division, La Jolla, CA, USA

Interests: Myopathies; Protein Turnover; Cardiology, Nemaline Myopathy; Angiogenesis; Muscle Development

Sheetal Shantanu Choudhari, PhD

Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Dr. D. Y. Patil Dental College & Hospital, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune Maharashtra, India

Interests: Fibrotic Disease; Life Sciences; Microbiology; Microbiology; Oral Mucosa; Oral Submucous Fibrosis

Tiziana Ciarambino, MD, PhD

Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological, Metabolic and Geriatrics Sciences, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Italy

Interests: Elderly; CKD; Gender Medicine; Emergency Medicine

Mangesh Damre, PhD

Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA

Interests: Molecular Dynamics; Coarse-grained MD; Protein; Drug Design; Molecular Docking; Virtual Screening; 3D-QSAR; Homology Modelling; Membrane Simulations; Martini Forcefield; LBDD; SBDD; Chemoinformatics; Forcefield Parameterization; Free Energy Calculation

Muhammad Daud Khan, PhD

Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat 26000, Pakistan

Interests: Gene and roteome expression analyses under various abiotic stresses; Functional and structural genomics under various abiotic stresses; Signaling pathways in plants under various abiotic stresses; Production of secondary metabolites in plants; Oxidative stress and free radical biology; Phytoremediation of heavy metals; In vitro mutation breeding for desirable characters

Donatella Diana, PhD

Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (IBB), National Research Council (CNR), Via Mezzocannone 16,80134 Naple, Italy

Interests: NMR spectroscopy; Structural biology; Molecular recognition; Molecular diagnostics and therapeutics; Protein folding; Misfolding and degradation

Orlando Donfrancesco, PhD

Department of Anatomy, Histology, Forensic Medicine and Orthopaedics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome; Department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Interests: Use of traditional and variable pressure scanning electron microscope in the evaluation of tooth anatomical structures and materials used in dentistr

Ana Sofia Duarte, PhD

Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), Faculty of Dental Medicine, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 3504-505 Viseu, Portugal

Interests: Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Cytotoxicity and Virulence of Microorganisms and their Potential Applications in Biomedicine

Aziz Eftekhari, PhD

Pharmacology and Toxicology, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, East Azerbaijan - Maragheh, Iran

Interests: Food additive toxicology; Nutritional toxicology; Nutrient-nutrient interactions; Macronutrients and macronutrient substitutes; Food substances that mitigate toxicity: Antitoxicants and anticarcinogens; Toxicant metabolism and risk assessment; Natural products; Pesticides; Biosensors and nano sensors for the detection of disease and toxins; Novel antioxidant and nano-antioxidants against toxicities; The assessment of environmental hazards and nanoparticles; Environmental effects on gene regulation; Mechanistic in vitro and in vivo modelling of drug-induced liver injury; Development of molecular targeted agents and biomarkers in cancer; Analytical instruments for environmental contaminants analyses; Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) monitoring and abatement; Cellular and molecular mechanisms of xenobiotic induced hepatotoxicity

Ahmed Eltokhi, PhD

Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, USA

Interests: Neuropsychiatric disorders; Nervous system; Rodent behavioral Analysis; Molecular biology; Genes and genetics

Ying Fu, PhD

Department of Applied Chemistry, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China

Interests: Computer Aided Drug Design; Design; Synthesis and Bioactivity of Herbicide; Fluorescence Technology for Detection of Environmental Pollutants

Aravind Gade, PhD

Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York City, NY, USA

Interests: Ion Channels; Pharmacology; Cardiovascular Sciences; Neuroscience; Electrophysiology

Ilgiz Gareev, PhD

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

Interests: Neurology; Neurosurgery; Biomedical Science; Health Care Organization; Biomedical Materials; Information Technology in Medicine

Shyam Kumar Gudey, PhD

Department of Medical Biosciences, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

Interests: Cancer; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; Signal transduction; TGF-beta/bmp/smad signaling pathway; Wnt signaling; notch signaling; TNF signaling; Immunology; CAR-T cell therapy; Immune checkpoint inhibitors; Immuno-oncology; CRISPR-Cas9; Inflammation; Membrane proteins; Protein translation; Receptors and membrane biology; Ubiquitination; Sumoylation; Translational research; Tumour immunology; Biomarkers

Mirza Hasanuzzaman, PhD

Department of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh

Interests: Academic writing; Agricultural and veterinary sciences; Agricultural sciences; Agriculture; Agronomy; Biochemistry and cell biology; Biochemistry; Genetics and molecular biology (all); Botany; Crop science; Ecotoxicology; Environmental pollution; Environmental sciences

Ravikumar Hosamani, PhD

Department of Biotechnology University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad 580 005, KA, India

Interests: Entomology

Seyed Jalal Hosseinimehr, PhD

Department of Radiopharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Interests: Radiopharmaceuticals; Radiolabeled peptides and antibody; Radiation biology; Radioprotective study in animal, cell culture and human lymphocytes; HPLC; Tumor bearing Mice; Cytogenetic methods (Micronuclei in mice bone marrow and binulcated lymphocytes); Cell cultures

