Editors for Medicine

Senior editors

1. 

   Ricardo Azziz

   University at Albany, SUNY, United States
   University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

   Ricardo Azziz, MD, MPH, MBA is an educator-scientist-executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in higher education, research, and academic health, who serves as Chief Science & Strategy Officer, and EVP for Operations, Strategy, and Scientific Affairs at The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He served as Chief Officer of Academic Health & Hospital Affairs of the State University of New York (SUNY) System Administration, as founding President of Georgia Regents University (now Augusta University), as founding CEO of the Georgia Regents Health System (now Augusta University Health System), and as president of the Georgia Health Sciences University. He also served as Deputy Director of the Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute and as Assistant Dean for Clinical and Translational Sciences at UCLA, as Director of the Center for Androgen-Related Disorders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and as founder and Executive Director/Senior Executive Director of the Androgen Excess & PCOS Society.
   
   

   Among other national and international advisory capacities, he has served on multiple NIH committees, chaired the U.S. FDA Advisory Board on Reproductive Health Drugs, and served on the oversight committee for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He has received, among other recognitions, the 2000 President's Achievement Award of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation; elected member of the Association of American Physicians; and is recipient of the 2014 Alumni Fellow Award of the Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association.
   
   

   He serves on the faculties of the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY and the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Research focus

   reproductive health

   reproductive biology

   reproductive endocrinology

   gynecology

   ob-gyn

   women's health

   polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

   hirsutism

   androgen excess

   adrenal hyperplasia

   health policy

   public health

   social determinants of health

   healthcare organization

   Experimental organism

   human

   Competing interests statement

   Ricardo Azziz is a consultant for Spruce Biosciences and Fortress Biotech, and holds stocks at Martin Imaging.

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. 

   Arturo Casadevall

   Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States

   Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Chair of the W Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He obtained his BA in Chemistry at Queens College of the City University of New York. Previously, he served as Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for Einstein, from 2000–2006 and as Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology from 2006–2014.

   Dr Casadevall received both his MD and PhD (biochemistry) degrees from New York University. Subsequently, he completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York. He then completed subspecialty training in infectious diseases at Montefiore and Einstein. The author of over 700 scientific papers, numerous books and book chapters, Dr Casadevall’s major research interests are in fungal pathogenesis and the mechanisms of antibody action. In the area of biodefense, he has an active research program to understand the mechanisms of antibody–mediated neutralization of Bacillus anthracis toxins.

   In recent years, Dr Casadevall has become interested in problems with the scientific enterprise and with his collaborators shown that misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted publications. He has suggested a variety of reforms to the way science is done. Dr Casadevall is the editor–in–chief of mBio, the first open access general journal of the American Society of Microbiology, and is on the editorial board of several journals including the Journal of Infectious Diseases and the Cell Surface.

   He has also served in numerous NIH committees including those that drafted the NIAID Strategic Plan and the Blue Ribbon Panel on Biodefense Research. He served on the National Academy of Sciences panel that reviewed the science on the FBI investigation of the anthrax terror attacks of 2001 and has served on the NAS Committee of Federal Regulations and Reporting requirements. He has also served as a member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity from 2005–2014. In 2008, he was recognized by the American Society of Microbiology with the William Hinton Award for mentoring scientists from underrepresented groups. In 2015, Dr Casadevall was appointed a Commissioner to the National Commission on Forensic Science, the United States Department of Justice. He has served as President of the Medical Mycology Society of America, Chair of American Society for Microbiology Division F, Chair of the American Society for Microbiology Career Development Committee, Co–Chair of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Board of Scientific Counselors, and currently serves on the Scientific Council/Advisory Board for the Pasteur Institut and VIB Research Institute in Belgium. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, American College of Physicians and the Association of American Physicians, and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology. In 2014, he became an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and in 2017, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

   Expertise

   Immunology and Inflammation

   Medicine

   Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Research focus

   molecular microbiology and immunology

   pathogenic microbes

   cryptococcosis

   anthrax

   mycobacterium tuberculosis

   vaccines

   Experimental organism

   Cryptococcus neoformans

   Bacillus anthracis

   Competing interests statement

   Arturo Casadevall is Editor in Chief of mBio (until 2025), and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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. 

