Editorial Team

Former Editorial Board

Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS, FCCP

Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Ashok Agarwal

Professor, Lerner College of Medicine Case Western Reserve University Director, American Center for Reproductive Medicine Director, Andrology Center, Cleveland, USA

Claudio Agostinelli, MD, PhD

Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Bologna University School of Medicine; Haematopathology section, S.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Jaffer A Ajani

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Francesco Albano, MD, PhD

Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Section Az. Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico P.zza G. Cesare, Bari, Italy

Khaldoun Almhanna, MD, MPH

Department of Hematology/Oncology, Lifespan Cancer Institute, Providence, RI, USA.

Gianfranco Alpini, PhD

Scott & White and Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA

Terje Alraek

The National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Oslo, Norway

Waddah A. Alrefai, MD

Section of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

Domenico Alvaro, MD

Department Scienze e Biotecnologie Medico-Chirurgiche, Latina, Italy

Guillermo Antonio Díaz-Araya, PhD

Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Pharmacological and Toxicological Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Chile, Santos Dumont 964, Independencia, Chile

Praveen R Arany, PhD

Oral Biology & Biomedical Engineering, School of Dental Medicine, Engineering & Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

Wilbert S. Aronow, MD

New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA

Paolo A. Ascierto, MD

Unit of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Innovative Therapy, National Tumor Institute Fondazione G. Pascale, Naples, Italy

Francesco Atzori, MD

Director of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Unit, Cottolengo Hospital, Turin, Italy

Riccardo Autorino, MD, PhD

Division of Urology, VCU Health System, 1200 East Broad st., Richmond, VA, USA

Yongping Bai, MD

Department of Geriatric Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Jan Bakker

Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care, NYU Langone Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Mark W. Ball

Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Colin J. Barnstable, D.Phil.

Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.

Matthias Bartneck, PhD

Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany

Joshua I. Barzilay, MD

Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

David G. Beer, PhD

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Massimiliano Berretta

Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, IRCCS, Aviano (PN), Italy

Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Laurent Bertoletti, MD, PhD

Groupe d'Etude Multidisciplinaire sur les Maladies Thrombotiques (GEMMAT), Lyon, France Médecine Vasculaire et Thérapeutique, Hôpital Nord, Saint-Etienne, France

Jan Beyer-Westendorf

University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Germany

Anil Bhave, PT

Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Rubin Institute, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

Fausto Biancari, MD, PhD

University of Turku and University of Oulu, Finland.

Elena Bignami

Full Professor Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Division, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Gal Bitan, PhD

Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Brain Research Institute, and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Kenneth Blum, BSc., M.Sc., PhD, DHL

Division of Addiction Research & Education, Center for Psychiatry, Medicine & Primary Care (Office of Provost), Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA

Michael J. Boivin, PhD, MPH

Psychiatry and Neurology & Ophthalmology, Michigan State University; Neuropsychology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Warren Boling

Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA.

Mitesh J. Borad

Division of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Jacek Borawski, MD, PhD

Department of Nephrology and Transplantation with Dialysis Unit, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland

Stergios Boussios

Acute Oncology Assessment Unit, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Windmill Road, Gillingham ME7 5NY, Kent, UK

Heather L Bradley-Franci, PhD

Scott & White and Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA

Christian Brander, MD

IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute - HIVACAT, Badalona, Spain

Luka Brcic, MD, PhD

Diagnostic & Research Center for Molecular BioMedicine, Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Lizzy Brewster, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Creatine Kinase Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alexandros Briasoulis, MD, PhD

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, 200 Hawkins Dr, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

Marie Budev, MD

Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Sandeep Burma, PhD

Division of Molecular Radiation Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2201 Inwood Road, NC7.208, Dallas, TX 75390, USA

Sebastiano Buti

Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma , Parma , Italy

Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neurosciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Federico Cabitza, PhD

Department of Informatics, University of Milano-Bicocca; Scientific Department, IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milan, Italy

Lu Cai

Kosair Children's Hospital Research Institute, the Departments of Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA

Ali Canbay

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Taige Cao, MBBS, MRCP(UK)

National Skin Centre, Singapore

Thierry Carrel, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland.

