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Prof. Dr. Claudiu T. Supuran Section Editor-in-Chief Neurofarba Department, Sezione di Scienze Farmaceutiche e Nutraceutiche, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) 50019, Italy Tel. +39-055-4573729/3005; Fax: +39-055-4573385 Website \| E-Mail Interests: drug design; metalloenzymes; carbonic anhydrases; anticancer agents; antiinfectives; sulfonamides; coumarins Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Molecules: Structure-Based Drug Design Special Issue in Metabolites: Cancer Metabolomics 2016 Special Issue in Pathogens: Pathogen Legionella pneumophila Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Enzyme-Inhibitor Interaction as Examples of Molecular Recognition Special Issue in Molecules: Sulfonamides Special Issue in Metabolites: Carbonic Anhydrases and Metabolism Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Carbonic Anhydrase in Marine Organism Special Issue in Molecules: Metalloenzyme Inhibitors and Activators Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Protease and Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors and Their Roles in Pathological Processes
Prof. Dr. Claire Hellio Associate Editor-in-Chief President of ESMB; Head of a bioprospection corefacility (Biodimar) at the University of Brest; Course leader for a master in Biotechnology at the University of Brest, Brest, France Fax: +44 239 284 2070 E-Mail Interests: new non-toxic antifouling solutions; new biocides; marine natural products; ethnobotany; marine biochemistry Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Green Antifouling Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Green Biocides Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Algae
Dr. Giuseppe Biamonti Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pavia, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: alternative splicing; DNA replication; nuclear structure; SRSF1; hnRNP; splicing factors; heat shock; DNA damage; DNA replication; long non-coding RNAs; RNA binding proteins
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Li Volti Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer biology; molecular biology; cell biology; apoptosis; gene regulation; biochemistry; cell proliferation; biomedical science; Western blot; ELISA; antioxidants; pharmacology; oxidative stress; biomarkers; endothelial dysfunction; endothelial cells; astrocytes; nitric oxide synthase; carbon monoxide; bilirubin; heme oxygenase-1 hematology; uveal melanoma
Assoc. Prof. Antonio Rosato Center for Magnetic Resonance, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: metalloproteins; NMR; bioinformatic research; metallomics; metalloproteomics; bioinformatics; structural biology
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schlüter Mass Spectrometric Proteomics, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany Tel. + 49(0)40-7410-58795; Fax: + 49(0)157-56085997 E-Mail Interests: proteomics; clinical proteomics; top-down proteomics; protein biochemistry; pathobiochemistry; cancer; venoms; liquid chromatography of proteins; mass spectrometry of biomolecules
Prof. Dr. Jean-Marc Lobaccaro Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: nuclear receptors, prostate, reproduction, lipids, steroids, endocrinology, cancer
Prof. Dr. Pradip K Mascharak University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Chemistry, Santa Cruz, United States Website \| E-Mail Interests: Interactions of CO and NO with endogenous targets in mammalian cancer cells; design and synthesis of photoactive NO- and CO-donating drugs; and antimicrobial activity of NO- and silver-releasing drugs in connection to multidrug-resistant pathogens
Prof. Dr. Vassilis G. Gorgoulis Laboratory of Histology-Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 75 Mikras Asias Str, Goudi, Athens, 115 27, Greece Website \| E-Mail Interests: DNA damage and response; replication licensing; DNA repair mechanisms; genomic instability; antitumor barriers Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Mechanisms Leading to Genomic Instability
Dr. Pedro Gomes Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: metabolism; obesity; diabetes; aging; sirtuins; oxidative stress; hypertension
Dr. Naruhiko Sahara Department of Functional Brain Imaging Research, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi Chiba 263-8555, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: neurobiology; neurodegenerative diseases; neurodegeneration; Alzheimer's disease; neurochemistry; amyloid; Tau proteins; tauopathies; prion diseases; frontotemporal dementia; transgenic mouse models
Prof. Dr. Claudia Martini Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: neurochemistry; signal transduction; receptors; biochemistry; molecular biology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Extracellular Signals in the Control of Gene Expression Regulating Cellular Survival, Death and Differentiation
Dr. Andrew Hoy Discipline of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences and Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: lipid metabolism and insulin resistance; lipid metabolism and cancer
Prof. Dr. Maria Ruzzene Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: signal transduction; cell signaling; signaling pathways; protein phosphorylation; protein kinases; protein phosphatases; protein kinase inhibitors; cancer biology; proteins; apoptosis; cell death; cancer research; cancer cell line; CK2; Akt; protein kinase specificity Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Protein Phosphorylation in Health and Disease
Prof. Hideyuki Yamawaki Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmacology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Higashi 23 bancho 35–1, Towada, Aomori 034–8628, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: vascular biology; hypertension; atherosclerosis; adipocytokine; diabetes-related vascular dysfunction; hypertrophy; heart failure; pulmonary arterial hypertension; calmodulin-related proteins; cardiovascular pharmacology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Roles of Cardiovascular Active Substances and Cellular Events in the Homeostasis of Cardiovascular Systems Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Roles of Cardiovascular Active Substances and Cellular Events in the Homeostasis of Cardiovascular Systems 2018
Prof. Takeshi Noda Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: autophagy, TORC1
Assoc. Prof. Martin J. Stone Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: chemokines; chemokine receptors; tyrosine sulfation; GPCR signaling; protein structure-function relationships Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Regulation of Chemokine-Receptor Interactions and Functions
Prof. Dr. Miguel Alcalde CSIC - Instituto de Catálisisy Petroleoquímica (ICP), Department of Biocatalysis, Madrid, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: directed evolution; oxidoreductases; synthetic biology; biocatalysis; protein engineering
Dr. Jose Javier Lopez Department of Physiology, Cellular Physiology Research Group, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: Ca2+ channels; cation channels; TRP channels; Ca2+ signal; cancer; cancer cells; breast cancer; platelets; endoplasmic reticulum stress; apoptosis; caspase; cytoskeleton
Prof. Dr. Geert Baggerman Center for Proteomics, Antwerpen, Belgium Website \| E-Mail Interests: proteomics and mass spectrometry with focus on method development and bioinformatics; mass spectrometry imaging; biomarker discovery and cancer; natural peptides including neuropeptides; micropeptides and immune peptides; peptidomics
