19 August 2026
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Members of Current Issues in Molecular Biology
Current Issues in Molecular Biology (CIMB, ISSN 1467-3045) is pleased to announce that the following 62 researchers have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the CIMB community!
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Name: Dr. Siddhant Bhoir Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA Research interests: prostate cancer; TLK inhibitors; mechanisms of cancer drug resistance; cell signaling and pathway analysis; protein biochemistry; drug discovery and development; next-gen cancer therapies; cellular and molecular oncology; pharmacology; assay development |
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Name: Dr. Kotohiko Kimura Affiliation: Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685, USA Research interests: anticancer drug; combination drug treatment; transcription factor; gene regulation; alternative splicing; cancer metabolism; mitochondria; apoptosis and hypoxia |
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Name: Dr. Anita Sejben Affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Szeged, 6725 Szeged, Hungary Research interests: surgical pathology; anatomic pathology; gastrointestinal pathology; molecular pathology; gastrointestinal oncology |
| Name: Dr. Chen Zhang Affiliation: College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 42nd and Emile, Omaha, NE, USA Research interests: HIV-1; gene therapy; humanized mouse model; neurodegeneration; deep sequencing |
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Name: Dr. Md Ashraful Islam Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76201, USA Research interests: plant pathology; molecular biology; crop improvement; qRT-PCR; protein–protein interaction |
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Name: Dr. Zhihang Shen Affiliation: Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA Research interests: chemical biology; biochemistry; pharmacology; biophysical assay development |
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Name: Dr. Marielena Vogel Saivish Affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA Research interests: emerging and neglected arboviruses; viral encephalitis; virus–host interactions; antiviral strategies; molecular virology; viral pathogenesis |
| Name: Dr. Sayantap Datta Affiliation: Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, 4349 Martin Luther King Blvd., Houston, TX 77204, USA Research interests: cancer pharmacology; renal pharmacology; developmental biology |
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Name: Dr. Yun-Sang Tang Affiliation: Centre of Protein Science and Crystallography, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Research interests: heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C; RNA-dependent RNA polymerase; Canarium album (Lour.) DC.; influenza virus; PB1 β-hairpin |
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Name: Dr. Soumyadev Sarkar Affiliation: Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA Research interests: molecular microbiology; molecular biology; molecular informatics; microbial ecology |
| Name: Dr. Sarmed Al-Samerria Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ 85004, United States Research interests: growth hormone deficiency (GHD); energy metabolism; sex differences; PIT-1 mutation; metabolomics |
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Name: Dr. Hilal Kalkan Affiliation: Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ), Département de Médecine, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada Research interests: pharmacology; immunology; lipid signaling; cannabinoid biology; GPCR pharmacology; molecular cell biology; cell signaling; neurobiology; hematology; muscle disorders; endocannabinoid system; inflammation; drug-induced toxicity; translational medicine |
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Name: Dr. Muhammad Zubair Akram Affiliation: Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Borgo XX Giugno, 74 06122 Perugia, Italy Research interests: stress physiology; abiotic stresses; quinoa; tomato; organic amendments; biochar |
| Name: Dr. Jihoon Oh Affiliation: Immunology Section, Liver Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 10 Center Drive Bldg 10, Room 9B15, Bethesda, MD 20892-1800, USA Research interests: immunoregulation and host–microbiota crosstalk; preclinical disease models (oncology, infection, inflammation); translational in vivo immunology |
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Name: Dr. Rui Guo Affiliation: Laboratory of Natural Biotoxin, Apitherapy Research Institute, College of Bee Science and Biomedicine, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China Research interests: host–pathogen interaction; transgene; disease diagnosis and control; omics |
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Name: Dr. Xiao Wang Affiliations: 1 State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines of China Pharmaceutical University, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Design and Optimization of China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China; 2 Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China Research interests: high incidence; evaluation; treatment; oncogenes; synthesis |
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Name: Dr. Zhaoyue Dong Affiliation: Chongqing Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening from Traditional Chinese Medicine, Integrative Science, Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (Chongqing) Science City & Southwest University, SWU-TAAHC Medicinal Plant Joint R&D Centre, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China Research interests: pharmacy; natural medicinal chemistry |
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Name: Dr. Ramesh Maruthi Chingle Affiliation: National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA Research interests: biorganic chemistry; peptide chemistry; catalysis; medicinal chemistry |
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Name: Dr. Mingzhe Yuan Affiliations: 1 Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biotechnology, Ningbo University, Ministry of Education, Ningbo 315211, China; 2 State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-Products, School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China Research interests: stress physiology; reproductive biology and environmental toxicology of fish; immune |
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Name: Dr. Yunpeng Gai Affiliation: School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China Research interests: bioinformatics; comparative genomics; population genomics; computational biology; gene editing; plant pathology; fungal phylogeny |
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Name: Dr. Pei Li Affiliation: Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Research interests: keratin biology; epidermolysis bullosa simplex; porphyria; liver injury biomarkers; mitochondrial biology; cell signaling; molecular therapeutics |
| Name: Dr. Nithyadevi Duraisamy Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, College of Digital Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA Research interests: materials science; highly pathogenic avian influenza virus |
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Name: Dr. Mohamed Ibrahem Elhawy Affiliation: Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Saarland University, 66424 Homburg, Germany Research interests: chemosensory cells; phagocytosis; gene expression; immunity; S. aureus; P. aeuroginosa |
| Name: Dr. Nikhilesh Anand Affiliation: School of Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA Research interests: neurodegenerative diseases; standardized patients; medical school; inflammation; flexibility |
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Name: Dr. Han Wang Affiliation: Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Science, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China Research interests: molecular genetics and meat quality science |
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Name: Dr. Johura Ansary Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche, Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy Research interests: bioactive compound; antioxidant; cancer; cell signalling pathway; microsphere |
| Name: Dr. Dikshat Gopal Gupta Affiliation: Department of Urology, The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA Research interests: blood; oncology; cancer; pathophysiology; hematology |
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Name: Dr. Valentina Schiavoni Affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60126 Ancona, Italy Research interests: anticancer drugs; cancer biomarkers; drug resistance |
| Name: Dr. Ernesto Aitella Affiliation: Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy Research interests: autoimmune; celiac disease |
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Name: Dr. Chang Wang Affiliation: Key Laboratory of Geriatric Nursing and Health, School of Nursing, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei 230012, China Research interests: male fertility; spermatogenesis; sperm function; sperm motility; reproductive genetics; reproductive molecular biology; germ cell biology; mouse model |
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Name: Dr. Karolina Bajdak-Rusinek Affiliation: Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Medykow 18 Street, 40-752 Katowice, Poland Research interests: molecular mechanisms; cell therapy; mesenchymal stem cells; tissue regeneration; drug delivery; epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition; microRNA; molecular cancer biology; metastasis; personalized medicine |
| Name: Dr. Manas Kinra Affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92507, USA Research interests: pharmacology; neuroinflammation; drug delivery; stem cells |
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Name: Dr. Mehran Mottahedi Affiliation: Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada Research interests: translational medicine; cardiovascular research; heart failure; pharmacology; oncology; biomarker discovery; systematic reviews and meta-analyses; precision medicine |
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Name: Dr. Yu-Cheng Chen Affiliation: College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China Research interests: bioseparation; biopharmaceutical downstream processing; chromatography; mechanistic modeling; hybrid modeling; continuous biomanufacturing; intelligent manufacturing |
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Name: Dr. Banghua Xia Affiliation: College of Marine Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China Research interests: aquatic animal physiology & conservation; volatile flavor compounds detection; geographical traceability of aquatic products; multi-omics analysis; intestinal microbiology; aquatic product quality & safety |
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Name: Dr. Mitra Shokrollahi Affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Research interests: DNA repair; DNA damage response; genome stability; cancer biology; molecular oncology, BRCA1/2-associated vulnerabilities; triple-negative breast cancer; translational cancer research; biomarker discovery; precision oncology; cell biology; cancer genetics; tumor biology; therapeutic target discovery |
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Name: Dr. Doris Čarija Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Split, R. Bošković 33, 21000 Split, Croatia Research interests: medicinal chemistry; antimicrobial agents; quaternary ammonium compounds; quinuclidine derivatives; antibacterial activity; bacterial resistance; structure–activity relationship; membrane-active compounds; mode of antibacterial action; bioactive amphiphiles; drug discovery |
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Name: Dr. Pasquale Perrone Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche, del Movimento e del Benessere, Università Partenope di Napoli, 80133 Napoli, Italy Research interests: health; polyphenols; erythrocyte; antioxidants; gut microbiota |
| Name: Dr. Tadeja Kuret Affiliation: Institute of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Research interests: establishment and use of in vitro models of interstitial cystitis and other inflammatory diseases; establishment and use of 3D multi-cellular in vitro models; studying biomarkers in interstitial cystitis; studying the anti-inflammatory effect of cannabinoids; establishment and use of single cell high throughput technologies |
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Name: Dr. Stela Dragomanova Affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacotherapy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Varna, 84 A Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., 9002 Varna, Bulgaria Research interests: neuropharmacology; neuroprotection; neurodegenerative diseases; natural-derived substances; natural products; drug repurposing |
