Editorial Team
Editors-in-Chief
Xuehao Wang, MD
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the Institute of Liver Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
Yinghao Sun, MD
Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of the Second Military Medical University (SMMU), Shanghai, China
Jianxing He, MD, FACS
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
Nanshan Zhong, MD
Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering. Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Xiaosong Gu, MD, PhD
Jiangsu Key Lab of Neuroregeneration of Ministry of Education, Nantong, China
Rafael Rosell, MD, PhD
Cancer Biology and Precision Medicine Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Ctra Canyet, Badalona (Barcelona), Spain
Executive Editor-in-Chief
Giuseppe Lippi, MD
Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Ling Lu, MD, PhD (Liver Transplantation)
Division of Liver Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
Fei Hua, MD (Endocrinology)
Department of Endocrinology, The First People’s Hospital of Changzhou & The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China
Bin Song, MD
Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Dongquan Shi, MD, PhD (Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstruction)
Department of Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstruction, Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Gonzalo Varela, MD, PhD, MSc
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain
Weihai Xu, MD
Department of Neurology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Jin-Tai Yu, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Hong Zhao, MD (Abdominal Surgical Oncology)
Vice director, Laboratory of abdominal surgical oncology; Associate Professor, Department of abdominal surgical oncology; Cancer Hospital and Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. Beijing, China
Editorial Consultant
Michael W. Kattan, PhD
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Associate Editor
Gianfranco Alpini, PhD
Scott & White and Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA
Executive Editor
Zhi-De Hu, MD (Clinical Chemistry)
Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China
Editorial Board (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Bioinformatics)
Jimmy T. Efird, PhD
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, Australia
Philippe Lehert, Ir, PhD
United Nations Hon Senior Consulting Statistician, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Melbourne, Australia; Faculty of Economics, UCL Mons, Louvain, Belgium
Iuri Drumond Louro
Núcleo de Genética Humana e Molecular (NGHM), Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Sven Van Poucke, MD, PhD
Anesthesiologist, Emergency Physician, Data Scientist, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium
Editorial Board (Biomedical Engineering)
Renjie Chai, PhD
Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Linhong Deng, PhD
Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China
Zhongze Gu, PhD
School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, China
Chen Wang, PhD
School of Life Science and Biotechnology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China
Chao Zhang, PhD
School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Editorial Board (Biochemical Science and Genomics)
Colin J. Barnstable, D.Phil.
Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
Sebastiano Buti
Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma , Parma , Italy
Elisa Danese, PhD
Clinical Biochemistry, Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Dr santanu dasgupta
Department of Pathology, USA Mitchell Cancer Institute, Mobile AL 36604
Yuyou Duan, PhD
Institutes for Life Sciences, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Francisco J. Enguita, B.Pharm., PhD
Cardiomics Unit, Centro de Cardiologia da Universidade de Lisboa (CCUL), Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Cristiano Fava, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Ritu R Gill, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Pilar Giraldo, MD, PhD
Traslational Research Unit, Aragon Institute of Health Research (IISAragon), Zaragoza, Spain
Zhi-Chun Gu, MD
Renji hospital, School of medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Toru Hosoda, MD, PhD
Sakakibara Heart Institute, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Pardeep Kaurah
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Erik S. Knudsen
Center for Personalized Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA,Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
Roger M. Leblanc, PhD
Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Caterina Ledda, MSc, PhD
Clinical pathology and Clinical molecular biology Laboratory, Garibaldi Hospital of Catania, Italy
Myung-Shin Lee, MD, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea
Jiyong Liu, PhD
Department of Pharmacy, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Lars Maegdefessel, MD, PhD
Experimental Vascular Surgery and Vascular Biology Laboratories, Technical University Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Munich Germany;
Molecular Vascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine at the Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Akiko Mammoto, MD, PhD
Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Partha Mitra, PhD
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Translational Research Institute, Australia
Faustino Mollinedo
Department of Molecular Biomedicine, Laboratory of Cell Death and Cancer Therapy, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Rodolfo Montironi
Section of Pathological Anatomy, School of Medicine, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, United Hospitals, 60126 Ancona, Italy.
