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6 February 2026
Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Genes in 2025


The editorial office of Genes would like to extend its sincere gratitude to all reviewers who contributed to the improvement of the journal quality by providing their expert opinion and evaluation of the submitted research.

We appreciate that thorough peer review demands considerable time and intellectual investment from our reviewers. In 2025, Genes received 6450 review reports from contributors across 64 countries and territories, demonstrating the breadth of international expertise and scholarly engagement that has strengthened our publication standards.

The reviewers who agreed to have their names published this year are listed below in alphabetical order by first name. The editorial team acknowledges with gratitude all reviewers, named and anonymous alike, for their vital role in maintaining the scholarly standards of Genes.

A. N. M. Mamun-Or-Rashid Krystyna Oracz
Abdelkader Heddar Krzysztof Piotr Piotr Michalak
Abdelrahman M Attia Kui Zhang
Abel Emanuel Moca Lara Baticic
Abheepsa Mishra Laura Mendes Cainé
Abhisek Ghosal Lavrentii Danilov
Aditya Kshirsagar Laxmikanta Khamari
Adomas Ragauskas Lei Huang
Adrian Christopher Brennan Leon Muntean
Adriana Cristina Urcan Leonardo Cesanelli
Agata Leszczuk Leopold Eckhart
Agnieszka Chrustek Leszek Sieczko
Ahad Ahmed Kodipad Leyland Fraser
Ala E. Abudabos Li Shu
Alba Timon-Gomez Lidia Larizza
Alberta Rosa Mandich Liqing Zang
Alberto Francisco Fameli Lisa Dellefave-Castillo
Alejandro Chamizo Ampudia Ljiljana Kuzmanovic
Alejandro Romero Loai A. Shakerdi
Aleksandra Suchanecka Loai Shakerdi
Ales Kovarik Longping Yao
Alessandra Alessiani Loredana Sabina Cornelia Manolescu
Alessandra Ferramosca Lorenzo Franceschetti
Alessandra La Pietra Louise Ferguson
Alessandro Ciarloni Luca Giacomelli
Alessandro Messina Luca Morandi
Alessia Perna Lucia Capasso
Alessio Ardizzone Lucjusz Zaprutko
Alexander E. Berezin Luisa Garofalo
Alexandra Ban-Cucerzan Luisa Mota-Vieira
Alexandru Dan Costache Luka Bulić
Alexey Makunin Łukasz Szeleszczuk
Alexis Marchesini M. Belén Alonso Ortiz
Ali Imami Madhu Sudhana Saddala
Alin Codrut Nicolescu Magdalena Mroczek
Aline Daniele Tassi Maharshi Bhaswant
Allison M. Greaney Maikel Castellano-Pozo
Almudena V. Merchan Maja Boczkowska
Amanda C. Winters Maksym Skrypnyk
Amber Hassan Malcolm Whiteway
Amit K. Maiti Małgorzata Blatkiewicz
Amit Kumar Tripathi Mana Mohan Mukherjee
Amit Manhas Manjit Panigrahi
Amro Abd Al Fattah Amara Maoshen Sun
Ana Djordjevic Māra Pilmane
Ana I. Faustino-Rocha Marc Girondot
Ana Isabel Roca Fernández Marcel Oliver Schmidt
Ana Luísa De Sousa-Coelho Marcin Ratajewski
Ana Sanchez-Rodriguez Marek Chyc
Anastasios Potiris Maria Inês Guimarães
Anastassia Zabrodskaja Maria Manuela Rosado
Anca Cighir Maria Rosaria D'Apice
An-Di Yim Maria Saiz
Andras Rab Mariaevelina Alfieri
Andrea Dardis María-José Argente
Andrea Latini Marianna Miliaraki
