Editorial Board

Dai-Ming Fan

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State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Research Interests: identification and application of gastric cancer associated antigens, multi-drug resistance of gastric cancer, immunogenetics and pathogenesis of gastric cancer

Yan Sun

Academician of Chinese Society of Engineering, Beijing, China

Research Interests: clinical oncology, non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, target therapy

Ciro Isidoro

[email protected]

Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Novara, Italy

Research Interests: lysosomal proteolysis, pathogenesis of diseases, cathepsin D, nanobioimaging, autophagy-lysosomal pathway in cancer and in neurodegeneration

Michael Atkins

Division of Hematology/Oncology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, USA

Research Interests: Anti-angiogenic Therapy, Cytokines, Hematology, Immunotherapy, Kidney Cancer, Mechanisms of Resistance, Melanoma, Molecularly Targeted Therapy, Predictive Biomarkers, Translational Research

Alfio Wo Ferlito

Coordinator of the International Head and Neck Scientific Group, Padua, Italy

Research Interests: head and neck surgery, laryngology

Timothy M. Pawlik

Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine，Columbus, USA

Research Interests: small intestine cancer, liver cancers, pancreatic cancers, gallbladder cancers, gastrointestinal cancers, neuroendocrine tumors

Yudong Zhang

School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Research Interests: deep learning, cancer detection, prognosis, prediction, treatment

Sanjun Cai

Department of Colorectal Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, retroperitoneal soft tissue tumors, malignant melanoma

Gopal C. Kundu

KIIT Deemed to be University, Institute of Eminence, Bhubaneswar, India

Research Interests: tumor biology, cancer stem cells, tumor-stroma interaction, angiogenesis, cancer therapeutics biomarker development, nanomedicine

Andrea M. Nicolini

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Santa Chiara Hospital, Pisa, Italy

Research Interests: breast and gastrointestinal cancer and their metastases, tumour markers, post-operative follow-up, physiopathology, immunology and immunotherapy of cancer, thyroid tumours

Christos Papadimitriou

Oncology Unit, Second Department of Surgery, “Aretaieion” University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Research Interests: bone marrow transplantation, gynecologic cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, GI cancers

Godefridus J. Peters

Laboratory Medical Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Research Interests: pharmacology of anticancer agents, antimetabolites, antifolates, platinum analogs, taxanes, anti-signalling agents, third generation targeted-agents

Haisheng Qian

School of Biomedical Engineering, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.

Research Interests: biomaterials, drug delivery and biomedical engineering

William P. Schiemann

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Research Interests: TGFβ & cell signaling, breast cancer metastasis & recurrence, metastatic dormancy, breast cancer stem cells, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, tumor heterogeneity, noncoding RNAs, epigenome

Jan Baptist Vermorken

Department of Medical Oncology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

Research Interests: gynecologic oncology, head and neck oncology, breast and colon cancer

Masayuki Watanabe

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Esophageal Cancer Division, Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests: esophageal surgery, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, noncurative endoscopic resection, upfront esophagectomy, minimally invasive surgery

Consuelo Amantini

School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy

Research Interests: transient receptor potential receptors, cancer cell line models, cellular pathways, autophagy, anti-cancer drug mechanisms

Jin-Xin Bei

State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangdong, China

Research Interests: tumor heterogeneity, genetics and genomics, viral infection, tumor microenvironment, therapeutic resistance, precision medicine

Rossana Berardi

Oncology Clinic, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Ancona, Italy

Research Interests: non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, innovative drugs (target therapy, immunotherapy)

William L. Blalock

CNR, Istituto Di Genetica Molecolare "Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza", Bologna, Italy

Research Interests: leukemia, osteosarcoma, RNA editing/metabolism/splicing, inflammation/stress signaling

Stergios Boussios

Department of Medical Oncology, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Gillingham ME7 5NY, UK; School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; Kent Medway Medical School, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7LX, UK; Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury CT2 7PB, UK.

Research Interests: Urological cancers, Gynaecological cancer, Colorectal cancer, Melanoma, Biomarkers, Homologous recombination of DNA, PARP inhibitors

Xiaofang Che

Department of Medical Oncology, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Research Interests: translational research on precise diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal tumors based on hypoxia and immune microenvironment, anti-tumor peptide development, tumor metastasis and drug resistance mechanism, tumor peptide development, tumor metastasis and drug resistance mechanism research

Chun Hei Antonio Cheung

Director of Office of Overseas Students and Scholars Services &Director of Global Competence Advancement Center, Office of International Affairs (OIA)；National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan

Research Interests: anti-cancer nanodrug development, cancer drug resistance mechanism, cancer cell autophagy

Daxiang Cui

School of Sensing Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Research Interests: nano biomedicine and biosensor, cancer prewarning and early theranostics, intelligent detection instrument, molecular imaging and nanoprobes

Yanhong Deng

Department of Medical Oncology, Department of General Surgery, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: colorectal cancer, neoadjuvant treatment, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, precision therapy

Pedro Fonte

Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Campus de Gambelas, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.

Research Interests: drug delivery, nanomedicine, oral delivery of therapeutic proteins, wound healing, lyophilization of biopharmaceuticals, cancer treatment

Arjan W. Griffioen

Medical Oncology, Amsterdam UMC, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Research Interests: genetic profiling of tumor endothelium, cancer vaccines, combination therapy, personalized therapy

Guohong Han

Department of Oncology, Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi , China.