Gianfranco Cervellin, MD

Chief Physician, Emergency Department, Academic Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

Mariusz Chabowski, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, 4th Military Teaching Hospital, Weigla 5, 50-981 Wroclaw, Poland

Renjie Chai, PhD

Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Krishnan V. Chakravarthy, MD, PhD

Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

Dhyan Chandra, PhD

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, BLSC-Center for Genetics and Pharmacology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA

Joe Y. Chang

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Anthony C. Chang, MD

The Sharon Disney Lund Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3) Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA, USA

Anne B. Chang, PhD

Child Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Saurabh Chattopadhyay, PhD

University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, USA

Marcio F. Chedid

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Medical School of UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Prof. Tianhui Chen

Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine (ICBM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Department of Cancer Prevention, Cancer Hospital of the University of CAS (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital); Zhejiang Provincial Office for Cancer Prevention and Control, Zhejiang Cancer Center, Hangzhou, China

Gang Chen, MD, PhD

Department of Endocrinology, Fujian Provincial Hospital, China

Jiezhong Chen, PhD

School of Biomedical Sciences and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia

Fiona Xiangyan Chen, PhD, MD

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong

Glenn Matthew Chertow

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Ping Chi, MD, PhD

Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA; Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA; Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA

Martin K. (Casey) Childers, PhD

University of Washington, Seattle Washington, USA

Hayoung Choi, MD, PhD

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Ming Chu, MD

Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China; The Affiliated Taizhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Taizhou School of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing Medical University

Sheng-Hua Chu, MD

Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai 3rd Peopleۥs Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Danny Chu, MD, FACS

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Abbot (Abe) Clark, PhD, FARVO

North Texas Eye Research Institute, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Jordan M. Cloyd, MD

Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, USA; Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, USA

Fabrice Cognasse, PhD, HDR

Etablissement Français du Sang Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Saint-Étienne, France

Kristine Cornejo, MD

Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55, Boston, MA, USA

Javier Cortés, MD, PhD

Head, Breast Cancer Program, IOB Insititute of Oncology, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain Clinical Investigator, Breast Cancer Research Program Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain

Guanghai Dai, PhD

Medical Oncology Department, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Wei Dai, PhD

Departments of Environmental Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA

Marcelo Gama de Abreu, MD, PhD

Pulmonary Engineering Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Joaquin de Haro, MD, PhD

Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, Getafe University Hospital, Getafe, Madrid, Spain

Ronald E. Delanois, MD

Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopaedics, Center for Joint Preservation and Replacement, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 2401 West Belvedere Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21215, USA

Linhong Deng, PhD

Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China

Keertan Dheda, MD, PhD

Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

Zheng Ding, MD

President of The Affiliated Nanjing Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Gianlorenzo Dionigi, MD, FACS

Division for Endocrine Surgery, Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi’', University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Via C. Valeria 1, 98125, Messina, Italy

Alexander Dobrovic, PhD

Translational Genomics and Epigenomics Laboratory, Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

Joanna Domagala-Kulawik, MD, PhD

Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

Yuyou Duan, PhD

Institutes for Life Sciences, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Rami Eliakim, MD

Head, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Chaim Sheba Medical Centre, Ramat-Gan, Professor of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Francisco J. Enguita, B.Pharm., PhD

Cardiomics Unit, Centro de Cardiologia da Universidade de Lisboa (CCUL), Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Laura Evangelista

Nuclear Medicine Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Padua, Italy

Alfonso García Fadrique

Valencian Inst Oncol, Gen & Digest Surg, Prof Beltran Baguena 8, Valencia 46009, Spain

Marco Falasca, PhD

Professor of Metabolism, Metabolic Signalling Group, Curtin Medical School, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Yun Fan, MD

Department of Thoracic Medical Oncology, The Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Zhejiang Caner Hospital), Hangzhou, China

Dongsheng Fan, MD, PhD

Neurological Department of Peking University Third Hospital, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Albert Farrugia, BSc, PhD (Edin)

The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Cristiano Fava, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Emanuela Felley-Bosco, PhD, PD

Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Lungen- und Thoraxonkologie Zentrum, Zurich University Hospital, Labor 40E, Sternwartstrasse 14, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland

Mingxiang Feng, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Keith C Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA, FASH

Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Felicetto Ferrara, MD

Dipartimento di Ematologia e Trapianto di Cellule Staminali, Ospedale Cardarelli, Napoli, Italy

Ron Firestein, MD, PhD

Centre for Cancer Research, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, AU, Australia

Raja M. Flores, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, USA

George Fountzilas, MD

Department of Medical Oncology, “Papageorgiou” Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Pierfrancesco Franco, MD, PhD

Department of Oncology, Radiation Oncology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Richard E. Frye

Division of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Department of Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Weiling Fu, MD

Third Military Medical University, Southwest Hospital, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing, China

Valerio Gallotta, MD

Department of Woman, Child and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy. Dipartimento per le Scienze della salute della donna, del bambino e di Sanità Pubblica, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy.

Loïc Garçon, MD, PhD

Department of Constitutional Genetics, Centre de biologie Humaine, CHU Amiens, France

Paschalis Gavriilidis, MD, Msc, PhD

Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Queen Elizabeth University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, B15 2TH, UK.

Carmine Gazzaruso, MD, PhD

Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Diabetes and endocrine-metabolic Diseases Unit, Istituto Clinico Beato Matteo, Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, Vigevano, Italy

Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD

Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

Francesca Giampieri, PhD

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Sciences, Section Biochemistry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Ritu R Gill, MD, MPH

Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Pilar Giraldo, MD, PhD

Traslational Research Unit, Aragon Institute of Health Research (IISAragon), Zaragoza, Spain

Maria González Cao, MD

Department of Medical Oncology, Instituto Oncológico Dr Rosell (IOR), Hospital Universitario Quirón Dexeus, Barcelona, Spain

Amit Kumar Goyal, PhD

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. H. S. Gour University, Sagar, M.P., India

Ross Grant, PhD

The University of Sydney Medical School; The Australasian Research Institute, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Michał Grąt, MD, PhD

Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Zhi-Chun Gu, MD

Renji hospital, School of medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Zhongze Gu, PhD

School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, China

Fiorella Guadagni, MD, PhD

San Raffaele Rome University, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Research Center, Rome, Italy

Claude Guérin, MD, PhD

Intensive Care Medicine, Claude Bernard Lyon I University, Lyon, France; Head of the medical ICU, at Croix Rousse Hospital, Hospices Civils, Lyon, France

Cristian Guja, MD, PhD

Department of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

Andrew A. Gumbs

Department of Surgery, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. Chief Surgical Officer, Director of the Advanced & Minimally Invasive Surgery Excellence Center, American Hospital Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

Tao Guo, MD, PhD

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

Sudhir Gupta

Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, Medical Sci. I, C-240, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

Sushilkumar Gupta

Critical Care, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA

Nishant Gupta, MD, DABR

Department of Radiology, Columbia University at Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY, USA

Laura Gutiérrez

Platelet Research Lab, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Oviedo, Spain; Dept. of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Spain

Najia Hajjaj-Hassouni

International University of Rabat (UIR). Morocco

Balazs Halmos, MD

Clinical Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA

Waqar Haque, MD

Clinical Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College; Houston Methodist Research Institute; Houston Methodist West Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

Don Hayes Jr, MD, MS, Med

Section of Pulmonary Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Yong-Ming He (Matthew Y. He), MD, PhD

Division of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 899 Pinghai Ave., Gusu District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

Ludwig M. Heindl, MD, PhD

Center for Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Ophthalmic Oncology, Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Kathleen S. Hering-Smith, PhD

Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Avenue, #8545, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA

Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, MD, PhD

Cardiac Surgery Department, Heart Area, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

Keli Hippen, PhD

Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, USA

Jens Hoffmann, PhD

Experimental Pharmacology & Oncology Berlin-Buch GmbH (EPO), Berlin, Germany

Paul Hofman

Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Hospital, 30 avenue de la voie romaine, 06001 Nice Cedex 01, France

Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt, MD

Sana Clinic Group Franken, Department of Cardiology / Pulmonology / Intensive Care / Nephrology, ’’Hof’’ Clinics, University of Erlangen, Hof, Germany

Gábor Holló

Department of Ophthalmology, Semmelweis University, Mária u. 39, Budapest, 1085, Hungary.

