Editors for Medicine

Senior editors

1. 

   Olujimi A Ajijola

   University of California, Los Angeles, United States

   Dr Ajijola completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia, and received his medical degree from Duke University. He went on to the Massachusetts General Hospital for residency training in internal medicine, and completed clinical fellowships in cardiovascular medicine and cardiac electrophysiology at UCLA. He received a PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology at UCLA, as part of the Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) program. He is interested in novel approaches for cardiac arrhythmias, and performs invasive cardiac electrophysiological procedures. His research interests revolve around peripheral neural circuits that control cardiac function in health and disease, including neural interventions that alleviate progressive cardiac dysfunction and arrhythmias.

   In addition to the NIH Director’s New Innovator award, he is a recipient of the Jeremiah Stamler Cardiovascular Research Award, an AP Giannini Foundation post-doctoral award, and a Young Physician Scientist Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). He is a member of the New Voices program of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. He is a recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Science Diversity Leadership Award and an elected member of the ASCI.

   He is the Associate Director of the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs, and directs the Neurocardiology Research Program at UCLA. He also co-directs the NIH-funded UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program.

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Research focus

   cardiovascular

   neurobiology

   sympathetic nerves

   ventricular arrhythmias

   RNA sequencing

   Competing interests statement

   Editorial roles: Journal of Electrocardiography, Heart Rhythm Journal 2019, Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology, JACC Clinical Electrophysiology, Journal of the American Heart Association.PCT Patent Application No. PCT/US2022/015696Grants and fellowships: NIH/NHLBI, NIH SPARC, NIH/NIGMS, NIH/NHLB, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Rethinking the Physician-Scientist Pipeline to Enhance Diversity, NIH/Case Western Reserve University

2. 

   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.

3. 

   Balram Bhargava

   Indian Council of Medical Research, India

   Dr Bhargava is the Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Secretary, Department of Health Research, (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare), Government of India.

   Professor (Dr) Balram Bhargava was born in Lucknow 21st July 1961. He received all his medical training at the King George Medical College, Lucknow. Further, he received advanced training at the Gardiner Institute, University of Glasgow and the Washington Heart Centre, Washington DC.

   Balram Bhargava is Professor of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and also serves as the Executive Director for Stanford India Biodesign Centre, School of International Biodesign (SiB).

   He is a cardiologist at the forefront of biomedical innovation, public health, medical education, and medical research. He directs the School of International Biodesign at AIIMS, an interdisciplinary programme to foster innovation and design of low-cost implants and devices which has led to more than thirty patents on low-cost medical devices and a dozen start-ups. He developed the indigenous Platinum Iridium coil coronary stent and has been instrumental in clinically evaluating and establishing medicated Indian stents. He has led innovations initiatives, such as Society for Less Investigative Medicine (SLIM). He is currently providing leadership for creative disease prevention, early detection, and transport system for sick cardiac patients (mission DELHI (Delhi Emergency Life Heart-Attack Initiative) by trained motorcycle first responder Paramedics).

   Professor Bhargava was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government for his contributions to medicine. He is also been awarded the SN Bose Centenary Award by the Indian National Science Congress, the National Academy of Sciences Platinum Jubilee Award, the Tata Innovation Fellowship, Vasvik Award for Biomedical Technology Innovation, the Ranbaxy Award, OP Bhasin Award in the field of Health and Medical Sciences and more recently the UNESCO Equatorial Guinea Prize for Life Sciences. Dr Lee Jong-Wook Memorial Prize for Public Health, 2019 by WHO Hqrs, Geneva and received President’s Medal Award from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, UK for his research in ‘Frugal Innovations’ in February 2020.

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Research focus

   interventional cardiology

   stents

   restenosis

   coronary artery disease

   risk factors of valvular heart disease

   interventions of rheumatic heart disease

   epidemiology

   non-communicable disease

   infectious disease

   health policy

   public health

   Experimental organism

   human

   Competing interests statement

   Dr Bhargava is the founding editor of the British Medical Journal Innovations (BMJi) until 2018, and he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Medical Research.

4. 

   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.

5. 

   Nancy Carrasco

   Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States

   Nancy Carrasco is the Joe C. Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She obtained her MD and Master’s in Biochemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in her native Mexico City. Dr Carrasco did her postdoctoral work at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in New Jersey, for which she received a Fogarty International Fellowship. She then joined the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and later the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr Carrasco has a longstanding interest in transport across biological membranes and in the role of membrane proteins in physiology and pathophysiology. Her cloning of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) has had numerous ramifications for many other fields, including structure/function of transport proteins, molecular endocrinology, gene transfer studies, cancer, and public health (she has served on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board). She has received numerous awards, including the Pew Award; the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Award; the Maria Sibylla Merian Award (Germany); the Merck Prize from the European Thyroid Association (Poland); the Rose Pitt-Rivers Lectureship at the British Endocrine Society Meeting (Scotland); the Noun Shavit Award (Israel); the Marshall S. Horwitz Faculty Prize for Research Excellence; and the Light of Life Award. She has served as president of the Society of Latin American Biophysicists. Dr Carrasco was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 and to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

   Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Research focus

   molecular endocrinology

   biochemistry of membrane proteins

   biophysics of membrane proteins

   mechanistic information of NIS

   regulation of NIS

   sodium/iodide symporter

   cross-talk between hormones

   metabolism

   Experimental organism

   mouse

   human

   Competing interests statement

   Dr Carrasco’s research has been funded by NIH. She is on the NICHD Board of Scientific Counselors.

6. 

   Murim Choi

   Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea

   Murim Choi’s main scientific question is to elucidate the genetic mechanisms of human diseases. To address this, his expertise lies in the functional interpretation of human genetic variants using genomic and bioinformatic methodologies. He graduated from Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, majoring in Molecular Biology (BS and MS). During the Ph.D course at Duke University, he studied cardiovascular system development in mice. In his postdoctoral training at Yale University, he studied human genetics, setting up a whole exome sequencing pipeline and applying it to various human diseases to identify causal genes. He received a K99/R00 grant for the postdoctoral works and was a recipient of SNU Invitation Program for Distinguished Scholar grant.

   Establishing his independent lab at SNU, he has been studying the genetic mechanisms of rare disease pathogenesis, focusing on cases with neurodevelopmental defects. His current approach combines developmental biology and genetics, shaped by the fact that most pediatric rare disease patients experience congenital problems. More recently, his group has undertaken common disease research. His group recently established a bioinformatic pipeline that allows screening of eQTL signals only functioning in the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) status and validated its utility. At SNU, he has been instrumental in establishing genetics and genomics methodologies by collaborating with clinicians in SNU Hospital. His lab has recently established protocols in advanced functional genomics approaches, including single-cell sequencing, saturation mutagenesis, modifier screening, and cell tracing technique to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying disease progression.

   He has a strong interest in clinical and translational research, especially in elucidating genotype-phenotype relationships that may lead to human diseases. In 2018, he was selected as a member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

   Expertise

   Genetics and Genomics

   Medicine

   Research focus

   rare diseases

   neurodevelopmental disorders

   functional characterization of genetic variants

   bioinformatics

   Mendelian genetics

   Competing interests statement

   Current funding: Genetic elucidation of rare developmental disorders (200M KRW/year (~152,800 USD); Apr. 2014-Sep.2022; National Research Foundation of Ministry of Science and ICT); Genetic elucidation of gene expression noises (300M KRW/year (~229,200 USD); Mar. 2021-Feb. 2025; National Research Foundation of Ministry of Science and ICT); Discovery of NAFLD causing genes using single cell expression quantitative trait loci approach (80M KRW/year (~61,120 USD); Apr. 2021-Dec. 2025; National Research Foundation of Ministry of Science and ICT).Other editorial roles: editor of Experimental and Molecular Medicine (Springer Nature)

7. 

   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.

8. 

   Betty Diamond

   The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, United States

   Betty Diamond received an MD from Harvard Medical School. She performed a residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and then a post-doctoral fellowship in Immunology with Dr Matthew Scharff at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is currently Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research.

   Dr Diamond’s research has focused on the induction and pathogenicity of anti-DNA antibodies in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. She showed that somatic mutation of immunoglobulin genes can generate autoantibodies in mice and humans, making the germinal center a focus in disease pathogenesis. Her laboratory has also demonstrated that a subset of anti-DNA antibodies cross-reacts with the NMDA receptor and showed that autoantibodies can cause aspects of neuropsychiatric lupus, creating a paradigm for antibody-mediated changes in brain function in many conditions. Most recently, she has developed a research program on the immunomodulatory functions of C1q.

   She received the Outstanding Investigator Award of the ACR in 2001, the Lee Howley Award from the Arthritis Foundation in 2002, and the Recognition Award from the National Association of MD-PhD Programs in 2004 and the AAI Distinguished Fellow Award in 2019. In 2006, she was elected to the Institute of Medicine and became a fellow of the AAAS. She has served on the Scientific Council of NIAMS and the Board of Directors of the American College of Rheumatology. She is a past President of the American Association of Immunologists.