Research Interests: gastrointestinal neoplasms

Dae Joong Kim

Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, VA, USA

Research Interests: cancer biology, tumor angiogenesis, tumor immunology, actin dynamics, vascular biology

Xiao Liang

Key Laboratory of Laparoscopic Technology of Zhejiang Province, Department of General Surgery, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Research Interests: liver cancer, intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile duct stones, gallbladder cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, pancreatic tumors, laparoscopic surgery

Yuanyuan Lu

State Key Laboratory of Holistic Integrative Management of Gastrointestinal Cancers, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Research Interests: gastrointestinal cancer

Yuxia Luan

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan,Shandong, China.

Research Interests: drug delivery systems and tumor therapy,drug carrier development and formulation, biomedical materials

Dario Marchetti

Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA

Research Interests: circulating tumor cells, liquid biopsy, biomarkers, cancer metastasis, transcriptomics

Palanisamy Nallasamy

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, USA

Research Interests: pancreatic cancer, stem cells, tumor microenvironment, small molecule therapeutics, cardiovascular disease, experimental diabetes

Jingxuan Pan

State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou , Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: cancer stem cells, liver metastasis, resistance, tumor molecular targeted therapy, pharmacological intervention

Hai-long Piao

CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Liaoning, China.

Research Interests: cancer metabolism, spatial multi-omics, tumor-microenvironment, immunotherapy

Pier Paolo Piccaluga

Biobank of Research, IRCCS Azienda Opedaliera-Universitaria di Bologna; Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology “L&A Seràgnoli” - Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

Research Interests: hematology, hematopathology, targeted therapy, molecular diagnostics, leukemia, lymphoma, drug resistance, cancer metabolism, genomics

Giuliano Ramadori

Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Research Interests: gene expression, liver cells (hepatocytes, kupffer cells, endothelial cells, stellate cells), pathogenesis, inflammation, cancer development, animal models of liver cancer diagnostic procedures and therapy, COVID-19 diagnostic and treatment, mechanisms of acute-phaseresponse, gastrointestinal cancer diagnostic and endoscopic therapy, systemic cancer therapy, tumor microenviroment analysis, liver diseases diagnostic, therapy, iron metabolism, radiation biology

Boris Reva

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Research Interests: molecular diagnostics, clinical subtypes and precise medicine of cancer, cancer genomics and immune therapy

Lúcio Lara Santos

Department of Surgical Oncology, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal

Research Interests: surgical oncology and carcinogenesis, experimental pathology and oncology, gastrointestinal, breast cancer, cancers related to infections

Marcus Schmidt

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Medical Center Mainz, Langenbeckstr, Mainz, Germany

Research Interests: prognostic and predictive factors in breast cancer, immunotherapy in breast cancer, endocrine therapy in breast cancer

Eric A. Singer

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Research Interests: urologic oncology, kidney cancer, clinical trials, bioethics

Hailin Tang

Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China

Research Interests: cancer, metastasis, proliferation, non-coding RNA

Giovanna Tosato

Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Research Interests: cancer, endothelial cells, vascular biology, hematopoietic stem cell niches

Giovanni Tuccari

Department of Human Pathology "Gaetano Barresi", University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Research Interests: triple negative breast carcinomas, prognostic markers, HER2 heterogeneity, human pathology

Yogesh Vashist

Department of Surgery, Asklepios Harzklinik Goslar, Goslar, Germany

Research Interests: pancreatic cancer, microRNAs, long noncoding RNA

Paula Videira

Departamento Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

Research Interests: cancer-associated glycans, dendritic cell-based vaccines, novel biomarkers in cancer

Valeria Visconte

Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Research Interests: myeloid malignancies, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloid malignancies, acute myeloid leukemia (AML), paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)

Israel Vlodavsky

Technion Integrated Cancer Center (TICC), Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Research Interests: cancer metastasis, heparanase, extracellular matrix, tumor microenvironment in cancer progression

Xianwen Wang

School of Biomedical Engineering, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Research Interests: cancer therapy, nanomedicine, biomaterials, drug delivery, nanotechnology

Xiaojia Wang

Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Research Interests: early diagnosis of breast cancer

Yan Xue

Department of Oncology, Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi , China.

Research Interests: breast cancer

Murali Yallapu

Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, School of Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, McAllen, TX, USA

Research Interests: nanotechnology, drug delivery, cancer, biomaterials, miRNA

Qifeng Yang

Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Research Interests: breast cancer, chemoresistance, metastasis, biomarker

Shun-Fa Yang

Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Research Interests: pharmacology, oral cancer metastasis, cancer biology, genetic polymorphism and environment risk factors in oral cancer

Haijun Yu

Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Research Interests: targeted drug delivery system, immune regulation and vaccines

Vladimir Zaichick

Medical Radiological Research Center, Obninsk, Russia

Research Interests: in vivo and in vitro nuclear analytical methods of chemical element contents measurement in tissues and fluids of human body, age- and gender-dependence of chemical element contents in tissues and fluids, levels of chemical element contents in tissues and fluids as tumour’s markers

Hongyun Zhao

Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat- Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Research Interests: lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, clinical trials of anti-tumor new drugs

Bo Zhong

Medical Research Institute, Frontier Science Center of Immunology and Metabolism, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Research Interests: myeloid cells, inflammation and autoimmunity, tumor microenvironment

Lucio Miele

Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

Research Interests: cancer stem cell-regulatory genes, GWAS, transcriptome, cancer-associated genes, genomic biomarkers, cancer health disparities