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We aim to review translational research and clinical studies focused on improving human health. Our interests include, but are not limited to, the etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, genetics, prevention, and treatment of human disorders, as well as the biological, environmental and socioeconomic determinants of health which lead to changes in medical practice, population health and health policy. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

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
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joshua T Schiffer

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

Dr Joshua T Schiffer is an infectious disease physician and researcher who develops mathematical models to address significant medical challenges. A focus of his work is to analyze strategies to achieve an HIV cure in people who require antiviral drugs for their lifetime due to reservoirs of latent virus. These models assess the potential of a wide variety of potential curative technologies. Dr Schiffer and colleagues also use mathematical modeling to study how T cells help control numerous herpes viruses that cause disease in healthy people and cancer patients with compromised immune systems. They develop models to explain when and how latent viruses reactivate and use models to optimize the effectiveness of antiviral drugs.

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
Dolores Shoback

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Dr Dolores Shoback cares for patients with a variety of disorders related to the endocrine system, focusing particularly on metabolic bone disease, parathyroid disorders and osteoporosis. She also directs UCSF's physician training program in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism.

Shoback's research interests include metabolic bone disease, the calcium-sensing receptor and parathyroid hormone.

Shoback completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She completed a fellowship in endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
endocrinology
hormones
bone metabolism
calcium
mineral
parathyroid
vitamin D

Experimental organism
human
mouse

Competing interests statement
Dr Shoback is currently funded by the NIH.
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).
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.
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.
Wei Yan

Washington State University, 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.

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Yousef Abu-Amer

Washington University School of Medicine, United States

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Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
osteolysis
osteoclast
osteoarthritis
osteoimmunology
inflammatory arthritis
RANKL
Iannis E Adamopoulos

Harvard Medical School, United States

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Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

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osteoclasts
arthritis
psoriatic arthritis
interleukin 23
interleukin 17
RANKL
Anurag Agrawal

CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India

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asthma
respiratory diseases

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human
mouse
Clara Akpan

Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Nigeria

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veterinary medicine
ruminants
animal health
treatment of animals
Joon-Yong An

Korea University, South Korea

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Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

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autism spectrum disorders
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Rozalyn M Anderson

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

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

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Cancer Biology

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genitourinary (GU) cancers
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Hossein Ardehali

University of Arizona, United States

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hexokinases
metabolism
cardiac biology
Audrey M Bernstein

State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States

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Cell Biology
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Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

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cornea
scarring
fibrosis
glaucoma
integrins
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José Biurrun Manresa

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

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Medicine
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nociceptive system
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Jonathan S Bogan

Yale School of Medicine, United States

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Medicine
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insulin
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Philip Boonstra

University of Michigan, United States

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University Medical Centre Utrecht, Netherlands

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ethics
Christoph Buettner

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, United States

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Hayriye Cagnan

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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brain stimulation
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Parkinson's disease
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Ernesto Canalis

UConn Health, United States

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Medicine
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osteoblasts
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notch
Jay J Cao

United States Department of Agriculture, United States

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bone metabolism
obesity
Marlon Cerf

South African Medical Research Council, South Africa

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Cell Biology
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diabetes
cardiovascular disease
SDGs
fetal programming
obesity
Hina W Chaudhry

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

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Medicine
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stem cell biology
regenerative biology
Di Chen

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China

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Medicine

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bone disease
Iacopo Chiodini

Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda, Italy

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Medicine

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adrenal gland
bone metabolism
osteoporosis
calcium metabolism
bone fragility
Jungmin Choi

Korea University College of Medicine, South Korea

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Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
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rare disorders
single cell genomics
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human genomics
Yali Cong

Peking University Health Science Center, China

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Medicine

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medical ethics
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Seth J Corey

Cleveland Clinic, United States

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Cancer Biology
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myeloid malignancies
inherited or acquired bone marrow failure
neutrophils
platelets zebrafish
cancer evolution
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Jennifer Cullen

Case Western Reserve University, United States

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Epidemiology and Global Health
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cancer population sciences
Ilse S Daehn

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

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Medicine
Cell Biology

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mitochondria
glomerular disease
podocyte
endothelial cells
reactive oxygen species
Alok Dhawan

Centre of Biomedical Research, India

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Medicine
Ecology

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molecular epidemiology
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Ana Domingos

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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Medicine
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metabolism
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autonomic nervous system
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Hannelore Ehrenreich

Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Germany

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Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
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human
Noriaki Emoto

Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan

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John Ewer

Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile

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Developmental Biology
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D. melanogaster
Alberto Falchetti

Istituto Auxologico Italiano , IRCCS, Italy

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Medicine

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metabolic bone disease
Paget's disease of bone
familial primary hyperparathyroidism
multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
Edward A Fisher

New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States

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Medicine
Cell Biology

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preventive cardiology
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atherosclerosis

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mouse
Jonathan Flint

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

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Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
genetics
genomics
psychiatric disorders
Zhongjie Fu

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

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Medicine

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retinal vasculature
retinopathy
adiponectin
Dipyaman Ganguly

Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, India

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Immunology and Inflammation
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Cell Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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cellular immunology
inflammation
dendritic cells
cell migration
endocytosis
autoimmune diseases
infectious diseases
Bo Gao

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

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Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Medicine

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planar cell polarity
scoliosis
skeletal disease
wnt signaling
Luigi Gennari

University of Siena, Italy

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Medicine

Research focus
metabolic bone disease
Paget's disease of bone
endocrinology
Gregory G Germino

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

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Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
nephrology
genetic renal disease
internal medicine
ciliopathies

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
human
Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis

Attikon University Hospital, Greece

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Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
sepsis
hidradenitis suppurativa
pathogenesis of infection
biomarkers
David Ginsburg

University of Michigan, United States

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hemostasis
thrombosis
protein secretion
human genetics
fibrinolysis

Experimental organism
human
mouse
zebrafish
Pablo A González

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

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Medicine
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
host-pathogen interactions
dendritic cells
T cells
herpesviruses
bacteria
immune evasion
viruses

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mouse
Yogesh K Gupta

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

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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
Aditi U Gurkar

University of Pittsburgh, United States

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Medicine
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Cell Biology

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aging
cellular senescence
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metabolism
cardiac disease and aging
Shozeb Haider

University College London, United Kingdom

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Medicine
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
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Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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X-ray crystallography
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allostery
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computational chemistry
nucleic acids
rare diseases
Sang Jun Han

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

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Medicine
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nuclear receptors
steroid receptor coactivator
endometriosis
female infertility
Gaiti Hasan

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

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Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
calcium signaling
motor function
regulation of gene expression
IP3R
STIM
Orai

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
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
Elizabeth P Henske

Brigham And Women's Hospital, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cancer Biology

Research focus
tuberous sclerosis complex
lymphangioleiomyomatosis
mTOR
prostate cancer
Kenneth Ho

Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia

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Medicine

Research focus
metabolism
sarcopenia
Patrick J Hu

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States

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Medicine
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
signal transduction
genetics
development
aging
cancer
endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis
dauer

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Bradley Hyman

Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

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Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
tau
alzheimer
neuropathology
Jameel Iqbal

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

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Medicine

Research focus
general pathology
blood banking
transfusion medicine
transplantation immunology
clinical pathology
Loydie A Jerome-Majewska

McGill University, Canada

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Developmental Biology
Cell Biology
Medicine
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
splicing
protein transport
neural crest cells

Experimental organism
mouse
Yaoting Ji

Wuhan University, China

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Medicine
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
osteoporosis
obesity
stem cell differentiation
aging
beiging
skeletal mineralization
bone resorption
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
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
Omowumi Kayode

Mountain Top University, Nigeria

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
biochemistry
nutrition
cancer
male sexual function
reproductive tissues
Dudley W Lamming

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

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Medicine
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
aging
physiology
dietary restriction
amino acids
diabetes
obesity
metabolism
protein

Experimental organism
mouse
Dan Larhammar

Uppsala University, Sweden

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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
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
Sihoon Lee

Gachon University College of Medicine, South Korea

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Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
endocrinology
hormones
parathyroid
bone metabolism
rare diseases
thyroid hormone metabolism
deiodinase
insulin resistance
Huihui Li

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

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Medicine
Cell Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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sickle cell disease
gut microbiota
iron
polycythemia vera
bacteria-induced organ damage

Experimental organism
mouse
Huiping Liu

Northwestern University, United States

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Medicine
Cancer Biology

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cancer stem cells
circulating tumor cells
exosome
cancer immunity
metastasis
breast cancer
Mengfei Liu

Yale University, United States

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Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
alcohol associated liver disease
alcohol associated hepatitis
liver endothelial cells
portal hypertension
liver epigenetics
liver immunology
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)
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
Daria Lizneva

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

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Medicine

Research focus
endocrinology
polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
Francesc Lopez-Giraldez

