Editorial Board

Ciro Isidoro

ciro.isidoro@med.uniupo.it

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

Dai-Ming Fan

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

Wafik S. El-Deiry

Legorreta Cancer Center, Brown University, RI, USA

Research Interests: cell death, drug resistance in cancer

Prof 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 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

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

John M. Pezzuto

College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Western New England University, Springfield, MA, USA

Research Interests: natural product drugs, drug discovery and characterization, cancer therapy and chemoprevention

Stephen J. Ralph

School of Medical Science, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia

Research Interests: melanoma vaccines, metastatic cancers, classification of mitocans, effects of laser irradiation on carcinoma

Domenico Ribatti

Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sensory Organs, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy

Research Interests: angiogenesis in hematological tumors, angiogenesis in hematological tumors, angiogenesis in bone tumors, role of mast cells in tumor angiogenesis, role of chemokines in angiogenesis, role of GM-CSF in angiogenesis, role of PDGF and sugars in angiogenesis, role of transferrin in angiogenesis

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

Hans-Joachim Schmoll

University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Research Interests: colorectal cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, genitourinary cancers, germline cancers

Gautam Sethi

Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Research Interests: transcription factors in cancer progression, cell signaling, chemoprevention, pharmaceuticals

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

Zohreh Amoozgar

Department of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, cancer immunotherapy, breast cancer, glioblastoma, metastatic ovarian, cancer liver metastases

Milad Ashrafizadeh

Department of General Surgery and Institute of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Digestive System Tumors, Carson International Cancer Center, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Research Interests: cancer therapy, autophagy, apoptosis, cell death mechanisms, exosomes, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), biomaterials

Valeria Barresi

Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy

Research Interests: central nervous system, colorectal cancer, molecular, tumors

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)

Dominique A. Bonnet

Haematopoietic Stem Cell Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

Research Interests: haematopoietic stem cells, blood cancer

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

Jyh-Ping Chen

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Research Interests: biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue engineering, nanomedicine

Wei Chen

Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA

Research Interests: nanotechnology, nanomedicine, cancer therapy, diabetes detection and prevention

Chao Cheng

Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, USA

Research Interests: cancer systems biology, cancer biomarkers

Sheue-Yann Cheng

Gene Regulation Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Research Interests: thyroid hormone action, thyroid hormone receptors in health and disease, molecular genetics of thyroid cancer, mouse models

Chun Hei Antonio Cheung

Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, China

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

Fausto Chiesa

Division of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Research Interests: surgical oncology, thyroid cancer, oral precancerous lesions, oral cancer, squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck, larynx cancer

William C. Cho

Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Research Interests: cancer biomarkers, surface-enhanced laser desorption and ionization(SELDI), microRNA

Giuseppe Curigliano

Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, University of Milano, Milan, Italy

Research Interests: early drug development, solid tumours, breast cancer

Antonio Facciorusso

Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, gastrointestinal endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer

Marco Falasca

Curtin Medical School, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

Research Interests: signalling pathways, intracellular physiological and pathological processes, lysophospholipid lysophosphatidylinositol, phosphoinositide 3-kinase isoforms and phospholipase Cgamma-1, phosphoinositides, ABC transporters, G-protein coupled receptors, cancer progression and cell signalling

Bingliang Fang

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Research Interests: innovative anticancer agents, targeted cancer therapy, the mechanisms of action of and/or resistance to anticancer agents, molecular signatures or biomarkers for predicting treatment response or early diagnosis of lung cancers

Renty B. Franklin

Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, MD, USA

Research Interests: prostate cancer and treatment, screening methods for prostate cancer, development and progression of malignancy

Umberto Galderisi

Department of Molecular Biology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Research Interests: basic and applied researches on normal and cancer stem cells, analysis of senescence processes that affect stem cell properties, effect of low dose radiations on the biology of normal and cancer stem cells

Antonio Giordano

Molecular Medicine and Center of Biotechnology and Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Research Interests: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cell cycle, genetics

Elisa Giovannetti

Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands;
Cancer Pharmacology Lab, Fondazione Pisana per La Scienza, Italy

Research Interests: molecular pharmacology, chemoresistance, targeting metastasis

Lombardi Giuseppe

Department of Medical Oncology, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV-IRCCS, Padova, Italy

Research Interests: brain tumor, glioblastoma

Alessandro Granito

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, cirrhosis, liver diseases

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

Elif Hindié

CHU de Bordeaux, Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Bordeaux, France

Research Interests: imaging in endocrinology, TEP imaging in oncology, internal vectored radiation therapy, theranostic applications

