Editors for Medicine

We aim to publish significant research and clinical studies that deal with etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, genetics, prevention, and treatment of human disease. Our interests include, but are not limited to, the biological, environmental and socioeconomic determinants of health and disease and their productive modification through population health, clinical inquiry, medical practice, and/or health policy initiatives. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

Matthias Barton

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Matthias Barton, MD, is a Professor of Cardiology at the University of Zurich. His clinical and investigative focus are general cardiology and preventive medicine, with a particular interest in coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction. His work explores mechanisms of atherosclerosis, heart disease in women, and vascular factors contributing to cardiovascular health and disease.

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
cardiovascular medicine
coronary artery disease
vascular biology
heart disease in women
molecular medicine

Competing interests statement
Matthias Barton has received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation and is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease, the American Journal of Physiology Regulatory Integrative & Comparative Physiology, Endocrine and Metabolic Science, Experimental Biology and Medicine, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology and Hypertension, official journals of the American Heart Association. He has been an elected ordinary member of the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea) since 2017.
Christian Büchel

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Christian Büchel is a member of the Hamburg Center for Neuroscience in Hamburg, where he is also the Director of the Department for Systems Neuroscience at Hamburg University Medical Center. He holds an Affiliate Professor appointment in the Psychology department at the University of Hamburg. After Medical School at the University of Heidelberg, he performed postdoctoral research with Karl Friston as a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience at UCL in London with a focus on effective connectivity.

Establishing his lab in Hamburg, he focused on the cognitive neuroscience of pain and motivation and initially studied decision making with an emphasis on delay discounting. In a parallel stream of projects he observed that the pain modulation underlying placebo analgesia can already be observed at the spinal cord level, a finding which he later also established for nocebo hyperalgesia. He is part of the IMAGEN study and during his time at Stanford he identified hypoactivation of reward circuits as a potential risk factor for addiction.

He is a member of the Academy of Science in Hamburg and was awarded the Jung Award for Medicine, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis by the German Research Foundation, and the Wiley Young Investigator Award of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping for recognition of his work in cognitive neuroscience.

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
pain modulation
decision-making
fear
anxiety
addiction

Experimental organism
human

Competing interests statement
Christian Büchel has received research grants from the European Research Council, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. He serves on the board of reviewing editors of Science magazine. He serves on the Swiss National Research Council, the Scientific Advisory Board of the ICM in Paris and the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany.
Miles P Davenport

University of New South Wales, Australia

Miles Davenport is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Infection Analytics Program at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity at UNSW Sydney. He graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney and completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford in immunology before retraining in mathematical biology. He leads a team of applied mathematicians who use statistical analysis and modelling to understand host-pathogen interactions in infection and immunity. This involves collaboration with a wide variety of experimental and clinical scientists both in Australian and internationally. Major areas of investigation include understanding HIV latency, malaria immunity and treatment, and neonatal immune development. He is a past-President of the Australasian Society for Immunology and is supported by an NHMRC (Australia) Investigator grant.

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
virology
immunity
vaccines
HIV/AIDS
mathematical modelling
host-pathogen interactions
biostatistics

Competing interests statement
Miles Davenport receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), the Australian Research Council, and the National Institutes of Health (USA). He is an Associate Editor at PLoS Computational Biology and on the Editorial Board of Immunology and Cell Biology.
Eduardo Franco

McGill University, Canada

Eduardo Franco is Professor and Chairman, Department of Oncology, and Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal. He holds BSc (1975) and Licentiate (1976) degrees in biology from Universidade de Campinas, Brazil, and master's (MPH) and doctoral (DrPH) degrees in public health microbiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1981-84). He was a Guest Researcher at the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta (1980-81 and 1983-84), and a post-doctoral fellow in cancer epidemiology during 1984 at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, and at Louisiana State University, in New Orleans. Since 1985, he has conducted epidemiologic research on the causes of cancer and on the means to prevent it or to improve patient survival. He is mostly known for his contributions to our understanding of human papillomavirus infection as the cause of cervical cancer and using this knowledge to prevent this cancer via vaccination and improved screening strategies. He received the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance’s Distinguished Service to Cancer Research Award, Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and from the International Papillomavirus Society, the Women in US Government’s Leadership Award, the Canadian Cancer Society’s Warwick Prize, the Geoffrey Howe Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the University of British Columbia’s Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research, and the McLaughlin-Gallie Award from the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He has mentored 115 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and 30 undergraduate trainees. He is Officer of the Order of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Heholds an honorary doctorate from Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal.