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Immunology and Inflammation

   Research focus

   B cells

   systemic lupus

   neuropsychiatric lupus

   autoantibodies

   autoimmunity

   Experimental organism

   human

   mouse

   Competing interests statement

   Betty Diamond receives funding from the NIH, LuCIN (Lupus Clinical Investigators Network), Lupus Research Alliance, DOD Lupus and Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.. She is the Chief Editor at Molecular Medicine and a Deputy Editor for Frontiers in Immunology.

9. 

   Wafik S El-Deiry

   Brown University, United States

   Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP is Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School, Director, Cancer Center at Brown University, and Director of the Joint Program in Cancer Biology at Brown and Lifespan. He is a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor of Medical Science, and Mencoff Family University Professor at Brown. He sees patients in his weekly clinic at Rhode Island Hospital focused on care of patients with colorectal cancer and participates in clinical trials based on his laboratory’s research on novel therapeutics. He previously served as Deputy Director for Translational Research, co-Leader of the Molecular Therapeutics Program, Professor of Oncology, and the William Wikoff Smith Endowed Chair in Cancer Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center. From 2010 through 2014 Dr El-Deiry was the Rose Dunlap Professor of Medicine and Chief of Hematology-Oncology at Penn State. In 2009, El-Deiry became an American Cancer Society Research Professor. He was previously a tenured Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology), Genetics, and Pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania, co-Leader of the Radiobiology and Imaging Program at the Abramson Cancer Center and Associate Director for Physician-Scientist Training in Hematology-Oncology when he left Penn in 2010. He earned MD/PhD degrees from University of Miami School of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency and medical oncology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. As a practicing academic Oncologist, his scientific interest and expertise is in cell death, drug resistance in cancer and drug discovery and development. El-Deiry founded two companies, Oncoceutics, Inc. and p53-Therapeutics, Inc.

   El-Deiry discovered p21(WAF1) as a p53 target gene, universal cell cycle inhibitor, and tumor suppressor gene that for the first time explained the mammalian cell stress response. He discovered TRAIL receptor DR5 and its regulation by p53. TRAIL is part of the host immune system that suppresses cancer and its metastases. His lab created a knock-out mouse for TRAIL receptor DR5 and this mouse is tumor prone and develops an inflammatory syndrome in the lungs and gut after sub-lethal irradiation. He identified c-Myc as a major determinant of TRAIL sensitivity and demonstrated synergy between TRAIL therapy and multi-kinase inhibitor sorafenib. Building on his prior accomplishments, El-Deiry discovered ONC201/TIC10 as a first-in-class TRAIL pathway inducer that is orally bioavailable and crosses the blood-brain barrier to treat brain tumors. TRAIL and Foxo3a are required for the anti-tumor effect of ONC201 through dual blockade of ERK and Akt kinases that promotes the nuclear translocation of the Foxo3a transcription factor which directly regulates the TRAIL gene. Data from El-Deiry’s lab identified that ONC201 induces TRAIL receptor DR5 through an integrated stress response involving ATF4 and CHOP transcription factors. Patients with among the most aggressive gliomas (H3K27M mutant DIPG) have had exceptional responses to ONC201.

   As a physician-scientist, Dr El-Deiry has worked to bring new discoveries to the clinic. He is committed in the next phase of his career to unraveling the mechanisms involved in p53 pathway restoration by candidate therapeutics his lab has discovered. This is exciting as he is defining a novel class of anti-cancer drugs with p53 pathway restoration and S-phase checkpoint targeting and recognizing ATF4 as a major transcription factor mechanism for p53 pathway restoration in p53-null or p53 mutant tumor cells. He is establishing transcriptomic and proteomic data sets with chemotherapy that acts through p53, and with novel small molecules that restore the p53 pathway in p53-deficient or mutant p53 expressing cells. He is exploiting medicinal chemistry and organoid technologies to perform his translational science that is leading to clinical trials some of which he leads. Dr El-Deiry conducts basic and translational clinical oncology therapeutics research through funded NIH grants, Foundations and industry. He is a member of the ASCI, AAP, Past President of the Interurban Clinical Club, previous Chair of ASCO’s Tumor Biology Track, and past Chair of an NIH Study Section on Cancer Therapeutics. Dr El-Deiry has trained many students and post-doctoral fellows, physician-scientists, and continues to mentor junior scientists and faculty in basic and translational cancer research.

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Cancer Biology

   Research focus

   cancer

   tumor suppressor genes

   colorectal cancer

   p53 pathway

   cell death

   medical oncology

   drug development

   drug discovery

   p21(WAF1)

   ONC201/TIC10

   physician-scientist issues

   Experimental organism

   human

   mouse

   Competing interests statement

   Dr El-Deiry receives funding from the NIH/NCI, the Warren Alpert Foundation, and D&D Pharmatech. He is a Specialty Chief Editor for the Cancer Molecular Targets and Therapeutics Section of Frontiers in Oncology. He is also a Section Editor for Molecular Oncology and HemOnc Today. Dr El-Deiry is the scientific founder and shareholder of Oncoceutics, Inc. and p53-Therapeutics, Inc.

10. 

    Neil Ferguson

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    Neil Ferguson is Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London, where he leads the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling. His research aims to improve the understanding of epidemiological factors and population processes that shape infectious disease spread in human and animal populations. A practical focus of his work is the analysis and optimisation of intervention strategies that are aimed at reducing transmission or disease burden.

    Expertise

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Medicine

    Research focus

    epidemiology and infectious disease

    emerging infections

    mosquito-borne infections

    statistical and mathematical tools

11. 

    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

    cancer prevention

    human papillomavirus

    cancer 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).

12. 

    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.

13. 

    Diane M Harper

    University of Michigan, United States

    Diane M Harper, MD, MPH, MS, completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the fields of Chemical Engineering and Polymerics. She received her medical and public health degrees from the University of Kansas in Kansas City, where she also did residencies in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Family Medicine. Dr Harper has spent the majority of her professional career at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, as clinician, teacher and researcher in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Community and Family Medicine and Women’s and Gender Studies, including improving life for LGBTQ.

    She has received the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Excellence in Education Award and the Curtis Hames Research Award honoring her for changing medical care for women through evidence based research. She served as the Chair of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville during which time she also served on the United States Preventive Services Task Force.

    She currently is a tenured Professor at the University of Michigan, serving as the Director for Research Management within the Michigan Institute of Clinical and Health Research, one of 50 Clinical and Translational Science Award Research Hubs across the United States. To date she has over 250 peer reviewed publications with over 27,000 citations, and over 40,000 downloads of her seminal review of HPV vaccines.

    While at Dartmouth she developed and directed the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group based at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center in which research on all aspects of HPV associated diseases, specifically cervical cancer prevention was conducted. She is an internationally recognized expert on Human Papillomavirus, the cause of cervical cancer, and its prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. She has published the seminal clinical research on HPV vaccines and lectured internationally in over 100 countries. She has served on NCI research committees, European research study sections, addressed the Council on Foreign Affairs, and served as a technical advisor to the World Health Organization. Dr Harper has been honored as one of the top clinicians in her field in the US, and Family Physician of the Year in New Hampshire in 2006.

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Immunology and Inflammation

    Research focus

    HPV associated diseases

    primary care

    women's health

    cancer precursor detection

    health behaviours

    epidemiology

    cancer screening

    Experimental organism

    human

    Competing interests statement

    Diane Harper has received funding from NCI, NCATS, NHLBI, CDC, multiple national philanthropic organizations, including the American Cancer Society, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Susan G Komen Foundation, in addition to state and local funding agencies and collaborations with industry. She serves in editorship capacities on boards including the Annals of Family Medicine, Preventive Medicine Reports, PLoS ONE, and Gynecologic Oncology. She is a peer reviewer for The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, among other journals.

14. 

    Christopher L-H Huang

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Prof. Christopher Huang is Professor of Cell Physiology in the University of Cambridge. He read Physiology and Clinical Medicine at the Queen’s College, Oxford on a Florence Heale Scholarship award, and his PhD, at the Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge, on a Medical Research Council award. He was then successively, Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Reader in the University of Cambridge. His electrophysiological contributions fall in the areas of skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling, cellular ionic homeostasis, central nervous system imaging, and cardiac arrhythmogenic mechanisms in genetic Na⁺, K⁺ and ryanodine receptor channel, and metabolic models, in addition to authoring/editing 7 books/monographs, and 5 journal theme issues. He was awarded the Brian Johnson, Rolleston (Oxford) and Gedge Prizes (Cambridge), and has been editor for Journal of Physiology, Monographs of the Physiological Society, Biological Reviews, Europace, eLife and Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society and Faculty Opinions Integrative Physiology Section Leader. He was Cambridge Philosophical Society President, served on the British Heart Foundation Advisory Council and Fellowships Committee, and is Sino British Fellowship Trustee (UK).

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cellular muscle electrophysiology

    Ca2+ imaging

    Na+ channel function and pharmacology

    cardiac arrhythmias

    Experimental organism

    mouse

    Competing interests statement

    Current funding: British Heart Foundation (UK); BioMarin Ltd. (UK)Editorial Roles: Europace, ELife, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society; International Journal of Drug Discovery and PharmacologyOthers: Sino-British Fellowship Trust (UK); Faculty Opinions Integrative Physiology Section Leader.Visiting Professorships: Southwest University, Luzhuo, China; University of Surrey, UK.

