Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Xin Wang
Cardiovascular Sciences Division, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Email: xin.wang@manchester.ac.uk
Research Interests: cardiovascular mechanisms and transformation; drug discovery; drug target screening; gene editing; regulatory mechanisms of signaling molecules.
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Antony Adamson
Genome Editing Unit Core Facility, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Email: Antony.Adamson@manchester.ac.uk
Research Interests: CRISPR; gene editing; modelling disease; mouse models; iPSCs.
Associate Editors
Prof. Ming Lei
Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Email: ming.lei@pharm.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: cardiovascular pharmacology; medicinal chemistry; neuropharmacology; signalling.
Prof. Kaomei Guan
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Email: kaomei.guan@tu-dresden.de
Research Interests: modeling developmental processes in vitro; iPS-based disease modeling; validation of new drug targets; establishment of different iPSC-based tissue models for in vitro drug testing.
Prof. Dr. Anna Nicolaou
Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, School of Health Sciences and Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Email: anna.nicolaou@manchester.ac.uk
Research Interests: bioactive lipids and lipidomics with emphasis on the molecular mechanisms that mediate the role of eicosanoids; endocannabinoids; ceramides and polyunsaturated fatty acids in inflammation; cellular communications and tissue responses.
Dr. Karolina M. Stepien
Adult Inherited Metabolic Diseases, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford M6 8HD, UK.
Email: kstepien@doctors.org.uk
Research Interests: lysosomal storage diseases; mucopolysaccharidosis; cardiovascular risk; fucosidosis; mucolipidosis I; II; III and IV; secondary mitochondrial dysfunction; transition process; GM1 gangliosidosis; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; hormonal dysfunction.
Senior Consulting Boards
Prof. Baofeng Yang
Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Email: yangbf@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn
Research Interests: cardiovascular diseases; myocardial ischemia; arrhythmia; heart failure; and related drug development.
Prof. R. John Solaro
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
Email: solarorj@uic.edu
Research Interests: cardiac sarcomeres; kinase/phosphatase signaling; GPCR signaling in cardiac myocytes; genetic cardiomyopathy; cardiac myocyte mechanical signaling; sarcomere directed heart therapies.
Prof. Jun-ichi Abe
Department of Cardiology Research, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Email: jabe@mdanderson.org
Research Interests: the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAP) family and have sought the mechanisms responsible for oxidative; hyperglycemia; and hypoxic injury to the vascular endothelium and the heart.
Prof. Yang K. Xiang
Department of Pharmacology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Email: ykxiang@ucdavis.edu
Research Interests: neuropharmacology and toxicology; molecular; cellular; and biochemical toxicology; cardiovascular pharmacology.
Prof. Darren Green
Department of Renal Medicine, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK.
Email: Darren.Green@nca.nhs.uk
Research Interests: cardiorenal; acute kidney injury; chronic kidney disease; renovascular disease; heart failure.
Prof. Christopher Huang
Physiological Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Email: clh11@cam.ac.uk
Research Interests: mechanisms of atrial and ventricular arrhythmia in genetically modified murine models for ion channel and metabolic abnormalities; explorations for possible therapeutic targets.
Prof. Martin Schwartz
Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Email: martin.schwartz@yale.edu
Research Interests: integrin signaling; mechanotransduction; vascular biology.
Prof. H. Llewelyn Roderick
Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Email: llewelyn.roderick@kuleuven.be
Research Interests: excitation contraction coupling; excitation transcription coupling; cardiac epigenetics; heterocellular interactions.
Prof. Dr. Qingping Feng
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada.Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada.
Email: qfeng@uwo.ca
Research Interests: cardiac repair post myocardial infarction; regulation of inflammatory response in sepsis; maternal diabetes leading to congenital heart defects.
Editorial Board Members
Prof. Chern Ein Oon
Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
Email: chern.oon@usm.my
Research Interests: drug discovery; cancer therapeutics; sirtuins; colorectal cancer.
Prof. Jiong-Wei Wang
Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Email: SURWANG@nus.edu.sg
Research Interests: cardio-metabolic diseases, cardiac immunology, extracellular vesicles and nanomedicine.
Prof. Rongxue (Rosie) Wu
Department of Biological Sciences Division-Cardiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Email: rwu3@bsd.uchicago.edu
Research Interests: cardiac ischemia reperfusion; cardiac microvascular biology; diabetic cardiomyopathy.
Prof. Raquel Duarte
Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Email: raquel.duarte1@wits.ac.za
Research Interests: raquel.duarte1@wits.ac.za
Dr. Gina Galli
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Universty of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Email: gina.galli@manchester.ac.uk
Research Interests: the effects of prenatal hypoxia on heart cell structure, calcium regulation and metabolism.
Prof. Baoxue Yang
School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Email: baoxue@bjmu.edu.cn
Research Interests: research and development of new diuretic drugs; mechanism of kidney injury and repair; pathogenesis and drug development of polycystic kidney disease; physiological and pharmacological studies of urea channel protein and aquaporin.
Prof. Kyungsun Heo
Cardiovascular Pharmacology Lab, College of Pharmacy, Chunnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea.
Email: kheo@cnu.ac.kr
Research Interests: post-translational modification - SUMOylation and Ubiqutination; discovery drug targets and therapeutic drugs for vascular cell dysfunction (EC, SMC, and macrophages) in cardiovascular diseases (Atherosclerosis); discovery drug targets and therapeutic drugs for metabolic disorders (Diabetes and NAFLD, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease); discovery molecular mechanism and therapeutic drugs for inflammatory diseases (Cytokine storms).
Prof. Ricardo Mancera
Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute and Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
Email: R.Mancera@curtin.edu.au
Research Interests: molecular dynamics simulation; biological membranes; protein structure and dynamics; protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions; structure-based drug design.
Dr. Halina Dobrzynski
Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 12, 31-034, Cracow, Poland. Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Email: halina.dobrzynski@manchester.ac.uk
Research Interests: cardiac conduction system; imaging; electrophysiology; ageing; heart failure; biology medicine and health.
Prof. Christhunesa S. Christudass
Department of Neurological Sciences, Christian Medical College – Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Email: cschristudass@cmcvellore.ac.in
Research Interests: genetic risk factors in stroke; cancer stem cells (CSCs) in gliomas.
Dr. Xuesong Li
Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Email: xuesongli@njmu.edu.cn
Research Interests: epigenetic mechanism of cardiovascular diseases and related drug development.
Dr. Andrea Ruiz Velasco Hernandez
Paris Cardiovascular Research Center, Paris, France.
Email: andrea.ruiz@inserm.fr
Prof. Jianglin Fan
Department of Molecular Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.
Email: jianglin@yamanashi.ac.jp
Research Interests: transgenic and knock-out rabbits; atherosclerosis; hypercholesterolemia; lipid metabolism; inflammation; macrophages.
Dr. Nader Abo-Dya
- 1. Faculty of pharmacy, Zagazig university, Zagazig, Egypt
- 2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tabuk University, Tabouk University, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Email: nabodya@ut.edu.sa
Research Interests: molecular docking; chemical organic synthesis; medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry; pharmaceutical development; drug discovery.
Dr. James O'Byrne
National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Email: jamesobyrne@mater.ie
Research Interests: inherited metabolic disorders; precision medicine; education in genomic/ precision medicine.
Dr. Assel Tulebayeva
Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Email: asselatulebayeva@gmail.com
Xuan Zeng
School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Email: zengx6@mail2.sysu.edu.cn