Sang-Bum Hong

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Patrick Honoré, MD, PhD

VUB faculty of Medicine, Head of Clinics, ICU Dept, Director of Critical Care Nephrology Dept, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, VUB University, Belgium

Nobuyuki Horita, MD, PhD

5801 Nicholson Ln Apt #627, North Bethesda, MD 20852, USA.

Toru Hosoda, MD, PhD

Sakakibara Heart Institute, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

Po-Kuei Hsu, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei

Yihe Hu, MD

Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Xiangya Rd 87#, Kaifu district, Changsha 410008, China

Zhenhua Hu, MD

The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Yiwu, 322000, Zhejiang Province, China.

Xiao Hu, PhD

Physiological Nursing, Neurological Surgery, Institute of Computational Health Sciences, Core Member of Joint UC Berkeley – UCSF Bioengineering Program, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA

Fei Hua, MD (Endocrinology)

Department of Endocrinology, The First People’s Hospital of Changzhou & The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Dongsheng Huang, MD, PhD

Key Laboratory of Tumor Molecular Diagnosis and Individualized Medicine of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (People's Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College), Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Lisa Huang, PhD

MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY L.L.C., Hamilton, NJ, USA

Rudolf M. Huber, MD, PhD

University of Munich - Campus Innenstadt, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ziemssenstraße 1, D-80336 Munich, Germany

Shinsaku Imashuku, MD

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Division of Hematology, Uji-Tokushukai Medical Center, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

Hajime Isomoto, MD

Division of Medicine and Clinical Science, Department of Multidisciplinary Internal Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan

Iyad A Issa, MD

Head of Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

Edward J. Ciaccio, PhD

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology and the Celiac Disease Center, Columbia University, USA

Alireza Hamidian Jahromi

Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

Abhishek Jaiswal, MD

Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist-Hartford Hospital, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford, CT, USA

Barbara Jarzab, MD, PhD

Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland

Ammar A. Javed, MD

Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Francisco Javier Romero, MD, PhD

Requena General Hospital, Requena, Valencia, Spain; Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, the Universidad Europea de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Alicia Jenkins, MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCP

Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Yi-Zhou Jiang, MD (Breast Cancer)

Department of Breast Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Jorge Joven, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Unitat de Recerca Biomèdica (Biomedical Research Unit), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Hospital Sant Joan de Reus, Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Reus (Tarragona), Spain

Guarize Juliana, MD

Pulmonology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Jin-Man Jung

Division of Stroke, Department of Neurology, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Ansan, Korea.

Jan Trøst Jørgensen, PhD

The Dx-Rx Institute, Fredensborg, Denmark

Keita Kai, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Nabesima 5-1-1, Saga 849–8501, Japan

Lixin Kan, MD, PhD

Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA

Peter Kapitein, MD, PhD

Inspire2Live foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Holland

Kianoush Kashani, MD, MSc, FASN, FCCP

Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Siegfried Kasper, MD

Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Medical University of Vienna Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria

Yuki Kataoka, MD, MPH

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center, Higashinaniwacho, Hyōgo Prefecture, 660-8550 Amagasaki, Japan

Michael W. Kattan, PhD

Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Pardeep Kaurah

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Airazat M. Kazaryan, MD, PhD

Fonna Hospital Trust, Stord, Norway

Ronan J. Kelly, MD, MBA

Medical Director, Global Oncology, Johns Hopkins International; Director, Gastro-esophageal Cancer Therapeutics Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at John Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD

Department of Neurosciences, Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego Health System; Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, UC San Diego Health System, La Jolla, CA, USA

Zubair Khan

Department of Gastroenterology, University of Texas Health Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

Alexander N. Kharlamov, MD

De Haar Research Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ali Khoynezhad, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute, Los Angeles, USA

Jin-Sung Kim

Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul St. Mary´s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea

Hyun Koo Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Song Cheol Kim, MD, PhD

Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Ulsan University College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, 86 Asan Byeongwon-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea

Hideharu Kimura

Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Takara-machi 13-1, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920-8641, Japan.