Prof. Dr. Michel Salzet INSERM, U1192 - Laboratoire Protéomique, Réponse Inflammatoire et Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), Université de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: proteomics; neuroimmunology; oncoimmunology; dot blot hybridization; immunology; cancer research; elisa; innate immunity; MALDI-TOF MS; amino acids; proteins; enzymes; analytical chemistry
Assoc. Prof. Fabio Dall’Olio Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), General Pathology Building, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: glycosylation; carbohydrate antigens; glycosyltransferases; sialyltransferases; colon cancer; glycobiology; cancer associated carbohydrate antigens
Prof. Dr. Massimo Donadelli Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences; Section of Biochemistry Strada Le Grazie 8, University of Verona, 7134 Verona, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer, ROS, metabolism, p53, chemoresistance
Prof. Dr. Wilfried A. Kues Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Department of Biotechnology, Neustadt/Mariensee, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: Epigenetic mechanisms of heredity; Transgenesis; Genetic engineering; Synthetic biology; Cell biology; Developmental biology; Stem cells
Prof. Clara Balsano MESVA Department, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila 67100, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: metabolic syndrome; hepatocarcinoma; obesity; liver steatosis; transition biometas; HBV and HCV infective diseases
Prof. Dr. Peter van Dam Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Edegem, Belgium Website \| E-Mail Interests: translational research; breast cancer; inflammatory breast cancer; cervical cancer; targeted treatment; biomarkers; liquid biopsies
Prof. Dr. Francisco Plou Institute of Catalysis, CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: biocatalysis, carbohydrates, glycosidases, bioreactors, immobilized enzymes, biotransformations, Lipases
Prof. Dr. Stefano Iotti Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBit) Università di Bologna Italy; Member of the National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: biochemistry, biochemical thermodynamics, physical chemistry, cell imaging, science and art integration, effect of sound on living systems
Prof. Dr. Young-Joon Surh Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Website \| E-Mail Interests: medicinal phytochemicals; oxidative stress in cells; cancer chemoprevention; tumor microenvironment; signal transduction in inflammation and carcinogenesis Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Nutrients: Selected Papers from APNNO Biennial Conference 2016
Dr. Ziarih Hawi Monash Institute for Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences (MICCN), School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: Gene Expression; Genetic Analysis; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Psychopharmacology; Psychiatric Disorders
Prof. Gianni Marone Department of Translational Medical Sciences and Center for Basic and Clinical Immunology Research (CISI); University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Napoli, Italy Website 1 \| Website 2 \| E-Mail Interests: basophils; mast cells; asthma; allergic rhinitis; eosinophils; macrophages; TSLP; common variable immunodeficiency; IL-33 Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Mast Cells in Health and Disease
Prof. Dr. Alexander Kornienko Texas State, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Marcos, United States Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer drug discovery; synthetic chemistry; medicinal chemistry
Prof. Dr. Russel J. Reiter Department of Cellular & Structural Biology, The UT Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: melatonin; free radicals of disease processes and aging; oxygen derivatives Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Melatonin and Its Analogues: Experimental and Clinical Aspects
Prof. Dr. Lucie Germain Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada. Regenerative Medicine Division, CHU de Québec—Université Laval Research Centre, Québec, QC G1J 1Z4, Canada Université Laval Research Center on Experimental Organogenesis/LOEX, Québec, QC G1J 1Z4, Canada Website \| E-Mail Interests: epithelial stem cells; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; cell therapy; skin
Prof. Dr. Robert G. Gourdie Virginia tech Carilion Research Institute, 2 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, VA 24016, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: connexin; sodium channel; heart; cardiac conduction; wound healing
Dr. Paula I. Moreira Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra and Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: Alzheimer’s disease; diabetes; metabolic hormones; mitochondria; neuroprotection; neurotoxicity; oxidative stress
Dr. Naotoshi Sugimoto Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer cell; cell biology; cell migration; homeostasis; signal transduction; autoimmune disease
Dr. Óscar J. Pozo Integrative Pharmacology and Systems Neuroscience Research Group, IMIM-Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: analytical chemistry; mass spectrometry; chromatography; steroids; metabolomics; metabolism; bioanalysis
Prof. Dr. Jens Schlossmann Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Institut für Pharmazie, Universitätsstr. 31, 93040 Regensburg, Germany Fax: +49 941 943 4772 Website \| E-Mail Interests: analysis of nitric oxide (NO)/natriuretic peptides (NP)/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-mediated signal transduction to investigate the molecular, physiological, pathophysiological and pharmacological mechanisms of this signalling pathway, e.g., in the cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal and hematological/immunological system Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Signalling Molecules and Signal Transduction in Cells Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Signalling Molecules and Signal Transduction in Cells 2014 Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: cGMP-Signalling in Cells: Molecular and Functional Features
Prof. Dr. Purusotam Basnet Women’s Health and Perinatology Research Group, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway Website \| E-Mail Interests: antioxidant activity; reactive oxygen species; free radicals; oxidative stress biomarkers; free radical scavengers; phytochemical analysis; lipid peroxidation; natural product drug discovery; SOD; free radical biochemistry; hepatoprotective Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Liposomes: The Smart and Targeted Drug Delivery in the Era of Nanomedicines
Dr. Iain P. Hargreaves Department of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 5UA, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: mitochondrial; mitochondrial dysfunction; mitochondrial disease; coenzyme Q; inflammation; glioma; Nrf2; oxidative stress; glutathione; rat model Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Oxidative Damage
Prof. Dr. Yoshinori Marunaka The Representative Director, Kyoto Industrial Health Association, Kyoto 604-8472, Japan The Director, Research Institute for Clinical Physiology, Kyoto Industrial Health Association, Kyoto 604-8472, Japan The Director, Clinic, Kyoto Industrial Health Association, Kyoto 604-8472, Japan Chair Professor, Research Center for Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Development Science, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu 525-8577, Japan Professor Emeritus, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: ion transport; ion envrionmnets; physiological roles of pH and Cl Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Ion Transporters and Channels in Physiology and Pathophysiology Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Ion Transporters and Channels in Physiology and Pathophysiology 2.0: from Molecules to Whole Bodies