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Name: Dr. Ahsanullah Unar Affiliation: Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania ‘L. Vanvitelli’, 80138 Naples, Italy Research interests: molecular biology, genetics and computational biology; genetic mutations in infertility and cancer; trace element analysis in health; machine learning for protein and disease modeling; personalized medicine and diagnostics; environmental impacts on health; innovations in genomics, biomedicine, and environmental health; genetics; cell biology |
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Name: Dr. Dipali Srivastava Affiliation: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA Research interests: abiotic and biotic stress; plant defence; drought; heavy metal stress; antioxidants; gene expression; glutathione s-transferase; plant hormones; transgenic plants; transciptome analysis; rice; arabidopsis; confocal microscopy; ICP-MS |
| Name: Dr. Purushoth Ethiraj Affiliation: Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio (UTHSA), San Antonio, TX 78229, USA Research interests: B-cell malignancies; tumor and metabolic regulation; finding the mutations in genes progressing B-cell lymphoma; tumors; lymphangiogenesis |
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| Name: Dr. Dileep G. Nair Affiliation: Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry (IFMPEGKC), RWTH University Hospital Aachen, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Research interests: molecular biology; liver fibrosis; drug discovery and development; advanced in vitro models |
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| Name: Dr. Diana Torge Affiliation: Department of Life Science, Health and Health Professions, Link Campus University, 00165 Rome, Italy Research interests: anatomy; morphology; transmission electron microscopy; periodontal disease; biomaterials; regenerative medicine |
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Name: Dr. Carina Slidsborg Affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Rigshospitalet, 2600 Glostrup, Denmark Research interests: bioinformatics; OMICs technologies; neonatology; retinal diseases; metabolism |
| Name: Dr. Marina Goldstajn Affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Research interests: human reproduction; IVF; poor responders; LH role in ovarian stimulation; biosimilars; PCOS; menopause |
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| Name: Dr. Nismat Javed Affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, BronxCare Health System, Bronx, NY 10457, USA Research interests: cardiology; genomics; evidence-based medicine |
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| Name: Dr. Jihua Yang Affiliation: Department of Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA Research interests: lung cancer; non-small-cell lung cancer; lung cancer brain metastases; immunotherapy; oncology; cell biology; tumor microenvironment |
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Name: Dr. Aylin Acun Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Widener University, Chester, PA 19013, USA Research interests: tissue engineering; disease modeling; aging; iPSCs; interorgan communication; tissue/organ decellularization and recellularization |
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Name: Dr. Vanessa Mateus Affiliation: Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Professor Gama Pinto, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal Research interests: pharmacology; pharmacotherapy; non-clinical studies; disease animal models; inflammation; inflammatory bowel disease; colitis-associated cancer; periodontitis |
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Name: Dr. Jayanta Kumar Patra Affiliation: College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dongguk University-Seoul, Goyangsi 10326, Republic of Korea Research interests: medicinal plants; nanobiotechnology; fermented foods; functional foods |
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Name: Dr. Shining Loo Affiliation: Wisdom Lake Academy of Pharmacy, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Wuzhong No. 111, Renai Road, Suzhou 215123, China Research interests: precision medicine; peptide drug discovery and design; mass spectrometry; proteomics-based target-identification and functional and structural characterization; high-throughput drug screening and validation; peptide and protein chemistry; molecular pharmacology; targeted protein modifiers; targeted drug delivery; natural products |
| Name: Dr. Caterina De Rosa Affiliation: Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 80131 Naples, Italy Research interests: lung cancer; immune response; DNA damage repair; drug resistance |
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Name: Dr. Waldo Acevedo Affiliation: Instituto de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2373223, Chile Research interests: structural bioinformatics; application of computational chemistry and biology in foods |
| Name: Dr. Jorge L. Mejía-Méndez Affiliation: Programa de Edafología, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo, Carretera Mexico-Texcoco km 36.5, Texcoco 56264, Mexico Research interests: nanotechnology; medicinal plants; biological activities |
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Name: Dr. Geovane Dias-Lopes Affiliation: Departamento de Ciências Biomédicas e Saúde, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Arízio Gomes da Costa 186—Jardim Flamboyant, Cabo Frio 28905-320, RJ, Brazil Research interests: molecular microbiology; protozoan; leishmania; trichomonas; RT-qPCR; gene expression; genomics and proteomics |
| Name: Dr. Uriel Alberto Angulo-Zamudio Affiliation: Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacán 80019, Sinaloa, Mexico Research interests: antibiotic resistance; infectious diseases; epidemiology; public health; molecular biology |
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Name: Dr. Othman El Faqer Affiliation: Laboratory of Integrative Biology, Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock, Hassan II University, B.P 2693, Maarif, Casablanca 20100, Morocco Research interests: immunology; cell biology; microbiology; phytochemistry |
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Name: Dr. Thi Sinh Vo Affiliation: Institute of Advanced Machinery and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea Research interests: functional biomaterials; biopolymers; biointerfaces; hybrid nanocomposites; surface and interfacial engineering; (bio-)sensing; hybrid functional materials for water treatment |
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Name: Dr. Shikai Jin Affiliation: College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China Research interests: AI-assisted drug discovery; computational biophysics; protein design; protein dynamics |
