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30 June 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Members of International Journal of Molecular Sciences

The International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS, ISSN: 1422-0067) is pleased to announce that the following 100 researchers have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the IJMS community!
Name: Dr. Xin Li
Affiliation: DWI-Leibniz-Institute for Interactive Materials e.V., Forckenbeckstr. 50, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Research interests: biopolymers; nanomedicine; hydrogels; theranostics; biocatalysis
Name: Dr. Jiahui Zhu
Affiliation: Key Laboratory of Superlight Materials and Surface Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Research interests: extraction, separation, and purification of uranium in the ocean; study of the selective adhesion behavior of marine-fouling organisms; development of catalysts for hydrogen production using electrolytic water and a membrane electrode
Name: Dr. Giulia Bononi
Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Via Bonanno 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Research interests: small-molecule drug design; anti-cancer drugs; organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; cancer; enzymatic assays; structure–activity relationship (SAR)
Name: Dr. Lei Yan
Affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
Research interests: plants; adversity stress
Name: Dr. Rui Guo
Affiliation: Host–Pathogen Interaction Mechanism and Precision Medicine Team, National & Local United Engineering Laboratory of Natural Biotoxin, Apitherapy Research Institute, College of Bee Science and Biomedicine, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Research interests: host–pathogen/parasite interaction; non-coding RNA; epigenetics; transgene; omics; precision medicine
Name: Dr. Dušan Dimić
Affiliation: Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 12-16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Research interests: DFT; transition metal complexes; antioxidants; QTAIM, noncovalent interactions; reaction mechanisms; forensic chemistry; EPR; IR; Raman
Name: Dr. Bo Wang
Affiliation: Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Research interests: molecular mechanisms; lipid metabolism; human diseases; cancer
Name: Dr. Md. Jakaria
Affiliation: School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Research interests: cellular stress; cell death; neurotoxicity; neurodegeneration; neurotherapeutics
Name: Dr. Changling Wu
Affiliation: College of Food and Health, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forest University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Research interests: grain and oil storage and functional processing; high-value utilization of grain processing by-products
Name: Dr. Pooja Mittal
Affiliation: Division of Medical Oncology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Research interests: cancer; apoptosis; inhibitors; colorectal cancer; polymorphisms
Name: Dr. Zhen Zhang
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Research interests: synthesis and self-assembly of polymer materials; synthesis of upconversion nanoparticles; construction of advanced assemblies and their biomedical applications
Name: Dr. Dongwei Di
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.71 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210008, China
Research interests: auxins; gene expression; molecular cloning; gene regulation; transcription factors; protein–protein interaction
Name: Dr. Beatrice Polini
Affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Research interests: inflammation; neurodegeneration; microglia; obesity; cannabinoid receptor ligand
Name: Dr. Qi Su
Affiliation: Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Research interests: gut inflammation; precision nutrition; host–diet–gut microbiome interaction; immune response; pre/probiotics; nutritional epigenomics; intestinal microecology
Name: Dr. Simona Sagona
Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Via Bonanno 6, 56126, Pisa, Italy
Research interests: honeybees; bee products; diet; biochemistry; proteomic; enzymes; immune system; animals
Name: Dr. Jiang-Hui Wang
Affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, East Melbourne, VIC 3002, Australia
Research interests: AAV; capsid engineering; gene therapy; retinal diseases
Name: Dr. Matteo Bordoni
Affiliation: Cellular Models and Neuroepigenetics Unit-IRCCS Mondino Foundation, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Research interests: neurodegeneration; ALS; cellular models; iPSCs; 3D bioprinting; organoids
Name: Dr. Subhadeep Das
Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Research interests: RNA biology; human diseases; eukaryotic stress response; cancer biology; microbiology; cell biology; biochemistry; biomaterials
Name: Dr. Hongxun Tao
Affiliation: School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Research interests: edible medicinal botanicals; functional foods; natural products; pharmacology
Name: Dr. Kangyu Wang
Affiliation: College of Life Science, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
Research interests: plant genome; transcription factor family; functional genomics; methyl jasmonate treatment
Name: Dr. Vassilis Athanasiadis
Affiliation: Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Thessaly, Terma N. Temponera Str., 43100 Karditsa, Greece
Research interests: functional foods; polyphenols; antioxidants; public health; nutritional evaluation; natural product extracts
Name: Dr. Om Prakash Narayan
Affiliation: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Research interests: fungi; pathogens; plant pathology; PCR; molecular biology; microbiology; applied microbiology; proteomics
Name: Dr. Łukasz Szeleszczuk
Affiliation: Department of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Research interests: cyclodextrins; polymorphism; crystals; inclusion complexes; calculations; quantum mechanics; GIPAW, GIAO, CASTEP; phase transition
Name: Dr. Silvia Sfameni
Affiliation: Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials, ISMN-CNR, Palermo, c/o Department of ChiBioFarAm, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Research interests: material chemistry; nanotechnology; sol-gel chemistry; polymer science; hi-tech textiles; functional coatings; sustainability; stimuli-responsive polymers
Name: Dr. Changxia Li
Affiliation: College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, 100 East University Road, Xixiangtang District, Nanning 530004, China
Research interests: stress response; fruit ripening; quality regulation; plant hormones; signal molecules
Name: Dr. Giulia Rando
Affiliation: Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Analytical Sciences (ChiBioFarAm), University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Research interests: materials chemistry; green chemistry; nanotechnology; environmental remediation; advanced materials; filtration membranes; stimuli-responsive polymers; functional systems
Name: Dr. Yiwei Zhou
Affiliation: Environmental Horticulture Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Research interests: utilization and genetic breeding of or
Namental plant germplasm resources; integrated multi-omics analysis of the formation mechanisms of important traits; construction of efficient detection systems for aroma and color
Name: Dr. Ritesh Kumar
Affiliation: Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, USA
Research interests: abiotic stress; plant reproduction; thermotolerance
Name: Dr. Adil Majeed Rather
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
Research interests: bioinspired polymeric materials; superhydrophobic and superomniphobic surfaces; liquid crystal interfaces; slippery surfaces; oil–water separations
Name: Dr. Pablo Andrés Pérez Moreno
Affiliation: Programa de Comunicación Celular en Cáncer, Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina (ICIM), Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
Research interests: non-coding RNAs in cancer; long non-coding RNAs in cancer; prognostic biomarkers in cancer; treatment targets in cancer; molecular mechanisms of long non-coding RNAs in cancer; cancer stem cell phenotype
Name: Dr. Terenzio Cosio
Affiliation: Department of Laboratory Sciences and Haematological Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy
Research interests: medical mycology; microbiology; Trichophyton spp., Candida spp., Candida biofilm; psoriasis; biological drugs; risk infections; infectious adverse events
Name: Dr. Prashant Kumar
Affiliation: School of Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-NPL Campus, New Delhi 110012, India
Research interests: ferrites; ferrofluids; metal oxides; polymers; hybrid nanocomposites; magnetic thin films; 2-D material; spintronics; energy conversion; hyperthermia; MRI; EMI shielding; photocatalytic; magneto-optical devices
Name: Dr. Simone Palini
Affiliation: Ospedale “Cervesi” di Cattolica-AUSL Romagna, Via Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1, 47841 Cattolica, RN, Italy
Research interests: embryos; embryo cryopreservation; embryo culture cryopreservation; assisted reproductive technology; oocytes; endometriosis; reproductive biology; reproductive endocrinology; reproductive medicine
Name: Dr. Chen Wu
Affiliation: Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Research interests: applied chemistry; fine chemicals; catalytic materials.