15. 

    Carlos Isales

    Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, United States

    Carlos Isales is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he graduated from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and did his residency in Internal Medicine at the San Juan Veterans Administration Hospital. He completed a fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Yale University School of Medicine working in a laboratory under Dr Howard Rasmussen. In 1993, he moved to the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA to help establish the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics. His work has focused on defining the impact of nutrients on bone metabolism and loss of nutrient sensing with aging leading to both bone and muscle loss. His group was among the first to characterize an entero-osseous axis linking incretin hormones and bone turnover. Current work is focused on defining the impact of oxidation of aromatic amino acids and downstream metabolites such as tryptophan-kynurenine on stem cell proliferation and differentiation and resultant age-related osteoporosis. He is currently Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Augusta University, Regents’ Professor and J. Harold Harrison Distinguished University Chair in Healthy Aging. He is also the Clinical Director of the newly established Center for Healthy Aging. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Aging. He is also passionate about mentoring the next generation of scientists and is MPI on a training award from the National Institutes on Aging.

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    aging

    stem cells

    epigenetics

    metabolic bone disease

    nutrition

    amino acid metabolism

    tryptophan metabolism

    Experimental organism

    human

    mouse

    Competing interests statement

    Carlos Isales is currently funded by the National Institute on Aging. He is co-founder of Gerologix, a company focused on developing countermeasures to musculoskeletal aging. He is currently Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and JBMR Plus.

16. 

    Caigang Liu

    Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, China

    Caigang Liu received his PhD from the China Medical University, and trained clinically at first hospital of China Medical University. Then joined and served as a director of Breast Center Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University in 2016. His current research interests focus on clinical and translational research of oncology. In recent years, he has led a clinical research term to explore the improvement in breast reconstruction surgery and highly safe and effective anti-cancer strategies, along with identification of therapeutic targets and development of small molecular drugs against cancer metastasis. He has led several projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, including the discovery of FSIP1 as a new target for anti-HER2 treatment, and is developing a new strategy to reverse anti-HER2 resistance in breast cancer. He is a member of the National Micro-noninvasive Committee of Chinese Medical Association, a vice chairman of the first breast disease branch of China Sexology Association, and a member of the Standing Committee in breast cancer marker collaboration group of Chinese Anti-cancer Association.

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    surgical oncology

    oncological clinical trials

    breast cancer translational medicine

    cancer metastasis and drug resistance

    small molecular drug development

    Experimental organism

    human

    mouse

    Competing interests statement

    Caigang Liu is currently funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and “Top young talent” project of Liaoning province, China. He now holds a number of patents for anti-tumor small molecular drugs and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

17. 

    Shlomo Melmed

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, United States

    Shlomo Melmed MD's career has focused on integrating basic science discovery with prospective study of patients with pituitary disease. He has trained more then 70 pre- and post-doctoral trainees. His laboratory is at the forefront of pituitary discovery, focusing on the study of the pathogenesis and treatment of pituitary tumors. Fundamental discovery achievements include elucidating intrapituitary signaling mechanisms underlying excess tumor-derived GH, ACTH or PRL secretion; identification of novel subcellular therapeutic targets for drug application in clinical trials; understanding the relationship between tumor cell proliferation and GH hypersecretion and peripheral GH actions. Dr Melmed and colleagues have applied these findings to understanding cell cycle mechanisms underlying the extraordinarily rare transformation of these invariably benign adenomas to malignancy. They have coupled these translational discoveries with leading scholarly roles in developing clinical guidelines, pivotal investigator-initiated clinical trials, and original disease classification for pituitary medicine.

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    endocrinology

    pituitary medicine

    endocrine tumors

    Competing interests statement

    Shlomo Melmed MD edits The Pituitary, and co-edits the Williams Textbook of Endocrinology; he is Editor-in-Chief of Pituitary and post-Editor-in-Chief of Endocrinology. He was President of the Pituitary Society, and of International Society of Endocrinology and is a director of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. His laboratory is funded by the NIH.

18. 

    Pramod Mistry

    Yale University School of Medicine, United States

    Pramod Mistry is Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, Medicine, Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Physiology and Yale Medicine’s Director of Lysosomal/Gaucher Disease Center. He was born in Kenya and moved to the UK after high school, where he became a junior lab technician to the late Professor Jack Pepys at London’s Brompton Hospital. He went on to complete BSc/PhD/MBBS at the University of London and completed training in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Metabolic Medicine at London’s UCL/Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. His translational research has been focused on Gaucher disease genotype/phenotype correlations, annotation of distinct phenotypes of GD (i.e., those associated with Parkinson disease, cancers and pulmonary hypertension), discovery of genetic modifiers through WES and scRNAseq, recombinant enzyme replacement therapies, small molecule substrate reduction therapy and biomarker discovery. His lab was among the first to develop and authentic mouse model of non-neuronopathic Gaucher disease that led to the delineation of system-wide involvement triggered by GBA deletion, including immune dysregulation and identification of biomarkers. His lab maintains a large repertoire of mouse model of Gaucher disease type 1 as well as neuronopathic types of Gaucher disease and humanized models. Research in his lab is now informing common diseases, such as cancers, including myeloma, and Parkinson disease.

    He has long-standing interest in mentorship of Junior Faculty, post-doctoral trainees and students. He is Core Mentor in Yale’s T32 Award in Investigative Hepatology. He serves on the Executive Committee of Yale’s Liver Center.

    His research has been funded by the NIH and Sanofi.

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    lysosomal diseases

    Gaucher disease

    metabolic liver diseases

    Competing interests statement

    I receive a research grant from Sanofi. I do not have any other senior editorial roles.

19. 

    Tony Ng

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    Tony Ng (FMEDSCI, MB ChB, MRCP, FRCPath, PhD) brings a rich spectrum of knowledge and capabilities with clinical experience in treating AIDS patients (with opportunistic infections and cancers) and fundamental immunology skills. He is also a pioneer of molecular imaging in cancer. He was the first person to use antibody based fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) approaches in tumour cells and tissues to monitor protein states and function. He has published on how to visualize protein biochemistry in preclinical models; as well as in patient-derived cancer tissues for establishing in vitro/ companion diagnostics. He has adopted a multidisciplinary approach to understand cancer recurrence and also to stratify molecularly targeted agents in combination with immunotherapy. His research bridges the gap between physics, biology and medicine, particularly in the field of translational cancer research.

    For clinical translation, he has the proven ability to coordinate and work cooperatively with colleagues and leaders in a wide variety of disciplines (imaging, cell biology, oncology, bioinformatics, surgery, pathology, genomics, as well as physical science disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering). He has directed the KCL and UCL Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre (CCIC, one of four centres funded by CRUK & EPSRC in the UK) since its inception in 2008. The vision for the CCIC is to develop novel imaging (PET and MRI) technologies and use them in combination with clinicopathological assessment, genomics and in-house nanoscopic imaging to measure protein interactions in the context of interventional trials. In such trial context, the tissue imaging (FLIM histology) approach he has developed and refined over the years is beginning to reveal ErbB/ HER receptor rewiring as a mechanism of resistance in human tumours under selection pressure such as cetuximab.

    Tony Ng is the current Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Centre, part of the KCL School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Guy’s & St Thomas’ Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Cancer Theme. In 2022, he joined GSK on a part-time basis, to help establish the GSK-KCL Translational Oncology Research Hub which was which was announced in September 2021. The aim is to apply his clinical medicine training as well as immunology, biochemistry and imaging expertise to accelerate the development of the anti-cancer drugs. HIs experience of collaborating with mathematicians/theoretical physicists creates an opportunity to bridge the biology & AI/ML interface, an essential component of delivering the innovative Digital biological twin vision.

    Training/expertise: Medicine, Immunology, Cancer cell biology, Biochemistry and Optical Imaging/Biophysics as well as preclinical Radionuclide imaging.

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Immunology and Inflammation

    Research focus

    imaging

    biomarkers

    trial

    immune

    cancer

    reverse translation

    exosome

    organoid

    tumour microenvironment

    Competing interests statement

    At KCL, Tony Ng receives funding from Cancer Research UK, Medical Research Council, Wellcome Leap Inc., European Commission and GSK. He is employed on a part time basis as the Vice President of the Digital biological twin Unit at GSK.

20. 

    Paul W Noble

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, United States

    Paul W Noble, MD is a physician-scientist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where he is a Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine. He attended Haverford College and received his MD from New York University. After internal medicine residency and chief residency, he trained in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Colorado and the National Jewish Center in Denver where he did his research fellowship with David Riches and Peter Henson and gained expertise in interstitial lung diseases. He has held faculty positions at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine where he was a tenured Professor and started the interstitial lung disease clinics at both institutions. He then moved to Duke University where he was a tenured Professor and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Medicine before moving to Cedars-Sinai in 2013.

    His laboratory has focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of unremitting lung inflammation and fibrosis. He defined the roles of endogenous matrix degradation products and host defense in regulating persistent lung inflammation. Over the last decade he has focused on mechanisms the lead to fibroblast activation and invasion in severe pulmonary fibrosis and the failure of alveolar progenitor cell renewal in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). He has also played a significant role in the clinical trial development of the only FDA-approved treatments for IPF. He still maintains an active clinical practice. His laboratory has been funded by the NIH since 1992. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, Interurban Clinical Club and the Association of American Physicians where he currently serves on Council.

