Dr.  Pappanaicken R. Kumaresan

Department of Hematopoietic Biology and Malignancy, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Research Interests: cell-based therapy; opportunistic infection; drug-resistant fungal infection; T cell; leukemic cell.

Prof. Dr.  David Siegel

UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA.

Research Interests: blood pressure; diabetes mellitus; hypertension; lipoproteins; chronic heart failure; glucose metabolism; lipid metabolism; clinical endocrinology; inflammatory biomarkers; disease prevention.

Prof. Dr.  Senthil Kumar Venugopal

South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

Research Interests: hepatology; molecular and cellular biology.

Prof. Dr.  P. Barton Duell

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.

Research Interests: endocrinology and diabetes; preventive cardiology.

Ms.  Beverley Adams-Huet

UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.

Research Interests: statistical methods; c-reactive protein; metabolic syndrome; clinical research; biostatistics.

Dr.  Samuel T. Olatunbosun

UCDAVIS School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA.

Research Interests: diabetes mellitus; glucose intolerance; hypertension; obesity; central adiposity; insulin resistance.

Prof. Dr.  Michael D. Shapiro

Department of Medicine, Section on Cardiovascular Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.

Research Interests: preventive cardiology; atherosclerosis; lipoprotein metabolism; atherosclerosis imaging.

Dr.  Anand Singh

Thoracic Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Research Interests: mesothelioma pathogenesis; miRNA; cancer.

Dr.  Dana M. Faw Sheely

UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.

Research Interests: endocrinology; diabetes; metabolism; pituitary disorders; thyroid disease; adrenal disease; neuroendocrinology.

Dr.  Hiba T. Basheer

Division of Diabetes, Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Veterans Affairs, Northern California VA Health Care System, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.

Research Interests: endocrine disorders; thyroid; diabetes; osteoporosis; cancers in the endocrine glands.

Prof. Dr.  William E. Winter

• 1. Emeritus Professor, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0275, USA.
• 2. University of Florida

Research Interests: clinical chemistry; diabetes; lipids in children; pediatric endocrinology.

Dr.  Rishi Rikhi

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, 250 Hospital Dr, Lexington, NC, USA.

Research Interests: heart disease prevention; public health research; primary prevention; lipoprotein(a) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk.