Editors for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Senior editors
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Sofia J Araújo
University of Barcelona, Spain
Sofia J Araújo is Associate Professor in Genetics, at the Department of Genetics Microbiology and Statistics, University of Barcelona, where she leads the genetics of cell behaviour research group. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of London and did postdoctoral training at King’s College London and IBMB-CSIC in Barcelona. Her research at the University of Barcelona is centered in cell migration and branching morphogenesis, with the aim of understanding how branched organs develop and contribute to living organism homeostasis as well as the ageing process. She is currently head of the Genetics section of the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, and board member of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology. She also holds a Diploma in Science Communication from Birkbeck College, London, and has extensive experience in teaching, communication, and training of scientists on better ways of bringing science to the public.
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neurodevelopment
- DNA repair
- single-cell branching
- cell migration
- tubulogenesis
- organogenesis
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- Competing interests statement
- Sofia J Araújo's research is currently funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR).
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Utpal Banerjee
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Utpal Banerjee is the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine. He also serves as Co-Director of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and as Director of the UCLA Interdepartmental Minor in Biomedical Research. He is a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and is affiliated with the Brain Research Institute and the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
Banerjee’s laboratory has worked on several oncogenic and metabolic signals that are important in development and disease. The lab studies the effects of systemic signals on the maintenance of blood progenitors in Drosophila, and the role of metabolic pathways in the control of proliferation and differentiation in the preimplantation mouse embryo.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- haematopoiesis
- cancer biology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
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Lynne-Marie Postovit
University of Alberta, Canada
Dr Lynne-Marie Postovit is a Professor and Head of the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences (DBMS) at Queen’s University. Prior to this she held several endowed chairs in Cancer Research at the University of Alberta. Overall, Dr Postovit’s work has yielded many fundamental discoveries, leading to highly cited papers as well as putative clinical applications. As examples, she is recognized for her work related to the role of NODAL, a stem-cell associated protein, in cancer progression, as well as significant contributions related to extracellular matrices, the role of hypoxia in cancer progression and more recently the role of mRNA translation in cancer cell plasticity. Her discoveries have also provided the foundations for three patents. While focused on fundamental biology related to cancer cell plasticity, Dr Postovit’s research has often been translated to the clinic, for the benefit of patients.
Exemplifying her stature in the field, Dr Postovit has served on the editorial boards of journals and has presented her work at international conferences and institutions around the globe. Dr Postovit’s achievements have also been recognized by invitations to participate on scientific advisory boards, adjudication panels, and planning committees. For instance, she was a member of the Standing Committee on Research Excellence [Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI)], the Scientific Advisory Board for the Cancer Research Society, the AACR Regional Advisory Subcommittee of Canada, and the Medical Review panel (Gairdner Foundation). These boards decided the outcomes of some of the most prestigious awards and grants related to cancer research. Dr Postovit has also received several awards and accolades: For example, she was the top ranked New Investigator at the CIHR (2009) and in 2016, was nominated to the college of the Royal Society of Canada.
Importantly, Dr Postovit has been a dedicated advocate for the research enterprise at large. She was a founding co-director of the Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta, wherein she built educational programming and organizational structures to support translational cancer research. More recently she has been building core research capacities at Queen’s, obtaining funds from sources such as the Transformative Educational Research Fund, to establish team based experiential learning opportunities in the health sciences and to ensure equitable access to research infrastructure.
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cellular plasticity
- tumour microenvironment
- hypoxia
- stem cells
- metastasis
- ovarian cancer
- breast cancer
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Postovit holds funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Cancer Research Society, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.