Erik S. Knudsen

Center for Personalized Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA,Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA

Seong-Gyu Ko, MD(KM), PhD, MPH

Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Yusuke Kobayashi

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan

Alexander Kogan

Cardiac Surgical ICU, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Ramat Gan. Lecturer, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Qingzhong Kong, PhD

Departments of Pathology and Neurology, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Heebeom Koo, PhD

Department of Medical Lifescience, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea

Anastasios Koulaouzidis, MD, PhD

Professor (Affiliate), Department of Social Medicine & Public Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Igor Kozak, M.D., PhD, MSc.

Moorfields Eye Hospital Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Robert A. Kratzke

Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplant, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, MMC 480, 420 Delaware St, SE, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Kevin R. Krull, PhD

Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Yasusei Kudo, DDS, PhD

Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan

Ashutosh Kumar, PhD

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Dong Rak Kwon, MD, PhD

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

Sandro La Vignera

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Panagiotis Lainas

Department of Minimally Invasive Digestive Surgery, Antoine-Beclere Hospital, Paris-Sud University, Paris, France.

Dirk Lange, PhD

The Stone Centre at VGH, University of British Columbia, Canada

Giuseppe Lanza

Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy; Clinical Neurophysiology Research Unit, Oasi Research Institute-IRCCS, Troina, Italy.

Terra L. Lasho, PhD

Department of Hematology-Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Simona Lattanzi, MD

Neurological Clinic, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy

Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH

Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX, USA

Chiara Lazzeri, MD

Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy

Caterina Ledda, MSc, PhD

Clinical pathology and Clinical molecular biology Laboratory, Garibaldi Hospital of Catania, Italy

Myeong Soo Lee

Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine; University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.

Joseph Lee, MBBS, FRACP, FAANMS

Department of Medical Imaging, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

Chang Young Lee, MD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgey, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Myung-Shin Lee, MD, PhD

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea

Philippe Lehert, Ir, PhD

United Nations Hon Senior Consulting Statistician, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Melbourne, Australia; Faculty of Economics, UCL Mons, Louvain, Belgium

Stanley P. L. Leong, MD

Center for Melanoma Research and Treatment, Department of Surgery, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

Markus M. Lerch, MD, FRCP

Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Bo Li, MD

Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Zhiwei Li, MD, PhD

Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China

Hai-Feng Li, MD, PhD

Department of Neurology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China

Weiguang Li, PhD

Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China

Zhexiong Lian, MD, PhD

Institutes for Life Sciences and School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Ying Liang, MD, PhD

Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Shiaw-Yih Lin, PhD

Department of Systems Biology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Gregory YH Lip

Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, UK; Aalborg Thrombosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Denmark

Chao Liu, MD

Department of Orthodontics, the Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Medical College of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Mao Liu, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China

Heng Liu, PhD

Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Huichuan District, Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China

Lei Liu, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Jiyong Liu, PhD

Department of Pharmacy, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Pengda Liu, PhD

Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

Xiangdong Liu, PhD

Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Iuri Drumond Louro

Núcleo de Genética Humana e Molecular (NGHM), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Espírito Santo, Brazil

Chunye Lu, MD

Associate chief physician, deputy chief of the Department of Essential Surgery of Nanjing Jiangning Hospital, Nanjing, China

Ling Lu, MD, PhD

The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China

Brandon Lucke-Wold, MD, PhD

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.

J. Luis Lujan, PhD

Departments of Neurologic Surgery and Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

Bashir A. Lwaleed, PhD

School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK

Roger M. Leblanc, PhD

Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Jing Ma, MD, PhD

Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Dental Medicine Boston, USA

William MacNee, MD

ELEGI Colt Research Laboratories, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Lars Maegdefessel, MD, PhD

Experimental Vascular Surgery and Vascular Biology Laboratories, Technical University Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Munich Germany; Molecular Vascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine at the Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Jon Mallen-St. Clair

Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery, 8635 3rd Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA

Hirva Mamdani, MD

Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA

Akiko Mammoto, MD, PhD

Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Kwan Nancy Man, MBBS, MS, PhD

Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Francesco Mancuso, MD, PhD

Orthopaedics and Traumatology Surgeon, Orthopaedics and Traumatology Unit, Tolmezzo General Hospital, Tolmezzo (UD), Italy

