Editorial Board
45 Editors in 11 Countries/Regions
Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Li Jin
lijin@fudan.edu.cnState 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.
Editors-in-Chief
Andrea L. Gropman
Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Neurogenetics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Research Interests: neuroimaging, inborn errors of metabolism, neurogenetics.
Sanjay Gupta
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.
Resistance to second generation antiandrogens in prostate cancer: pathways and mechanisms
Dietary phytochemicals and their role in cancer chemoprevention
Role of prostate cancer stem-like cells in the development of antiandrogen resistance
New insights for drug resistance in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
Advisory Board Member
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.
Associate Editors
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.
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.
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.
Andrea Cerase
Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Research Interests: epigenetics, gene expression and nuclear organization, X chromosome, X-linked neurodevelopmental disorders, long non-coding RNAs, brain development.
William C Cho
Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Research Interests: cancer biomarkers, drug repurposing, non-coding RNA, proteomics.
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.
Potentials and challenges of launching the pilot phase of Hong Kong Genome Project
Marketing and publicity strategies for launching the pilot phase of the Hong Kong Genome Project
Personalised genomic medicine is shaping the future of healthcare
Potentials and challenges of launching the pilot phase of Hong Kong Genome Project
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.
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.
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.
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.
Simon W Rabkin
Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Research Interests: hypertension, lipids, aortic aneurysm.
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.
Strategies and Innovations in Genetic and Genomic Counseling
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.
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.
Retinal organoid differentiation methods determine organoid cellular composition
In vitro modeling of the complex retinal condition age-related macular degeneration
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.
The endocrine and epigenetic impact of persistent cow milk consumption on prostate carcinogenesis
Diabetes mellitus and heart disease
Copper and liver fibrosis in MASLD: the two-edged sword of copper deficiency and toxicity
Liver fibrosis as a barometer of systemic health by gauging the risk of extrahepatic disease
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.
Editorial Board Members
Kenneth Blum
Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA.
Department of Molecular Biology, Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel.
Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA.
Research Interests: addiction research, personalized medicine, genetic factors influencing addiction and behavioral disorders employing nutrigenomics and epigenetics, addiction recovery, pain therapy, mental health.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Erika Cione
Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
Research Interests: cell culture, molecular biology, gene expression, PCR, immunohistochemistry.
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.
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.
Gagan Deep
Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA.
Research Interests: non-toxic agents, cancer prevention/intervention.
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.
Massimiliano Filosto
Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Research Interests: neurology.
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
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.
Junxuan Lu
Department of Pharmacology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
Research Interests: cancer chemopreventive, therapeutic agents, precision therapy of cancer.
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.
Antonio Orlacchio
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, European Center for Brain Research, CERC-IRCCS Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Research Interests: neurogenetics.
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.
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.
Zeynep Tümer
Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Research Interests: congenital developmental disorders, susceptibility genes, tourette syndrome, ADHD, OCD, autism.
Andrea Urbani
Department of Basic Biotechnological Sciences, Intensivological and Perioperative Clinics, Università Cattolica, Rome, Italy.
Research Interests: metabolomics, genomics, clinical biochemistry, clinical molecular biology.
Gang Wu
Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: prostate cancer, epigenetic, circRNA.
Wei Zhang
Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Research Interests: genetics, epigenetics, complex traits.
Towards clinical implementation of circulating cell-free DNA in precision medicine
Towards clinical implementation of circulating cell-free DNA in precision medicine
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.
Xiaolin Zi
Department of Urology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Research Interests: molecular targets, xenograft models, tumor microenvironment, urological cancers.
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