Junior Editorial Board
Junior Editorial Board Members
Research Interests: clinical trials gastrointestinal cancer, clinical research, translation research
Research Interests: microbiota, pathogens and probiotics role in squamous epithelial malignancies (head and neck- and non melanoma skin- cancer), autoimmune oral disorders
Regina Barragán-Carrillo
Hematology-Oncology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico.
Research Interests: ductal carcinoma, breast neoplasms, genitourinary malignancies, immunotherapy
Miriam Benezra
Natural Science Department, Baruch College; Lander College for Women Biology Department, Touro College, NY, USA.
Research Interests: nanomedicine as a therapeutic approach in the treatment of cancer diseases-melanoma, glioblastoma, inflammatory bowel disease
Maria Braoudaki
Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK.
Research Interests: microRNAs, paediatric cancer, brain malignancies, epigenetics, genetics
Research Interests: tumor progression, molecular pathology, histopathology, non coding RNAs, tumor biobank
Zhi Fei Cao
Department of Pathology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Research Interests: cancer, anti-cancer drugs, oncogene, radiation
Maoshan Chen
Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Research Interests: colorectal cancer, extracellular vesicles, bioinformatics, next-generation sequencing, liquid biopsy
Research Interests: lung cancer, brain tumors, immunotherapy, radiation oncology, population outcomes
Research Interests: glioma, glioma stem cells, bioprinting, nanomedicine
Research Interests: cancer metastasis, breast cancer, epigenetics, EMT, tumor dormancy, cancer stem cells, tumor microenvironment
Research Interests: immunoassay development, disease state expertise in oncology (early detection research), predictive medicine (companion diagnostics trials and development), and broader areas for novel diagnostics including nutrition
Research Interests: molecular and cellular biology of glioma/glioblastoma and breast cancer, EMT and metastasis, cancer stem cells, signaling pathways of brain development and cancer
Research Interests: next-generation sequencing, molecular diagnostics, solid tumors, predictive oncology, molecular pathology
Research Interests: osteo-oncology, rare tumors, sarcoma, head and neck tumors, pharmacology, regenerative medicine, nanotechnology, 3D culture
Research Interests: bone myeloma, osteocytes, drug resistance, osteoblasts, metastasis, breast cancer
Research Interests: extracellular vesicle, apoptosis, neurodegeneration, biomarker, assay development, inflammation
Research Interests: cancer associated fibroblast, breast neoplasms, tumor microenvironment, cancer stem cell, glioblastoma, brain neoplasms
Panfeng Feng
Department of Pharmacy, Affiliated Hospital 2 of Nantong University, Jiangsu, China.
Research Interests: pharmacology, oncology, colorectal cancer, extracellular vesicles.
Research Interests: cell biology, genetics, histology, pharmacology, cancer, nutrition, immunology
Research Interests: NGS- liquid biopsy in cancer, molecular bases of cancer drug resistance and cancer recurrence
Research Interests: cell response to anticancer agents, multidrug resistance-related drug transporters and signal transduction pathways, role of hypoxia in tumor cell chemosensitivity, novel photosensitizers in anticancer photodynamic therapy
Research Interests: cancer immunotherapy, metastasis, targeted therapy of cancer, pancreatic cancer
Caterina Giannitto
Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Italy.
Research Interests: head and neck, oncology, imaging artificial intelligence
Research Interests: cancer metastasis, ER stress mediated cancer, EMT, cancer cell death, mitochondrial dysfunction
Research Interests: cancer drug delivery, phytonanomedicine, tissue engineering
Shenqi Han
Hepatic Surgery Center, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: tumor organ-specific metastasis, tumor microenvironment, exosomes
Research Interests: Gastrointestinal tumors, liver cancer, hepatobiliary pancreatic tumor
Zhi Huang
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Department of Genetics, LCRC, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Research Interests: cancer Immunotherapy, CRISPR, signaling pathway, metabolism, tumor microenvironment
Research Interests: lymphoma, tumoral microenvironment, gastrointestinal cancer, dysplasia
Research Interests: pathology, molecular pathology, biomarkers, renal pathology, urological pathology, gastrointestinal pathology, breast pathology, omics
Niraj Kumar Jha
Department of Biotechnology, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India.
Research Interests: natural products, neutraceuticals, cell signaling and disease
Research Interests: molecular chaperone and ubiquitin E3 ligase in neurodegenerative disorders, therapeutics action of biomolecules in aged neurons and muscles
Mehrdad Khakbiz
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, USA.