Emilio Maseda, MD, PhD

Department of Anesthesiology and Surgical Critical Care, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain

Erminia Massarelli, MD, PhD, MS

Department of Medical Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA

Akihisa Matsuda, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Berardo Di Matteo, MD

Center for functional and biologic reconstruction of the knee, Humanitas Clinical and Research Institute, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

Didac Mauricio, MD PhD

Department of Endocrinology & Nutrition, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Philip McElnay, MBChB

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow ST2, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Newcastle University/South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Fanyin Meng, PhD

Scott & White Hospital, Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA

Ruoyu Miao

Liver Center and The Transplant Institute, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Marcello Migliore, MD, PhD, FETCS

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinic University Hospital, Catania, Italy

Naoki Misumida, MD

Department of Cardiology, Gill Heart & Vascular Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Partha Mitra, PhD

School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Translational Research Institute, Australia

Takuro Miyazaki

Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Faustino Mollinedo

Department of Molecular Biomedicine, Laboratory of Cell Death and Cancer Therapy, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Martina Montagnana, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Rodolfo Montironi

Section of Pathological Anatomy, School of Medicine, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, United Hospitals, 60126 Ancona, Italy.

Paolo Montuschi, PhD

Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Largo Francesco Vito, Rome, Italy

Dimitrios Moris

Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, 2310 Erwin Rd, 27710, Durham, NC, USA.

Maciej M. Mrugala

Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Debabrata Mukherjee, M.D., M.S., FACC, FAHA, FSCAI

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, USA

Takashi Murashita, MD

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Medical Center Drive Morgantown West Virginia, USA

David Murphy, MB

Division of Thoracic Radiology, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Phyo K. Myint, MBBS, MD

Epidemiology Group, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Marco Nardini, MD

Thorax Centre, St Bartholomew Hospital, London, UK

Gjin Ndrepepa, MD

Department of Adult Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany

Zhi Yang Ng

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Unaiza Niaz, MD

The Psychiatric Clinic & Stress Research Centre, 6 C, 7th Zamzama Commercial Lane, Phase V, D.H.A. Karachi, Pakistan

Hiroshi Nishiura

Department of Hygiene, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan

Nicola Normanno, MD

Cell Biology and Biotherapy Unit; Translational Research Department, INT Fondazione Pascale, Naples, Italy

Eva Obermayr, Dr. nat. techn.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Molecular Oncology Group, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Robert S. Ohgami

Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Rahmi Oklu

Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic 5777 E. Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Joshua D. Palmer, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, The James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Tanmay S. Panchabhai, MD, FACP, FCCP

Lung Cancer Screening Program; Pulmonary Fibrosis Center; Lung Transplant Program; John and Doris Norton Thoracic Institute; St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Athanasios G. Papavassiliou, MD, PhD

Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Dilip R. Patel, MD, MBA, MPH (General Pediatrics)

Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Louis C. Penning, PhD

Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Peter Petros

31/93 Elizabeth Bay Rd., Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011, Australia.

Professor Max Petrov, MD, MPH, PhD

Department of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Cesare Piazza

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maxillofacial and Thyroid Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS National Cancer Institute of Milan, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Carlos J. Pirola, PhD, FAHA, FASHG

Department of Molecular Genetics and Biology of Complex Diseases Director, Institute of Medical Research (IDIM) University of Buenos Aires-National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina

Josep M. Piulats, MD

Department of Medical Oncology, Genitourinary, Melanoma and Sarcoma Unit, Institut Català d’Oncologia, Gran Via 199-203, 08908 L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Eugenio Pompeo, MD

Sezione di patologia polmonare medica e chirurigca, Dipartimento di Biomedicina e Prevenzione, Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Cecilia Pompili, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Petra Popovics, PhD

Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, USA

José M. Porcel, MD, PhD, FACP, FCCP, FERS, FAPSR, FEFIM

Chief Department of Internal Medicine and Head of the Pleural Medicine Unit, Hospital Universitario Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain; Institute for Biomedical Research Dr Pifarre Foundation, Lleida, Spain; Professor of Medicine, Universidad de Lleida, Lleida, Spain