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Lori Sussel
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
Lori Sussel is a Professor of Pediatrics and Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center. She also serves as Director of the Research Division at Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes. She received her BA in Microbiology at the University of Texas, Austin and her PhD in Molecular Biology from Columbia University where she investigated transcriptional regulation in yeast. She pursued postdoctoral studies first with Dr. Barbara Meyer (UC Berkeley) and then Dr. John Rubenstein (UC San Francisco) where applied her interests in transcriptional regulation of cell fates to developmental processes. During her postdoctoral studies, she was funded by a Life Science Research Fellowship, a NIH F32 fellowship and the A.P Giannini Foundation. She began her independent career at the University of Colorado where she initiated her studies on the transcriptional regulation of pancreatic islet cell fates. In 2006, she moved to the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University where she continued to investigate pancreas development and islet biology, expanding her interests in transcriptional regulation to roles of long non-coding RNAs and RNA processing. In 2016, she returned to the University of Colorado to become the Director of Basic and Translational Research at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes. Her research continues to focus on pancreas development and islet biology using mice and human stem cell platforms to understand the molecular underpinnings of the islet dysfunctions associated with diabetes. In this position, she holds the Sissel and Findlow Family Chair in Stem Cell Biology.
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- pancreas development
- islet biology
- transcriptional regulation
- long non-coding RNAs
- diabetes
- developmental genetics
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human cells
- Competing interests statement
- Lori Sussel has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In addition to being a Senior Editor for eLife, she currently serves as an Associate Editor for Science Advances, and is on the editorial board of Developmental Biology and Life Science Alliance. She previously served as an Associate Editor for Diabetes and Pediatric Diabetes and was on the editorial board of Molecular Metabolism.
Reviewing editors
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Cynthia L Andoniadou
King's College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cells
- endocrine
- pituitary gland
- adrenal gland
- paracrine signalling
- tumours
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Erika A Bach
New York University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cell self-renewal
- stem cell differentiation
- cell competition
- stem cell competition
- transdifferentiation
- stem cell aging
- sex determination
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam
ICMR Emeritus Scientist, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- disease biology
- diabetes
- aging
- omnics
- calcium signaling
- endocrine disruptors
- probiotics
- molecular medicine
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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
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Anita Bhattacharyya
University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neural development
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- neurogenesis
- iPSCs
- Down syndrome
- intellectual disability
- Experimental organism
- human
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Joshua Brickman
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology (DanStem), Denmark
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- embryonic stem cells
- endoderm
- pluripotency
- lineage priming
- transcription factors
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- Xenopus
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Marion Brunck
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- immunology
- neutrophils
- breastmilk immunity
- flow cytometry
- biotechnology
- synthetic biology
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Caroline E Burns
Boston Children's Hospital, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cardiopharyngeal
- cardiovascular disease modeling
- cardiac development
- cardiac function
- cardiovascular regeneration
- cardiomyocyte proliferation
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Michael Buszczak
UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cells
- germ cells
- ribosomes
- mRNA translation
- chromatin
- DNA damage
- meiosis
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
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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
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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
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Graziana Colaianni
University of Bari, Italy
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- bone
- osteoporosis
- muscle
- sarcopenia
- cartilage
- muscle atrophy
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
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Yunlu Dai
University of Macau, Macao SAR China
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cancer immunotherapy
- drug delivery
- biomaterials
- ferroptosis
- breast cancer
- cancer
- metal ions
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Danelle Devenport
Princeton University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cell polarity
- planar cell polarity
- epidermis
- skin
- oriented cell divisions
- morphogenesis
- epithelia
- Experimental organism
- mammals
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Kevin Eade
Lowy Medical Research Institute, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- developmental biology
- developmental neurobiology
- organoids
- retina
- metabolism
- directed differentiation
- disease modeling
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Lydia W S Finley
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cell metabolism
- cancer
- stem cells
- cell fate
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Elaine Fuchs
Rockefeller University, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- skin stem cells
- stem cells
- tissue morphogenesis
- epithelial polarity
- transcriptional regulation during development
- cytoskeletal dynamics and adhesion
- epithelial cancers
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Florent Ginhoux
Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- dendritic cells
- monocytes
- macrophages
- development
- hematopoiesis
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Rebekah L. Gundry
University of Nebraska Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- mass spectrometry
- cell surface glycoproteins
- proteomics
- glycomics
- heart failure
- stem cell derived cardiomyocytes
- biomarkers
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Valerie Horsley
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- epithelial stem cells
- adipocyte stem cells
- adipose tissue
- epithelial-mesenchymal interactions
- mechanical regulation of tissues
- tissue regeneration