Name: Dr. Guijie Lei
Affiliation: School of Agriculture, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China
Research interests: physiological and molecular mechanisms for the uptake, translocation, distribution, accumulation and detoxification of mineral elements in plants; breeding for new crop varieties with more safety, rich nutrition, high resilience, and environmental friendliness
Name: Dr. Lucia Vietri
Affiliation: Respiratory Diseases Unit, Emergency Department, University Hospital of Ferrara, 44124 Ferrara, Italy
Research interests: inflammation autoimmunity cellular immunology; T cell biology; inflammatory diseases; autoimmune disorders; chronic inflammation
Name: Dr. Diego Lopergolo
Affiliation: Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Senese-Policlinico Santa Maria alle Scotte, 53100 Siena, Italy
Research interests: rare neuromuscular disorders; rare genetic neurologic disease
Name: Dr. Jiachen Liu
Affiliation: School of medicine, Washington University in St. Louis
Research interests: genetics; multi-omics; system biology; drug development; musculoskeletal diseases; aging
Name: Dr. Laura Giannotti
Affiliation: Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, 73100, Italy
Research interests: regenerative medicine; cancer; antioxidants; neuroinflammation; transcription factors
Name: Dr. Mara Mădălina Mihai
Affiliation: Department of Oncologic Dermatology, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania, Elias Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
Research interests: bioactive materials; nanotechnology; targeted therapy; biologic therapy; chronic wounds; wound healing; chronic skin infections; microbial biofilms; skin cancer; melanoma
Name: Dr. Daniel Souza Monteiro de Araújo
Affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, Clinical Pharmacology and Oncology Section, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Research interests: neuroscience; pharmacology; ion channel; pain
Name: Dr. Handou Zheng
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, PCFM Lab, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Research interests: polyolefins; coordination polymerization; organometallic catalysts
Name: Dr. Federico Pio Fabrizio
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, “Kore” University of Enna, 94100 Enna, Italy
Research interests: epigenetics; molecular biology; lung cancer; DNA methylation; resistance
Name: Dr. Igor José dos Santos Nascimento
Affiliation: Laboratório de Desenvolvimento e Síntese de Fármacos, Departamento de Farmácia, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande 58429-500, Brazil
Research interests: medicinal chemistry; molecular modeling; computer-aided drug design
Name: Dr. Jyoti Bala Kaushal
Affiliation: Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine, Fred & Pamela Buffet Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
Research interests: cancer research; hormones; cell death; molecular alterations; cell signaling; tumor microenvironment; cellular plasticity; metabolism and endocrinology. I am particularly interested in exploring molecular patterns in normal physiology and disease biology, including cancer and related metastasis, through the lens of cell biology and proteomic approaches
Name: Dr. Pamela Swiatlowska
Affiliation: Myocardial Function, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, ICTEM, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Research interests: cardiovascular science; mechanobiology; atherosclerosis; heart failure; mechano-epigenetics
Name: Dr. Sukkum Chang
Affiliation: Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, 21702, USA
Research interests: drug resistance; cancer biology; cell signaling; inflammation; fibrosis
Name: Dr. Xiaodong Tan
Affiliation: Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
Research interests: bioinformatics; genetics; molecular biology
Name: Dr. Giusy Tassone
Affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Research interests: structural biology; X-ray crystallography; inorganic chemistry; cancer research; parasitic diseases; neurological disorders; β-lactamases; antibiotic resistance; pteridine reductase; heat shock protein 90; 14-3-3; bioinorganic chemistry; glutaminyl cyclase; bile acid binding protein
Name: Dr. Mohammad El Khatib
Affiliation: Unit of Basic and Applied Biosciences, Faculty of Bioscience and Agro-Food and Environmental Technology, University of Teramo, 64100 Teramo, Italy