Laszlo Prokai
Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
Nicola Normanno, MD
Cell Biology and Biotherapy Unit; Translational Research Department, INT Fondazione Pascale, Naples, Italy
Carlos J. Pirola, PhD, FAHA, FASHG
Department of Molecular Genetics and Biology of Complex Diseases
Director, Institute of Medical Research (IDIM)
University of Buenos Aires-National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina
Prakash Radhakrishnan, PhD
Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Pranela Rameshwar, PhD
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, NJ, USA
Dirk Roggenbuck, MD, PhD
Molecular Diagnostics and Quality Management, Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty Environment and Natural Sciences, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
Antonio Ruggiero
Paediatric Oncology Unit, Department of Woman and Child Health, Agostino Gemelli Hospital, Catholic University of Rome, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy.
Luca Saba
Dipartimento di Radiologia, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Dario Siniscalco
Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
Yoram Vodovotz, PhD
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA; Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, USA
Ralf Weiskirchen, PhD
Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry at the RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Editorial Board (Breast Cancer)
Meritxell Arenas Prat, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
Javier Cortés, MD, PhD
Head, Breast Cancer Program, IOB Insititute of Oncology, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
Clinical Investigator, Breast Cancer Research Program
Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
Rosalia C. M. Simmen
Physiology and Biophysics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
Khalid Sossey-Alaoui, PhD
Division of Cancer Biology, MetroHealth Medical Research Center, MetroHealth System, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Editorial Board (Cardiology)
Rubén Casado Arroyo, MD, PhD, MSc
Ruben Casado Arroyo, Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory CUB Hopital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Alexandros Briasoulis, MD, PhD
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, 200 Hawkins Dr, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Edward J. Ciaccio, PhD
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology and the Celiac Disease Center, Columbia University, USA
Yong-Ming He (Matthew Y. He), MD, PhD
Division of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 899 Pinghai Ave., Gusu District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt, MD
Sana Clinic Group Franken, Department of Cardiology / Pulmonology / Intensive Care / Nephrology, ’’Hof’’ Clinics, University of Erlangen, Hof, Germany
Alexander N. Kharlamov, MD
De Haar Research Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Constantine E. Kosmas, MD, PhD
Nuclear Cardiology and Lipid Clinic, Cardiology Unlimited, P.C., New York, NY, USA
Chiara Lazzeri, MD
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
Mao Liu, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
Naoki Misumida, MD
Department of Cardiology, Gill Heart & Vascular Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Gjin Ndrepepa, MD
Department of Adult Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany
Fabian Sanchis-Gomar, MD, PhD
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute,Valencia, Spain
Gerasimos Siasos, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiology, “Hippokration” General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece; Division of Cardiovascular, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Shizuka Uchida, PhD, FAHA
Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, MD, MS, FACP, FCCP
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Syed Wamique Yusuf
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
Editorial Board (Cardiothoracic Surgery)
Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS, FCCP
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Thoracic Surgery-AUSL Romagna, Santa Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital, Ravenna, Italy
Fausto Biancari, MD, PhD
University of Turku and University of Oulu, Finland.
Raja M. Flores, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, USA
Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, MD, PhD
Cardiac Surgery Department, Heart Area, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
Po-Kuei Hsu, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei
Ali Khoynezhad, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute, Los Angeles, USA
Hyun Koo Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Alexander Kogan
Cardiac Surgical ICU, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Ramat Gan.