Research Interests: biomaterials, tissue engineering, drug delivery, cancer therapy, nanomedicine
Research Interests: immunotherapy, targeted delivery, nanomaterials, tumor microenvironment
Research Interests: lung cancer, immunotherapy, SEER, NCDB
Jianqiu Kong
Department of Urology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: urological tumors, clinical translation
Research Interests: delineating the role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in cancer metastasis and dormancy reactivation, effect of tumor intrinsic lncRNAs in modulation of tumor immune microenvironment during metastasis
Research Interests: understanding vascular mimicry in glioblastoma, cancer immunotherapy, combination therapy, cancer metastasis, bioengineering
Yi Lai
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: intelligent drug delivery systems, cancer immunotherapy, neuro-immune interaction
Lisa Lee-Jones
Life Sciences Department, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.
Research Interests: cancer genetics, drug discovery, drug repurposing, immuno-oncology
Feng Li
Department of Pulmonary Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine (HIM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, China.
Research Interests: cancer genomics, cancer immunotherapy, translational medicine
Mengyao Li
Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: anti-gallbladder cancer, pancreatic cancer
Xinxin Li
Institute of Medical Research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, shaanxi, China;
Research Interests: RNA epigenetic modification in B lymphocytes, B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, natural killer cell
Research Interests: Neoplasm; Biological Marker; Immunotherapy; Tumor Microenvironment; Cancer biomarkers
Hongda Liu
The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Research Interests: multi-omics, bioinformatics, oncology, post-translational modification
Ying Liu
Department of Infectious Diseases, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Research Interests: oncolytic virus therapy, hepatocarcinoma, early diagnosis and prevention, treatment, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of various viral hepatitis, cirrhosis and severe hepatitis
Research Interests: metastatic bone disease, pelvic reconstruction, upper extremity reconstruction, custom made implants, navigation assisted surgery, carbon fiber implants
Xinjun Lu
Department of Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou,Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: tumor microenvironment, tumor immunotherapy
Yongqu Lu
Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: breast cancer, thyroid cancer
Lianxiang Luo
The Marine Biomedical Research Institute, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: cell death, targeted drugs, tumors, immunity, inflammation, molecular docking, bioinformatics, network pharmacology
Research Interests: glioblastoma, EGFR, STAT3, immunosuppression
Traci R. Lyons
Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA.
Research Interests: breast cancer, macrophages, lymphatics, metastasis, mammary development, Semaphorin 7a, Cyclo-oxygenase-2
Research Interests: breast cancer, mechanism of drug resistance breast cancer, notch signaling in breast cancer, immunotherapy, hypoxia, cancer stem cells and cancer
Wenjun Mao
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing , Jiangsu, China.
Research Interests: tumor immune microenvironment, tumor immunity, lung cancer multiomics, AI
Research Interests: thyroid diseases, breast cancer, general and emergency surgery, oxidative stress, metabolism
Research Interests: the effect of tumor microenvironment on therapy resistance, the application of metabolites in clinics
Research Interests: immunotherapy, tumor microenvironment, notch signaling, cancer metastasis and dormancy, breast cancer, infectious diseases
Research Interests: cancer biology, cancer therapeutics, mouse models, drug and drug discovery
Laila Nomani
Pathology Department, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Research Interests: cytology, squamous cell carcinoma, hematopathology, bone marrow, leukemias, lymphoma, oncologic pathology
Research Interests: circulating tumor cells, liquid biopsy, carbon nanotubes, epithelial mesenchymal transition, metastasis, cancer
Research Interests: Urologic oncology, minimally invasive surgery, kidney cancer, upper tract urothelial carcinoma, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, bladder cancer
Research Interests: nanoparticles, drug delivery, gliomas, brain metastases, brain mapping, stereotactic radiosurgery, neurosurgical oncology
Fu Peng
West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Research Interests: tumor pharmacology
Hong Peng
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Bishan Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Research Interests: liver metastasis, colorectal cancer
Research Interests: lung cancer drug discovery, small molecules which target RAS protein
Feifei Pu
Tongji Medical College, Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital of Wuhan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Research Interests: pathogenesis of bone tumor and intervention of traditional Chinese medicine
Andrii M. Puzyrenko
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Research Interests: pharmacology, toxicology, breast and gyn pathology, cytology
Shuai Ren
Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Research Interests: diagnostic radiology, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, radiomics, pathomics, pancreatic tumors, gastrointestinal tumors, metabolomics, exosomes, microRNA
Research Interests: obesity, dietary energy balance, chemokine and cytokine, cancer prevention, prostate and pancreatic cancer, novel cancer therapeutics targeting amino acid depletion, tumor microenvironment, phytochemicals and cancer prevention, combination of phytochemicals for synergy
Research Interests: oxidative stressors and lipid mediators, cancer pharmacology and chemoprevention, anti-cancer agents and immunomodulation, cellular signaling pathways in tumor resistance mechanisms and anti-tumor immune responses
Research Interests: stem cell, organoids, DNA repair, breast cancer, genome editing
Ankur Sharma
Sharda University, Delhi, India.