Yale University, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
bioinformatics
Mychael V Lourenco

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
Alzheimer's disease
synaptic plasticity
translational control
hormones
memory
neurodegeneration
biomarkers
Helen H Lu

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
bioengineering
biomechanics
orthopaedics
tissue engineering
Arduino A Mangoni

Flinders Medical Centre, Australia

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Medicine

Research focus
pharmacology
drug safety
metabolomics
biomarkers
drug discovery
hypertension
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
Gherardo Mazziotti

Humanitas University of Milan, Italy

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Medicine

Research focus
endocrinology
pituitary disease
growth hormone
thyroid
FSH
thyroid diseases
secondary osteoporosis
insulin-like growth factor-1
ACTH
cortisol
prolactin
TSH
PTH
Pramod Mistry

Yale University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
lysosomal diseases
Gaucher disease
metabolic liver diseases
genomics of liver disease
sphingolipids and inflammation
Salem Y Mohamed

Zagazig University, Egypt

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
advanced endoscopy
cell biology
cancer
inflammation
genetics
basic medicine
Subburaman Mohan

Loma Linda University, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

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

Experimental organism
human
Zsolt Molnár

CytoSorbents Europe GmbH, Germany
University of Pécs, Hungary

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Medicine

Research focus
sepsis
septic shock
hemodynamic monitoring
fluid therapy
extracorporeal cytokine removal
Tomohiro Morio

Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan

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Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
primary immunodeficiency
pediatrics
cell therapy
monogenic disorder
iPS cells
Roberto Motterlini

INSERM U955, University Paris Est, France

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Medicine

Research focus
cardiovascular disease
metabolism
pharmacology
inflammation
oxidative stress
heme oxygenase
carbon monoxide
Shiny Nair

Yale University, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Immunology and Inflammation
Cancer Biology

Research focus
immunology
neurodegeneration
NKT cells
mycobacterium
lysosomal storage disorder
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
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
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
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
Belinda Nicolau

McGill University, Canada

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
cancer epidemiology
social determinants of health
Jeremie Nsengimana

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
statistics
genomics
cancer
precision medicine
biomarkers
Izuchukwu Okafor

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Developmental Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
developmental biology
reproductive biology
gene expression
molecular biology
public health
reproductive health
medical education
anatomical sciences
neuroreproduction
Jihwan Park

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Medicine

Research focus
single cell analysis
kidney disease
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
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
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
Markus Ploner

Technische Universität München, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
pain
brain
oscillations
synchrony
electroencephalography (EEG)

Experimental organism
human
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
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
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
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
Gian Paolo Rossi

University of Padua, Italy

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
arterial hypertension
vascular biology
cardiology
cardiovascular medicine
endocrinology

Experimental organism
human
Mishaela R Rubin

Columbia University Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
diabetes
parathyroid
osteoporosis
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
Juan C Sáez

Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
connexin
pannexin
innexin
neuroinflammation
neuromuscular diseases
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
Charles Sawyers

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Medicine

Research focus
translational medicine
oncology

Experimental organism
human
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
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
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
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
Sakae Tanaka

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
bone
osteoporosis
osteoclast
osteoarthritis
rheumatoid arthritis
orthopaedics
Aseem Prakash Tikku

King George's Medical University, India

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
dentistry
endodontics
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
Tracey L Weissgerber

University of Coimbra, Portugal

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
data visualization
statistical analysis
reproducibility
meta-research
open and reproducible methods
systematic review
scientific rigor
transparency
automated screening
Yongliang Yang

Dalian University of Technology, China

Expertise
Medicine
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
bioinformatics
computational biology
drug discovery
artificial intelligence
Yunlei Yang

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
glia
neural circuits
anxiety
diabetes
obesity
neuron
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
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
Samir Zaidi

Yale School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Medicine

Research focus
genetically engineered mouse models
computational genomics
single cell genomics
organoids
drug resistance
cancer cell plasticity
Mark L Zeidel

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
kidney disease
bladder disease
Anja Zeigerer

Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
type 2 diabetes
membrane trafficking
mitochondria
cellular and systemic metabolism
liver physiology
MASLD
endo-lysosomal system
Baohong Zhao

Hospital for Special Surgery, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
osteoclast
osteoimmunology
bone
TNF

Experimental organism
mouse
Siming Zhao

Dartmouth College, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
statistical genetics
genomics
human genetics
sequencing data
Weibin Zhou

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Medicine

Research focus
disease models
kidney
transgenic

Experimental organism
zebrafish
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
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