Devaiah M. Kambiranda, PhD

Plant and Soil Science, Southern University Agriculture Research and Extension Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Interests: Functional Genomics; Plant Physiology; Nutraceuticals

Haroon Khan, PhD

Department of Pharmacy, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan

Interests: Phytochemistry

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)

Ashwani Kumar, PhD

Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, School of Biological Sciences, Dr. H.S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh

Interests: Environmental Microbiology; Metagenomics; Plant-Microbe Interaction and Abiotic and Biotic Stress; Bioremediation; Biofuel

Giuseppe Lanza, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgery Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy; Department of Neurology IC, Oasi Research Institute- IRCCS, Troina, Italy

Interests: translational neuroscience; clinical neurophysiology; neurodegeneration; neural plasticity

Dunhui Li, PhD

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

Xiaotao Li, PhD

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Interests: Functional and Mechanistic Studies in the REGγ- Proteasome Pathway; Proteasome Degradation Pathway; Cancer Biology; Aging; Metabolism

Li Liu, PhD

Department of Pathogen Biology Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College Beijing, Beijing, P.R. China

Interests: Viral Innate Immune Responses; Novel Functions of a Gene and RNA Directed Translational Research

Rosal Lustosa, PhD

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. PhD Program in Clinical and Experimental Medicine (until may 2021)

Interests: Seizures (Acute Symptomatic; Spontaneous Recurrent); Epilepsy; Status Epilepticus; Epileptology (Clinical; Preclinical; Experimental); Epileptogenesis; Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy; Kainic Acid; Pilocarpine; Experimental Models of Neurologic Disease; Structural Neurochemistry; Neuropathology; Morphometry; Stereology; Electrophysiology (Field Potential); Excitotoxicity; Neurotoxicity; Rodent Neurosurgery; Stereotaxics; Rodent Video-Electroencephalogram; Drug Screening; Phytopharmacology; General Practice; Family Medicine

George Maiti, PhD

Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Interests: Infection & Inflammation; Ocular Infection & Diseases; Extracellular Matrix Biology; Cellular Signal Transduction; Autoimmunity & Gene Editing

Carlos Medina, PhD

Advanced Therapies Unit, Instituto Distrital de Ciencia Biotecnología e Innovación en Salud - IDCBIS, Bogotá, Colombia

Interests: Translational medicine; Advanced therapy medicinal products; Immunotherapy; Genetics; Inborn errors of metabolism; Bioinformatics; Advanced analytics

Parvin Mehdipour, PhD

Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medicine, Tehran, Iran

Interests: Cancer genetics; Tumor biology; Cancer evolution; Cancer hypothesis; Cancer biomarkers; Telomere; Epigenetic; Early detection (circulating tumor cells); Translational reseach

Vineet Mehta, PhD

Department of Pharmacology, Govt. College of Pharmacy, Rohru, District Shimla, Himachal Pradesh 171207, India

Interests: Alzheimer’s disorder; Depression; Anxiety; Plant extract/herbal therapeutics for CNS disorders; Type II diabetes Mellitus and associated CNS complications

Andrea Mescola, MD, PhD

Istituto Nanoscienze, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via G.Campi 213/A, 41125 Modena, Italy

Interests: Atomic force microscopy; Force spectroscopy; Friction force mcroscopy; Lipid bilayers; Surface functionalization; Optical techniques; Biophysical chemistry; Mechanobiology; Nanotechnologies; Nanomaterials; Sensors; Biomaterials; 2D Materials

Pawel Migdal, PhD

Department of Environment Hygiene and Animal Welfare, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, 25 C.K. Norwida St., 51-630 Wroclaw, Poland

Interests: Beekeeping; Environmental pollution; Insect biochemistry; Electron microscopy; Honey bee behavior; Physiology

Suvilesh Kanve Nagaraj, PhD

Department of Surgery, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Mo 65201, USA

Interests: Liquid Biomarkers (Circulating Tumor Cells); Immuno-Oncology; Snake Venomics; Multi-Omics

Don Poldermans, MD, PhD

Ruwaard van Puttenziekenhuis, Spijkenisse, the Netherlands

Interests: Perioperative care; Peripheral arterial disease; Aortic disease; Beta-blockers and lipids

Seema Rai, PhD

Department of Zoology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Koni-Bilaspur 495009 (CG), India

Interests: Molecular Neuroendocrinology and Pineal Melatonin Physiology; Stress-Induced iImmunologic; Reproductive and Metabolic Disorder; Their Genomic and Proteomics with Reference to Clock gGenes in a Mammalian Model

Veerabathiran Ramakrishnan, PhD

Genetics Lab, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Kelambakkam 603103, Tamil Nadu, India

Interests: Genetics Associated with Diabetes; Cancer; Infertility; Cytogenetics; Chromosomal Disorder; Metabolic Disorder