Research interests: tendon; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; amniotic epithelial stem cells; adipose-derived stem cells; 3D bioengineering scaffolds; tendon regeneration; immunomodulation; in vitro models; mechanotransduction; electrospinning
Name: Dr. Amelia Salimonti
Affiliation: Research Centre for Olive, Citrus and Tree Fruit, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), 87036 Rende (Cosenza), Italy
Research interests: plant genetics; plant transcriptomics; association studies; phenotypic and molecular characterization of olive germplasm; micropropagation; floral biology; abiotic stress; studies about the effects of climate change in olive growing
Name: Dr. Antonio d’Amati
Affiliation: Anatomic Pathology Unit, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area, University of Bari, 70121 Bari, Italy
Research interests: pathology; molecular pathology; molecular oncology; neuropathology; CNS tumors; gynecological pathology
Name: Dr. David Osca
Affiliation: Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Estudios Ambientales y Recursos Naturales IUNAT, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Las Palmas, Spain
Research interests: molecular tools; genetics; phylogeny; barcoding; bioinformatics; mitochondrial genomes; genomics
Name: Dr. Giorgio Tofani
Affiliation: Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Research interests: paper and pulp technology; biorefinery concept; wood chemistry; lignin chemistry; green solvents; lignin-based resins; biomaterials
Name: Dr. Alexandr Ceasovschih
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iasi, Romania
Research interests: atherosclerosis; lipidology; inflammation; arterial stiffness; peripheral arterial disease; COVID-19
Name: Dr. Xuechen Yang
Affiliation: Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi, China
Research interests: microbial community diversity; soil carbon cycle; soil fertility; enzyme stability; greenhouse gases emission; global change; soil multifunctionality
Name: Dr. Longhai Zou
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A & F University, 666 Wusu Street, Hangzhou 311300, China
Research interests: stress tolerance of woody plants; epigenetics is involved in transcriptional regulation; functional studies of transcription factors; transcriptional regulatory networks; functional genomics
Name: Dr. Huaming Xi
Affiliation: 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
2. College of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Research interests: Chinese herbal extracts regulate fertility (male and female); autophagy in animal reproduction; sperm cryopreservation; spermatogonial stem cell differentiation and self-renewal
Name: Dr. Carlos Cruz
Affiliation: Department of Electronics, University of Alcala, 28871 Madrid, Spain
Research interests: sensors; detectors characterization; digital embedded systems; electronic design; data analysis
Name: Dr. Jaber Dehghani
Affiliation: Laboratoire GlycoMEV UR 4358, Université de Rouen Normandie, SFR Normandie Végétal FED 4277, Innovation Chimie Carnot, F-76000 Rouen, France
Research interests: microalgae; chlamydomonas; dunaliella; chlorella; microalgae biotechnology
Name: Dr. Nan Sun
Affiliation: National Engineering Research Center for Colloidal Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
Research interests: polymer materials; application of surfactants; self-assembly of short peptides; super-resolution imaging
Name: Dr. Na Wang
Affiliation: Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Research interests: neurodegeneration disease; Alzheimer’s disease
Name: Dr. Katerina Nikolouli
Affiliation: Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA Laboratories, 2444 Seibersdorf, Austria
Research interests: genetics; insects; pest control; mutagenesis; CRISPR/Cas9; genetic sexing strains
Name: Dr. Victor Zacharias Martin
Affiliation: Laboratory for Bone Metabolism and Regeneration, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-393 Porto, Portugal
Research interests: dentistry; bone graft; nanoparticles; periodontology; scaffolds; oral surgery; tetracyclines; drug delivery; cellular biology; cytocompatibility
Name: Dr. Elena Salvi
Affiliation: Department of Biology, Università di Pisa (UNIPI), 56126 Pisa, Italy
Research interests: plant morphogenesis; patterning; phytohormones; root development; petal development; Arabidopsis thaliana; Hibiscus trionum
Name: Dr. Gabriela Goujgoulova
Affiliation: Risk Assessment Center on Food Chain, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Research interests: animal viruses; zoonoses; virology, molecular biology; viral genetics; risk assessment; vaccines
Name: Prof. Dr. Leonardo Henrique Dalcheco Messias