Lecturer, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Chang Young Lee, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgey, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Philip McElnay, MBChB
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow ST2, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Newcastle University/South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Debabrata Mukherjee, M.D., M.S., FACC, FAHA, FSCAI
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, USA
Francesco Nappi, MD
Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France
Marco Nardini, MD
Cardiothoracic Department, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK
Eugenio Pompeo, MD
Sezione di patologia polmonare medica e chirurigca, Dipartimento di Biomedicina e Prevenzione, Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Cecilia Pompili, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Kenichi Suda
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
Ibrahim Sultan, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Paul Van Schil, MD
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
Nico van Zandwijk, MD, PhD
Senior Staff Specialist Sydney Local Health District, Concord Clinical School; Sydney Medical School, Concord Repatriation General Hospital; Hospital Road, Concord, NSW 2139, Australia
Song Wan, MD, FRCS, FACC
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
Hao Wang, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Ory Wiesel, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Director, Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory, Co-leader, Lung Disease Site Research Group, Physician Leader, Thoracic Oncology Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
Editorial Board (Dermatology)
Taige Cao, MBBS, MRCP(UK)
National Skin Centre, Singapore
Sudhir Gupta
Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, Medical Sci. I, C-240, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Editorial Board (Drugs and Devices)
Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neurosciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Guillermo Antonio Díaz-Araya, PhD
Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, Pharmacological and Toxicological Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Chile, Santos Dumont 964, Independencia, Chile
R. Stephanie Huang
Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
Jan Trøst Jørgensen, PhD
The Dx-Rx Institute, Fredensborg, Denmark
Heebeom Koo, PhD
Department of Medical Lifescience, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea
Paolo Montuschi, PhD
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Largo Francesco Vito, Rome, Italy
Kannan Sridharan
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain
Editorial Board (Emergency Medicine and Critical Care)
Jan Bakker
Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care, NYU Langone Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Sang-Bum Hong
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Amos Lal, MBBS, MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA
Emilio Maseda, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology and Surgical Critical Care, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
Terry Quinn, FRCP, FESO, MD, MBChB, BSc
Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Jordi Rello, MD, PhD
Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Campus Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Kamen Valchanov, MD, BSc, FRCA, FFICM
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Antoine Vieillard-Baron, MD, PhD
Intensive Care Unit, Section Thorax-Vascular Disease-Abdomen-Metabolism, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, 9, avenue Charles-de-Gaulle, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Editorial Board (Diagnostic Medicine and Pathology)
Luka Brcic, MD, PhD
Diagnostic & Research Center for Molecular BioMedicine, Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Kristine Cornejo, MD
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55, Boston, MA, USA
Keita Kai, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Nabesima 5-1-1, Saga 849–8501, Japan
Bashir A. Lwaleed, PhD
School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
Ratna B. Ray, PhD
Saint Louis University, Department of Pathology, Edward A. Doisy Research Center, St. Louis, MO, USA
Francisco Javier Romero, MD, PhD
Requena General Hospital, Requena, Valencia, Spain; Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, the Universidad Europea de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Kiril Trpkov, MD, FRCPC
University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, Canada
Vaclav Vetvicka, PhD
University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Semir Vranic, MD, PhD.
Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qata
Hiroshi Yoshida, MD, PhD
Division of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
Editorial Board (Endocrinology)
Cristian Guja, MD, PhD
“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
Barbara Jarzab, MD, PhD
Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, Poland
Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX, USA
Sandro La Vignera
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Yoshifumi Saisho, MD, PhD
Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Editorial Board (Epidemiology)
Qingzhong Kong, PhD
Departments of Pathology and Neurology, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Kevin R. Krull, PhD
Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Phyo K. Myint, MBBS, MD
Epidemiology Group, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Hiroshi Nishiura
Department of Hygiene, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan
Pierre Roques, PhD, HDR
Immunology of Viral Infections and Autoimmune Diseases, IDMIT Department, IBFJ, CEA, Université Paris Sud, INSERM U1184, 92265 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
Alejandro Santos-Lozano, PhD
Department of Health Sciences at European University Miguel de Cervantes, Valladolid, Spain
Editorial Board (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)
Jaffer A Ajani
Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Khaldoun Almhanna, MD, MPH
Department of Hematology/Oncology, Lifespan Cancer Institute, Providence, RI, USA.
Ali Canbay
Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Ping Chi, MD, PhD
Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA; Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA; Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
Guanghai Dai, PhD
Medical Oncology Department, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
Michał Grąt, MD, PhD
Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Zhenhua Hu, MD
The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Yiwu, 322000, Zhejiang Province, China.