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    pulmonary medicine

    critical care

    lung inflammation

    fibrosis

    host defense

    clinical trials

    epithelial cell biology

    fibroblast biology

    Experimental organism

    human

    mouse

    Competing interests statement

    The Noble Laboratory is supported by the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

21. 

    Martin Pollak

    Harvard Medical School, United States

    Martin Pollak, MD is the Chief for the Division of Nephrology and the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine with Harvard Medical School.

    Dr Pollak is a graduate of Princeton University and the New York University School of Medicine. He did clinical training in Internal Medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, completed a nephrology fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by postdoctoral research training in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Jon and Christine Seidman. Dr. Pollak’s laboratory is interested in the molecular genetic basis of human kidney disease, with a particular focus on diseases of the glomerulus. His laboratory uses a combination of methods, including human genetics, mouse genetics, cell biology, and biochemical tools to understand the connection between phenotype and genotype and to understand glomerular physiology.

    He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, and received the American Society of Nephrology Homer W. Smith Award in 2017.

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    nephrology

    genetics

    kidney

    glomerulus

    Experimental organism

    human

    mouse

    Competing interests statement

    Dr Pollak receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States Department of Defense, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. He is an Associated Editor for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and an ad hoc editor for PNAS.

22. 

    W Kimryn Rathmell

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States

    Dr Kimryn Rathmell is the Chair of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a physician-scientist studying the molecular biology of renal cell carcinomas and rare tumors of the kidney. She earned her MD and PhD in Biophysics at Stanford University. She completed internal medicine training at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, and fellowship in medical oncology at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Vanderbilt in 2015 to lead the Division of Hematology and Oncology.

    Her research program focuses on understanding the molecular pathogenesis of renal cell carcinomas and spans early models of renal tumorigenesis, novel imaging strategies for diagnosis and screening of kidney cancer, epigenetic regulation of kidney cancers, metabolic features of tumorigenesis, and novel therapeutic strategies to overcome resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy and checkpoint targeted immunotherapy. With these bench to bedside strategies, her laboratory endeavors to integrate knowledge of pathways that promote cancer development with translational clinical studies, and uses these discoveries to develop robust approaches to improve the survival of patients with kidney cancers. She serves as the Deputy Director for Research Integration and Career Development for the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and on the Board of Scientific Advisors for the National Cancer Institute.

    Expertise

    Cancer Biology

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cancer biology

    molecular biology

    epigenetics

    biomarkers

    angiogenesis

    Competing interests statement

    Stock and Other Ownership Interests
    Company: Sitryx (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member); Company: Caribou Publishing (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member); Company: Nirogy Therapeutics (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member)Honoraria
    Company: Merck (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member); Company: Pfizer (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member)Consulting or Advisory Role
    Company: Sitryx (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member); Company: caribou Biosciences (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member)Research Funding
    Company: Incyte (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member); Company: Calithera Biosciences (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member); Company: Tempus (Recipient: An Immediate Family Member); Company: Peloton Therapeutics (Recipient: Institution); Company: Pfizer (Recipient: Institution); Company: Genentech (Recipient: Institution); Company: E.R. Squibb Sons, LLC (Recipient: Institution)Patents, Royalties, Other Intellectual Property
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23. 

    Jonathan Roiser

    University College London, United Kingdom

    Jonathan Roiser is Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Deputy Director at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. His research interests lie in understanding the brain and psychological processes driving mental health problems, especially disrupted motivation in depression. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and his recent research has been funded by Wellcome, the MRC, the Leverhulme Trust and the Rosetrees Trust. He founded and directs two PhD schemes: the UCL-NIMH Joint Doctoral Training Program in Neuroscience and the UCL Wellcome 4-year PhD Programme in Mental Health Science.

    Expertise

    Neuroscience

    Medicine

    Research focus

    mental health

    neuroimaging

    behavior

    psychopharmacology

    computational modelling

    Experimental organism

    human

    Competing interests statement

    I hold active grants from Rosetrees, Wellcome and the Leverhulme Trust. I supervise an ongoing PhD studentship co-funded by MRC and Cambridge Cognition Ltd. I have performed paid consultancy work for GE Ltd within the last 3 years. I sit on the Editorial Board of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.

24. 

    Lois Smith

    Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States

    Lois EH Smith MD, PhD is an ophthalmologist and clinician/scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Her basic research work is in retinal neovascularization, both basic mechanism and treatment including diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity, age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.

    She has a long standing interest in eye diseases particularly retinopathy of prematurity, diabetic retinopathy, and AMD and in the mechanisms behind these diseases, particularly the underlying causes of neovascularization and the interactions between neurons and vessels. Many pathways that they have found have been translated into clinical trials, including replacement of IGF-1 in preterm infants and treatment of AMD with anti-VEGF antibodies in which they were the first to show the benefit of blocking VEGF in a mouse model of retinopathy. More recently Dr Smith's work has been interested in metabolic function in photoreceptors, particularly with respect to lipids. Photoreceptor metabolic dysfunction causes central vision loss in retinal degenerative diseases (including ROP) but is also implicated in age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

    Dr Smith is the recipient of the Friedenwald award, the Alcon Research Institute award, the Silverman award, and the Bressler Prize.

    Expertise

    Developmental Biology

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    age-related macular degeneration

    diabetic eye disease

    retinopathy

    ocular disease

    developmental neuroscience

    Competing interests statement

    Dr Smith has received funding from the National Eye Institute, Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund, the European Union, the Lowy Medical Research Institute, Foundation Fighting Blindness, Research to Prevent Blindness Senior Investigator Award, and the Alcon Award.Current editor roles include: Editor for Ophthalmology (Science), Editor for Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology, and Editor IOVS (Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science).

25. 

    Hiroshi Takayanagi

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroshi Takayanagi, MD, PhD graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo in 1990. Originally trained as an orthopaedic surgeon and rheumatologist in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Dr Takayanagi began his basic research career in 1996. He was awarded his PhD in 2001 by the University of Tokyo and became Assistant Professor at the Department of Immunology where he studied the regulation of bone metabolism by the immune system by focusing on the control of osteoclast differentiation. In 2012, he was promoted to Professor, Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. Dr Takayanagi received the 2019 Japan Academy Prize for his studies on osteoimmunology.

    Expertise

    Immunology and Inflammation

    Medicine

    Research focus

    arthritis

    osteoporosis

    immune tolerance

    osteoimmunology

    autoimmunity

    fibroblast

    osteoclast

    T cells

    Competing interests statement

    Hiroshi Takayanagi has received funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.He is an Editorial Board Member of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases and Bone Research, an Associate Editor of Inflammation and Regeneration and Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism, and a Transmitting Editor of Modern Rheumatology.

26. 

    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.

27. 

    Richard M White

    Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    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

    Cell Biology

    Developmental Biology

    Medicine

    Research focus

    development

    neural crest

    zebrafish

    cancer

    melanoma

    metastasis

    microenvironment

    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.

28. 

    Ma-Li Wong

    State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States

    Ma-Li Wong, MD, PhD, FRANZCP, is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Neurosciences and Physiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Brazil, where she graduated from the University of São Paulo School of Medicine (FMUSP). She had clinical and research training in psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NIH, and Yale University. Ma-Li Wong is a bench, clinical and translational researcher in the biology of depression and co-morbid conditions, chronic stress, and antidepressant drugs. She has conducted research for over 30 years at Yale (Chief Resident and Instructor), National Institutes of Health (Unit Chief), University of California, Los Angeles (Professor), University of Miami (Professor and Vice-Chair), and in Australia (Australian National University, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, and Flinders University). She was the recipient of the following awards: Milton Rosenbaum Award for Psychiatric Research (1989); Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship by the American Psychiatric Association (1990); SmithKline Beecham Award by the Society of Biological Psychiatry (1990); APA/Dista Research Award (1993); NIH Fare Award (1996 and 1997); Henry L. Moses Award by the Montefiore Medical Center (1998). She co-edited two books: Pharmacogenomics: The Search for Individualized Therapeutics (2002) and Biology of Depression: From Novel Insights to Therapeutic Strategies (2005).

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    major depression

    chronic stress

    neuroinflammation

    neuroendocrinology

    pharmacogenomics

    genetics

    obesity

    leptin

    Experimental organism

    human

    mouse

    primary cells

    immortalized cells

    Competing interests statement

    Ma-Li Wong is an Associate Editor for Molecular Psychiatry. She has been funded by organizations such as the NIH in the US and the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia.

29. 

    Wei Yan

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    Wei Yan obtained his MD from China Medical University and PhD from University of Turku, Finland. After finishing his post-doc training at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, he started his own lab at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, where he rose through the ranks and eventually named University Foundation Professor, the highest honor the University bestows upon its faculty. In 2020, he joined The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA to direct the newly established National Center for Male Reproductive Epigenomics, one of the seven National Centers for Translational Research in Reproduction and Infertility (NCTRI) supported by the NICDH. The Yan lab works on genetic and epigenetic control of fertility and the epigenetic contribution of gametes to fertilization, early embryonic development, and adulthood health. He has so far published over 160 peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters with over 12,00 citations.