Prof. Dr. Sonia Melino Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche; University of Rome “Tor Vergata”; Rome, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer biology; proteins and antimicrobial peptides; biotechnology; cell biology; biomedical science; enzymes; cancer research; bioscience; biochemistry; the gasotrasmitter hydrogen sulfide and sulfur metabolism; 3D-stem cell culture systems for tissue repair and regeneration Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Hydrogen Sulfide in the Diseases and Tissue Regeneration
Dr. John Lucocq Structural Cell Biology Group, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY169TF, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: PCR; cell culture; gene expression; Western blot analysis; cancer biology; flow cytometry; immunohistochemistry; molecular biology; immunofluorescence; mitosis; membrane traffic; autophagy; molecular cell biology; cell signaling; phosphoinositide signalling; phosphoinositide localisation; stereology; morphomics; cell biology; apoptosis; cell proliferation; immunofluorescence staining; signal transduction; cellular biology; immunocytochemistry; phosphorylation; microscopy; cells; signaling kinase; electron microscopy; liposomes; mitosis; electron microscope; endosomes; phosphatases; membrane biology; endoplasmic reticulum; organelles; immunogold labeling; membrane transport; golgi; immunoelectron microscopy; microsporidia; host parasite interactions; mitosomes
Prof. Godfrey Getz Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: apolipoproteins in lipid metabolism, atherosclerosis and obesity, particular focus on apo E, A-1 and SAA; role of the immune system in lipid metabolism, and atherosclerosis, particular focus on NKT cells and costimulatory molecules, LIGHT and lymphotoxins and their receptors; role of NKT cells in obesity
Prof. A. Phillip West Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Reynolds Medical Building, Rm. 407A College Station, TX 77843-1114, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: innate immunity; inflammation; cGAS-STING; mitochondria; mitochondrial DNA; mitochondrial disease; cancer; tumor immunity
Dr. Sung-Kun (Sean) Kim Northeastern State University, Department of Natural Sciences, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: biochemistry; enzymology; drug discovery; SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential enrichment); in vitro selection technique Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Enzymes as Targets for Drug Development
Prof. Dr. Roberto Bei Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, via Montpellier, 1, 00133, Roma, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer biology; cancer vaccine; nutraceuticals; cancer research; tumor antigens; cancer cells; cancer treatment; antitumor Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: The Effect of Dietary Factors on Cancer
Dr. Clemente Capasso Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse, CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: protein biochemistry, recombinant protein, heterologous expression, carbonic anhydrase, enzyme and protein purification, enzyme characterization, enzyme thermostability, cold-adapted enzymes
Dr. William A. Donald University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia, School of Chemistry, Sydney, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: Mass spectrometry, diagnostics, proteomics, bioanalytical methods, medicinal chemistry, carbonic anhydrases, ion mobility, xenobiotic metabolism
Prof. Marc A. Ilies Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Moulder Center of Drug Discovery Research, Temple University School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, PA, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, drug and nucleic acid delivery systems
Prof. Dr. Raymund J. Wellinger Dept. of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1E 4K8 Canada Website \| E-Mail Interests: telomere biology; telomerase RNP; telomeric chromatin; DNA replication; DNA damage checkpoints; DNA double-strand break repair; chromosome biology; genome stability issues
Prof. Dr. Jae Youl Cho Department of Integrative Biotechnology, Director, Institute of Biomolecule Control, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seobu-ro, Suwon 16419, Korea Website \| E-Mail Interests: inflammation; cancer; signal transduction pathway; protein methylation; natural products; flavonoids; saponins; innate immunity; gastritis; colitis; hepatitis, arthritis, atopic dermatitis
Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Sacchi Department of Cancer Genetics and Genomics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA Fax: +1 716 845 1071 Website \| E-Mail Interests: genome wide epigenetic control of transcription; transcription factors and nuclear receptors; regulatory RNAs Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Cancer Epigenetics Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Cancer Epigenetics 2018
Prof. Dr. Claudio Santi Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, Via del Liceo 1, Perugia 06100, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: organic synthesis; selenium chemistry; catalysis; bioorganic redox; green chemistry Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Molecules: Celebrating Two Centuries of Research in Selenium Chemistry: State of the Art and New Prospectives Special Issue in Catalysts: Chalcogens in Catalysis: Synthesis and Biology Special Issue in Molecules: Chemistry & Health
Prof. Dr. Andrew G. Ewing Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Website \| E-Mail Interests: electrochemical; separations; imaging with optical and mass spectrometry methods aimed at understanding the chemistry of single nerve cells, single vesicles; neural communication in cell networks and in the Drosophila nervous system; molecular messengers in cell differentiation; analytical chemistry methods; micro- and nanoscale; neurochemistry; chemical engineering; biochemistry and molecular biology; basic medicine
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Graier Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Medical University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria Tel. 43 (0)316 385 71963 Website \| E-Mail Interests: mitochondria; beta-cells; Ca²⁺ channels; Ca²⁺ signaling; energy metabolism; mitochondrial Ca²⁺ uptake; ion homeostasis; fluorescence probes; nitric oxide dynamics; endothelial cells; signal transduction; cell biology; physiology; diabetes mellitus; intermolecular FRET
Prof. Dr. Antonio Giordano Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and Center of Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, BioLife Science Bldg. Suite 431,1900 N 12th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: cell cycle; tumor suppressor genes; oncology; genomics; epigenetic; gene therapy; breast cancer; mesothelioma; lung cancer; gynecological cancer; brain cancer; lymphoma
Prof. Dr. Ulf Hanefeld Biocatalysis & Organic Chemistry, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 136, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands Website \| E-Mail Interests: enzyme catalysis; dynamic kinetic resolutions; enzyme immobilisation