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
cancer epidemiology and prevention
human papillomavirus infection
screening

Experimental organism
human

Competing interests statement
Entire research program funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada (until 1999), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (1999-present), National Institutes of Health, Canadian Cancer Society, and Cancer Research Society. He has received salary awards from the Fonds de Recherche Quebec Santé and CIHR. He holds a James McGill Professorship and the Minda de Gunzburg Endowed Chair at McGill University. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for Preventive Medicine and Preventive Medicine Reports and serves on the editorial boards of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, International Journal of Cancer, Papillomavirus Research, and Salud Publica de Mexico. He has served as occasional consultant to companies involved with HPV vaccination (Merck and GSK) and HPV diagnostics (Roche, Abbott, Qiagen, and BD).
Wendy S Garrett

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States

Wendy Garrett is a Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, co-Director of the Harvard Chan Center for the Microbiome in Public Health, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. Her work explores host-microbiota interactions underlying mucosal immune homeostasis, gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders, and cancer. She graduated from the Yale College; received her MD PhD from Yale University and completed post-graduate training at Harvard.

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
host-microbiota interactions
microbiome
mucosal immunology

Competing interests statement
Wendy Garrett serves on advisory boards of Evelo Biosciences, Kintai Therapeutics, and Leap Therapeutics. She is a member of the Cell Reports and Journal of Clinical Microbiology editorial boards.
Jos WM van der Meer

Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands

Jos WM van der Meer is emeritus Professor of Medicine at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Between 1992 and 2012 he was head of the Department of internal medicine at the Radboud University Medical Centre. His major areas of expertise are host defence against infection, trained immunity, autoinflammation, immunodeficiency and antimicrobial policy.

Expertise
Medicine
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
infectious disease and host defense
innate immunity
trained immunity
immunodeficiency
autoinflammatory diseases
chronic fatigue syndrome

Experimental organism
human
mouse

Competing interests statement
Jos WM van der Meer is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), for which he served as a vice-president from 2005 to 2011. He is a member of Academia Europaea and he is past-president of EASAC, the European Academies Science Advisory Council. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London and in Edinburgh and a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious diseases. He is a member of the Dutch National Board for Research Integrity LOWI. He received a number of prices and awards, such as the Gold Hijmans van den Bergh medal. He was awarded knighthood in the order of the Netherlands Lion in 2003.
Gary Westbrook

Vollum Institute, United States

Gary Westbrook is a Senior Scientist at the Vollum Institute and Rocky and Julie Dixon Professor of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Westbrook is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuroscience. He has received Javits and Merit awards from NIH for his research as well as an International Cooperation Award from the Max Planck Society. Dr. Westbrook received his medical training and did graduate study in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, followed by residencies in Internal Medicine and Neurology, and basic neuroscience research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Earlier work in his lab was mostly directed at the level of receptors, particularly N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, and the function of single synapses. The emphasis has now largely shifted to studies of small networks (microcircuits) in the hippocampus. Dr. Westbrook maintains interests in clinical neurology, particularly epilepsy, as well as graduate research training. He was co-Director of the Vollum Institute (2005-2015) and director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Vollum/OHSU (2008-2018).

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
synaptic transmission
synaptic plasticity
ligand-gated ion channels
hippocampus
olfactory bulb
epilepsy
in vitro physiology
activity-dependent gene expression

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Gary Westbrook is employed by Oregon Health and Science University. He receives research and training funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Ellison Medical Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on Scientific Advisory Boards for Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen (MPIEM) and Florida (MPFI), the Myelin Repair Foundation, and on study sections for the National Institutes of Health. He is currently a member of editorial boards for Physiological Reviews and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Richard M White

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States

Richard White, M.D., Ph.D, is a physician-scientist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College. He is interested in basic mechanisms underlying metastasis, using the zebrafish as a model system. His work has established numerous techniques for cancer modeling and high-resolution imaging in the fish. Using these tools, the lab is focused on the cross-talk between tumor cells and the microenvironment, and how this interplay influences metastatic success. His work has revealed novel interactions between melanoma cells and adipocytes in the microenvironment, and how neural crest programs play roles in melanoma progression. He has been awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Pershing Square Foundation Award, and the Mark Foundation ASPIRE award.