    His lab first put forward a novel idea for the development of non-hormonal male contraceptives: “Do not kill, but disable sperm”, which led to the discovery of TRIPTONIDE, a natural compound, as a reversible non-hormonal contraceptive agent in mice and monkeys, and established it as a drug candidate for “The Pill” for men. His lab also discovered the function of motile cilia in the reproductive tracts. In the male, motile ciliary beating function as an agitator to maintain the constant suspension of immotile testicular sperm during their transit through the efferent ductules in men. In the female, motile cilia in the oviduct/Fallopian tube are essential for oocyte pickup and fertility, but dispensable for embryo and sperm transport, which are mostly achieved through smooth muscle contraction. This discovery solved the long-standing controversy about the role of cilia beating vs. muscle contraction in gamete/embryo transport. His lab elucidated several novel mechanisms underlying the unique regulation of gene expression during the haploid phase of spermatogenesis, including global shortening of transcripts, delayed translation/uncoupling of transcription and translation, and dynamic changes in poly(A) length and non-A contents. His lab first discovered mitochondrial genome-encoded small RNAs (mitosRNAs), endo-siRNAs in the male germline and MSCI-escaping X-linked miRNAs. His lab was also among those that suggested critical functions of sperm-borne RNAs in supporting early embryonic development and epigenetic inheritance.

    Wei Yan’s contributions to science have been recognized by several academic awards, including the 2009 Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) Young Investigator Award, the 2012 American Society of Andrology (ASA) Young Andrologist Award, the 2013 Nevada Healthcare Hero Award for Research and Technology, the 2017 University of Nevada, Reno Outstanding Researcher Award, the 2018 SSR Research Award and the 2020 Nevada System of Higher Education Research Award. Dr Yan was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017 and SSR Distinguished Fellow in 2023.

    Expertise

    Developmental Biology

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    reproduction

    epigenetic inheritance

    regulation of spermatogenesis

    female infertility

    sperm biology

    reproductive tract

    ovarian biology

    female fertility

    contraceptive development

    endocrine control of reproduction and fertility

    germline epigenetic reprogramming

    sperm-borne large and small RNA

    Competing interests statement

    The Yan lab receives funding from the NIH, Male Contraceptive Initiative, and John Templeton Foundation. Wei Yan serves on the Advisory Board of Contraceptive Accelerator Network, LLC. Wei Yan served as co-Editor-in-Chief of Biology of Reproduction (2017-2021). He serves as Associate Editor for Environmental Epigenetics and Reviewing Editor for FASEB journal.

30. 

    Tony Yuen

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Tony Yuen, PhD, is Associate Professor and Research Director of the Center for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As an early adopter of systems biology techniques, Dr Yuen has extensive experience in gene expression profiling. His group showed that, while both hallucinogenic and non-hallucinogenic chemicals activate the serotonin 2A receptor (5HT2AR), their transcriptome fingerprint is distinct. Their discovery that 5HT2AR forms a functional complex with the metabotropic glutamate receptor mGluR2 to trigger hallucinogenic responses suggests that the 5HT2AR/mGluR2 complex is a promising new target for the treatment of psychosis. Together with Dr Maria New, Dr Yuen established genotype–genotype correlations in 1507 patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and have used an in silico approach of molecular modeling to define precisely the structural defect in the enzyme from a given mutation. Additionally, in collaboration with Lasker Awardee Professor Dennis Lo, by targeted deep sequencing of fetal DNA in maternal plasma, they have established the feasibility of prenatal diagnosis of CAH as early as 6 weeks of pregnancy with 100% reliability. Furthermore, Dr Yuen demonstrated that bisphosphonates, the most widely used class of drugs for osteoporosis and skeletal metastases, bind directly to the kinase domain of the human EGF family of receptors. He found that these drugs inhibit cell signaling and reduce cell viability in vitro. Xenotransplant studies have documented potent effects of bisphosphonates on the growth of EGFR–positive human tumor cells. These studies lay the basis for repurposing bisphosphonates towards the treatment and prevention of EGFR–driven cancers, in addition to the known benefit of these agents in ameliorating cancer metastases. Dr. Yuen is also deeply involved in skeletal and metabolic phenotyping of mice to understand the effects of FSH inhibition on bone remodeling, bone mass, fat mass and energy homeostasis. More recently, based on the collaborative findings with Dr Keqiang Ye that FSH inhibition prevents neuropathology and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease models, Dr Yuen have developed a new and evolving interest in neurodegeneration. Thus, his current research focus is on understanding the biology of FSH action on the brain, as well as on dissecting the relationship between serum FSH levels and cognition as a function of aging.

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    Mendelian genetics

    rare diseases

    cancer therapeutics

    pituitary hormones

    neurodegeneration

    osteoporosis

    obesity

    Competing interests statement

    Current NIH funding: R01AG071870 (2021–2026), U01AG073148 (2021–2026), R01AG074092 (2021–2026), R01DK107670 (2022–2026). Other editorial roles: Associate Editor, Frontiers in Pediatrics; Associate Editor, Frontiers in Endocrinology; Associate Editor, Genetic Steroid Disorders; Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Bone Biology.

31. 

    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.

Reviewing editors

1. Yousef Abu-Amer

   Washington University School of Medicine, United States

   Expertise

   Cell Biology

   Immunology and Inflammation

   Medicine

   Research focus

   osteolysis

   osteoclast

   osteoarthritis

   osteoimmunology

   inflammatory arthritis

   RANKL

2. Iannis E Adamopoulos

   Harvard Medical School, United States

   Expertise

   Immunology and Inflammation

   Medicine

   Research focus

   osteoclasts

   arthritis

   psoriatic arthritis

   interleukin 23

   interleukin 17

   RANKL

3. Anurag Agrawal

   CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Research focus

   asthma

   respiratory diseases

   Experimental organism

   human

   mouse

4. Joon-Yong An

   Korea University, South Korea

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Computational and Systems Biology

   Genetics and Genomics

   Neuroscience

   Research focus

   whole genome sequencing

   noncoding mutation

   neurodevelopment

   autism spectrum disorders

   multi-omics

5. Cynthia L Andoniadou

   King's College London, United Kingdom

   Expertise

   Developmental Biology

   Medicine

   Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

   Research focus

   stem cells

   endocrine

   pituitary gland

   adrenal gland

   paracrine signalling

   tumours

   Experimental organism

   human

   mouse

6. Wadih Arap

   Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey at University Hospital, United States

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Cancer Biology

   Research focus

   clinical oncology

   genitourinary (GU) cancers

   prostate cancer

7. Hossein Ardehali

   Northwestern University, United States

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

   Research focus

   mitochondria

   iron

   glucose metabolism

   mRNA-binding proteins

   hexokinases

   metabolism

   cardiac biology

8. Mohammad Athar

   University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Research focus

   dermatology

   skin diseases

   skin biochemistry

   skin cancer

9. Robert Baiocchi

   The Ohio State University, United States

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Cancer Biology

   Immunology and Inflammation

   Research focus

   Epstein Barr Virus

   lymphoma

   cancer therapeutics

   cancer vaccines

   cancer immunology

   cancer immunotherapy

   cancer epigenetics

10. Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam

    ICMR Emeritus Scientist, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Cancer Biology

    Cell Biology

    Developmental Biology

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Genetics and Genomics

    Immunology and Inflammation

    Neuroscience

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Research focus

    disease biology

    diabetes

    aging

    omnics

    calcium signaling

    endocrine disruptors

    probiotics

    molecular medicine

11. Audrey M Bernstein

    State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States

    Expertise

    Cell Biology

    Medicine

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Research focus

    cornea

    scarring

    fibrosis

    glaucoma

    integrins

    myofibroblast

12. José Biurrun Manresa

    National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), National University of Entre Ríos (UNER), Argentina

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    pain

    nociceptive system

    EEG

    EMG

    biomedical signal processing

    biostatistics

13. Jonathan S Bogan

    Yale School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    insulin

    protein trafficking

    metabolism

    type 2 diabetes

14. Marc J Bonten

    University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

    Expertise

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Medicine

    Research focus

    epidemiology

    antibiotic resistance

    healthcare-associated infections

    prevention

    clinical trials

15. Philip Boonstra

    University of Michigan, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Cancer Biology