Ammar A. Javed, MD
Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Zubair Khan
Department of Gastroenterology, University of Texas Health Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Anastasios Koulaouzidis, MD
Centre of Liver & Digestive Disorders, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Lei Liu, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
Xiangdong Liu, PhD
Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Saurabh Singhal, MBBS, MS
Department of GI-HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Iswanto Sucandy, MD, FACS
Hepatopancreatobiliary and Advanced Gastrointestinal Surgery, Advent Health Tampa, Florida, USA
Frank Tacke, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstraße 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Karn Wijarnpreecha, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Editorial Board (Geriatrics and Aging)
Yongping Bai, MD
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Editorial Board (Hematology)
Claudio Agostinelli, MD, PhD
Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Bologna University School of Medicine; Haematopathology section, S.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy
Francesco Albano, MD, PhD
Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Section Az. Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico P.zza G. Cesare, Bari, Italy
Laurent Bertoletti, MD, PhD
Groupe d'Etude Multidisciplinaire sur les Maladies Thrombotiques (GEMMAT), Lyon, France
Médecine Vasculaire et Thérapeutique, Hôpital Nord, Saint-Etienne, France
Jan Beyer-Westendorf
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Germany
Mitesh J. Borad
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Fabrice Cognasse, PhD, HDR
Etablissement Français du Sang Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Saint-Étienne, France
Albert Farrugia, BSc, PhD (Edin)
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Felicetto Ferrara, MD
Dipartimento di Ematologia e Trapianto di Cellule Staminali, Ospedale Cardarelli, Napoli, Italy
Loïc Garçon, MD, PhD
Department of Constitutional Genetics, Centre de biologie Humaine, CHU Amiens, France
Laura Gutiérrez
Platelet Research Lab, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Oviedo, Spain; Dept. of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Spain
Shinsaku Imashuku, MD
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Division of Hematology, Uji-Tokushukai Medical Center, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
Terra L. Lasho, PhD
Department of Hematology-Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Robert S. Ohgami
Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Tadeusz Robak, MD, PhD
Department of Hematology, Medical University of Lodz and Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Lodz, Poland
Preet Paul Singh, MD
Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, Minnesota, USA
Ciprian Tomuleasa, MD
Department of Hematology, Ion Chiricuta Clinical Research Center, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Editorial Board (Immunology)
Christian Brander, MD
IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute - HIVACAT, Badalona, Spain
Saurabh Chattopadhyay, PhD
University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, USA
Sudhir Gupta
Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, Medical Sci. I, C-240, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Keli Hippen, PhD
Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, USA
Zhexiong Lian, MD, PhD
Institutes for Life Sciences and School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Louis C. Penning, PhD
Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Andras Perl
State University of New York, College of Medicine, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, USA
Chaim Putterman, MD
Division of Rheumatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, F701N, 1300 Morris Park Ave., Bronx, NY, USA
Xiaoming Wang, PhD
Department of Immunology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
Heping Xu
The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
Editorial Board (Lung Cancer)
Joanna Domagala-Kulawik, MD, PhD
Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Laura Evangelista
Nuclear Medicine Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Padua, Italy
Emanuela Felley-Bosco, PhD, PD
Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Lungen- und Thoraxonkologie Zentrum, Zurich University Hospital, Labor 40E, Sternwartstrasse 14, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Kassem Harris, MD, FCCP
Department of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla; Westchester Medical Center; New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Paul Hofman, MD, PhD
Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Hospital, 30 avenue de la voie romaine, 06001 Nice Cedex 01, France
Erminia Massarelli, MD, PhD, MS
Department of Medical Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
Tanmay S. Panchabhai, MD, FACP, FCCP
Lung Cancer Screening Program; Pulmonary Fibrosis Center; Lung Transplant Program; John and Doris Norton Thoracic Institute; St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Bassam Redwan, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Westfalen, Lünen, Germany
Mariacarmela Santarpia, MD, PhD
Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Human Pathology “G. Barresi”, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Qiming Wang, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Editorial Board (Nephrology)
Jacek Borawski, MD, PhD
Department of Nephrology and Transplantation with Dialysis Unit, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland
Glenn Matthew Chertow
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Wisit Cheungpasitporn, MD
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Mississippi, USA
Maciej M. Mrugala
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Baihai Su, PhD
Division of Nephrology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Editorial Board (Neurology)
Gal Bitan, PhD
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Brain Research Institute, and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Warren Boling
Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA.
Richard E. Frye
Division of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Department of Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Jin-Man Jung
Division of Stroke, Department of Neurology, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Ansan, Korea.
Jin-Sung Kim
Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul St. Mary´s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo Daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 137-701, Seoul, South Korea.