Affiliation: Research Group on Technology Applied to Exercise Physiology—GTAFE, Health Sciences Postgraduate Program, São Francisco University, Bragança Paulista 12916-900, SP, Brazil
Research interests: exercise physiology; physical training; bioenergetics; metabolomics; systematic review; meta-analysis
Name: Dr. András Molnár
Affiliation: Fül-Orr-Gégészeti és Fej-Nyaksebészeti Klinika, Semmelweis Egyetem, Általános Orvostudományi KarBudapest, Szigony u. 36., 1083 Budapest, Hungary
Research interests: vestibular disorders; tinnitus; hearing loss; vertigo; olfactory disorders; obstructive sleep apnea; neurotology
Name: Dr. Carolina Conter
Affiliation: CIC bioGUNE (Center for Cooperative Research in Bioscience), Technological Park of Bizkaia, 48016 Derio, Spain
Research interests: biochemistry; enzymology; PLP-dependent enzyme
Name: Dr. Yong Wang
Affiliation: Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Quantitative Biology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Research interests: computational biophysics; membrane transporters; free energy calculations; molecular dynamics simulations
Name: Dr. He Yin
Affiliation: 1. Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA;
2. Organix LLC., 240 Salem St., Woburn, MA, USA
Research interests: organic chemistry; photochemistry; medicinal chemistry; material chemistry; biochemistry; nanomaterials; chemical engineering; polymer science
Name: Dr. Kenneth S. Hettie
Affiliation: Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Departments of Radiology (Interventional) and Head/Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Research interests: molecular imaging; nanoparticles; drug delivery; immunotherapy; glioblastoma; affi-/nanobody; bio-/molecular probes and sensors; fluorescence-guided surgery; near-infrared I/II fluorescence; image-guided surgery; surgical navigational technology; directed enzyme prodrug therapy (DEPT)
Name: Dr. Rachel E. Crossland
Affiliation: Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE2 4HH, UK
Research interests: extracellular vesicle; microRNA; extracorporeal photopheresis; transplantation; GvHD
Name: Dr. Vijay Kumar
Affiliation: Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Department of Surgery, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Research interests: tumor immunology; immunometabolism; innate immunity; sepsis; bacterial pathogenesis; pneumonia
Name: Dr. René Huber
Affiliation: Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
Research interests: monocytes/macrophages; resolution of inflammation; TNF; signal transduction; GSK3; transcriptional regulation; NF-κB; AP-1; rheumatoid arthritis
Name: Dr. Piotr Golec
Affiliation: Department of Molecular Virology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Research interests: phage molecular biology; phage display; phage therapy; bacteria–phage interaction analysis; new strategies in the treatment of MDR bacteria; phage-based nanoparticle synthesis
Name: Dr. Angela Stefanachi
Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy-Drug Sciences, University of Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
Research interests: Bcr-Abl inhibitors; HDAC inhibitors; CB2 modulators
Name: Dr. Gioacchin Iannolo
Affiliation: Department of Research, IRCCS ISMETT (Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione), 90100 Palermo, Italy
Research interests: neural stem cells; glioblastoma stem cells; cancer stem cells; Zika virus; nervous system development; brain; cancer
Name: Dr. Daniele Bottai
Affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Section of Pharmacology and Biosciences, University or Milan Assistant, Via Balzaretti 9, 20133 Milan, Italy
Research interests: neural stem cells; glycosphingolipids; neurological diseases
Name: Dr. Jessie Qiaoyi Liang
Affiliation: Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Centre for Gut Microbiota Research, Faculty of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Science, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Research interests: microbiome in health and disease; human endogenous retroviruses; cancer genomics and epigenetics; biomarkers and molecular diagnostics
Name: Dr. Oleksii Skorokhod
Affiliation: Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, 10123 Torin, Italy
Research interests: cytochromes P450; CYP; malaria; lipid peroxidation; HETE; hydroxy nonenal; HNE; hemozoin; monocytes
Name: Dr. Shipra Malik
Affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Research interests: miRNA; gene therapy; cancer therapy; gene editing; nanoparticles; PLGA; peptide nucleic acids (PNAs); antisense oligonucleotides; tumor targeting; siRNA; RNA therapeutics