Prof. Dr. Koji Sode Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Chapel Hill, NC, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: protein engineering; enzyme engineering; biosensors; biosensing; biomedical engineering; biomolecular engineering Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Biomolecular Engineering and Bioelectronics
Prof. Dr. Ester Boix Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: host-pathogen interactions; antimicrobial peptides; enzymology; ribonucleases; eosinophil granule proteins; glycosaminoglycan binding proteins; innate immunity; protein crystallography Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Antimicrobial RNases in Host Defense
Prof. Dr. Julian Borejdo Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, University of North Texas, Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA Tel. 817 735 2106 Website \| E-Mail Interests: muscles; interactions between actin and myosin; biochemical approach to determine the proximity of actin to myosin; physico-chemical approach to measure the orientation of myosin in vivo; molecular biology approach (cloning mutants of myosin) to establish the role of various amino acid residues in muscle functions
Prof. Dr. Cheorl-Ho Kim Molecular and Cellular Glycobiology Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Sungkyukwan University, 2066, Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu, Suwon-Si, Gyeong Gi, Korea Tel. +82-31-290-7002; Fax: +82-31-290-7015 Website \| E-Mail Interests: glycobiology; sialobiology; sialyltransferase; N-glycan; O-glycan; glycolipid; sphingolipid; glycoprotein; surface sugar; ganglioside; sialic acid; sialyl Le antigen; lectin; galectin; siglec; ER-Golgi glyosylation; sugar–receptor interaction; innate immune; xenotransplantation; cell–cell interaction Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Glycan–Receptor Interaction Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Glycan–Receptor Interaction 2018
Prof. Dr. Med. Florian Lang Physiologisches Institut I, Universität Tübingen, Gmelinstrasse 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 29 5618 E-Mail Interests: mechanisms and clinical significance of cell volume regulation; erythrocyte death signaling; serum-and glucocorticoid inducible kinase isoforms; physiology and pharmacology of human ion channels and carriers expressed in oocytes; host cell physiology in hostpathogen interaction; mechanisms of apoptotic cell death
Prof. Dr. Li Lin College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, China E-Mail Interests: aquatic animal diseases; immunity responses; innate immunity;vaccine development; viral diseases; bacterial diseases; virus replication; virus infection and interferons; virus epidemic and host range; chicken yolk antibody (IgY); genome sequences; transcriptome analysis; high throughput sequencing; loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay (LAMP) Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Fish Molecular Biology
Prof. Dr. Masatoshi Maki Department of Applied Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: calcium-binding protein; calcium signaling; protein-protein interaction; transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation; protein structure; membrane trafficking Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Metalloproteins Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Metalloproteins 2017 Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Calcium Binding Proteins
Prof. Dr. Charles J. Malemud Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatic Diseases, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106-5076, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: arthritis; chondrocytes; cytokines; inflammation; signal transduction Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Apoptotic Chondrocytes and Osteoarthritis Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Musculoskeletal Diseases Therapy Special Issue in Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology: Articular Cells and Tissues in Health and Osteoarthritis
Prof. Dr. Vsevolod V. Gurevich Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, 2200 Pierce Avenue, Preston Research Building, rm 417D, Nashville, TN 37232, USA Tel. +1 (615) 322-7070; Fax: +1 (615) 343-6532 Website \| E-Mail Interests: arrestin proteins; structure-function; protein engineering; GPCR signaling; GPCR trafficking; receptor regulation; cell proliferation; apoptosis; MAP kinases Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Topical Collection in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling and Regulation
Prof. Dr. Kun Yan Zhu Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA Tel. +1 (785) 532-4721; Fax: +1 (785) 532-6232 Website \| E-Mail Interests: chitin biosynthesis and metabolism in insects; insecticide modes of action and detoxification; mechanisms of insecticide resistance; RNA interference in insects
Associate Professor Christo Z. Christov Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Fax: +44 191 227 3519 Website \| E-Mail Interests: computational biomolecular science; enzyme mechanisms; protein conformational dynamics; biomolecular spectroscopy; combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical methods (QM/MM); quantum chemistry; molecular dynamics; protein-ligands interactions; bioinorganic electronic structure and mechanisms Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Topical Collection in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Computational, Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of Enzyme Mechanisms, Inhibition and Dynamics Topical Collection in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Proteins and Protein-Ligand Interactions Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Computational Studies of Structure-Dynamics-Function Relationships in Biomolecules
Dr. Mateus Webba da Silva School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Coleraine Cromore Road, BT51 1SA, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: DNA structural nanotechnology, structural biology, nucleic acids structure; protein structure; biomolecular NMR; biophysical spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Zdenek Wimmer Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Isotope Laboratory, Videnska 1083, CZ-14220 Prague 4, Czech Republic and Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, The University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, CZ-16628 Prague 6, Czech Republic Fax: +420 241 062 150 Website \| E-Mail Interests: biocatalysis; enzymic reaction; enzymic resolution; microorganism; asymmetric synthesis; plant-product-based compounds for pharmacology; nanostructured materials; supramolecular chemistry; medicinal chemistry
Prof. Dr. António J. C. Varandas Departamento de Quimica, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal Tel. +351 239 835867; Fax: +351 239 835867/827703 Website \| E-Mail Interests: potential energy surfaces; electronic structure calculations; intermolecular forces; chemical dynamics; non-adiabatic effects; chemistry of atmospheric ozone
Prof. Dr. David C. Clary Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4AU, UK Tel. +44 020 7679 1488; Fax: +44 020 7679 4560 Website \| E-Mail Interests: quantum theory of chemical reactions and molecular properties
Prof. Dr. Gérard Vergoten UMR CNRS 8576, Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, University of Science and Technology, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Tel. 33 320337150 E-Mail Interests: protein-ligand interactions; structural glycobiology; molecular modeling; empirical force fields; vibrational spectroscopy; molecular dynamics; computational chemistry