    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).

11. 

    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.

12. 

    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 sentinel 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.

13. 

    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.

14. 

    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.

15. 

    Y M Dennis Lo

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

    Dennis Lo is the Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine and Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his BA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge and his Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Oxford. He discovered the presence of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma in 1997. He has since translated this finding into a platform for noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT). He has also made concurrent discoveries and inventions in the liquid biopsies of cancer. In recognition of his work, he has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK), Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences and a founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2021).

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    molecular diagnostics

    prenatal diagnosis

    biomarkers in oncology

    clinical genomics

    noninvasive prenatal testing

    cancer screening with liquid biopsy

    Experimental organism

    human

    mouse

    Competing interests statement

    Research funding from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Innovation and Technology Commission and Li Ka Shing Foundation. Trustee of the Croucher Foundation. Commercial relationships including licensing, equity or consultancy: Grail, Illumina, Sequenom, Xcelom, DRA, Take2 and Decheng Capital. Associate editorship of journals: Clinical Chemistry, npj Genomic Medicine. Memberships of journal editorial boards: Journal of Pathology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Journal of Genomes and Exomes, Disease Markers and Marrow.

16. 

    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).

17. 

    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.

18. 

    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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19. 

    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.

20. 

    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.

21. 

    Gary Westbrook

    Vollum Institute, United States

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

    Expertise

    Neuroscience

    Medicine

    Research focus

    synaptic transmission

    synaptic plasticity

    ligand-gated ion channels

    hippocampus

    olfactory bulb

    epilepsy

    in vitro physiology

    activity-dependent gene expression

    Experimental organism

    mouse

    Competing interests statement

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

22. 

    Richard M White

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States

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

    Expertise

    Cancer Biology

    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.

23. 

    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.

24. 

    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. Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell

   University of Colorado, United States

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Genetics and Genomics

   Research focus

   bone

   bone biology

   genetics

   musculoskeletal

   aging

   Experimental organism

   mouse

   rat

3. Anurag Agrawal

   CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Research focus

   asthma

   respiratory diseases

   Experimental organism

   human

   mouse

4. Olujimi A Ajijola

   University of California, Los Angeles, United States

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Research focus

   cardiovascular

   neurobiology

   sympathetic nerves

   ventricular arrhythmias

   RNA sequencing

5. David B Allison

   Indiana University, United States

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Genetics and Genomics

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Computational and Systems Biology

   Evolutionary Biology

   Research focus

   experimental design

   statistics

   longevity

   biostatistics

   obesity

   nutrition

   senescence

   research rigour

   science integrity

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Mohammad Athar

   University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

   Expertise

   Medicine

   Research focus

   dermatology

   skin diseases

   skin biochemistry

   skin cancer

10. Narayan Avadhani

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    Expertise

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Medicine

    Research focus

    mitochondrial genetics

11. 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

12. Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam

    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

13. 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

14. Jonathan S Bogan

    Yale School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    insulin

    protein trafficking

    metabolism

    type 2 diabetes

15. 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

16. 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

17. Annelien Bredenoord

    University Medical Centre Utrecht, Netherlands

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    bioethics

    medical ethics

    ethics

18. Christoph Buettner

    Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    metabolism

    diabetes

19. Christopher Cardozo

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    spinal cord injury

    muscle biology

    sarcopenia

    muscle physiology

    Experimental organism

    mouse

    rat

20. Dirce M Carraro

    AC Camargo Cancer Center, Brazil

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    oncology

    cancer genomics

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. 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

24. Di Chen

    Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    bone disease

25. 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

26. Murim Choi

    Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea

    Expertise

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    rare diseases

    neurodevelopmental disorders

    functional characterization of genetic variants

    bioinformatics

    Mendelian genetics

27. 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

28. Yali Cong

    Peking University Health Science Center, China

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    medical ethics

    bioethics

29. 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

30. 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

31. Jennifer Cullen

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    Expertise

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cancer population sciences

32. 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

33. Emek Demir

    Oregon Health and Science University, United States

    Expertise

    Cancer Biology

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    proteomics

34. Rajan Dighe

    Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    reproductive endocrinology