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

Robert Arthur Kratzke

Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Research Interests: translational mesothelioma and lung cancer research

Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara

Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Research Interests: breast cancer, chemoprevention of neuroblastoma, pancreatic cancer

Gary Li

Biology and Translational Medicine, RayzeBio Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

Research Interests: targeted therapy, radiation therapy, drug discovery

Shuen-Kuei Liao

The PhD Program for Cancer Biology and Drug Discovery, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Research Interests: stem cell biology, nanotechnology and tissue engineering

Thomas Liehr

Jena University Hospital, Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Research Interests: inherited and acquired marker and derivative chromosomes, karyotype evolution, uniparental disomy, interphase architecture, probe set-developments

Brandon Lucke-Wold

Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA

Research Interests: metastasis, subarachnoid hemorrhage, neurosurgery, radiosurgery, meningioma

Francesco Massari

Medical Oncology, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Research Interests: clinical oncology, transnational research, genitourinary cancer, biomarkers, immunotherapy, renal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, urothelial cancer

Silvana Morello

Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy

Research Interests: tumor microenvironment, metastatic melanoma, prognostic factor, tumor immunology, mitochondrial metabolism of tumor cells

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

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

Chandler H. Park

Norton Cancer Institute, Co-Director Genitourinary Oncology Clinical Trials, Advisory Dean/Clinical Professor at the University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA

Research Interests: prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer

Alberto Giuseppe Passi

Department of Medicine and and Surgery (DMC), University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Research Interests: cancer biology, cell migration, collagen, glycosaminoglycans

Manash K. Paul

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Research Interests: stem cell, organoid, lung cancer, disease modeling, drug discovery, exosome, nanotechnology

Leonel Pereira

Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Calçada Martim de Freitas, Coimbra, Portugal

Research Interests: phycology, marine biotechnology, biodiversity and taxonomy, bioinformatics and databases, environmental assessment, nutrition and thalassotherapy

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

Marc Poirot

French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Inserm Cancer Research Center of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

Research Interests: cholesterol metabolism, breast cancer, oncosterone, dendrogenin, cell differentiation and death, autophagy, drug design, medicinal chemistry, diet

Klaus Pors

Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

Research Interests: cytochrome, prostate cancer, drug discovery, target oriented synthesis, medicinal chemistry, diversity-oriented synthesis, small molecules, pharmacoepigenetics, molecular fluorescent probes

Pravin Potdar

Department of Molecular Medicine & Biology, Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Research Interests: molecular diagnostics for breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic & prostate cancers, hematological malignancy, colon cancer, neurological and genetic disorders, cancer stem cells & therapies, early detection markers for breast, molecular targeted therapies of cancer

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

H.P. Vasantha Rupasinghe

Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Research Interests: medicinal biochemistry of phytochemicals, disease-fighting properties of plant flavonoids and their analogues, polyphenol micronutrients of cool climate fruits and disease prevention

Jesús San-Miguel

Clinica Universitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Research Interests: myeloma cell biology, minimal residual disease, proteasome inhibitors, immunomodulatory drugs, histone deacetylases

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

Hildegard M. Schuller

Experimental Oncology Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

Research Interests: comparative pathology, lung cancer, G protein-coupled receptors, pancreatic cancer, stem cell

Consolato Sergi

Anatomic Pathology Division, Pediatric Pathologist, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Full Professor of Pathology & Pediatrics, University, Canada

Research Interests: pediatric oncology, pediatric developmental pathology

Rafat A. Siddiqui

Nutrition Science and Food Chemistry, Agriculture Research Station, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, USA

Research Interests: dietary fats, molecular nutrition, cancer, fatty acids-polyphenol conjugates

Rakesh Srivastava

Louisiana State University Health-New Orleans, School of Medicine, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Research Interests: cancer biology, cell signal, molecular mechanisms, stem cells, human diseases

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

Ugo Testa

Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Research Interests: hematological malignancies, hematologic diseases, lymphoma, leukemia, molecular abnormalities of the main solid tumors

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

Yaoqi Alan Wang

Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Research Interests: cancer biology, glioblastoma, neoplasms, tumors, chemical compounds, glioma, stem cells, pancreatic neoplasms, prostatic neoplasms, adenocarcinoma

Guofeng Xie

Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Program in Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Research Interests: esophageal motility disorders, GERD, colon cancer

Ren Xu

Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

Research Interests: microenvironmental signals, breast cancer progression, breast cancer metastasis, ECM microenvironment

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

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

Ali Zarrabi

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

Research Interests: cancer nanomedicine, transdermal drug delivery, wearable device, medicinal chemistry, wound healing

Yudong Zhang

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

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

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