Simona Lattanzi, MD
Neurological Clinic, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy
Thomas Skripuletz, MD
Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Erwin Stolz, MD
Department of Neurology, Caritasklinikum Saarbruecken, Germany
Toshihide Tanaka, MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Kashiwa Hospital, Chiba, Japan
Editorial Board (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Valerio Gallotta, MD
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Dipartimento Scienze della Salute della Donna, del Bambino e di Sanità Pubblica, UOC di Ginecologia Oncologica, Roma, Italy
Yusuke Kobayashi
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
Seung-Hyuk Shim
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Research Institute of Medical Science, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Rajesh Singh, PhD
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Roberto Tozzi
Department of Gynaecologic Oncology, Nuffield Department of Women and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Women's Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
Luigi Carlo Turco
Gynecology and Breast care Unit, Mater Olbia Hospital, Olbia, Italy; Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Gemelli Molise, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Campobasso, Italy
Dabao Xu, MD
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
Xinmei Zhang, MD, PhD
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Women’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Editorial Board (Oncology)
Massimiliano Berretta
Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, IRCCS, Aviano (PN), Italy
Stergios Boussios, MD, MSc, PhD, MRCP(Lond)
Acute Oncology Assessment Unit, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Windmill Road, Gillingham ME7 5NY, Kent, UK
George Fountzilas, MD
Department of Medical Oncology, “Papageorgiou” Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
Balazs Halmos, MD
Clinical Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
Takuro Miyazaki
Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
Gaurav Pandey, Ph.D.
Washington University school of Medicine St. Louis, MO, USA
Josep M. Piulats, MD
Department of Medical Oncology, Genitourinary, Melanoma and Sarcoma Unit, Institut Català d’Oncologia, Gran Via 199-203, 08908 L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Umang Swami, MD, MS
Department of Oncology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Yongchang Zhang, MD, PhD
Department of Medical Oncology, Lung Cancer and Gastrointestinal Unit, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
Editorial Board (Ophthalmology)
Abbot (Abe) Clark, PhD, FARVO
North Texas Eye Research Institute, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Gábor Holló
Department of Ophthalmology, Semmelweis University, Mária u. 39, Budapest, 1085, Hungary.
Susanna S. Park, MD, PhD
Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
Editorial Board (Orthopaedics)
Francesco Atzori, MD
Director of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Unit, Cottolengo Hospital, Turin, Italy
Anil Bhave, PT
Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Rubin Institute, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
Hamid Rahmatullah Bin Abd Razak, MBBS
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sengkang General Hospital, Duke-NUS, Singapore
Federico Canavese, MD PhD
Department of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, University Hospital Estaing, 1 place Lucie et Raymond Aubrac, Clermont Ferrand 63003, France
Riccardo D’Ambrosi, MD
C.A.S.C.O. Department, IRCCS Orthopedic Institute Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
Ronald E. Delanois, MD
Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopaedics, Center for Joint Preservation and Replacement, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 2401 West Belvedere Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21215, USA
Najia Hajjaj-Hassouni
International University of Rabat (UIR). Morocco
Berardo Di Matteo, MD
Center for functional and biologic reconstruction of the knee, Humanitas Clinical and Research Institute, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Sheeraz A. Qureshi
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA
Adnan Saithna
King James IV Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK
Kern Singh, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at Rush; Minimally Invasive Spine Study Group; Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
Editorial Board (Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine)
Chao Liu, MD
Department of Orthodontics, the Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Medical College of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Mukund Seshadri, DDS, PhD
Department of Oral Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA;
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
Editorial Board (Pediatrics)
Lu Cai
Kosair Children's Hospital Research Institute, the Departments of Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
Anne B. Chang, PhD
Child Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Shibani Kanungo, MD, MPH
Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Dilip R. Patel, MD, MBA, MPH
Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Editorial Board (Psychiatry)
Jerrold F. Rosenbaum , MD
Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Editorial Board (Radiation Medicine)
Sandeep Burma, PhD
Division of Molecular Radiation Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2201 Inwood Road, NC7.208, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
Nishant Gupta, MD, DABR
Department of Radiology, Columbia University at Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY, USA
Waqar Haque, MD
Clinical Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College; Houston Methodist Research Institute; Houston Methodist West Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Joseph Lee, MBBS, FRACP, FAANMS
Department of Medical Imaging, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Rahmi Oklu
Minimally Invasive Therapeutics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic 5777 E. Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Keith Bertram Quencer
Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Steven P. Rowe
Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Charles B. Simone, II, MD
New York Proton Center, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Eric van Sonnenberg
Departments of Radiology & Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Wei-Hu Wang, MD, PhD
Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education/Beijing), Department of Radiation Oncology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, China
Jiandong Zhang, MD
Radiotherapy Section, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
Editorial Board (Respiratory Medicine)