Name: Dr. Xiakun Chu
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Road, 104 Chemistry, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Research interests: protein folding; intrinsically disordered proteins; protein binding; protein–DNA recognition; chromosome dynamics; genome structure; energy landscape; coarse-grained model
Name: Dr. Flores Naselli
Affiliation: Department Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Research interests: nutrigenomics; epigenetics; genetics; gene expression; precision nutrition; nutrition in health
Name: Dr. Fernanda D.T.Q.S. Lopes
Affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Therapeutics/LIM-20, Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 01246-903, Brazil
Research interests: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; extracellular matrix; lung function; asthma; acute respiratory distress syndrome
Name: Dr. Maria Ricci
Affiliation: Nuclear Medicine Unit, Cardarelli Hospital, Campobasso, Italy
Research interests: nuclear medicine; oncology; neurology; theranostic; positron emission tomography
Name: Dr. Yunpeng Gai
Affiliation: School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Research interests: gene editing technology and precision molecular breeding; population genomics; molecular biology
Name: Dr. Carmen Ciavarella
Affiliation: Laboratory of Clinical Pathology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
Research interests: mesenchymal stem cells; cardiovascular disease; atherosclerosis; microRNA; cell differentiation; endothelial to mesenchymal transition (End-MT); inflammation; PPAR-γ
Name: Dr. Nikolaos A. Papanikolaou
Affiliation: Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Department of Medicine, Section of Biological Sciences and Preventive Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, 54124 Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Research interests: biochemistry; biophysics; molecular biology; protein bioengineering; protein docking; computational biology
Name: Dr. Andrea Martini
Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera-Università Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padova, Italy
Research interests: liver cirrhosis; hepatocellular carcinoma; portal hypertension
Name: Dr. Juliana Moreira Mendonça Gomes
Affiliation: Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10461, USA
Research interests: zebrafish
Name: Dr. Gianluca Santamaria
Affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany
Research interests: bioinformatics; cancer-related genes
Name: Dr. Wioletta Rozpędek-Kamińska
Affiliation: Department of Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical University of Lodz, 92-215 Lodz, Poland
Research interests: polymers; restorative dentistry; bioactive dental materials; cell culture; apoptosis; cell signaling; Western blot analysis; PCR; molecular cell biology; cancer biology; gene expression; electrophoresis; tissue culture
Name: Dr. Kausik Bishayee
Affiliation: Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea
Research interests: oncology; signaling pathways; metabolism; RNA-binding proteins; mTORC1; cancer cell biology; pharmacology; neurotoxicity; neocortex development; autophagy
Name: Dr. Ilenia Calcaterra
Affiliation: Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
Research interests: gene therapy; rare disease; advanced therapies; gene expression
Name: Dr. Chiara Zagni
Affiliation: Department of Drug Science, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy
Research interests: pharmaceutical chemistry; drug design; medicinal chemistry; cryogel synthesis; water purification
Name: Dr. Rui Ribeiro
Affiliation: LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Research interests: separation processes; process intensification; adsorption; CO2 capture; biogas upgrading
Name: Dr. Hao Wu
Affiliation: School of Food Science and Bioengineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China
Research interests: synthetic biology; metabolic engineering; protein engineering
Name: Dr. Grazia Marinelli
Affiliation: Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70124 Bari, Italy
Research interests: clinical dentistry; restorative dentistry; esthetic dentistry
Name: Dr. Matteo Perra
Affiliation: Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, University Campus, S.P. Monserrato-Sestu Km 0.700, Monserrato, CA 09042, Italy
Research interests: liposomes; nanodrug delivery; antioxidants; cosmeceuticals; nutraceuticals; skin delivery; nanovesicles