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Prof. Dr. Claudiu T. Supuran Section Editor-in-Chief Neurofarba Department, Sezione di Scienze Farmaceutiche e Nutraceutiche, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) 50019, Italy Tel. +39-055-4573729/3005; Fax: +39-055-4573385 Website \| E-Mail Interests: drug design; metalloenzymes; carbonic anhydrases; anticancer agents; antiinfectives; sulfonamides; coumarins Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Molecules: Structure-Based Drug Design Special Issue in Metabolites: Cancer Metabolomics 2016 Special Issue in Pathogens: Pathogen Legionella pneumophila Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Enzyme-Inhibitor Interaction as Examples of Molecular Recognition Special Issue in Molecules: Sulfonamides Special Issue in Metabolites: Carbonic Anhydrases and Metabolism Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Carbonic Anhydrase in Marine Organism Special Issue in Molecules: Metalloenzyme Inhibitors and Activators Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Protease and Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors and Their Roles in Pathological Processes
Prof. Dr. Claire Hellio Associate Editor-in-Chief President of ESMB; Head of a bioprospection corefacility (Biodimar) at the University of Brest; Course leader for a master in Biotechnology at the University of Brest, Brest, France Fax: +44 239 284 2070 E-Mail Interests: new non-toxic antifouling solutions; new biocides; marine natural products; ethnobotany; marine biochemistry Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Green Antifouling Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Green Biocides Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Algae
Dr. Giuseppe Biamonti Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pavia, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: alternative splicing; DNA replication; nuclear structure; SRSF1; hnRNP; splicing factors; heat shock; DNA damage; DNA replication; long non-coding RNAs; RNA binding proteins
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Li Volti Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer biology; molecular biology; cell biology; apoptosis; gene regulation; biochemistry; cell proliferation; biomedical science; Western blot; ELISA; antioxidants; pharmacology; oxidative stress; biomarkers; endothelial dysfunction; endothelial cells; astrocytes; nitric oxide synthase; carbon monoxide; bilirubin; heme oxygenase-1 hematology; uveal melanoma
Assoc. Prof. Antonio Rosato Center for Magnetic Resonance, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: metalloproteins; NMR; bioinformatic research; metallomics; metalloproteomics; bioinformatics; structural biology
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schlüter Mass Spectrometric Proteomics, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany Tel. + 49(0)40-7410-58795; Fax: + 49(0)157-56085997 E-Mail Interests: proteomics; clinical proteomics; top-down proteomics; protein biochemistry; pathobiochemistry; cancer; venoms; liquid chromatography of proteins; mass spectrometry of biomolecules
Prof. Dr. Jean-Marc Lobaccaro Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: nuclear receptors, prostate, reproduction, lipids, steroids, endocrinology, cancer
Prof. Dr. Pradip K Mascharak University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Chemistry, Santa Cruz, United States Website \| E-Mail Interests: Interactions of CO and NO with endogenous targets in mammalian cancer cells; design and synthesis of photoactive NO- and CO-donating drugs; and antimicrobial activity of NO- and silver-releasing drugs in connection to multidrug-resistant pathogens
Prof. Dr. Vassilis G. Gorgoulis Laboratory of Histology-Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 75 Mikras Asias Str, Goudi, Athens, 115 27, Greece Website \| E-Mail Interests: DNA damage and response; replication licensing; DNA repair mechanisms; genomic instability; antitumor barriers Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Mechanisms Leading to Genomic Instability
Dr. Pedro Gomes Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: metabolism; obesity; diabetes; aging; sirtuins; oxidative stress; hypertension
Dr. Naruhiko Sahara Department of Functional Brain Imaging Research, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi Chiba 263-8555, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: neurobiology; neurodegenerative diseases; neurodegeneration; Alzheimer's disease; neurochemistry; amyloid; Tau proteins; tauopathies; prion diseases; frontotemporal dementia; transgenic mouse models
Prof. Dr. Claudia Martini Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: neurochemistry; signal transduction; receptors; biochemistry; molecular biology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Extracellular Signals in the Control of Gene Expression Regulating Cellular Survival, Death and Differentiation
Dr. Andrew Hoy Discipline of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences and Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: lipid metabolism and insulin resistance; lipid metabolism and cancer
Prof. Dr. Maria Ruzzene Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: signal transduction; cell signaling; signaling pathways; protein phosphorylation; protein kinases; protein phosphatases; protein kinase inhibitors; cancer biology; proteins; apoptosis; cell death; cancer research; cancer cell line; CK2; Akt; protein kinase specificity Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Protein Phosphorylation in Health and Disease
Prof. Hideyuki Yamawaki Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmacology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, Higashi 23 bancho 35–1, Towada, Aomori 034–8628, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: vascular biology; hypertension; atherosclerosis; adipocytokine; diabetes-related vascular dysfunction; hypertrophy; heart failure; pulmonary arterial hypertension; calmodulin-related proteins; cardiovascular pharmacology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Roles of Cardiovascular Active Substances and Cellular Events in the Homeostasis of Cardiovascular Systems Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Roles of Cardiovascular Active Substances and Cellular Events in the Homeostasis of Cardiovascular Systems 2018
Prof. Takeshi Noda Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: autophagy, TORC1
Assoc. Prof. Martin J. Stone Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: chemokines; chemokine receptors; tyrosine sulfation; GPCR signaling; protein structure-function relationships Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Regulation of Chemokine-Receptor Interactions and Functions
Prof. Dr. Miguel Alcalde CSIC - Instituto de Catálisisy Petroleoquímica (ICP), Department of Biocatalysis, Madrid, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: directed evolution; oxidoreductases; synthetic biology; biocatalysis; protein engineering
Dr. Jose Javier Lopez Department of Physiology, Cellular Physiology Research Group, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: Ca2+ channels; cation channels; TRP channels; Ca2+ signal; cancer; cancer cells; breast cancer; platelets; endoplasmic reticulum stress; apoptosis; caspase; cytoskeleton
Prof. Dr. Geert Baggerman Center for Proteomics, Antwerpen, Belgium Website \| E-Mail Interests: proteomics and mass spectrometry with focus on method development and bioinformatics; mass spectrometry imaging; biomarker discovery and cancer; natural peptides including neuropeptides; micropeptides and immune peptides; peptidomics