35. Ana Domingos

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    metabolism

    obesity

    neuroimmunity

    autonomic nervous system

    eating behaviour

    inflammation

36. 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

37. Joel K Elmquist

    UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

    Expertise

    Neuroscience

    Medicine

    Genetics and Genomics

    Research focus

    metabolism

    obesity

    diabetes

    hypothalamus

    feeding

    autonomic

    exercise

    Experimental organism

    mouse

    D. melanogaster

38. Noriaki Emoto

    Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cardiology

    pulmonary hypertension

    endothelin

    pharmacology

    vascular biology

39. 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

40. Elana J Fertig

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    bioinformatics

    genomics

41. Stacey D Finley

    University of Southern California, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    mathematical modeling

    multiscale models

    biochemical signal transduction networks

42. 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

43. Jonathan Flint

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    Expertise

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    genetics

    genomics

    psychiatric disorders

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. Joseph G Gleeson

    The Rockefeller University, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Developmental Biology

    Research focus

    neurodevelopmental disease

    brain development

    neurogenetics

    autism

    epilepsy

    intellectual disability

    organoid

    stem cells

    genomics

    bioinformatics

    Experimental organism

    human

    mouse

49. Michael R Green

    University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States

    Expertise

    Cancer Biology

    Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Medicine

    Research focus

    transcription

    pre-mRNA splicing

    cancer molecular biology

    oncology

    genetics

    functional genomics

    Experimental organism

    human

    mouse

    S. cerevisiae

50. Timothy D Griffiths

    Newcastle University, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Neuroscience

    Medicine

    Research focus

    auditory

    cognition

    neurology

    imaging

    Experimental organism

    human

    macaque

51. 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

52. 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

53. William C Hahn

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States

    Expertise

    Cancer Biology

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cancer

    transformation

    functional genomics

    RAS

    YAP1

    Experimental organism

    human

54. 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

55. Sang Jun Han

    Baylor College of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cell Biology

    Research focus

    nuclear receptors

    steroid receptor coactivator

    endometriosis

    female infertility

56. 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

57. Elizabeth P Henske

    Brigham And Women's Hospital, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    tuberous sclerosis complex

    lymphangioleiomyomatosis

    mTOR

    prostate cancer

58. 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

59. Christopher L-H Huang

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cardiac arrhythmias

    atrial fibrillation

    skeletal muscle

    electrophysiology

    ion channels

    action potential propagation

    genetically modified mice

    patch clamping

    Experimental organism

    mouse

60. 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

61. Edward D Janus

    University of Melbourne, Australia

    Expertise

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cardiovascular disease

    diabetes

    prevention

    chronic diseases

    clinical guidelines

62. 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

63. 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

64. Simon C Johnson

    Seattle Children's Research Institute, United States

    Expertise

    Cell Biology

    Medicine

    Developmental Biology

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    mitochondria

    neurodegenerative disease

    aging

    pediatric disease

    genetic disease

    mTOR

    cell culture

    Experimental organism

    mouse

    C. elegans

65. Gerard Karsenty

    Columbia University, United States

    Expertise

    Genetics and Genomics

    Medicine

    Research focus

    endocrinology

    bone biology

    physiology

    bone endocrinology

66. 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

67. 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

68. Smita Krishnaswamy

    Yale School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    bioinformatics

    computational genomics

    immunology

    immunotherapy

    cancer

    neuroscience

    developmental biology

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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

72. Gabriel M Leung

    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

    Expertise

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Medicine

    Research focus

    infectious disease epidemiology

    emerging infections

    population health in China and East Asia

73. 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

74. Yi-Ping Li

    Tulane University, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    orthopaedics

    surgery

    remodeling

    dental/craniofacial defects

75. 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

76. Nianjun Liu

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    biostatistics

    applied statistics

    computational methods

    human health and diseases

77. Helen H Lu

    Columbia University, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Research focus

