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Announcements
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 |