Andreea Kui Maria-Theresia Stergiou-Gekenidis
Andrei Cristian Grădinaru Marin Ogorevc
Andrew Yeudall Marina Mordenti
Andrey Grigoriev Marina Piscopo
Andrzej Kasperski Marina Souza Cunha
Andualem Tonamo Tema Mario García-Domínguez
Angelina Nunziata Mariusz Niemczyk
Anita M. Quintana Mariya Levkova
Anita M. Oberbauer Mark Benecke
Anitha Jayapalan Mark Widrlechner
Anna Barbaro Marko Bašković
Anna Koseniuk Marko Vuletić
Anna Maria Grzywacz Martin Schmidt
Annamaria Sapuppo Martin Stimpfel
Annette Mccoy Martina Torricelli
Anoop Alex Marzena Sujkowska-Rybkowska
Ante Ivankovic Masaki Nagaya
Antonella Minelli Massimiliano Bergallo
Antonia Charalampos Mataragka Matan Shelomi
António Andrade Vicente Mateusz Labudda
Antonio Díez-Juan Matjaž Kopac
Antonio García-Tabernero Matthias Eckhardt
Antonio Malvaso Maurizio Badiani
Antonio Molina Mayra Eduardoff
Argyrios Periferakis Mayra Martinez Sanchez
Arkadiusz Artyszak Md. Nashir Uddin
Arvind Kumar Shukla Megan H. Hagenauer
Asim Abbasi Mehmet Ulas Çınar
Athanasios A. Panagiotopoulos Menelaos Zafrakas
Atif Adnan Michael Catto
Atrayee Ray Michael Ganzle
Austin Bow Michael P. Grant
Avinash Chandel Michael Stephen Adamowicz
Balasaheb Borade Michele Paolantonio
Barbara Brunetti Michelle Yoo
Barbara Viljetic Miglena Nikolova Revalska
Bartosz Jan Płachno Miguel Angel Alcalde
Behnoush Abedi Ardekani Miguel Rebollo-Hernanz
Berk Baris Ozmen Mikhail Kolev
Bert Hoeksema Milena Matuszczak
Biagio Santella Minerva Codruta Badescu
Bin Wang Minesh Patel
Boel De Paepe Mircea Stoian
Bohua Zhang Mizanur Rahman
Bojin Bojinov Mohamed Ashraf Eltokhy
Boleslaw T. Karwowski Mohamed Elhawy
Božana Lončar Brzak Mohamed Kamal
Briallen Lobb Mohammad Taheri
Brigitta Tóth Monika Fekete
Bruno António Cardoso Morris Maduro
Burhan Shamurad Moumita Chakraborty
Byeong Cheol Moon Muhammad Aamir Iqbal
Byrappa Ammagarahalli Muhammad Farooq Siddique
Calin Mircea Gherman Muhammad Sohail Khan
Camelia Alexandra Coada Muntean Calin
Canjia Zhai Mussa Makran
Carlo Boselli Naga Veera Srikanth Vallabani
Carlos Alberto Jurado Nagendra Verma
Carlos Fajardo Quiñones Nai-Yun Sun
Carlos Reis Nam Hoang Tran
Carmine Marcone Nana Kalafati
Catalin Andrei Bulai Narasimha S. Lakka
Cecilia Taverna Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian
Cees Noordam Nasratullah Habibi
Chang Liu Natale Calomino
Changeon Park Natália M. De Oliveira
Charles Brockhouse Natalia Rosiak
Chen Wang Natalia Tsoneva Grigorova
Chenghao Chen Nattan Stalin
Chengwen Sun Navin Kumar
Chetta Massimiliano Neculaí Patriche
Chibuisi Gideon Alimba Nela Kelam
Chieh-Hsiang Yang Nevenka Ćelepirović
Chih-Wei Zeng Nguyen Hong Nguyen
Chiraz Ziadi Nicola Alberto Valente
Chol-Hee Jung Nicola Ielapi
Chornghorng Lin Nicoletta Cera
Christian Anumudu Nidhi Puranik
Christian Posbergh Nikolai Paul Pace
Christian Tellgren-Roth Nikolaos Antonakopoulos
Christiane Branlant Nikolaos Settas
Christine Nardini Nikolaos Tsekouras
Christoph Weigel Nikoleta Bizymi
Christos Fragoulis Niloy Chandra Sarker