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    biostatistics

    clinical trials

    cancer biostatistics

    epidemiology

    ECMO

    statistical programming

16. Annelien Bredenoord

    University Medical Centre Utrecht, Netherlands

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    bioethics

    medical ethics

    ethics

17. Christoph Buettner

    Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    metabolism

    diabetes

18. Hayriye Cagnan

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Neuroscience

    Medicine

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Research focus

    brain stimulation

    brain computer interfacing

    computational neuroscience

    motor control

    Parkinson's disease

    tremor

    close-loop neuromodulation

19. Ernesto Canalis

    UConn Health, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    osteoblasts

    osteoclasts

    mouse genetics

    rare diseases

    notch

20. Jay J Cao

    United States Department of Agriculture, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    bone metabolism

    obesity

21. Alesha Castillo

    New York University Bioengineering Institute, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Research focus

    bone

    mechanobiology

    mechanical loading

    fracture repair

    skeletal stem and progenitor cells

    osteoblasts

    osteogenesis

    aging

22. 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

23. Snigdha Chaturvedi

    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    nature language processing

    narrative understanding

24. Hina W Chaudhry

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Research focus

    cardiac regeneration

    cardiomyocytes

    developmental genetics

    stem cell biology

    regenerative biology

25. Di Chen

    Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    bone disease

26. Iacopo Chiodini

    Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda, Italy

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    adrenal gland

    bone metabolism

    osteoporosis

    calcium metabolism

    bone fragility

27. Jungmin Choi

    Korea University College of Medicine, South Korea

    Expertise

    Cancer Biology

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    rare disorders

    single cell genomics

    computational biology

    human genomics

28. Sarah E Cobey

    University of Chicago, United States

    Expertise

    Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Ecology

    Evolutionary Biology

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Medicine

    Research focus

    B cells

    coevolution

    infectious disease dynamics

    influenza

    mathematical modelling

    vaccination

29. Graziana Colaianni

    University of Bari, Italy

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Research focus

    bone

    osteoporosis

    muscle

    sarcopenia

    cartilage

    muscle atrophy

    Experimental organism

    mouse

    human

30. Yali Cong

    Peking University Health Science Center, China

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    medical ethics

    bioethics

31. Alex R Cook

    National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Expertise

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Medicine

    Research focus

    infectious disease epidemiology

    mathematical modelling

    biostatistics

    health policy

32. 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

33. Jennifer Cullen

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    Expertise

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cancer population sciences

34. Ilse S Daehn

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    mitochondria

    glomerular disease

    podocyte

    endothelial cells

    reactive oxygen species

35. Emek Demir

    Oregon Health and Science University, United States

    Expertise

    Cancer Biology

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    proteomics

36. Alok Dhawan

    Centre of Biomedical Research, India

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Ecology

    Research focus

    molecular epidemiology

    DNA damage and repair

    genetic toxicology

    nanomaterial toxicology

    environmental health

37. Rajan Dighe

    Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    reproductive endocrinology

38. Ana Domingos

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    metabolism

    obesity

    neuroimmunity

    autonomic nervous system

    eating behaviour

    inflammation

39. Hannelore Ehrenreich

    Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Germany

    Expertise

    Genetics and Genomics

    Immunology and Inflammation

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    translational neuroscience

    erythropoietin

    hypoxia

    neuropsychiatric phenotypes

    deep phenotyping

    autoantibodies

    Experimental organism

    human

40. Noriaki Emoto

    Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cardiology

    pulmonary hypertension

    endothelin

    pharmacology

    vascular biology

41. John Ewer

    Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile

    Expertise

    Developmental Biology

    Neuroscience

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    animal behaviour

    neuropeptides

    circadian clocks

    insect endocrinology

    Experimental organism

    D. melanogaster

42. Alberto Falchetti

    Istituto Auxologico Italiano , IRCCS, Italy

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    metabolic bone disease

    Paget's disease of bone

    familial primary hyperparathyroidism

    multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1

43. Edward A Fisher

    New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    preventive cardiology

    cardiology

    lipoprotein metabolism

    atherosclerosis

    Experimental organism

    mouse

44. Jonathan Flint

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    Expertise

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    genetics

    genomics

    psychiatric disorders

45. Zhongjie Fu

    Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    retinal vasculature

    retinopathy

    adiponectin

46. Eric D Gaier

    Boston Children's Hospital, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    ophthalmology

    amblyopia

    strabismus

47. Mari Gantner

    The Lowy Medical Research Institute, United States

    Expertise

    Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Cell Biology

    Medicine

    Research focus

    retinal disease

    retinal metabolism

    patient metabolomics

    amino acid metabolism

    sphingolipid biology

    Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) biology

48. Luigi Gennari

    University of Siena, Italy

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    metabolic bone disease

    Paget's disease of bone

    endocrinology

49. Gregory G Germino

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

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    nephrology

    genetic renal disease

    internal medicine

    ciliopathies

    Experimental organism

    mouse

    rat

    human

50. 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

51. David Ginsburg

    University of Michigan, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    hemostasis

    thrombosis

    protein secretion

    human genetics

    fibrinolysis

    Experimental organism

    human

    mouse

    zebrafish

52. Yelena Ginzburg

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    iron metabolism

    erythropoiesis

    thalassemia

    myeloproliferative neoplasms

    hemochromatosis

    transferrin

    hepcidin

    erythroferrone

53. Pablo A González

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Research focus

    host-pathogen interactions

    dendritic cells

    T cells

    herpesviruses

    bacteria

    immune evasion

    viruses

    Experimental organism

    mouse

54. Ki Goosens

    ki.goosens@mssm.edu, United States

    Expertise

    Neuroscience

    Medicine

    Research focus

    chronic stress

    translational science

    systems neuroscience

    brain-body interactions

55. Yogesh K Gupta

    The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Cancer Biology

    Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Research focus

    drug discovery

    nucleic acid modifications

    cancer epigenetics

    structures of viral proteins

    host-pathogen interactions

56. Adam Haber

    Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, United States

    Expertise

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    asthma

    machine learning

57. Shozeb Haider

    University College London, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Research focus

    X-ray crystallography

    molecular dynamics simulations

    allostery

    structure-based drug design

    structural bioinformatics

    computational chemistry

    nucleic acids

    rare diseases

58. Sang Jun Han

    Baylor College of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    nuclear receptors

    steroid receptor coactivator

    endometriosis

    female infertility

59. Gaiti Hasan

    Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

    Expertise

    Genetics and Genomics

    Neuroscience

    Medicine

    Research focus

    calcium signaling

    motor function

    regulation of gene expression

    IP3R

    STIM

    Orai

    Experimental organism

    D. melanogaster

60. Shannon M Hawkins

    Indiana University School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    endometriosis

    ovarian cancer

    endometrial cancer

61. Daniel Henrion

    University of Angers, France

    Expertise

    Cell Biology

    Medicine

    Research focus

    vascular biology

    endothelium

    blood flow

    vascular remodeling

    hypertension

    blood pressure

    shear stress

    vascular diseases

62. Elizabeth P Henske

    Brigham And Women's Hospital, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    tuberous sclerosis complex

    lymphangioleiomyomatosis

    mTOR

    prostate cancer

63. Kenneth Ho

    Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    metabolism

    sarcopenia

64. Patrick J Hu

    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Developmental Biology

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    signal transduction

    genetics

    development

    aging

    cancer

    endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis

    dauer

    Experimental organism

    C. elegans

65. Susie Y Huang

    Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    development

    translation

    magnetic resonance imaging

66. Bradley Hyman

    Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    tau

    alzheimer

    neuropathology

67. Jameel Iqbal

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    general pathology

    blood banking

    transfusion medicine

    transplantation immunology

    clinical pathology

68. Edward D Janus

    University of Melbourne, Australia

    Expertise

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cardiovascular disease

    diabetes

    prevention

    chronic diseases

    clinical guidelines

69. Jae-Wook Jeong

    University of Missouri – Columbia, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    estrogen

    endometriosis

    uterus

    endometrium

    endometrial cancer

    implantation

    decidualization

    progesterone

70. 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

71. Yaoting Ji

    Wuhan University, China

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    osteoporosis

    obesity

    stem cell differentiation

    aging

    beiging

    skeletal mineralization

    bone resorption

72. Jean Jiang

    The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    gap junctions

    hemichannels

    connexins

    bone biology

    osteocyte

    bone mechanobiology

    cancer bone metastasis

    lens biology

73. Mohammad M Karimi

    Kings College London, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Research focus

    bioinformatics

    genomics

    epigenomics

    transposable elements

    single-cell sequencing

    visual analytics

    epigenetic therapy

74. Gerard Karsenty

    Columbia University, United States

    Expertise

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    endocrinology

    bone biology

    physiology

    bone endocrinology

75. Brian S Kim

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Immunology and Inflammation

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    basophil

    cytokine

    innate lymphoid cell

    itch

    mast cells

    neuroimmunology

    sensory neuron

    somatosensation

76. Se-Min Kim

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    metabolic bone disease

    diabetic bone disease

    thyroid bone disease

    phosphodiesterase (PDE)5

    PDE11

77. 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

78. Smita Krishnaswamy

    Yale School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    bioinformatics

    computational genomics

    immunology

    immunotherapy

    cancer

    neuroscience

    developmental biology

79. T Rajendra Kumar

    University of Colorado, United States

    Expertise

    Cell Biology

    Developmental Biology

    Medicine

    Research focus

    reproductive endocrinology

    reproductive biology

    pituitary

    testis

    ovary

    Experimental organism

    mouse

80. Dan Larhammar

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Evolutionary Biology

    Neuroscience

    Cell Biology

    Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    evolution

    gene/genome duplications

    cellular and molecular neuroscience

    G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)