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
metastasis
melanocyte development
neural crest
melanoma
adipocytes
microenvironment
melanocytes

Experimental organism
zebrafish

Competing interests statement
Richard White receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Pershing Square Sohn Foundation, the Mark Foundation, the Melanoma Research Alliance, the American Cancer Society and the Harry J. Lloyd Foundation. He receives consulting fees from N-of-One, Inc.
Mone Zaidi

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Mone Zaidi graduated in medicine from King George’s Medical College, India, and trained clinically at the Hammersmith Hospital, London, under the tutelage of Iain MacIntyre, FRS. After obtaining a PhD and MD from the University of London, Dr Zaidi held appointments as Lecturer at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at St. George’s Hospital Medical School for over 8 years. In 1999, he moved to Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York as Professor of Medicine and Founding Director of The Mount Sinai Bone Program. Zaidi has discovered mechanisms of skeletal homeostasis in health and its dysregulation in common and rare diseases. These studies, spanning over 30 years, included the first description of calcium sensing in the osteoclast and the discovery that locally released nitric oxide acts to suppress bone removal. In 2003, his group published evidence for a pituitary–bone axis of medical significance, in which pituitary hormones affect the skeleton directly. More recently, he found that inhibiting FSH not only increased bone mass, but also reduced body fat and increased thermogenesis – in essence, laying the firm foundation for his new humanized monoclonal FSH antibody to treat both osteoporosis and obesity. This corpus of work was selected by Nature Medicine as one of eight “Notable Advances” in biomedicine for 2017. Zaidi’s research was funded by the Medical Research Council of the UK, and since 1997, by the US National Institutes of Health. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians, the Interurban Clinical Club (established by Sir William Osler in 1905) of which he was President, the Practitioners’ Society of New York (the oldest medical society in the US), and the Association of Professors of Medicine. Zaidi was made Master of the American College of Physicians, received the Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award, was elected as Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science, and is recipient of three honorary doctorates.

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
osteoporosis
obesity
bone mass
metabolism
adipose tissue
endocrine physiology
pituitary hormones
FSH

Competing interests statement
Mone Zaidi is currently funded by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the NIH. He is inventor on several patents in relation to his work on FSH, bone and body composition. He is currently Consulting Editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Editor of a series – Marrow – of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Bone Biology, published by Elsevier as their Major Reference Works.
Huda Zoghbi

Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, United States, United States

Huda Zoghbi is Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology, Molecular and Human Genetics, and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. She is also an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on understanding normal brain development and on elucidating the pathogenesis of several neurological disorders including the autism spectrum disorder, Rett syndrome, and late-onset neurodegenerative diseases.

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurobiology of disease
animal models of human disease and behavioural sciences
neurodegenerative disorders
polyglutamine disorders
autism
synaptic disorders
neurogenetics

Experimental organism
human
mouse

Competing interests statement
Huda Zoghbi is actively receiving funds from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health, Rett Syndrome Research Trust, International Rett syndrome Foundation (and she is a member of advisory panels for all four organizations), Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children’s Hospital. She is Editor-in-chief of Annual Reviews of Neuroscience and a member of the editorial team of Cell and Neuron. She is immediate past President of the McKnight Neuroscience Fund and a member of the following Scientific Advisory Panels: Shaw Prize Jury, Breakthrough Prize Jury, and Vilcek Prize Jury; and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Denali Therapeutics and The Column Group. She is also a member of Regeneron’s Board.

