Editorial Board

Aijun Sun

sun.aijun@zs-hospital.sh.cn

Professor, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Vice Director, Shanghai Clinical Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, China; Director, Key Laboratory of Ischemic Heart Diseases, National Health Commission, China.

Research Interests: Mitochondrial metabolism, cardiovascular diseases

Carlos A. Mestres

Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University Heart Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and The Robert WM Frater Cardiovascular Research Centre, The University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Research Interests: Biomaterials, tissue valves, surgery of ischemic heart disease, healthcare systems and management, valvular homografts, infective endocarditis & cardiovascular infections, intrathoracic organ transplantation, vascular homografts, surgery of the aorta.

Michael A. Borger

Leipzig Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

Research Interests: Aortic surgery, aortic and mitral valve repair, minimal inviasive valve surgery, transcatheter valve procedures.

Gary Mintz

Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA.

Research Interests: Interventional cardiology, intravascular imaging.

Friedhelm Beyersdorf

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Research Interests: Valvular heart disease, aortic surgery, cardiac surgery.

Frank W. Sellke

Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA.

Research Interests: Coronary artery bypass grafting, cardioplegia, myocardial protection, coronary angiogenesis, cardiac surgery, atrial fibrillation, microcirculation, cardiopulmonary bypass, aortic surgery, valve surgery.

Joseph S. Coselli

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

Research Interests: Cardiothoracic surgery, aneurysms, aortic aneurysms, thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm.

Christopher Lau

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.

Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, aortic aneurysm, valve-sparing root replacement, aortic valve, thoracoabdominal aneurysm, aortic surgery.

Jawahar Mehta

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular and kidney outcomes, thrombosis, atherosclerosis, myocardial ischemia.

Narasimham L. Parinandi

Department of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

Research Interests: Phospholipid signalases in lung vasculature, lipidomics of adiposity, bioactive oxidant lipidomics in vasculotoxicity.

Gaetano Santulli

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA.

Research Interests: Atherosclerosis, diabetes, heart failure, hypertension.

Annie Laurie W. Shroyer

Department of Surgery, Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA.

Research Interests: Translational research, clinical trials, cardiac surgery outcomes, clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based medicine, outcome assessment, health services research, quality improvement, risk assessment, risk adjustment.

Igor Sobenin

Laboratory of Angiopathology, Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, Moscow, Russia.

Research Interests: Atherosclerosis, atherogenesis, lipids, lipoproteins, cardiovascular diseases, genetic predisposition, mitochondrial genome, molecular and cellular mechanisms.

Robert M. Starke

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.

Research Interests: Neurovascular diseases, cerebral aneurysms, AVMs, stroke, dural arteriovenous fistulas, moyamoya disease, intracranial atherosclerosis, radial artery approaches, cerebrovascular injury , cerebral angiography, thrombectomy.

Cristiano Spadaccio

Cardiac Surgery Department, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati OH, USA.

Research Interests: Aortic surgery, coronary artery surgery, valve surgery, translational research, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine.

Randolph Hung-leung Wong

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: Complex open aortic surgery, hybrid thoracic aortic intervention, hybrid and minimally invasive cardiothoracic and vascular procedures.

Alberto Cordero

Cardiology Department, Interventional Cardiology Unit, Hospital Universitario de San Juan, Alicante, Spain.

Research Interests: Acute coronary syndrome, coronary heart disease, lipid, atherosclerosis, interventional cardiology.

Giuseppe Andò

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.

Research Interests: Anticoagulants, antiplatelets, coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation.

Jerzy Beltowski

Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.

Research Interests: Hypertension, atherosclerosis, dyslipidemia, lipid-lowering medications, diabetes, heart failure, arrhythnmias, adipose tissue, obesity, metabolic syndrome, nitric oxide, endothelial dysfunction, hydrogen sulfide, gasotransmitters.

Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai

Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy.

Research Interests: Hypertension, blood pressure, atherosclerosis, heart failure, myocardial infarction.

Antonio Calafiore

Division of Cardiac Surgery A, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Research Interests: Heart valves, aortic valve replacement, atherosclerosis, inhibitors, immune effects, ischemic mitral valve.

Chen Chen

Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

Research Interests: Dialated cardiomyopathy, diabetic cardiomyopathy, heart failure, non-coding RNAs, metabolic disorders

Hong Chen

Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Research Interests: Epsins, cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, angiogenesis in pathology.

Zhong-Ping Chen

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.

Research Interests: Optical coherence tomography, doppler OCT, OCT angiography, optical coherence elastography.

Gabriele Ciccio

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.

Research Interests: Cerebral angiography, cerebral arteries, aneurysm, cerebral/spinal arteriovenous fistula, cerebral/spinal arteriovenous malformation, neurological diseases, endovascular surgery, vascular surgery.

Elisa F. Ciceri

Diagnostic Imaging Department & Interventional Neuroradiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: Intracranial aneurysms, acute ischemic stroke, thrombectomy in stroke, vascular remodeling.

Dennis Cordato

Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Research Interests: Stroke, neuropharmacology, clinical trials, neurophysiology and neurodegenerative disorders.

Stephen M. Davis

Department of Medicine and Neurology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.

