Editorial Board

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Li Jin

[email protected]

State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: genetics and genetic epidemiology, human population genetics and genomics, computational biology.

Editor-in-Chief

Sanjay Gupta

[email protected]

Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Research Interests: urologic oncology, translational and clinical areas, prostatic and bladder diseases, biomarkers, synthetic and natural agents.

Section Editor

Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Corrado Italo Angelini

Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Padua, Veneto, Italy.

Research Interests: neuroscience, PCR, DNA, DMD, next generation sequencing, myasthenia gravis, congenital muscle diseases, lipid metabolism, muscle atrophy, sarcopenia.

Bing Yao

Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Research Interests: epigenetic regulation, covalent DNA and RNA, molecular biology, biochemistry, central nervous system.

Cancer Biology and Oncology

Junjiang Fu

The Research Center for Preclinical Medicine, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China.

Research Interests: medical genetics, epigenetics, cancer biology, forensic genetics, reproductive genetics.

Yifang Ping

Institute of Pathology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China.

Research Interests: brain tumors, pathology-assisted diagnosis, imaging, omics, clinical information integration, intelligent diagnostic systems.

Lei Song

Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.

Research Interests: bacterial infection and host immunity, respiratory diseases, non-coding RNA.

Genetics and Molecular Genomics

Giuseppe Novelli

Lab. Medical Genetics, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: molecular genetics, human genetics, genomics, cancer, rare diseases, laminopathies, cardiovascular research, non-communicable diseases, pharmacogenetics, genetic testing.

Houfeng Zheng

Suzhou Laboratory of Precision Health and Data Science, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: genetics of complex diseases and traits (osteoporosis, bone mineral density, vitamin D, sarcopenia, obesity), gut microbiome, population genetics.

Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases

Ralf Weiskirchen

Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.

Research Interests: PDGF/TGF-β, fibrosis therapy, LIM proteins, fibrosis gene test, adenoviral expression.

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Frank Staal

Department of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Research Interests: stem cell biology, immunology, T cell development, gene therapy, Wnt signaling.

Genetic Counseling, Screening and Diagnosis

Yiping Shen

Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Research Interests: genetic counseling, CNV, human molecular genetics, molecular biology, genetics, translational medicine, genomics.

Bioinformatics and Multi-omics Technology

Zhu Chen

Schoolof Basic Medical Sciences, University Of South China, Hengyang, Hunan,China.

Research Interests: biological signal detection and medical artificial intelligence.

Forensic Genetics

Bofeng Zhu

Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Forensic Multi-Omics for Precision Identification, School of Forensic Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: forensic genomics, difficult and complex kinship identification, molecular identification of human characteristics, and traceability of physical evidence.

Cytogenetics

Liming Bao

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.

Research Interests: molecular genetics and genomics in hematologic neoplasms, clinical cytogenetics.

Neurobiology and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Harry Steinbusch

Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Research Interests: neuroscience, neuroanatomy, depression, Alzheimer, serotonin, brainstem.

Reproductive Genetics

Xiaoyang Zhao

Guangdong Key Laboratory of Construction and Detection in Tissue Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

Research Interests: infertility, sperm regeneration, spermatogenesis, somatic cell reprogramming, embryonic stem cells, in vitro sperm differentiation, germ cell development, developmental biology.

Editorial Board Member

Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Richard G. Boles

NeuroGenomics, Neurabilities Healthcare, Voorhees, NJ, USA.

Research Interests: neurogenetics, neurodevelopmental and functional disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, cyclic vomiting, ME/CFS pain, mitochondrial disease and dysfunction, ion channels, unexplained and undiagnosed disorders, whole genome sequencing.

Ramón Cacabelos

Department of Genomic Medicine, International Center of Neuroscience and Genomic Medicine, EuroEspes Biomedical Research Center, Bergondo, Spain.

Research Interests: pharmacogenomics, epigenomics, CNS drug development, neurodegenerative disorders, genomics of brain disorders, neurogenetics.