Research Interests: nanomedicine, cancer biology, neuro-oncology
Research Interests: bioinformatics, educational data mining, fin tech, mesothelioma
Research Interests: prostate cancer, breast cancer, drug resistance, combination therapy, drug delivery, nano-therapy
Research Interests: radiotherapy, head and neck cancer, immunotherapy, target therapy, prognostic and predictive factors
Shiyu Song
Nanjing University, School of Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Research Interests: cancer metabolism, metastasis evolution, tumor microenvironment
Zhengshuai Song
Department of Urology, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: genitourinary cancer, prostate cancer, kidney cancer
Delisha Stewart
Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Research Interests: breast cancer inflammation and metabolism, chemotherapy response, health disparate outcomes
Liyue Sun
Department of Health Management Centre, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: liquid biopsy of malignant tumor
David Ilan Suster
Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University and New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
Research Interests: thymoma, cancer, thymus neoplasms, non-small cell lung carcinoma, anaplastic lymphoma kinase, bone and soft tissue tumors
Petr Szturz
Department of Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Research Interests: head and neck cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, rare cancers
Research Interests: esophageal surgery, nutrition, venous thrombosis
Stefano Tiziani
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Research Interests: cancer metabolism, cancer prevention, high-throughput and high-content technologies, metabolomics, lipidomics, metabolic flux analysis, combinatorial drug screening
Research Interests: endometriosis, cervical, ovarian cancer, pregnancy complications, preeclampsia, preterm birth, oxidative stress, chemoresistance
Research Interests: lung cancer, EGFR-TIKs, cancer drug resistance, phytotherpy, combination therapy, EMT
Research Interests: sarcoma, rare tumors, osteoncology, breast cancer, genomics, NGS, theranostics, drug screening
Mohammad Vaziri
Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery Research center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Research Interests: surgery-thoracic tumours (lung, mediastinal, esophageal and so on), oncology, respiratory diseases
Vinod Vijayakurup
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Florida, USA.
Research Interests: cancer biology, biotechnology, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, cancer cell signaling, chemoprevention and autophagy
Jinxiang Wang
Scientific Research Center, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: drug resistance mechanism of digestive tract, urinary tract tumors, tumor lipid metabolism, tumor metastasis
Research Interests: cancer metabolism, therapeutic targets, cancer gene editing therapy
Ruiqi Wang
Department of Pharmacy,Zhuhai People's Hospital(The Affiliated Hospital of Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai Clinical Medical College of Jinan University), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: tumor drug resistance, immune microenvironment, hepatocellular carcinoma, traditional Chinese herbal medicine, liver cancer
Shuai Wang
Department of Radiation Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Research Interests: tumor progression, treatment resistance mechanisms, artificial intelligence in disease diagnosis and treatment
Yutao Wang
Department of Urology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Research Interests: Bladder Cancer, urologic cancers, prostate cancer
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of cancer
Guangzhen Wu
NoneDepartment of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
Research Interests: Fatty acid metabolism mechanisms in kidney cancer
Wen Xiao
Department of Urology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: metabolism, autophagy, tumorigenesis, urology, renal cancer
Jian Xiong
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou,Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: gynecological oncology
Research Interests: tumor microenvironment, cancer immunotherapy, small molecule drug, molecular mechanism, bioinformatics, target therapy, signal transduction
Research Interests: New anti-tumor nanobiomaterials
Yiqun Zhang
Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Research Interests: medical nanomaterials, tumor therapy
Yiming Zhao
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China.
Research Interests: tumor immunity microenvironment (TME), cancer immune therapy, HCC metabolism