Prof. Dr. Michel Salzet INSERM, U1192 - Laboratoire Protéomique, Réponse Inflammatoire et Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM), Université de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: proteomics; neuroimmunology; oncoimmunology; dot blot hybridization; immunology; cancer research; elisa; innate immunity; MALDI-TOF MS; amino acids; proteins; enzymes; analytical chemistry
Assoc. Prof. Fabio Dall’Olio Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), General Pathology Building, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: glycosylation; carbohydrate antigens; glycosyltransferases; sialyltransferases; colon cancer; glycobiology; cancer associated carbohydrate antigens
Prof. Dr. Massimo Donadelli Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences; Section of Biochemistry Strada Le Grazie 8, University of Verona, 7134 Verona, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer, ROS, metabolism, p53, chemoresistance
Prof. Dr. Wilfried A. Kues Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Department of Biotechnology, Neustadt/Mariensee, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: Epigenetic mechanisms of heredity; Transgenesis; Genetic engineering; Synthetic biology; Cell biology; Developmental biology; Stem cells
Prof. Clara Balsano MESVA Department, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila 67100, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: metabolic syndrome; hepatocarcinoma; obesity; liver steatosis; transition biometas; HBV and HCV infective diseases
Prof. Dr. Peter van Dam Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Edegem, Belgium Website \| E-Mail Interests: translational research; breast cancer; inflammatory breast cancer; cervical cancer; targeted treatment; biomarkers; liquid biopsies
Prof. Dr. Francisco Plou Institute of Catalysis, CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: biocatalysis, carbohydrates, glycosidases, bioreactors, immobilized enzymes, biotransformations, Lipases
Prof. Dr. Stefano Iotti Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBit) Università di Bologna Italy; Member of the National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: biochemistry, biochemical thermodynamics, physical chemistry, cell imaging, science and art integration, effect of sound on living systems
Prof. Dr. Young-Joon Surh Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Website \| E-Mail Interests: medicinal phytochemicals; oxidative stress in cells; cancer chemoprevention; tumor microenvironment; signal transduction in inflammation and carcinogenesis Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Nutrients: Selected Papers from APNNO Biennial Conference 2016
Dr. Ziarih Hawi Monash Institute for Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences (MICCN), School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: Gene Expression; Genetic Analysis; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Psychopharmacology; Psychiatric Disorders
Prof. Gianni Marone Department of Translational Medical Sciences and Center for Basic and Clinical Immunology Research (CISI); University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Napoli, Italy Website 1 \| Website 2 \| E-Mail Interests: basophils; mast cells; asthma; allergic rhinitis; eosinophils; macrophages; TSLP; common variable immunodeficiency; IL-33 Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Mast Cells in Health and Disease
Prof. Dr. Alexander Kornienko Texas State, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Marcos, United States Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer drug discovery; synthetic chemistry; medicinal chemistry
Prof. Dr. Russel J. Reiter Department of Cellular & Structural Biology, The UT Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: melatonin; free radicals of disease processes and aging; oxygen derivatives Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Melatonin and Its Analogues: Experimental and Clinical Aspects
Prof. Dr. Lucie Germain Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada. Regenerative Medicine Division, CHU de Québec—Université Laval Research Centre, Québec, QC G1J 1Z4, Canada Université Laval Research Center on Experimental Organogenesis/LOEX, Québec, QC G1J 1Z4, Canada Website \| E-Mail Interests: epithelial stem cells; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; cell therapy; skin
Prof. Dr. Robert G. Gourdie Virginia tech Carilion Research Institute, 2 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, VA 24016, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: connexin; sodium channel; heart; cardiac conduction; wound healing
Dr. Paula I. Moreira Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra and Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal Website \| E-Mail Interests: Alzheimer’s disease; diabetes; metabolic hormones; mitochondria; neuroprotection; neurotoxicity; oxidative stress
Dr. Naotoshi Sugimoto Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer cell; cell biology; cell migration; homeostasis; signal transduction; autoimmune disease
Dr. Óscar J. Pozo Integrative Pharmacology and Systems Neuroscience Research Group, IMIM-Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: analytical chemistry; mass spectrometry; chromatography; steroids; metabolomics; metabolism; bioanalysis
Prof. Dr. Jens Schlossmann Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Institut für Pharmazie, Universitätsstr. 31, 93040 Regensburg, Germany Fax: +49 941 943 4772 Website \| E-Mail Interests: analysis of nitric oxide (NO)/natriuretic peptides (NP)/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-mediated signal transduction to investigate the molecular, physiological, pathophysiological and pharmacological mechanisms of this signalling pathway, e.g., in the cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal and hematological/immunological system Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Signalling Molecules and Signal Transduction in Cells Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Signalling Molecules and Signal Transduction in Cells 2014 Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: cGMP-Signalling in Cells: Molecular and Functional Features
Prof. Dr. Purusotam Basnet Women’s Health and Perinatology Research Group, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway Website \| E-Mail Interests: antioxidant activity; reactive oxygen species; free radicals; oxidative stress biomarkers; free radical scavengers; phytochemical analysis; lipid peroxidation; natural product drug discovery; SOD; free radical biochemistry; hepatoprotective Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Liposomes: The Smart and Targeted Drug Delivery in the Era of Nanomedicines
Dr. Iain P. Hargreaves Department of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 5UA, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: mitochondrial; mitochondrial dysfunction; mitochondrial disease; coenzyme Q; inflammation; glioma; Nrf2; oxidative stress; glutathione; rat model Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Oxidative Damage
Prof. Dr. Yoshinori Marunaka The Representative Director, Kyoto Industrial Health Association, Kyoto 604-8472, Japan The Director, Research Institute for Clinical Physiology, Kyoto Industrial Health Association, Kyoto 604-8472, Japan The Director, Clinic, Kyoto Industrial Health Association, Kyoto 604-8472, Japan Chair Professor, Research Center for Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Development Science, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu 525-8577, Japan Professor Emeritus, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: ion transport; ion envrionmnets; physiological roles of pH and Cl Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Ion Transporters and Channels in Physiology and Pathophysiology Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Ion Transporters and Channels in Physiology and Pathophysiology 2.0: from Molecules to Whole Bodies