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Maneesha S Inamdar
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- pluripotent stem cells
- hematopoiesis
- vascular
- organelles
- mitochondria
- vesicular trafficking
- cytoskeleton
- protein sorting
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Yaoting Ji
Wuhan University, China
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- osteoporosis
- obesity
- stem cell differentiation
- aging
- beiging
- skeletal mineralization
- bone resorption
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Carole LaBonne
Northwestern University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neural crest
- stem cells
- Experimental organism
- Xenopus
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Rauf Latif
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- metabolic syndrome
- thyroid
- GPCRs
- glycoprotein hormone receptors
- TSH receptor
- thyroid hormones
- receptor oligomerization
- post translational modification of receptors
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Beate Lichtenberger
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs)
- fibroblast-mediated skin pathologies
- skin cancer
- stem cell fate decisions
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Cristina Lo Celso
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- hematopoietic stem cell function
- intravital microscopy
- hematopoietic system
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Falong Lu
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- epigenetics
- RNA modifications
- imprinting
- stem cells
- reprogramming
- poly(A) tail
- early embryo
- chromatin modifications
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
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Helen H Lu
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- bioengineering
- biomechanics
- orthopaedics
- tissue engineering
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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
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Yuji Mishina
University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- craniofacial development
- neural crest
- osteoblasts
- osteoclasts
- growth factor signaling
- cartilage development
- cell fate specification
- skeletogenesis
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Roel Nusse
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- wnt signaling
- stem cells
- tissue repair
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Elke Ober
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- liver development
- regeneration
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Martin Pera
University of Melbourne, Australia
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- embryonic stem cells
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- regenerative medicine
- tissue stem cells
- pluripotent stem cell
- Experimental organism
- human
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Milica Radisic
University of Toronto, Canada
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- organ-on-a-chip
- organoid
- tissue engineering
- microfluidics
- biomaterials
- heart
- cardiomyocyte
- Experimental organism
- human
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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
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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
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Jeremy Reiter
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cilia
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Lee L Rubin
Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- spinal muscular atrophy
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- huntington's disease
- reprogramming
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Natalia Rubinstein
University of Buenos Aires-CONICET, Argentina
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- breast cancer tumor cell
- molecular biology
- drug resistance
- tumor immunology
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Fayez Safadi
Northeast Ohio Medical University, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- biomechanics
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Sonia Sen
Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neural stem cells
- neural circuits
- evo-devo
- Drosophila
- mosquito
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Jie Shen
Washington University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- osteoarthritis
- inflammation
- stem cells
- fracture
- chondrocytes
- epigenetics
- metabolism
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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N. Ravi Sundaresan
Indian Institute of Science, India
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Medicine
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- reversable acetylation
- ADP-ribosylation
- cellular senescence and aging
- sirtuins
- cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases
- fibrosis
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- rat
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Owen Tamplin
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- hematopoeitic stem cells
- microenvironment
- zebrafish
- blood development
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Ivan Velasco
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- embryonic stem cells
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- neural stem cells
- CNS development
- Parkinson's disease
- animal models of neurological diseases
- cell grafting
- axonal guidance
- regeneration
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cardiac and bone regeneration
- tissue engineering
- in vitro models of development and disease
- biophysical regulation of stem cells
- Experimental organism
- human
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Jian Xu
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- hematopoiesis
- erythropoiesis
- myeloid leukemia
- epigenetics
- transcription regulation
- enhancer
- metabolism
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Yukiko M Yamashita
HHMI, University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cell niche
- asymmetric cell division
- satellite DNA
- germline immortality
- ribosomal DNA
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Norma Ybarra
Research Institute McGill University Health Center, Canada
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- radiation biology
- radiotherapy
- cancer cell metabolism
- cancer therapies
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Yi Arial Zeng
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- tissue stem cells
- organoids
- wnt signaling
- mammary development
- hormone
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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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
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Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker
University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- developmental immunology
- thymus
- T cell development
- notch signaling
- lymphopoiesis
- preTCR signaling
- gamma/delta T cell differentiation
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