Christos Yapijakis Nivedhitha Velayutham
Chryssanthi Antoniadou Nora Hosny
Chuanyun Xu Norbert Bencsik
Clara Martínez Pérez Nour Fattouh
Claudia Greco Noura Ahmed
Claudia Ricci O. Casanova-Carvajal
Claudia Trignano Oleksii Skorokhod
Claudio Barbeito Oliver Ramos
Conrado Jr Dueñas Oludotun Adelusi
Constantino Ricci Omer S. Karrar
Cristian Ichim Orsolya Borsai
Cristian-Alin Barbacariu Oscar Campuzano
Cyrus Motamed Oxana Zhigileva
Danai Veltra Pablo Santamarina-Ojeda
Dang-Khoa Vo Panagiotis Mallis
Daniel C. Williams Paola Ruffo
Daniel García-Souto Paolo Fagone
Daniel Miron Brie Paolo Scanagatta
Daniel Piotr Zalewski Paolo Zambonelli
Daniela Vrinceanu Parijat Sarkar
Daniele De Luca Parisa Gazerani
Danuta Januszkiewicz-Lewandowska Paul David
Danyang Chen Pawan Kumar
Dario Siniscalco Paweł Solarczyk
David Haymer Pedro Rodrigues
David P Lin Pei Li
David Richard Sargan Penka Petrova
David Snyder Pepe Ludovica
Davide Corà Petar Ozretić
Débora Tomazi Pereira Peter Frost
Deborah Good Peter Lunt
Dejin Zheng Peter Moono
Demetrios Arvanitis Petya Koycheva Hristova
Desislava Abadjieva Photini V. Mylona
Diego Lopergolo Pierre Tennstedt
Dikshat Gopal Gupta Pierre-Simon Jouk
Dipendra Shahi Pinelopi Samara
Dirk Geerts Piotr Jurka
Dirk Montag Piotr Szymczyk
Diwakar Guragain Poulami Sarkar
Doaa El Hadedy Pradeepraj Durairaj
Domenico Lio Prashant Singh
Don Arthur Leigh Prasun Kumar
Donatella Degl'Innocenti Pravin Hivare
Donghyun Lee Priyanka Sinha
Doreen Becker Przemysław Hałubiec
Dorota Formanowicz Przemysław Kasiak
Douglas Duane Rhoads Rachel Heda-Joy Forrest
Dr Mohammad Mofatteh Radoslaw Bednarek
Dražen Bedeković Radu Andrei Moga
Dušan Terčič Rafael Tesorero
Eddie H. P. Tan Raffaele Pellegrino
Edris Choupani Raffaella Margherita Zampieri
Eduardo J Gudiña Rajendra Rohokale
Ekateina Kozuharova Rajesh Durairaj
Elena Apostolova Rajesh Kumar Kar
Elena Botta Rakhee Rathnam Kalari Kandy
Eleni-Marina Kalogirou Ramachandran Prakasam
Elina Marinho Raquel Francés
Elizabeth Vafiadaki Ratnakar Tripathi
Elke Albrecht Raul Pașcalău
Elshafia Ali Hamid Mohammed Ravi Chidambaram
Eman G. Youssef Ravi Maharjan
Emilia Severin Ray Lee
Emiliana Giacomello Rebecca Creamer
Emilio Cervantes Reka Borka Balas
Emmanouil Magiorkinis Renata Tobiasz-Salach
Eric Allemand Renfang S. Taylor
Eric Huet Rex Jeya Rajkumar Samdavid Thanapaul
Eric Weh Ricardo Gil-Ortiz
Erinija Pranckeviciene Richard G. Boles
Eszter Virág Rituraj Khound
Ettore Randi Roberta Milone
Eugenia Yiannakopoulou Robin Edward Everts
Eva-Maria Geigl Roger Grand
Evgeny Genelt-Yanovskiy Roger Sm Chong
Evgeny V. Mavrodiev Rohan Gupta
Ewa M. Urbanska Rohit Kumar
Ewa Ziółkowska Romil Parikh
Ezhaveni Sathiyamoorthi Rosario Barranco
Fabio Faucz Roshan Thapa
Fabio Muniz De Oliveira Roxana Liana Lucaciu (Stan)
Fabio Oldoni Rudy Celeghin
Fatin Jannus Rui Vitorino
Federico Manuel Giorgi Ruslan Kalendar
Felicia Andresen S. V. G. Nirosha Priyadarshani
Felipe Martelli Sabina Sevcikova
Felix Javier Jiménez Jiménez Sabrina Tosi