    bioengineering

    biomechanics

    orthopaedics

    tissue engineering

78. Andrew MacPherson

    University of Bern, Switzerland

    Expertise

    Immunology and Inflammation

    Medicine

    Research focus

    mucosal immunity

    function of IgA

    mechanisms of host-microbial mutualism

79. 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

80. Arduino A Mangoni

    Flinders Medical Centre, Australia

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    pharmacology

    drug safety

    metabolomics

    biomarkers

    drug discovery

    hypertension

81. 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

82. 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

83. Rui Medeiros

    Instituto Português de Oncologia-Porto, Portugal

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    oncology

    molecular oncology

    viral pathology

84. 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

85. Pramod Mistry

    Yale School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    hepatology

    lysosomal storage diseases

    metabolic disorders

    endocrinology

86. 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

87. Zsolt Molnár

    CytoSorbents Europe GmbH, Germany
    University of Pécs, Hungary

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    sepsis

    septic shock

    hemodynamic monitoring

    fluid therapy

    extracorporeal cytokine removal

88. Tomohiro Morio

    Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan

    Expertise

    Immunology and Inflammation

    Medicine

    Research focus

    primary immunodeficiency

    pediatrics

    cell therapy

    monogenic disorder

    iPS cells

89. Roberto Motterlini

    INSERM U955, University Paris Est, France

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    CO-releasing molecules

90. 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

91. 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

92. 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

93. Tony Ng

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    imaging

    biomarkers

    trial

    immune

    cancer

    reverse translation

    exosome

    organoid

    tumour microenvironment

94. Belinda Nicolau

    McGill University, Canada

    Expertise

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Medicine

    Research focus

    cancer epidemiology

    social determinants of health

95. Ole Haagen Nielsen

    Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    gastroenterology (especially inflammatory bowel disease)

    internal medicine

96. Jeremie Nsengimana

    Newcastle University, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Research focus

    statistics

    genomics

    cancer

    precision medicine

    biomarkers

97. Renata Pasqualini

    Rutgers University, United States

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Cancer Biology

    Research focus

    radiation oncology

    translational cancer research

    prostate cancer

    vascular biology

98. David J Paterson

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    autonomic neuroscience

    physiology

    cardiac arrhythmias

    hypertension

    chemoreception

    gene therapy

99. Julian Paton

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

    Expertise

    Medicine

    Neuroscience

    Research focus

    autonomic neuroscience

    translational physiology

100. Markus Ploner

     Technische Universität München, Germany

     Expertise

     Neuroscience

     Medicine

     Research focus

     pain

     brain

     oscillations

     synchrony

     electroencephalography (EEG)

     Experimental organism

     human

101. 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

102. 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

103. 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

104. 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

105. 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

106. Albert Rizvanov

     Kazan Federal University, Russia

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     stem cells

107. 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

108. Antony Rosen

     Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     autoimmunity

     autoimmune disease

     rheumatic

     autoantibodies

     granzyme

109. Gian Paolo Rossi

     University of Padua, Italy

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     arterial hypertension

     vascular biology

     cardiology

     cardiovascular medicine

     endocrinology

     Experimental organism

     human

110. Maroeska M Rovers

     Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     evidence-based surgery

     clinical epidemiology

     health economics

     IPD meta-analysis

111. Mishaela R Rubin

     Columbia University Medical Center, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     diabetes

     parathyroid

     osteoporosis

112. Juan C Sáez

     Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

     Expertise

     Neuroscience

     Cell Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     connexin

     pannexin

     innexin

     neuroinflammation

     neuromuscular diseases

113. Fayez Safadi

     Northeast Ohio Medical University, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

     Research focus

     biomechanics

114. Tamer I Sallam

     University of California, Los Angeles, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     cardiology

115. Charles Sawyers

     Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, United States

     Expertise

     Cancer Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     translational medicine

     oncology

     Experimental organism

     human

116. 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

117. Ernestina Schipani

     University of Pennsylvania, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

     Cell Biology

     Developmental Biology

     Cancer Biology

     Research focus

     hypoxia

     hypoxia-inducible factors

     mitochondria

     skeleton

     chondrocytes

     bone

     G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)