Marie Budev, MD
Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Sushilkumar Gupta
Critical Care, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA
Nobuyuki Horita, MD, PhD
5801 Nicholson Ln Apt #627, North Bethesda, MD 20852, USA.
Rudolf M. Huber, MD, PhD
University of Munich - Campus Innenstadt, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ziemssenstraße 1, D-80336 Munich, Germany
Yuki Kataoka, MD, MPH
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center, Higashinaniwacho, Hyōgo Prefecture, 660-8550 Amagasaki, Japan
Hideharu Kimura
Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Takara-machi 13-1, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920-8641, Japan.
Chen Qiu, MD, PhD
Shenzhen People's Hospital Jinan University Second Clinical Medical College; Shenzhen Respiratory Diseases Institute, Shenzhen, China
Daniel D. Rowley, MSc, RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS, RPFT, FAARC
Department of Pulmonary Diagnostics & Respiratory Therapy Services, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Sukhwinder Singh Sohal, PhD, FAPSR
Respiratory Translational Research Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Health Sciences, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Małgorzata Szolkowska, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Sang-Won Um, MD, PhD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Editorial Board (Surgery)
Marcio F. Chedid
Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Medical School of UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Jon Mallen-St. Clair
Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery, 8635 3rd Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
Gianlorenzo Dionigi, MD, FACS
Division for Endocrine Surgery, Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood ''G. Barresi’', University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, Via C. Valeria 1, 98125, Messina, Italy
Alfonso García Fadrique
Valencian Inst Oncol, Gen & Digest Surg, Prof Beltran Baguena 8, Valencia 46009, Spain
Paschalis Gavriilidis, MD, Msc, PhD
Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Queen Elizabeth University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, B15 2TH, UK.
Robert A. Kratzke
Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplant, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, MMC 480, 420 Delaware St, SE, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Panagiotis Lainas, MD, PhD
Department of Minimally Invasive Digestive Surgery, Antoine-Beclere Hospital, Paris-Sud University, Paris, France.
Dr. Giuseppe Lanza
University of Catania
Alexandre G. Lellouch, MD, PhD candidate
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Kwan Nancy Man, MBBS, MS, PhD
Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Cesare Piazza
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maxillofacial and Thyroid Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS National Cancer Institute of Milan, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Ricardo Robles-Campos
Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, Virgen de La Arrixaca Clinic, University Hospital, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
David A. Waller
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK
Alex K. Wong
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo St. Suite 415, Los Angeles, CA , USA
Editorial Board (Traditional Medicine)
Terje Alraek
The National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Oslo, Norway
Seong-Gyu Ko, MD(KM), PhD, MPH
Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Myeong Soo Lee
Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine; University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.
Editorial Board (Urology)
Riccardo Autorino, MD, PhD
Division of Urology, VCU Health System, 1200 East Broad st., Richmond, VA, USA
Mark W. Ball
Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Eric Chung, MBBS, FRACS
The University of Queensland, Department of Urology, Princess Alexandra Hospital (Brisbane, QLD), Australia
Gaetano Ciancio, MD., MBA., FACS.
Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA; Urology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA; Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA.
Tobias Klatte, MD, FEBU, FRCSEd
Department of Urology, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, UK
Roy Mano, MD
Department of Urology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv Yafo, Israel; Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Rafael Sanchez-Salas, MD
Department of Urology, L’Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
Eric A. Singer, MD, MA, MS, FACS
Section of Urologic Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; Director, Distinction in Bioethics Program, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Managing Editors
Grace S. Li (Cardiothoracic Disease)
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, China
Jessie S. Zhong (Cardiothoracic Disease)
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, China
Lucine M. Gao (Urology and Andrology)
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine, China
Bing Gu, MD (Laboratory Medicine)
Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, China
Language Editors
Jeremy Dean Chapnick
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; United States University Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA (Sept. 2012 to May 2016)
John Ayric Gray
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Sept. 2004-June 2009)
Science Editors
Skylar F. Gao
Editorial Office, Gland Surgery
Nicole J. Li
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine
Hailing Lian
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine
Eunice X. Xu
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine
Crystal M. Yan
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine
Silvia L. Zhou
Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine
Academic Editors
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