Research Interests: Stroke, therapy, advanced imaging.

Yun-Zhou Dong

Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Research Interests: Epsins, cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis.

Ali H. Eid

Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis.

Nicola Ferri

Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular diseases, hypercholesterolemia, smooth muscle, cholesterol, lipoproteins, statins.

Barry A. Franklin

Corewell Health East, William Beaumont University Hospital, Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Beaumont Health and Wellness Center, Royal Oak, MI, USA.

Research Interests: Exercise physiology with cardiology, early detection of cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular risk reduction, preventive cardiology, technologies to detect and interventions to combat chronic disease, lifestyle medicine.

Shou-Dong Guo

Institute of Lipid Metabolism and Atherosclerosis, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, Shandong, China.

Research Interests: Lipid metabolism, atherosclerosis, PSK9 inhibitors.

Mariann Harangi

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Debrecen Faculty of Medicine, Debrecen, Hungary.

Research Interests: Hypertension, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, atherosclerosis.

Chung Y. Hsu

Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, China.

Research Interests: Cerebral vascular diseases, age-dependent degeneration of the cerebral blood vessels, clinical stroke trials and establishment of real-world evidence to confirm the current stroke preventive and therapeutic strategies by big stroke database analysis.

Nishank Jain

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.

Research Interests: Kidney disease, hypertension management, platelets, antiplatelet drugs, uremic platelet dysfunction.

Carl J. Lavie

John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-the University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease, hypertension.

Yulin Li

Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: Myocardial infarction, heart failure, heart-brain communication, inflammation in cardiovascular disease

Ugolino Livi

Cardiothoracic Department, University Hospital of Udine, Udine, Italy.

Research Interests: Aortic surgery, endocarditis, heart disease, heart surgery, type A aortic dissection.

Fabrizio Monaco

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Institute, Milan, Italy

Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, mitral valve, endovascular repair of aortic aneurysm, anesthesia, blood coagulation.

Ryuichi Morishita

Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

Research Interests: Angiopoietins, chronic diseases, cardiovascular disease.

Paolo Nardi

Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, aortic prosthesis, coronary artery bypass grafting, acute Type A.

Domenico Paparella

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.

Research Interests: Mitral valve surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass, heart failure surgery, minimally invasive surgery.

Bertram Pitt

Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, MI, USA.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, heart failure.

Shahzad G. Raja

Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK.

Research Interests: Coronary artery bypass grafting, anaortic coronary artery bypass grafting, off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery, total and multiple arterial grafting, patient safety, surgical training, simulation.

Saverio Francesco Retta

Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino, Italy.

Research Interests: Cerebrovascular diseases, cerebral cavernous malformation, oxidative stress and vascular disease, redox signaling in vascular, physiopathology.

Manfredi Rizzo

School of Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.

Research Interests: Lipid metabolism, cardiovascular risk, diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome.

Alistair Royse

Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, clinical ultrasound, ultrasound imaging, stroke, arterial coronary, total arterial revascularization.

Manel Sabaté

Interventional Cardiology Unit, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Research Interests: Acute coronary syndrome, chronic coronary syndrome, interventional cardiology, stent, TAVR, percutaneous mitral repair/replacement.

Pietro Scicchitano

Department of Cardiology, Hospital "F. Perinei" Altamura (BA), Italy.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular pharmacology, heart failure, preventive cardiology, lipids metabolism, endothelial function, arrhythmias, cardiovascular diseases, myocarditis.

James D.S.T. St.-Louis

Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.

Research Interests: Heart surgery, congenital heart defect, pediatrics.

Kun Wang

Institute for Translational Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, College of Medicine, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular diseases, myocardial infarction, myocardial protection, heart failure, molecular and cellular mechanisms

Ming-Yi Wang

Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Research Interests: Large arteries, ageing, arterial aging, heart dysfunction, arterial fibrosis, vascular smooth muscle, age-associated arterial diseases.

Ya-Jing Wang

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Research Interests: Extracellular vesicle, cardiovascular disease, coronary endothelial cells, coronary artery disease, autophagy, vascular endothelium dysfunction, heart failure, ischemic cardiac disease, HFpEF, HFrEF.

Clinton Webb

Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

Research Interests: Vascular reactivity, smooth muscle physiology, sexual dysfunction, bladder dysfunction, vascular injury.

Theresa L. Whiteside

Departments of Pathology and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Research Interests: Immunology and immunotherapy of human solid tumors, development of anti-cancer vaccines, studies of dendritic cells in cancer, immune monitoring of cancer patients treated with biotherapies, immune suppression in cancer and its mechanisms cytokines in health and disease.

Jian Wu

Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular remodeling, mouse model, pressure overload, volume overload, inflammation

Jun Zhang

Molecular and Translational Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.

Research Interests: Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM), CCM pathogenesis, CCM signaling complex (CSC), blood brain barrier (BBB), biomarkers, membrane progesterone receptors (mPRs), CSC-mPRs-PRG (CmP).

Li-Guo Zhao

Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular medical devices, implant-tissue interaction, tissue damage and growth, stent biomechanics, in-stent restenosis, soft tissue mechanics, computer modeling.