Reviewing editors

Jonathan Abraham

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
emerging viruses
antibody neutralisation
viral entry
viral replication
x-ray crystallography
cryo-EM
Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell

University of Colorado, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
bone biology
genetics
musculoskeletal
aging
Anurag Agrawal

CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
asthma
respiratory diseases

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Annelien Bredenoord

University Medical Centre Utrecht, Netherlands

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
medical ethics
bioethics
ethics
genome editing
technologies
innovation
biobanking
stem cells
big data
DNA sequencing
Xuetao Cao

Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
immunology of APCs
TLR signalling and immune regulation
cancer immunotherapy and gene therapy
Jean-Laurent Casanova

The Rockefeller University, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
human genetics
immunology
infectious diseases
primary immunodeficiency
inborn errors of immunity

Experimental organism
human
Howard Y Chang

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
cancer
immunotherapy
RNA
genomics
epigenomics
dermatology

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Seth J Corey

Cleveland Clinic, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
myeloid malignancies
inherited or acquired bone marrow failure
neutrophils
platelets zebrafish
cancer evolution
proteostasis
Ralph J DeBerardinis

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
metabolism
cancer
genetics
medicine
pediatrics
genomics
mitochondria

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Anna Mae Diehl

Duke University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
gastroenterology
hepatology
Ana Domingos

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
metabolism
obesity
neuroimmunity
autonomic nervous system
eating behaviour
inflammation
Wafik S El-Deiry

Brown University, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
p53 pathway
cell death
medical oncology
drug development
drug discovery

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Noriaki Emoto

Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
cardiology
pulmonary hypertension
endothelin
pharmacology
vascular biology
Jonathan Flint

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
genetics
genomics
psychiatric disorders
Christine M Friedenreich

University of Calgary, Canada

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
cancer epidemiology
cancer etiology
cancer prevention
physical activity
obesity
diet
biologic mechanisms
Gregory G Germino

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
nephrology
genetic renal disease
polycystic kidney disease
ciliopathies
Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis

Attikon University Hospital, Greece

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
sepsis
hidradenitis suppurativa
pathogenesis of infection
biomarkers
David Ginsburg

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
hemostasis
thrombosis
human genetics
mouse genetics
endothelial cells
cargo receptor
secretion

Experimental organism
human
mouse
zebrafish
Joseph G Gleeson

The Rockefeller University, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
neurodevelopmental disease
brain development
neurogenetics
autism
epilepsy
intellectual disability
organoid
stem cells
genomics
bioinformatics

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Michael R Green

University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Medicine

Research focus
transcription
pre-mRNA splicing
cancer molecular biology
oncology
genetics
functional genomics

Experimental organism
human
mouse
S. cerevisiae
Timothy D Griffiths

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
auditory
cognition
neurology
imaging

Experimental organism
human
macaque
William C Hahn

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
cancer
transformation
functional genomics
RAS
YAP1

Experimental organism
human
Diane M Harper

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
women's health
HPV associated diseases
cancer screening
vaginal microbiome
physician burnout
medical education
Matthew G. Vander Heiden

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
cancer biology
biochemistry
metabolism
tumor microenvironment
redox biology

Experimental organism
mouse
human
Carlos Isales

Augusta University, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
skeletal biology
endocrinology
metabolism
aging
regenerative medicine
Edward D Janus

University of Melbourne, Australia

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
cardiovascular disease
diabetes
prevention
chronic diseases
clinical guidelines
Prabhat Jha

Saint Michael's Hospital, Canada

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
epidemiology
global health
infectious disease and population dynamics
randomized controlled trials
Melanie Königshoff

University of Colorado, United States

Expertise
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
lung regeneration
wnt signaling
pulmonary fibrosis
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
epithelial cell biology

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Dan Larhammar

Uppsala University, Sweden

Expertise
Medicine
Evolutionary Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
evolution
gene/genome duplications
cellular and molecular neuroscience
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
neuropeptides
endocrine peptides
hypothalamus
phototransduction
ligand-gated ion channels

Experimental organism
human
zebrafish
Marc Lipsitch

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
pathogen transmission modeling
evolution of pathogens
vaccine epidemiology
antimicrobial resistance
research ethics

Experimental organism
S. pneumoniae
Yuk Ming Dennis Lo

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics
Cancer Biology

Research focus
molecular diagnostics
liquid biopsies
noninvasive prenatal testing
epigenetics

Experimental organism
human
Ruth Loos

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
genetic epidemiology
obesity
prediction
gene discovery
precision medicine