Divya Ramchandani, PhD

Research Associate, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Interests: Cancer Biology; Breast Cancer; Triple-Negative Breast Cancer; Lung Cancer; Immunotherapy; Cell Metabolism; Pancreatic Cancer; Tumor Microenvironment; Metastasis; Cell Signaling; Molecular Biology; Immunology; In Vivo Models of Cancer

Iraj Rasooli, PhD

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

Interests: Acinetobacter baumannii; Vaccine; Pathogenicity

Deyong Ren, PhD

State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China

Interests: Plant cell biology; Plant molecular biology and genetics; Plant abiotic stress

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

Muhammad Saeed, PhD

Department of Poultry Science, Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Interests: Scientific Research; Scientific Writing; Information Technology; Teaching; Hiking; Travelling; Excursion; Sports; Scientific Book Studies

Mari M. Saito, PhD

School of Dental Medicine, Tsurumi University, Japan

Interests: Oral health; Dentistry; Periodontal tissue regeneration; Tissue engineering; Bone remodeling; Craniofacial development; Hard tissue biology; Dental implant; Zirconia; Titanium; Hydroxyapatite; Growth factors; Bone morphogenetic protein; Transforming growth factor superfamily

Pablo Scharf, PhD

Pathophysiology and Toxicology, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Interests: Inflammatory diseases; Immunotoxicity; Autoimmune diseases; Tobacco products toxicity; Xenobiotics

Mukesh Kumar Sriwastva, PhD

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, James Graham Brown Cancer Centre, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Interests: Exosomes; Nano-Vesicles; Gut Permeabiity; Gut Microbiome; Cancer; Gut Inglammation; Colitis; Neural Ischemia; Ischemic Stroke; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Chemotherapy; miRNA

Emil Robert Stoicescu, PhD, MD

Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, 'Victor Babes' University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

Interests: radiology; medical imaging; lung ultrasound; ultrasound; high resolution computed tomography; cardiovascular; prostate cancer; multiparametric MRI; breast

Ramesh Subbiah, PhD

School of Dentistry, Oregon Health and Science University, 6N005, 2730 S.W. Moody Ave, Portland, OR 97201, USA

Interests: Biomineralization; Collective Cell Migration; Growth Factors; Controlled Delivery Systems; Tunable Extracellular Matrices; 3D Bioprinting; Geometry Integrated Scaffolds for the Regeneration of Vascularized Musculoskeletal Tissue

Yongjun Sui, PhD

National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 41 Medlars Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA

Interests: Immunology; Virology; Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells; Innate Immunity; Adaptive Immunity

Lay Khoon Too, PhD

Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney, 8 Macquarie St., Sydney NSW 2000, Australia; Sydney Eye Hospital, 8 Macquarie St., Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Interests: Behavioural Neurosciences; Neuropathology; Vision Sciences

Joana Valente, PhD

Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

Interests: Additive Manufacturing; Biomaterials; Chromatography; Drug Delivery Systems; Gene Therapy; Tissue Engineering

Feibing Wang, PhD

School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai'an, Jiangsu 223003, P.R. China

Interests: Plant Cell Biology; Plant Molecular Biology and Genetics; Plant Abiotic Stress

Robert Wang, PhD

Department of Pharmaceutical, Social and Administrative Sciences, McWhorter School of Pharmacy, Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229, USA

Interests: Cystic fibrosis; Drug discovery; Pharmacology; Protein folding; Organelle biology; Membrane transport; Genetic disorders; Pharmacy education

Zhiyou Yang, PharmD

Institute of Nutrition and Marine Drugs, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, P.R. China

Interests: Neuropharmacology; Aging; Molecular Biology; Natural Product Chemistry; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Neurite Regeneration

Wei Ye, PhD

State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, 100 Central Xianlie Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou 510070, P.R. China

Interests: Metabolic Engineering of Fungus to Improve the Yields of Natural Products; Characterization of Important Enzymes for the Biosynthesis of Natural Products with High Bioactivity

Shuiqiao Yuan, PhD

Institute of Reproductive Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China

Interests: Reproduction biology; miRNAs; piRNAs; Assist reproductive technology; Embryo development

Workie Anley Zegeye, PhD

Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Gondar, Ethiopia

Interests: Molecular Biology

Dali Zeng, PhD

Principle Investigator of China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI), Hangzhou, P.R. China

Interests: Regulation network and genome evolution involving in high photosynthesis, the efficiency of nutrient utilization.

Jixiang Zhang, PhD

Department of Symptom Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 6565 MD Anderson Blvd. Houston TX 77030, USA

Interests: Neuropathic Pain; Epigenetics; Neuroimmunity and DNA Damage

Bi Zhao, PhD

Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University

Interests: Structural biology; Molecular biology; Systems biology; Structural genomics; Bioinformatics; Computational biology

Keying Zhu, PhD

Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM), Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Interests: Multiple Sclerosis; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Alzheimer's Disease