118. Nicolas Schlecht

     Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, United States

     Expertise

     Epidemiology and Global Health

     Medicine

     Research focus

     cancer prevention

     cancer control

119. Nima Sharifi

     Cleveland Clinic, United States

     Expertise

     Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

     Cancer Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     steroid biochemistry

     steroid metabolism

     prostate cancer

     nuclear receptors

     hormone therapy resistance

     androgens

     oncology

     Experimental organism

     mouse

120. Kalyanam Shivkumar

     UCLA Health, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     electrophysiology

     neurocardiology

     cardiology

     neural control

     sudden death

     Experimental organism

     human

     mouse

121. 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

122. 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

123. 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

124. Lois Smith

     Harvard Medical School, United States

     Expertise

     Developmental Biology

     Medicine

     Neuroscience

     Research focus

     age-related macular degeneration

     diabetic eye disease

     retinopathy

     ocular disease

     Experimental organism

     mouse

125. Jonathan S Stamler

     Case Western Reserve University, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     S-nitrosylation

126. 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

127. 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

128. Hiroshi Takayanagi

     The University of Tokyo, Japan

     Expertise

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Medicine

     Research focus

     arthritis

     osteoporosis

     immune tolerance

     osteoimmunology

     autoimmunity

     fibroblast

     osteoclast

     T cells

129. 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

130. Sakae Tanaka

     The University of Tokyo, Japan

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     bone

     osteoporosis

     osteoclast

     osteoarthritis

     rheumatoid arthritis

     orthopaedics

131. 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

132. 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

133. Carmen D Tekwe

     Indiana University Bloomington, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     biostatistics

     dietary intake

     physical activity behavior

134. 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

135. Ritu Trivedi

     CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, India

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     drug development

     animal models of endocrine diseases

136. Samra Turajlic

     The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cancer Biology

     Research focus

     medical oncology

     cancer genetics

     tumour heterogeneity

     melanoma

     kidney cancer

     Experimental organism

     human

137. Farah Usmani

     United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     health policy

     reproductive health

     reproductive rights

138. Frank van de Veerdonk

     Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands

     Expertise

     Immunology and Inflammation

     Microbiology and Infectious Disease

     Medicine

     Research focus

     medical mycology

     clinical immunology

139. Gaël Varoquaux

     INRIA, France

     Expertise

     Computational and Systems Biology

     Neuroscience

     Epidemiology and Global Health

     Medicine

     Research focus

     machine learning

     statistics

     brain imaging

     electronic health records

     predictive models

     Experimental organism

     human

140. 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

141. 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

142. Paul M Wassarman

     Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Cell Biology

     Developmental Biology

     Research focus

     oogenesis

     fertilization

     zona pellucida

     fertility

     Experimental organism

     mouse

143. Christopher S Williams

     Vanderbilt University, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     gastroenterology

     GI track cancer

     murine

     inflammatory bowel disease

144. Wei Yan

     University of California, Los Angeles, United States

     Expertise

     Developmental Biology

     Genetics and Genomics

     Medicine

     Research focus

     fertility

     germ cells

     reproduction

     epigenetic inheritance

     epigenomics

     noncoding RNAs

     post-transcriptional regulation

145. 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

146. Tony Yuen

     Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     genetics of rare diseases

     prenatal diagnosis

147. Mark L Zeidel

     Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     kidney disease

     bladder disease

148. Baohong Zhao

     Hospital for Special Surgery, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     inflammation

     musculoskeletal

149. Siming Zhao

     Dartmouth College, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Computational and Systems Biology

     Genetics and Genomics

     Research focus

     statistical genetics

     genomics

     human genetics

     sequencing data

150. 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

151. 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

152. Bian Zhuan

     Wuhan University, China

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Genetics and Genomics

     Research focus

     craniofacial genetics

     oral and craniofacial developmental defects

     orofacial clefts

     tooth agenesis

153. Roger S Zoh

     Indiana University Bloomington, United States

     Expertise

     Medicine

     Research focus

     Bayesian statistical methods

154. Wilbert Zwart

     Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands

     Expertise

     Cancer Biology

     Medicine

     Research focus

     breast cancer

     prostate cancer

     hormonal regulation

     epigenetics

     transcription factors

     genomic profiling

     Experimental organism

     human