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Dr. María Herranz-López

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Instituto de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación en Biotecnología Sanitaria de Elche (IDiBE), Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), 03202 Elche, Spain
Interests: research on the molecular and metabolic bases of obesity, focusing on metabolic reprogramming, adipose tissue dysfunction, and the roles of adipokines, inflammation, and insulin resistance in metabolic disease; mechanisms linking obesity and cancer; adipocyte–tumor crosstalk and tumor microenvironment alterations in obesity-associated cancers; identifying diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers and metabolic vulnerabilities
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Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Herzig

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1. Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Szpitalna Str. 27/33, 60-572 Poznań, Poland
2. Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Aapistie Str. 5, 90220 Oulu, Finland
3. Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Aapistie Str. 5, 90220 Oulu, Finland
4. Medical Research Center, Oulu University Hospital, Aapistie Str. 5, 90220 Oulu, Finland
Interests: metabolic syndrome; obesity; diabetes; peptides

Dr. Martin Hill

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Department of Steroids and Proteofactors, Institute of Endocrinology, Národní 8, 116 94 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: steroids; steroidomics; chemometrics; neuroactive steroids; steroids and pregnancy; chromatography
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Prof. Dr. Hajime Hirase

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1. Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1172 Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Interests: astrocytic signaling; neural circuit; behavioral performance
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Prof. Dr. Majdi Hochlaf

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Head of Department of Physical, Chemical and Mechanical Sciences, Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallee, 77420 Champs-sur-Marne, France
Interests: theoretical chemistry, ab initio and DFT computations; IR UV-VIS and XUV spectroscopies; reactivity; quantum dynamics; gas surface interaction; astrochemistry

Dr. Dax A. Hoffman

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Molecular Neurophysiology and Biophysics Section, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Interests: dendrites; intrinsic excitability; learning and memory; synaptic plasticity; hippocampus; ion channels; voltage-gated potassium channels; neuronal development; Autism
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Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Hoffmann

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Animal Ecology I, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Interests: entomology; ecology; endocrinology; invertebrate biochemistry and physiology
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Dr. Martin Hohenegger

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Institut of Pharmacology, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Interests: cancer metabolism; amino acid signalling; signal transduction; G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs); ion channels; calcium-signalling; ryanodine receptor calcium release channels; melanoma; neuroblastoma; rhabdomyosarcoma; skeletal and cardiac muscle

Prof. Dr. Bent Honoré

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1. Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
2. Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: discovery based and targeted proteomics; tandem mass spectrometry; protein biomarkers; lymphoma; eye diseases; cardiovascular diseases
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Prof. Dr. Frederic Woodward Hopf

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Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Interests: addiction; emotion; neurocircuitry

Prof. Dr. John D. Horowitz

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Department of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5371, Australia
Interests: nitric oxide signalling; heart disease in women; cardiotoxicity/cardioprotection
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Dr. Keiko Hosohata

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Education and Research Center for Clinical Pharmacy, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki 569-1094, Japan
Interests: renal physiology; diabetic kidney disease; acute kidney injury; chronic kidney disease; proteinuria; hypertension; renal and renovascular hypertension; renal renin angiotensin system
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Dr. Anne Houdusse

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Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, CNRS, UMR 144, F-75005 Paris, France
Interests: actin; myosin; microtubule; kinesin; dynein; molecular motors; structural biology; muscle; cell trafficking; motility

Prof. Dr. Pavel Hozák

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Department of Biology of the Cell Nucleus, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the CAS, 142 20 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: cell nucleus; nucleolus; regulation of gene expression; epigenetics; nucleoskeleton; nuclear myosins; actin and phospholipids; lamins; laminopathies; phase separation; microscopy
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Prof. Dr. Patrizia Hrelia

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Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: neurodegeneration; neuroprotection; natural compounds; Alzheimer’s disease; Parkinson’s disease
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Prof. Dr. Maria Hrmova

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1. School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5064, Australia
2. School of Life Science, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai’an 223300, China
Interests: bioinformatics; biotechnology; enzymology; molecular modeling; plant transport proteins; protein structure-function; synthetic biology; X-ray crystallography
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Prof. Dr. Ilona Hromadnikova

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Department of Molecular Biology and Cell Pathology, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: pregnancy-related complications; pathogenesis; diagnosis/prognosis biomarkers; epigenetics; extracellular nucleic acids in maternal circulation; postpartum/postnatal short-term and long-term consequences
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Dr. Deanne H. Hryciw

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School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, UniSC Moreton Bay, 1 Moreton Parade, Petrie, QLD 4502, Australia
Interests: fetal programming; developmental origins of health and disease; maternal nutrition; placental function; essential fatty acids; linoleic acid; offspring cardiovascular function; cardiometabolic risk; cardio renal development; endocannabinoid signaling
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Prof. Dr. Wei Hsu

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Developmental Biology, ADA Forsyth Institute and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Interests: skeletal stem cell; bone; cartilage; skeletal regeneration; craniofacial defects; Wnt; BMP; FGF; small Ubiquitin-related modifier

Prof. Dr. Guan-Jhong Huang

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Department of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine Resources, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, No. 91, Hsueh-Shih Road, Taichung 40402, Taiwan
Interests: metabolic disorders; cancer; inflammation; oxidative stress; natural compounds; molecular signaling
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Dr. Longshuang Huang

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School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: lung disease; inflammation; regeneration; infection
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Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Huleihel

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1. The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
2. The Center of Advanced Research and Education in Reproduction (CARER), Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
Interests: male infertility; male fertility preservation; in vitro development of spermatogenesis; chemotherapy/irradiation and male infertility; cytokines/growth factors in the testis; acute myeloid leukemia and male infertility; rhree-dimension (3D) in vitro culture systems and spermatogenesis
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Dr. Hidayat Hussain

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Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg 3, D-06120 Halle (Salle), Germany
Interests: synthetic chemistry; natural product chemistry; medicinal chemistry; bioorganic chemistry
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Prof. Dr. Ui Wook Hwang

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Department of Biology Education, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
Interests: mitochondrial genome; animal diversity and evolution; molecular phylognenetics and evolution; arthropod phylogeny; endangered species
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Dr. Massimo Iacoviello

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Cardiology Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Viale Luigi Pinto 1, 71122 Foggia, Italy
Interests: cardiology; heart failure; cardiac arrest
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Dr. Gianluca Ianiro

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Dipartimento di Gastroenterologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: gastrointestinal endoscopy; gastrointestinal diseases; pancreatic diseases; inflammatory bowel disease; ulcerative colitis
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Dr. Federica Iavarone

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1. Dipartimento di Scienze Biotecnologiche di Base, Cliniche Intensivologiche e Perioperatorie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Rome, Italy 2. Fondazione Policlinico Universitario IRCCS “A. Gemelli”, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: human proteomics; metabonomics; small molecules; mass spectrometry; biomarkers
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Dr. Atsuhiko Ichimura

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Laboratory of Integrative Physiology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
Interests: Ca²⁺ signaling; membrane protein; receptor; ion channel; drug discovery; bone; chondrocyte; energy homeostasis
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Dr. Antonio Ieni

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Department of Human Pathology in Adult and Developmental Age “Gaetano Barresi”, Section of Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
Interests: molecular biology; pathology; epidermal growth factor receptors family; cancer
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Prof. Dr. Marc A. Ilies

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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Moulder Center of Drug Discovery Research, Temple University School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
Interests: medicinal chemistry; chemical biology; drug and nucleic acid delivery systems
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