Prof. Dr. Sonia Melino Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche; University of Rome “Tor Vergata”; Rome, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer biology; proteins and antimicrobial peptides; biotechnology; cell biology; biomedical science; enzymes; cancer research; bioscience; biochemistry; the gasotrasmitter hydrogen sulfide and sulfur metabolism; 3D-stem cell culture systems for tissue repair and regeneration Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Hydrogen Sulfide in the Diseases and Tissue Regeneration
Dr. John Lucocq Structural Cell Biology Group, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY169TF, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: PCR; cell culture; gene expression; Western blot analysis; cancer biology; flow cytometry; immunohistochemistry; molecular biology; immunofluorescence; mitosis; membrane traffic; autophagy; molecular cell biology; cell signaling; phosphoinositide signalling; phosphoinositide localisation; stereology; morphomics; cell biology; apoptosis; cell proliferation; immunofluorescence staining; signal transduction; cellular biology; immunocytochemistry; phosphorylation; microscopy; cells; signaling kinase; electron microscopy; liposomes; mitosis; electron microscope; endosomes; phosphatases; membrane biology; endoplasmic reticulum; organelles; immunogold labeling; membrane transport; golgi; immunoelectron microscopy; microsporidia; host parasite interactions; mitosomes
Prof. Godfrey Getz Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: apolipoproteins in lipid metabolism, atherosclerosis and obesity, particular focus on apo E, A-1 and SAA; role of the immune system in lipid metabolism, and atherosclerosis, particular focus on NKT cells and costimulatory molecules, LIGHT and lymphotoxins and their receptors; role of NKT cells in obesity
Prof. A. Phillip West Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Reynolds Medical Building, Rm. 407A College Station, TX 77843-1114, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: innate immunity; inflammation; cGAS-STING; mitochondria; mitochondrial DNA; mitochondrial disease; cancer; tumor immunity
Dr. Sung-Kun (Sean) Kim Northeastern State University, Department of Natural Sciences, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: biochemistry; enzymology; drug discovery; SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential enrichment); in vitro selection technique Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Enzymes as Targets for Drug Development
Prof. Dr. Roberto Bei Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, via Montpellier, 1, 00133, Roma, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: cancer biology; cancer vaccine; nutraceuticals; cancer research; tumor antigens; cancer cells; cancer treatment; antitumor Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: The Effect of Dietary Factors on Cancer
Dr. Clemente Capasso Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse, CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: protein biochemistry, recombinant protein, heterologous expression, carbonic anhydrase, enzyme and protein purification, enzyme characterization, enzyme thermostability, cold-adapted enzymes
Dr. William A. Donald University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia, School of Chemistry, Sydney, Australia Website \| E-Mail Interests: Mass spectrometry, diagnostics, proteomics, bioanalytical methods, medicinal chemistry, carbonic anhydrases, ion mobility, xenobiotic metabolism
Prof. Marc A. Ilies Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Moulder Center of Drug Discovery Research, Temple University School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, PA, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, drug and nucleic acid delivery systems
Prof. Dr. Raymund J. Wellinger Dept. of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1E 4K8 Canada Website \| E-Mail Interests: telomere biology; telomerase RNP; telomeric chromatin; DNA replication; DNA damage checkpoints; DNA double-strand break repair; chromosome biology; genome stability issues
Prof. Dr. Jae Youl Cho Department of Integrative Biotechnology, Director, Institute of Biomolecule Control, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seobu-ro, Suwon 16419, Korea Website \| E-Mail Interests: inflammation; cancer; signal transduction pathway; protein methylation; natural products; flavonoids; saponins; innate immunity; gastritis; colitis; hepatitis, arthritis, atopic dermatitis
Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Sacchi Department of Cancer Genetics and Genomics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA Fax: +1 716 845 1071 Website \| E-Mail Interests: genome wide epigenetic control of transcription; transcription factors and nuclear receptors; regulatory RNAs Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Cancer Epigenetics Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Cancer Epigenetics 2018
Prof. Dr. Claudio Santi Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, Via del Liceo 1, Perugia 06100, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: organic synthesis; selenium chemistry; catalysis; bioorganic redox; green chemistry Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Molecules: Celebrating Two Centuries of Research in Selenium Chemistry: State of the Art and New Prospectives Special Issue in Catalysts: Chalcogens in Catalysis: Synthesis and Biology Special Issue in Molecules: Chemistry & Health
Prof. Dr. Andrew G. Ewing Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Website \| E-Mail Interests: electrochemical; separations; imaging with optical and mass spectrometry methods aimed at understanding the chemistry of single nerve cells, single vesicles; neural communication in cell networks and in the Drosophila nervous system; molecular messengers in cell differentiation; analytical chemistry methods; micro- and nanoscale; neurochemistry; chemical engineering; biochemistry and molecular biology; basic medicine
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Graier Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Medical University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria Tel. 43 (0)316 385 71963 Website \| E-Mail Interests: mitochondria; beta-cells; Ca²⁺ channels; Ca²⁺ signaling; energy metabolism; mitochondrial Ca²⁺ uptake; ion homeostasis; fluorescence probes; nitric oxide dynamics; endothelial cells; signal transduction; cell biology; physiology; diabetes mellitus; intermolecular FRET
Prof. Dr. Antonio Giordano Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and Center of Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, BioLife Science Bldg. Suite 431,1900 N 12th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: cell cycle; tumor suppressor genes; oncology; genomics; epigenetic; gene therapy; breast cancer; mesothelioma; lung cancer; gynecological cancer; brain cancer; lymphoma
Prof. Dr. Ulf Hanefeld Biocatalysis & Organic Chemistry, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 136, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands Website \| E-Mail Interests: enzyme catalysis; dynamic kinetic resolutions; enzyme immobilisation