Feng Cheng Sagar Salave
Feng Kong Sahil Inamdar
Ferenc Orosz Sahiti Chukkapalli
Ferihan Ahmed-Popova Salvador Ibanez-Mico
Fernando Martínez-Moreno Salvador Pérez-Muñoz
Fernando Mata Salvatore Saccone
Filippos Gerasimos Filippatos Samirul Bashir
Filomena Mazzeo Sanjeev Kumar Yadav
Fiorenzo Moscatelli Sara C. Zapico
Flavia Villani Sara Diogo Gonçalves
Flora N. Balieva Sara Frazzini
Florin Stan Sarabjit Mastana
Francesca Pacifici Sarfaraz K. Niazi
Francisco J. Del Castillo Sargol Mazraedoost
Frane Paic Šarlota Kaňuková
Frank Guzman Sasitaran Iyavoo
Frederik Loewenstein Sathishkumar Natarajan
Fumiaki Uchiumi Saverio Cosola
Fumihiko Kakizaki Sebastian Mertowski
Gabor Zsivanovits Seonghwan Hwang
Gabriela Goujgoulova Sergey Prykhozhij
Gabriele Toietta Sergii Babichev
Gabrielle Rudolf Seung Youn Lee
Gaëtan Guignard Shantanu Kundu
Gaetano Gallo Sharmila Ghosh
Galya Georgieva-Tsaneva Shedrach Benjamin Pewan
Gaofeng Zhou Sheetal Ramekar
Gauri Mankekar Shihori Tanabe
Gebremeskel Mamu Werid Shin-Ichi Ito
Geoffrey Keith Chambers Shivani Srivastava
George Imataka Shuhei Suzuki
George Paraskevas Sikandar Amanullah
Georgia G. Braliou Silvana Alfei
Georgică Târtea Simona Marc
Georgios Pampalakis Simona Sciuto
Gertrude-Emilia Costin Simran Maggo
Gheorghe Solcan Sławomir Mitrus
Gil Fraqueza Smitha George
Giorgio Sodero Snježana Mardešić
Giovanni Luppino Sobia Idrees
Girish Kumar Srivastava Sofia Barbosa-Gouveia
Giuliano Anastasi Sofia Priyadarsani Das
Giuseppe Di Martino Somiranjan Ghosh
Giuseppe Petito Songlei Liu
Gordana Wozniak Knopp Sophia D. Sakka
Grażyna Gromadzka Sophia Letsiou
Guillaume Gotti Soumyadev Sarkar
H. Kang Spiros Vittas
Hafiz Muhammad Usman Aslam Spyros Foutadakis
Hajer Ben Ammar Srinivasu Karri
Hanna Panagiotopoulou Srividya Sreekantam
Hassan Rasouli Ssu-Ju Li
Hatem El-Shanti Stefania Zampatti
Hayden A. M. Hatch Stella M. Valenzuela
Helen Kalorizou Stéphanie Lacotte
Hemant Kumar Prajapati Stephen Inbaraj Baskaran
Hideaki Takahashi Stephen M. Modell
Hideyuki Ito Stergios Boussios
Hiroaki Kodama Subhadeep Das
Hiroshi Sakaue Subhash Chandra Sethi
Hiroyuki Noda Sudhir Verma
Hiu Chuen Lok Sumedha Nitin Prabhu
Hoang Phuc Trinh Sung-Min Kang
Holger Zetzsche Suong Ha
Hope M. Amm Surjeet Kumar Arya
Hua Zhang Svetla Gateva
Hugo Martiniano Swapna Priya Rajarapu
Hye-Mi Lee Swarna Kanchan
Ilaria Palmieri Swati Dahariya
Ildus I. Ahmetov Swetha K. Godavarthi
Ilenia Azzena Syed Haris Omar
Ilva Trapina Szymon Janczar
Iman Mirmazloum Szymon Suwała
Inês Lopes Cardoso Tabish H. Khan
Inna Tulaeva Tadashi Nakagawa
Ioan Hutu Tadeusz Malewski
Ioana-Miruna Balmus Takumi Ogawa
Ioana Mozos Tamar Ben-Yosef
Ioannis Dagklis Taras P. Pasternak
Ioannis Dragatsis Tatiana Iov
Ioannis Drygiannakis Teodora Telecan
Ioannis Voutsadakis Teresa Bellón
Ionica Iancu Teresa M. Gunn
Irene Ottaviani Teru Kamogashira
Isaac Ceballos Lenza Theodoros Spinos
Isaac Hyeladi Malgwi Theofanis Vavilis
Isabel Marques Theofilos Kanavos
Isabella Russo Thi Sinh Vo
Ismail Abdullahi Thomas G. Orton