    neuropeptides

    endocrine peptides

    phototransduction

    ligand-gated ion channels

    Experimental organism

    human

    zebrafish

81. Rauf Latif

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Cell Biology

    Medicine

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Research focus

    metabolic syndrome

    thyroid

    GPCRs

    glycoprotein hormone receptors

    TSH receptor

    thyroid hormones

    receptor oligomerization

    post translational modification of receptors

    Experimental organism

    mouse

82. Sihoon Lee

    Gachon University College of Medicine, South Korea

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    endocrinology

    hormones

    parathyroid

    bone metabolism

    rare diseases

    thyroid hormone metabolism

    deiodinase

    insulin resistance

83. Ellis Levin

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    signal transduction in cells

    steroid receptors

84. Hongliang Li

    Wuhan University School of Medicine, China

    Expertise

    Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Immunology and Inflammation

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cardiometabolic disease

    metabolic disease

    vascular injury

    animal models

    liver

    innate immunity

85. Huihui Li

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Research focus

    sickle cell disease

    gut microbiota

    iron

    polycythemia vera

    bacteria-induced organ damage

    Experimental organism

    mouse

86. Yi-Ping Li

    Tulane University, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    orthopaedics

    surgery

    remodeling

    dental/craniofacial defects

87. Paloma B Liton

    Duke University School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    ophthalmology

    glaucoma

    trabecular meshwork

    autophagy

    mechanical stretch

    lysosomes

    senescence

    lysosomal enzymes

    fibrosis

88. Huiping Liu

    Northwestern University, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    cancer stem cells

    circulating tumor cells

    exosome

    cancer immunity

    metastasis

    breast cancer

89. Nianjun Liu

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    biostatistics

    applied statistics

    computational methods

    human health and diseases

90. Peng Liu

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    obesity

    aging

    osteoporosis

    Adipose Biology

    Bone Biology (osteoblasts and osteoclasts)

91. Xiaorong Liu

    University of Virginia, United States

    Expertise

    Neuroscience

    Medicine

    Research focus

    retina

    retinal ganglion cell

    retinal degeneration

    glaucoma

    in vivo imaging

    optic nerve

    axon bundles

    Experimental organism

    mouse

    tree shrew

92. Daria Lizneva

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    endocrinology

    polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

93. Francesc Lopez-Giraldez

    Yale University, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    bioinformatics

94. Helen H Lu

    Columbia University, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Research focus

    bioengineering

    biomechanics

    orthopaedics

    tissue engineering

95. Elham Mahmoudi

    University of Michigan, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Research focus

    health services research

    large data analysis

    econometrics and methodology

    economics of dementia

    economics of aging

    disability

    healthcare cost and utilization

    disparity in health and healthcare

96. Arduino A Mangoni

    Flinders Medical Centre, Australia

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    pharmacology

    drug safety

    metabolomics

    biomarkers

    drug discovery

    hypertension

97. Arya Mani

    Yale University School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    lipid metabolism

    glucose metabolism

    fatty liver disease

    hyperlipidemia

    cardiovascular genetics

    Experimental organism

    mouse

98. Juan P Martinez-Barbera

    University College London, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Developmental Biology

    Research focus

    brain

    pituitary

    tumour and cancer

    embryos

    cell senescence

    senescence-associate secretory phenotype (SASP)

    senolytic

    Experimental organism

    mouse

99. Gherardo Mazziotti

    Humanitas University of Milan, Italy

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    endocrinology

    pituitary disease

    growth hormone

    thyroid

    FSH

    thyroid diseases

    secondary osteoporosis

    insulin-like growth factor-1

    ACTH

    cortisol

    prolactin

    TSH

    PTH

100. Gillian J McLellan

     University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cell Biology

     Neuroscience

     Chromosomes and Gene Expression

     Research focus

     ophthalmology

     pathology

     imaging

     glaucoma

     retina

     optic nerve

     animal models

101. Rui Medeiros

     Instituto Português de Oncologia-Porto, Portugal

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Research focus

     oncology

     molecular oncology

     viral pathology

102. Simón Méndez-Ferrer

     University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

     Expertise

     Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

     Developmental Biology

     Cancer Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     haematopoietic stem cell niche

     mesenchymal stem cells

     myeloproliferative neoplasms

     acute myeloid leukemia

     neuroimmunology

103. 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

104. Zsolt Molnár

     CytoSorbents Europe GmbH, Germany
     University of Pécs, Hungary

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     sepsis

     septic shock

     hemodynamic monitoring

     fluid therapy

     extracorporeal cytokine removal

105. Tomohiro Morio

     Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan

     Expertise

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Medicine

     Research focus

     primary immunodeficiency

     pediatrics

     cell therapy

     monogenic disorder

     iPS cells

106. Roberto Motterlini

     INSERM U955, University Paris Est, France

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     cardiovascular disease

     metabolism

     pharmacology

     inflammation

     oxidative stress

     heme oxygenase

     carbon monoxide

107. Shiny Nair

     Yale University, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Cancer Biology

     Research focus

     immunology

     neurodegeneration

     NKT cells

     mycobacterium

     lysosomal storage disorder

108. Nicola Napoli

     Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     endocrinology

     metabolism

     osteoporosis

     bone fragility in diabetic reactions

     diabetes

     obesity

     clinical trials

     Experimental organism

     human

109. Anjaparavanda P Naren

     Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cell Biology

     Research focus

     cystic fibrosis

     personalized medicine

     protein trafficking

     protein-protein interactions

     macromolecular complexes

     CFTR biology

110. Goutham Narla

     University of Michigan, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Genetics and Genomics

     Research focus

     cancer therapeutics

     cancer genetics

     small molecule drug development

     protein phosphatase

     Experimental organism

     human

     mouse

111. P Darrell Neufer

     East Carolina University, United States

     Expertise

     Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

     Cell Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     metabolic disease

     mitochondrial bioenergetics

     cellular bioenergetics

     mitochondrial biogenesis and exercise

     Experimental organism

     human

     flies

     rat

     mouse

112. Belinda Nicolau

     McGill University, Canada

     Expertise

     Epidemiology and Global Health

     Medicine

     Research focus

     cancer epidemiology

     social determinants of health

113. Ole Haagen Nielsen

     Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     gastroenterology (especially inflammatory bowel disease)

     internal medicine

114. Jeremie Nsengimana

     Newcastle University, United Kingdom

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     statistics

     genomics

     cancer

     precision medicine

     biomarkers

115. Jihwan Park

     Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

     Expertise

     Computational and Systems Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     single cell analysis

     kidney disease

116. Renata Pasqualini

     Rutgers University, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Research focus

     radiation oncology

     translational cancer research

     prostate cancer

     vascular biology

117. David J Paterson

     University of Oxford, United Kingdom

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Neuroscience

     Research focus

     autonomic neuroscience

     physiology

     cardiac arrhythmias

     hypertension

     chemoreception

     gene therapy

118. Gang Peng

     Indiana University, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Computational and Systems Biology

     Chromosomes and Gene Expression

     Research focus

     bioinformatics

     epigenetics

     sequencing

     DNA methylation

     Newborn Screening

119. Luca Pinello

     Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Computational and Systems Biology

     Genetics and Genomics

     Research focus

     bioinformatics

     computational biology

     CRISPR genome editing

     single-cell genomics

120. Nelly Pitteloud

     CHUV, Switzerland

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     human genetics

     metabolic disorders

     insulin resistance

     diabetes

121. Samuel Pleasure

     University of California, San Francisco, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Developmental Biology

     Neuroscience

     Research focus

     circuit development

     hippocampus

     cerebral cortex

     epilepsy

     human

     forebrain development

     autoimmune encephalitis

     morphogenic signals

     mouse

     multiple sclerosis

122. Markus Ploner

     Technische Universität München, Germany

     Expertise

     Neuroscience

     Medicine

     Research focus

     pain

     brain

     oscillations

     synchrony

     electroencephalography (EEG)

     Experimental organism

     human

123. 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

124. Matthew A Quinn

     Wake Forest School of Medicine, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     translational liver disease

     obesity

     women's health

     fatty liver

     nuclear receptors

     reproduction

     epigenesis

125. 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

126. Michaela Reagan

     Maine Medical Center Research Institute, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Cell Biology

     Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

     Research focus

     multiple myeloma

     bone marrow adipocyte

     fatty acid binding protein

     cancer-induced bone disease

     osteolysis

     Experimental organism

     mouse

127. Jalees Rehman

     University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

     Expertise

     Cell Biology

     Genetics and Genomics

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Medicine

     Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

     Research focus

     vascular biology

     macrophage biology

     inflammation

     transcriptomics

     single cell analysis

     lung biology

     cell regeneration

128. Martin Reincke

     Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     endocrinology

     metabolism

     endocrine hypertension

     adrenal gland function

     pituitary-adrenal-axis

     pituitary disease

     cortisol, stress research

     adrenomedullary function

129. Albert Rizvanov

     Kazan Federal University, Russia

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     stem cells

130. 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-borne diseases

     serology

     modeling

     Experimental organism

     human

131. Antony Rosen

     Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     autoimmunity

     autoimmune disease

     rheumatic

     autoantibodies

     granzyme

132. Gian Paolo Rossi

     University of Padua, Italy

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     arterial hypertension

     vascular biology

     cardiology

     cardiovascular medicine

     endocrinology

     Experimental organism

     human

133. Maroeska M Rovers

     Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     evidence-based surgery

     clinical epidemiology

     health economics

     IPD meta-analysis

134. Mishaela R Rubin

     Columbia University Medical Center, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     diabetes

     parathyroid

     osteoporosis

135. Natalia Rubinstein

     University of Buenos Aires-CONICET, Argentina

     Expertise

     Cancer Biology

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Medicine

     Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

     Research focus

     breast cancer tumor cell

     molecular biology

     drug resistance

     tumor immunology

136. Vitaly Ryu

     Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Neuroscience

     Research focus

     pituitary hormones

     neurogenesis

     neural plasticity

     neurobehavior

     ingestive behavior

     sympathetic and sensory innervation of fat

137. Juan C Sáez

     Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

     Expertise

     Neuroscience

     Cell Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     connexin

     pannexin

     innexin

     neuroinflammation

     neuromuscular diseases

138. Fayez Safadi

     Northeast Ohio Medical University, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