Prof. Dr. Koji Sode Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Chapel Hill, NC, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: protein engineering; enzyme engineering; biosensors; biosensing; biomedical engineering; biomolecular engineering Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Biomolecular Engineering and Bioelectronics
Prof. Dr. Ester Boix Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: host-pathogen interactions; antimicrobial peptides; enzymology; ribonucleases; eosinophil granule proteins; glycosaminoglycan binding proteins; innate immunity; protein crystallography Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Antimicrobial RNases in Host Defense
Prof. Dr. Julian Borejdo Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, University of North Texas, Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA Tel. 817 735 2106 Website \| E-Mail Interests: muscles; interactions between actin and myosin; biochemical approach to determine the proximity of actin to myosin; physico-chemical approach to measure the orientation of myosin in vivo; molecular biology approach (cloning mutants of myosin) to establish the role of various amino acid residues in muscle functions
Prof. Dr. Cheorl-Ho Kim Molecular and Cellular Glycobiology Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Sungkyukwan University, 2066, Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu, Suwon-Si, Gyeong Gi, Korea Tel. +82-31-290-7002; Fax: +82-31-290-7015 Website \| E-Mail Interests: glycobiology; sialobiology; sialyltransferase; N-glycan; O-glycan; glycolipid; sphingolipid; glycoprotein; surface sugar; ganglioside; sialic acid; sialyl Le antigen; lectin; galectin; siglec; ER-Golgi glyosylation; sugar–receptor interaction; innate immune; xenotransplantation; cell–cell interaction Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Glycan–Receptor Interaction Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Glycan–Receptor Interaction 2018
Prof. Dr. Med. Florian Lang Physiologisches Institut I, Universität Tübingen, Gmelinstrasse 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 29 5618 E-Mail Interests: mechanisms and clinical significance of cell volume regulation; erythrocyte death signaling; serum-and glucocorticoid inducible kinase isoforms; physiology and pharmacology of human ion channels and carriers expressed in oocytes; host cell physiology in hostpathogen interaction; mechanisms of apoptotic cell death
Prof. Dr. Li Lin College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, China E-Mail Interests: aquatic animal diseases; immunity responses; innate immunity;vaccine development; viral diseases; bacterial diseases; virus replication; virus infection and interferons; virus epidemic and host range; chicken yolk antibody (IgY); genome sequences; transcriptome analysis; high throughput sequencing; loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay (LAMP) Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Fish Molecular Biology
Prof. Dr. Masatoshi Maki Department of Applied Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: calcium-binding protein; calcium signaling; protein-protein interaction; transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation; protein structure; membrane trafficking Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Metalloproteins Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Metalloproteins 2017 Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Calcium Binding Proteins
Prof. Dr. Charles J. Malemud Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatic Diseases, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106-5076, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: arthritis; chondrocytes; cytokines; inflammation; signal transduction Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Apoptotic Chondrocytes and Osteoarthritis Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Musculoskeletal Diseases Therapy Special Issue in Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology: Articular Cells and Tissues in Health and Osteoarthritis
Prof. Dr. Vsevolod V. Gurevich Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, 2200 Pierce Avenue, Preston Research Building, rm 417D, Nashville, TN 37232, USA Tel. +1 (615) 322-7070; Fax: +1 (615) 343-6532 Website \| E-Mail Interests: arrestin proteins; structure-function; protein engineering; GPCR signaling; GPCR trafficking; receptor regulation; cell proliferation; apoptosis; MAP kinases Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Topical Collection in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling and Regulation
Prof. Dr. Kun Yan Zhu Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA Tel. +1 (785) 532-4721; Fax: +1 (785) 532-6232 Website \| E-Mail Interests: chitin biosynthesis and metabolism in insects; insecticide modes of action and detoxification; mechanisms of insecticide resistance; RNA interference in insects
Associate Professor Christo Z. Christov Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Fax: +44 191 227 3519 Website \| E-Mail Interests: computational biomolecular science; enzyme mechanisms; protein conformational dynamics; biomolecular spectroscopy; combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical methods (QM/MM); quantum chemistry; molecular dynamics; protein-ligands interactions; bioinorganic electronic structure and mechanisms Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Topical Collection in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Computational, Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of Enzyme Mechanisms, Inhibition and Dynamics Topical Collection in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Proteins and Protein-Ligand Interactions Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Computational Studies of Structure-Dynamics-Function Relationships in Biomolecules
Dr. Mateus Webba da Silva School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Coleraine Cromore Road, BT51 1SA, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: DNA structural nanotechnology, structural biology, nucleic acids structure; protein structure; biomolecular NMR; biophysical spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Zdenek Wimmer Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Isotope Laboratory, Videnska 1083, CZ-14220 Prague 4, Czech Republic and Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, The University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, CZ-16628 Prague 6, Czech Republic Fax: +420 241 062 150 Website \| E-Mail Interests: biocatalysis; enzymic reaction; enzymic resolution; microorganism; asymmetric synthesis; plant-product-based compounds for pharmacology; nanostructured materials; supramolecular chemistry; medicinal chemistry
Prof. Dr. António J. C. Varandas Departamento de Quimica, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal Tel. +351 239 835867; Fax: +351 239 835867/827703 Website \| E-Mail Interests: potential energy surfaces; electronic structure calculations; intermolecular forces; chemical dynamics; non-adiabatic effects; chemistry of atmospheric ozone
Prof. Dr. David C. Clary Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4AU, UK Tel. +44 020 7679 1488; Fax: +44 020 7679 4560 Website \| E-Mail Interests: quantum theory of chemical reactions and molecular properties
Prof. Dr. Gérard Vergoten UMR CNRS 8576, Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, University of Science and Technology, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Tel. 33 320337150 E-Mail Interests: protein-ligand interactions; structural glycobiology; molecular modeling; empirical force fields; vibrational spectroscopy; molecular dynamics; computational chemistry