Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Ren-You Gan
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Email: renyou.gan@polyu.edu.hk
Research Interests: food functional ingredients; bioactivities; gut microbiota; food fermentation; biotransformation.
Senior Consulting Board
Prof. Atanas G. Atanasov
Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland.
Email: a.atanasov@igbzpan.pl
Research Interests: molecular medicine; nutrigenomics; digital health; open innovation; biotechnology; natural products; science communication; molecular pharmacology.
Prof. Harold Corke
Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), Shantou, China.
Email: harold.corke@gtiit.edu.cn
Research Interests: food science; food safety; food security; food studies; world agriculture.
Prof. Qichang Yang
Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, China.
Email: yangqichang@caas.cn
Research Interests: vertical agriculture technology; integrated water and fertilizer management; smart horticultural equipment; intelligent agricultural robotics; plant photobiology; plant environmental science.
Prof. Lindsay Brown
Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
Email: lindsay.brown@griffith.edu.au
Research Interests: functional foods; obesity; hypertension; rat models.
Dr. Nic Lindley
Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.
Email: nic_lindley@sifbi.a-star.edu.sg
Research Interests: microbial biotechnology; fermentation; biotransformation; synthetic biology.
Prof. Jianping Wu
Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Email: jwu3@ualberta.ca
Research Interests: food proteins; bioactive peptides.
Editorial Board Members
Prof. Lorenzo Pastrana
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, 4715-330 Braga, Portugal.
Email: lorenzo.pastrana@inl.int
Research Interests: food structure with emphasis in 3D printing materials; encapsulation and gut-on-a-chip technologies for improving functional foods and food personalization; active and intelligent food packaging.
Dr. Antonios E. Koutelidakis
Lab of Nutrition and Public Health, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of the Aegean, 81400 Lemnos, Greece.
Email: akoutel@aegean.gr
Research Interests: nutrition and health; functional foods; bioactive compounds; bioactivity and bioavailability; phytochemicals and chronic diseases.
Dr. Ali Rashidinejad
Riddet Institute Centre of Research Excellence, Massey University, 11222 Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Email: A.Rashidinejad@massey.ac.nz
Research Interests: functional food; antioxidant activity; free radical scavengers; free radicals; reactive oxygen species; food chemistry; food analysis; flavonoids.
Prof. Mutamed Ayyash
Department of Food, Nutrition and Health, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 15551, United Arab Emirates.
Email: mutamed.ayyash@uaeu.ac.ae
Research Interests: probiotics; functional foods; biopolymers; and fermented products.
Dr. Kin Weng Kong
Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Email: kongkm@um.edu.my
Research Interests: functional foods; nutritional biochemistry; nutritional sciences; antioxidants.
Dr. Mohd Khalid Gul
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India.
Email: gulmk@nitrkl.ac.in
Research Interests: functional biopolymers for food and health; protein-polysaccharide interactions; encapsulation.
Prof. Hong Gao
Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Light Industry, Textile and Food Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Email: gh@scu.edu.cn
Research Interests: food biochemistry; functional food; food microbiology; natural product chemistry.
Dr. Changyu Zhou
College of Food Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Email: zhouchangyu@nbu.edu.cn
Research Interests: the processing of fermented meat products; flavor chemistry; functional hydrogels.
Dr. Srinivas Janaswamy
Department of Dairy and Food Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA.
Email: Srinivas.Janaswamy@sdstate.edu
Research Interests: functional biopolymers.
Prof. Amjad Iqbal
Department of Food Science and Technology, Garden Campus, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan.
Email: amjadiqbal@awkum.edu.pk
Research Interests: product development; bioactive compounds; method development and food allergens.
Prof. Xin Wu
Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China.
Email: wuxin@tib.cas.cn
Research Interests: synthetic biology; microbial protein; functional nutrition; biological synthesis; nutritional metabolism.
Dr. Sumanto Haldar
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom.
Email: shaldar@bournemouth.ac.uk
Research Interests: nutrition and chronic disease prevention; dietary intervention studies; biomarkers of chronic disease prevention.
Dr. Linda Zhong
School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Email: linda.zhong@ntu.edu.sg
Research Interests: chinese medicine; clinical trial; gastrointestinal disease; autoimmune disease; women's health.
Dr. Yugal Kishore Mohanta
Department of Applied Biology, University of Science and Technology Meghalaya(USTM), Baridua, Meghalaya, India.
Email: ykmohanta@gmail.com
Research Interests: nano biotechnology; food & nutraceuticals; underutilized edible plants/fungus.
Prof. Jin Wang
Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Email: jinwang_2020@seu.edu.cn
Research Interests: food safety and nutrition; food allergy and immunology; gut microbiota; food detection; food microbiology; public health.
Dr. William Cho
Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Email: williamcscho@gmail.com
Research Interests: cancer biomarker; microRNA; ncRNA; NGS; proteomics; lung cancer; NPC; Chinese medicine.
Youth Editorial Board
Dr. Debashis Dutta
Department of Food Processing Technology, Mirmadan Mohanlal Government Polytechnic, Plassey, West Bengal, India.
Email: debasish.rs.bce13@itbhu.ac.in
Research Interests: bioprocess design & fermentation technology; microbial growth modeling & kinetic studies; non-thermal processing of functional foods; food microbiology & safety; synthetic biology & metabolic engineering; bioactive compounds & functional foods; sustainability through green bioprocessing & biocatalysis and enzyme engineering.
Dr. Manali Chakraborty
Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Email: manalich2@gmail.com
Research Interests: life cycle analysis; sustainable horticulture; healthy diet as an alternative to medicine.
Dr. Guoyi Tang
School of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Email: tanggy11@hku.hk
Research Interests: food and medicine homology; natural product; functional food; nutritional therapy; medicinal diet; herbal tea; Chinese medicine; kidney disease; diabetes; obesity.