Margaret DeAngelis

Department of Ophthalmology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Research Interests: neuroscience, genetics, ophthalmology, epidemiology, mendelian, complex blinding diseases.

Massimiliano Filosto

Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.

Research Interests: neurology.

Richard E. Frye

Autism Discovery and Treatment Foundation, Rossignol Medical Center, Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Research Interests: neurodevelopmental disorders, autism.

Susan T. Iannaccone

Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology,UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.

Research Interests: pinal muscular atrophy, neuromuscular diseases, duchenne muscular dystrophy, pedi clinical trials.

Antonio Orlacchio

Laboratory of Neurogenetics, European Center for Brain Research, CERC-IRCCS Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: neurogenetics.

Zeynep Tümer

Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Research Interests: congenital developmental disorders, susceptibility genes, tourette syndrome, ADHD, OCD, autism.

Cancer Biology and Oncology

Shrikant Anant

Department of Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.

Research Interests: posttranscriptional gene regulation in inflammation and cancer, cancer stem cells, chemoprevention.

Carlo V. Catapano

Institute of Oncology Research IOR, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Research Interests: molecular pharmacology, molecular- and gene-targeted therapeutics, clinical and translational studies, new cancer drugs.

Gagan Deep

Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA.

Research Interests: non-toxic agents, cancer prevention/intervention.

Junxuan Lu

Department of Pharmacology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.

Research Interests: cancer chemopreventive, therapeutic agents, precision therapy of cancer.

Joanne Ngeow Yuen Yie

Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Research Interests: cancer genetics, genomic medicine, genetics of neuroendocrine and endocrine neoplasias.

Laura Ottini

Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: BRCA1, BRCA2, breast cancer, genetic modifiers, NGS (Next generation sequencing), GWAS (Genome Wide Association Studies), DNA methyloma.

Pier Paolo Piccaluga

Biobank of Research, IRCCS Azienda Opedaliera-Universitaria di Bologna; Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests: lymphomas, leukemias, hematological malignancies, molecular pathology, digital pathology & AI

Qingyi Wei

Greater Bay Area Institute of Precision Medicine (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: head and neck cancers, lung cancer, melanoma, biomarkers, genetic determinants, DNA repair, cell death.

Gang Wu

Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: prostate cancer, epigenetic, circRNA.

Xiaolin Zi

Department of Urology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.

Research Interests: molecular targets, xenograft models, tumor microenvironment, urological cancers.

Genetics and Molecular Genomics

Brian Hon-Yin Chung

Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: medical application of whole genome technologies, clinical genetics & genetic counselling, epigenetics & human diseases.

Ni-Chung Lee

Department of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

Research Interests: pediatrics, genetics, inborn error of metabolism, gene therapy, next generation sequencing.

Wei Li

Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.

Research Interests: genome, CRISPR associated endonuclease Cas9, gene editing, cancer, HIV/AIDS.

Xi Luo

Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

Research Interests: functional genomics, cancer predisposition, rare disease diagnostics.

Jin-wu Nam

Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.

Research Interests: molecular genetics, human genetics, genomics, cancer, rare diseases, laminopathies, cardiovascular research, non-communicable diseases, pharmacogenetics, genetic testing.

Francesc Palau

Department of Genetic and Molecular Medicine, Sant Joan de Déu Children's Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.

Research Interests: human and clinical genetics, neurogenetics, genetic counselling, rare diseases.

Sheng-Ying Qin

Bio-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: personalized medicine system study, gene expression and regulation study, genomic polymorphism analysis.

Bernhard HF Weber

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Research Interests: genetics of hereditary and complex retinal degeneration, functional analysis of inherited genetic variation, induced pluripotent stem cells, mouse models of retinal disease, genome-wide association studies, age-related macular degeneration, common and rare genetic variants.

Kun Xia

The Key Laboratory of Pediatric Rare Diseases of the Ministry of Education, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China.

Research Interests: human genetic diseases, autism spectrum disorders.

Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases

Mohammad Bohlooly-Y

Translational Genomics, Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Research Interests: genome editing, in vivo and in vitro target validation, physiology, endocrinology, metabolism, cardiovascular, kidney, CRISPR.

Minxin Guan

Institute of Genetics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Research Interests: human mitochondrial genetics, pathophysiology, treatment of mitochondrial diseases, deafness, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy.

Narasimman Gurusamy

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, FL, USA.

Research Interests: long non-coding RNAs, epigenetic regulation, mesenchymal stem cells, exosomes, Ketone body, lifestyle interventions

Taosheng Huang

Institute of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: mitochondrial disorders, mitochondrial replacement therapy, molecular diagnosis for single gene disease.

Nora Nock

Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

Research Interests: genetic,cancer, obesity, substance use disorders, chronic diseases and conditions.

Simon W Rabkin

Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Research Interests: hypertension, lipids, aortic aneurysm.

Andrea Urbani

Department of Basic Biotechnological Sciences, Intensivological and Perioperative Clinics, Università Cattolica, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: metabolomics, genomics, clinical biochemistry, clinical molecular biology.

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Faoud Terrence Ishmael

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.

Research Interests: allergy and immunology, internal medicine, post-transcriptional gene regulation, microRNAs, exosomes.

Zhongheng Zhang

Department of Emergency Medicine, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Research Interests: sepsis, ARDS, big data, machine learning, genetic algorithm, next-generation sequencing, single-cell sequencing.

Genetic Counseling, Screening and Diagnosis

C. Alexander Valencia

Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Research Interests: proteomics, apoptosis, degradomics, next-generation sequencing, genetic testing, genomics, genetic diseases, systems biology, clinical laboratory services.

Bioinformatics and Multi-omics Technology

Hong-Wen Deng

Tulane Center of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Research Interests: multi-omics and trans-omics, biostatistics and bioinformatics, genetics of complex diseases, single cell sequencing, big data, machine learning, data analytics, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, obesity, other complex diseases.

Xifeng Wu

School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Research Interests: biogenetics, epidemiology, precision medicine.

Wei Zhang

Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

Research Interests: genetics, epigenetics, complex traits.

Drug Development and Pharmacogenomics

Monica Borgatti

Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.

Research Interests: diagnosis of genetic diseases, drug research, β-thalassemia, cystic fibrosis, COPD diseases, the treatments of genetic rare diseases.

Cinzia Ciccacci

UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: medical genetics, multifactorial disorders, pharmacogenetics, asoociation studies, sequencing, microRNAs.

Rosaria Maria D'Apice

Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Tor Vergata Hospital, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: DNA sequencing (Sanger and NGS), WES, WGS, molecular genetics, rare diseases, gene expression,RNA, cell culture.

Forensic Genetics

Chengtao Li

Institute of Forensic Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: forensic genetics

Jiangwei Yan

School of Forensic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Jingzhong, Shanxi, China.

Research Interests: integrative genomics, big data analytics, genetic testing, forensic traceability, translational genomics.

Cytogenetics

Ting Wen

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Research Interests: cell biology, immunology, clinical genomics.

Ying S. Zou

Departments of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Research Interests: genomics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, chromosomal structure abnormalities.

Chair of the Junior Editorial Board

Wenzhao Wang

Department of Orthopedic, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China.

Research Interests: bone and spinal cord injury, epigenetics, RNA post-transcriptional regulation.

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Li Jin

[email protected]

State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: genetics and genetic epidemiology, human population genetics and genomics, computational biology.

Editor-in-Chief

Sanjay Gupta

[email protected]

Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Research Interests: urologic oncology, translational and clinical areas, prostatic and bladder diseases, biomarkers, synthetic and natural agents.

Section Editor

Editorial Board Member

Chair of the Junior Editorial Board

Wenzhao Wang

Department of Orthopedic, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China.

Research Interests: bone and spinal cord injury, epigenetics, RNA post-transcriptional regulation.