István Egerszegi Thomas Hays
I-Ta Lee Thomas Pincez
Ivo Nikolaev Sirakov, Phd Timothy Artlip
Iyyakkannu Sivanesan Tiziana Maria Sirangelo
Izabela Mlynarczuk-Bialy Tomassone Diego
Jacob Toth Tomasz M. Chmiela
Jadwiga Gaździcka Tomasz Maciag
Jae Hwan Lee Tomasz Marcin Hikawczuk
Jaime Morante Carriel Tomasz Płoszaj
Jakub Bargiel Tomasz Poplawski
Jakub Sawicki Tomoyoshi Komiyama
Jakub Skorupski Tomoyuki Mutoh
Jalil Ghassemi Nejad Toncho Penev
James C. L. Chow Toshihiko Yamada
Jasenka Wagner Tudor Borza
Jayeshbhai Chaudhari Tudor Sorin Pop
Jean-François Picimbon Tushar Saha
Jean-Marie Exbrayat Udaya Subedi
Jeff Kidd Upasna Srivastava
Jens Hahne Usman Sulaiman
Jeong-An Gim Valentina Ancuța Stoian
Jeremy Sweet Valentino Rački
Jerzy A. Lis Valentyna Meshkova
Jerzy Bełtowski Valerio Caputo
Jerzy Tadeusz Chudek Valerio Leoni
Jesus Garcia Laborda Van Giap Do
Jesús Mauricio Ernesto Hernández Méndez Varsha Ganesan
Jianan Zhao Vasileios Periklis Papadopoulos
Jiankai Luo Vasilia Fasoula
Jianshu Wang Vasiliy V. Pavlichenko
Jiaquan Yu Victor Cardoso-Jaime
Jing Xu Vijay Boggaram
Jingjing Tang Vikas Yadav
Joann Conner Vinaya Shetty
Joanna Bucka-Kolendo Vincent Laizé
João Pessoa Vincenza Gragnaniello
João Simões Vincenzo Grassia
John Berketa Violetta Katarzyna Macioszek
Jolanta Brożek Viswas Raja Solomon
Jon S Blevins Viviana Onofrei Aursulesei
Jong Min Lee Vladimir Vladimirov
Joonhong Park Walid Fakhouri
Jose Joaquin Merino Walter R. Schumm
Jose Luis Vega-Pla Weifang Liu
Jose M. Mulet Weinan Zhou
Jose Miguel Laffita-Mesa Wen Zhang
Jose Miguel Lazaro-Guevara Werner Giehl Glanzner
Joseph Amoah Wiktor Stopyra
Joyce Ching Mei Lam Wilhelm Peter Mistiaen
Juan Pablo Cerapio William Feng
Juan R. Coca William Franco Carneiro
Julian Nevado Wioletta Rozpędek-Kamińska
Justyna Dąbrowska Wi-Young So
Kaichi Huang Wladimir Bocca Vieira De Rezende Pinto
Kaili Fan Won Kyong Cho
Kaitlyn Dykstra Xi Chen
Kan Katayama Xiangbing Meng
Kang-Rae Kim Xiao Wang
Karel Allegaert Xiaochen Zhu
Karen Salazar Ximena Maria Muresan
Karolina Bajdak-Rusinek Xin Li
Karolina Gołąbek Xinru Qiu
Karolina Kopacz Xueqin Gao
Károly Pál Yanlong Ji
Kasireddy Sudarshan Yanning Zuo
Katalin Sipos Yaoxiang Li
Katarzyna Mądra-Gackowska Yasuo Imai
Katarzyna Nuc Yeuan Ting Lee
Kathryn Hentges Yifan Ma
Katya Vasileva Yingdong Zhu
Kazuhiko Nakadate Yong Han
Keisuke Ishizawa Yoshiro Koda
Kenji Ikehara Youssef Ahmad Hegazy
Kenji Saitoh Yu Zhou
Keren Xu Yubo Wang
Kevinn Eddy Yu-Chung Chiang
Khald Blau Yuhao Xie
Kirk Aj Stephenson Yukun Zhang
Klaus H. Hoffmann Yuting Wu
Konrad Andrzej Szychowski Yutong Wang
Konstantinos Vissarion Arsenopoulos Zehui Zhang
Konstantinos Zaralis Zenith Khashim
Kosuke Kojo Zhenhao Liao
Krap Tristan Zhidong Zhou
Krishna Kishore Mahalingan Zhiyuan Yang
Krishna Kumar Ganta Zhuang Wang
Kristen Parker Parker Gaddis Žiga Laznik
Kristina Kuprina Zigmantas Gudžinskas
Kristina Ložienė Zigomar Da Silva
Krisztián Frank Zoia Arshad Awan

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