     Research focus

     biomechanics

139. Tamer I Sallam

     University of California, Los Angeles, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Genetics and Genomics

     Research focus

     atherosclerosis

     lipid metabolism

     cardiovascular disease

     noncoding RNA

     gene regulation

140. Alan R Saltiel

     University of California, San Diego, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Cell Biology

     Research focus

     insulin

     action

     protein phosphorylation

     obesity

     metabolism

     diabetes

     signaling

     G proteins

141. Rebecca M Sappington

     Wake Forest School of Medicine, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Neuroscience

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Developmental Biology

     Research focus

     retina

     optic nerve

     neurodegeneration

     glia

     neuroinflammation

     regeneration

     axon

     cytokine/chemokine

142. Charles Sawyers

     Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, United States

     Expertise

     Cancer Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     translational medicine

     oncology

     Experimental organism

     human

143. 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

     mathematical modelling

     herpesviruses

     HIV

     COVID-19

     T cell immunology

     Experimental organism

     human

     viruses

     HSV

     SARS-CoV-2

144. Nicolas Schlecht

     Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, United States

     Expertise

     Epidemiology and Global Health

     Medicine

     Research focus

     cancer prevention

     cancer control

145. Kalyanam Shivkumar

     UCLA Health, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     electrophysiology

     neurocardiology

     cardiology

     neural control

     sudden death

     Experimental organism

     human

     mouse

146. Dolores Shoback

     University of California, San Francisco, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     endocrinology

     hormones

     bone metabolism

     calcium

     mineral

     parathyroid

     vitamin D

     Experimental organism

     human

     mouse

147. Jawed Siddiqui

     University of Nebraska Medical Center, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Research focus

     bone metastasis

     cancer metastasis

     chemokines

     osteoclasts

     osteoblasts

     tumor dormancy

     therapeutic

148. 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

149. Kellie N Smith

     Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Research focus

     cancer immunology

     T cells

     immunogenomics

     T cell receptors

     neoantigens

     lung cancer

150. Kumaravel Somasundaram

     Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

     Expertise

     Cell Biology

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Genetics and Genomics

     Chromosomes and Gene Expression

     Research focus

     cell signalling

     glioma

     gene regulation

     cancer therapeutics

     cancer genomics

     cancer stem cells

     non-coding RNA

     chemoresistance

151. Renan P Souza

     Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

     Expertise

     Genetics and Genomics

     Medicine

     Research focus

     molecular epidemiology

     genomics

     biomarkers

     statistical modeling

     cohort studies

     case-control studies

     simulation studies

152. Pramod K Srivastava

     UConn Health, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Research focus

     cancer immunology

     tumor antigens

     neoantigens

     cancer vaccines

     immunotherapy

     antigen presentation

     neoepitopes

     cross-presentation

     Experimental organism

     mouse

     human

153. Jonathan S Stamler

     Case Western Reserve University, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

     Research focus

     S-nitrosylation

     nitric oxide

     redox

     redox-signaling

     cysteine

     thiols

154. 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

155. Laurie Steiner

     University of Rochester Medical Center, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cell Biology

     Chromosomes and Gene Expression

     Research focus

     transcription

     epigenetics

     erythropoiesis

     hematopoiesis

     histone modifications

     anemia

     Experimental organism

     human

     mouse

156. N. Ravi Sundaresan

     Indian Institute of Science, India

     Expertise

     Cell Biology

     Medicine

     Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

     Chromosomes and Gene Expression

     Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

     Research focus

     reversable acetylation

     ADP-ribosylation

     cellular senescence and aging

     sirtuins

     cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases

     fibrosis

     Experimental organism

     human

     mouse

     rat

157. Larisa Suturina

     Scientific Center for Family Health and Human Reproduction, Russia

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     women's health

     infertility

     polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

     oxidative stress

     menopause

     obesity

     hypothalamic disorders

     antioxidants

     contraception

     POF

     adolescent's health

158. 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

159. Sakae Tanaka

     The University of Tokyo, Japan

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     bone

     osteoporosis

     osteoclast

     osteoarthritis

     rheumatoid arthritis

     orthopaedics

160. Rudolph E Tanzi

     Harvard University, United States

     Expertise

     Neuroscience

     Genetics and Genomics

     Medicine

     Research focus

     Alzheimer's disease

     genetics

     neurodegenerative disease

     amyloid

     neuroinflammation

     Experimental organism

     mouse

     human

     brain organoids

161. Mauro M Teixeira

     Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Microbiology and Infectious Disease

     Research focus

     inflammation

     mediators of inflammation

     pharmacology

     anti-viral compounds

     arboviral infections

     clinical trials

162. Carmen D Tekwe

     Indiana University Bloomington, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     biostatistics

     dietary intake

     physical activity behavior

163. Aseem Prakash Tikku

     King George's Medical University, India

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     dentistry

     endodontics

164. 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

165. Ritu Trivedi

     CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, India

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     drug development

     animal models of endocrine diseases

166. Farah Usmani

     United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     health policy

     reproductive health

     reproductive rights

167. Frank van de Veerdonk

     Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands

     Expertise

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Microbiology and Infectious Disease

     Medicine

     Research focus

     medical mycology

     clinical immunology

168. Amit Verma

     Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Research focus

     leukemia

     cancer stem cells

     myelodysplasia

     clonal hematopoiesis

169. Mei Wan

     Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cell Biology

     Research focus

     bone remodeling

     osteoarthritis

     osteoblasts

     osteoclast

     cellular senescence

     mesenchymal stem cells

     progenitor cells

170. Linghua Wang

     The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States

     Expertise

     Cancer Biology

     Computational and Systems Biology

     Genetics and Genomics

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Medicine

     Research focus

     computational biology

     cancer immunogenomics

     cancer genomics

171. Tracey L Weissgerber

     Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité, Germany

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     data visualization

     statistical analysis

     reproducibility

     meta-research

     open and reproducible methods

     systematic review

     scientific rigor

     transparency

     automated screening

172. Christopher S Williams

     Vanderbilt University, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     gastroenterology

     GI track cancer

     murine

     inflammatory bowel disease

173. Qifeng Yang

     Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, China

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Research focus

     breast cancer

     cancer stem cells

     metastasis

     cancer associated fibroblasts

     chemoresistance

174. Yongliang Yang

     Dalian University of Technology, China

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Computational and Systems Biology

     Research focus

     bioinformatics

     computational biology

     drug discovery

     artificial intelligence

175. Yunlei Yang

     Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Neuroscience

     Research focus

     glia

     neural circuits

     anxiety

     diabetes

     obesity

     neuron

176. Keqiang Ye

     Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

     Neuroscience

     Research focus

     neuroscience

     molecular cytobiology

     cancer biology

     neurodegenerative disease

     Experimental organism

     mouse

177. Neeha Zaidi

     Johns Hopkins University, United States

     Expertise

     Cancer Biology

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Medicine

     Research focus

     immunology

     immunotherapy

     vaccines

     cancer

     cancer immunology

     clinical trials

     translational research

     T cell biology

178. Mark L Zeidel

     Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     kidney disease

     bladder disease

179. Baohong Zhao

     Hospital for Special Surgery, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cell Biology

     Research focus

     osteoclast

     osteoimmunology

     bone

     TNF

     Experimental organism

     mouse

180. Siming Zhao

     Dartmouth College, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Computational and Systems Biology

     Genetics and Genomics

     Research focus

     statistical genetics

     genomics

     human genetics

     sequencing data

181. Shengtao Zhou

     Sichuan University West China Second University Hospital, China

     Expertise

     Cancer Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     gynecologic oncology

     cancer biology

     tumor immunology

     metabolism

     nuclear receptors

     systems biology

     Experimental organism

     human

     mouse

182. Weibin Zhou

     Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     disease models

     kidney

     transgenic

     Experimental organism

     zebrafish

183. 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

184. Bian Zhuan

     Wuhan University, China

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Genetics and Genomics

     Research focus

     craniofacial genetics

     oral and craniofacial developmental defects

     orofacial clefts

     tooth agenesis

185. Roger S Zoh

     Indiana University Bloomington, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     Bayesian statistical methods

186. Moussa Zouache

     University of Utah, United States

     Expertise

     Computational and Systems Biology

     Medicine

     Epidemiology and Global Health

     Genetics and Genomics

     Neuroscience

     Physics of Living Systems

     Research focus

     visual neuroscience

     population genetics

     transcriptomics

     proteomics

     biology of aging

     mathematical modelling

     clinical research