Experimental organism
human
Andrew MacPherson

University of Bern, Switzerland

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
mucosal immunity
function of IgA
mechanisms of host-microbial mutualism
Ravindra Majeti

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Medicine

Research focus
stem cells
hematopoietic stem cells
acute myeloid leukemia
xenotransplantation
pre-leukemia

Experimental organism
human
Arduino A Mangoni

Flinders Medical Centre, Australia

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
clinical pharmacology
drug safety in old age
drug repurposing
drug discovery
metabolomics
biomarkers
cardiovascular pharmacology
patient-centred outcomes
Grant McArthur

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
melanoma
Martin McMahon

University of Utah, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
metastatic melanoma
lung cancer
thyroid cancer

Experimental organism
mouse
human
Jean-Pierre Michel

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
aging
geriatric medicine
public health
nutrition
vaccines
Subburaman Mohan

Loma Linda University, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
bone biology
endochondral bone formation
insulin-like growth factors
osteoporosis
osteoarthritis
skeletal development

Experimental organism
human
Zsolt Molnár

CytoSorbents Europe GmbH, Germany
University of Pécs, Hungary

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
sepsis
septic shock
hemodynamic monitoring
fluid therapy
extracorporeal cytokine removal
Belinda Nicolau

McGill University, Canada

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
cancer epidemiology
social determinants of health
Ole Haagen Nielsen

Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
gastroenterology (especially inflammatory bowel disease)
hepatology
internal medicine
Serge Przedborski

Columbia University Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
Parkinson's disease
neurodegeneration
mitochondrial damage
motor neuron disease
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
astrocytes
autophagy
mitophagy
necroptosis
apoptosis

Experimental organism
human
Louis Ptacek

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
neurogenetics
circadian rhythms
sleep
episodic disorders

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Peter Ratcliffe

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
hypoxia
signaling
hypoxia inducible factor
prolyl hydroxylase
oxygenase
cysteine dioxygenase
von Hippel-Landau
N-degron
Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
dengue
malaria
Zika
vector-bone diseases
serology
modeling

Experimental organism
human
Antony Rosen

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
autoimmunity
autoimmune disease
rheumatic
autoantibodies
granzyme
Charles Sawyers

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
translational medicine
oncology

Experimental organism
human
Joshua T Schiffer

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Epidemiology and Global Health
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
HSV-2
herpesviruses
mucosa
T cells
viral shedding
mathematical modelling

Experimental organism
human
viruses
Nima Sharifi

Cleveland Clinic, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
steroid biochemistry
steroid metabolism
prostate cancer
nuclear receptors
hormone therapy resistance
androgens
oncology

Experimental organism
mouse
Dolores Shoback

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
endocrinology
metabolism
metabolic bone disease
calcium sensing receptor
parathyroid hormone

Experimental organism
human
Viviana Simon

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
viral-host interactions
retroviral restriction factors
HIV drug resistance
Lois Smith

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
age-related macular degeneration
diabetic eye disease
retinopathy
ocular disease

Experimental organism
mouse
Margaret Stanley

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
vaccines
cervix cancer
cervix precancer
keratinocyte biology
human papillomavirus
DNA viruses
vaccine immunology

Experimental organism
human
Kiyoshi Takeda

Osaka University, Japan

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
mucosal immunology
inflammatory bowel disease
intestinal immunity
intestinal environmental factors
intestinal epithelial cells
Rudolph E Tanzi

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
Alzheimer's disease
genetics
innate immunity
neuroinflammation
neurogenesis
J Paul Taylor

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
liquid-liquid phase separation
RNA granules
biomolecular condensates
neurodegeneration

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
human
M Dawn Teare

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
statistics
population genetics
epidemiology
Peter Tontonoz

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
lipid metabolism
cholesterol
nuclear receptors
adipocytes
obesity
atherosclerosis
diabetes

Experimental organism
mouse
Frank van de Veerdonk

Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
medical mycology
clinical immunology
Hao Zhu

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Medicine

Research focus
mechanisms of tissue repair and organ regeneration
liver cancer
hepatocellular carcinoma
epigenetics
polyploidy

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Wilbert Zwart

Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
breast cancer
prostate cancer
hormonal regulation
epigenetics
transcription factors
genomic profiling

Experimental organism
human