Editorial Board

Editorial Board

  • Editor-in-Chief

    • Prof.  Fernando Albericio

      • 1. School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
      • 2. Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
      Research Interests:
      peptide chemistry; solid-phase and aqueous peptide synthesis; green synthesis technologies; peptide structure-activity relationships (SAR).
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  • Executive Editor

    • Assoc. Prof.  Daniela Kalafatović

      Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.

      Research Interests:
      peptide-based biomaterials; application of machine learning to peptides; peptide nanotechnology.
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  • Editorial Board Members

    • Prof.  Gong Chen

      • 1. School of Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
      • 2. College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
      Research Interests:
      peptide chemistry; carbohydrate chemistry; biomolecular chemistry; drug discovery.
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    • Prof.  Marc Vendrell

      Centre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

      Research Interests:
      fluorescent peptides; probes; imaging; immunology.
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    • Assist. Prof.  Nir Qvit

      Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.

      Research Interests:
      mitochondria; peptide mimetics; protein-protein interactions; cardiovascular diseases; medicinal chemistry; peptide therapeutics; drug discovery; mitochondrial dynamics.
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    • Dr.  Monika Szefczyk

      Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland.

      Research Interests:
      aggregation; amyloid; coiled-coil; drug delivery; foldamer; nanocarrier; peptide; self-organization.
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    • Prof.  Thimmaiah Govindaraju

      Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, India.

      Research Interests:
      peptides; probes; redox biology; Alzheimer's disease; cancer; theranostics; molecular architectonics; silk & peptide mimetics.
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    • Dr.  Ivan R. Sasselli

      Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM), CSIC-UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.

      Research Interests:
      peptides; self-assembly; supramolecular; MD simulations; computational/experimental correlation; nanotechnology; soft matter; molecular modelling; coarse-grained MD; peptide design.
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    • Prof.  Junfeng Zhao

      Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

      Research Interests:
      peptide and protein chemical synthesis and modification; peptide natural products total synthesis; peptide therapeutics development including ADC and PDC; total synthesis of enzymes.
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    • Assist. Prof.  Ayşenur İşcen Akatay

      Department of Chemistry, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

      Research Interests:
      computational modeling; peptide self‑assembly; supramolecular chemistry; machine learning.
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    • Prof.  Gloria Serra

      Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.

      Research Interests:
      cyclopeptides; natural products; synthesis; antiparasitics; herbicides; cianobacteria inhibitors.
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    • Dr.  Vivek Verma

      Process and Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering and Architecture, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

      Research Interests:
      crystal engineering; peptide self assembly; sustainable purification of (bio)pharmaceuticals; secondary processing of (bio)pharmaceuticals.
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    • Dr.  Macarena Sanchez-Navarro

      CSIC - Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina Lopez Neyra (IPBLN), Armilla, Spain.

      Research Interests:
      drug delivery; brain delivery; homing peptides; peptide libraries; affinity selection-mass-spectrometry (as-ms); peptide-drug conjugate; peptide-biomolecule conjugate.
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    • Assist. Prof.  Toni Todorovski

      Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.

      Research Interests:
      antimicrobial/antiviral peptides; peptide-drug conjugates; cell-penetrating peptides; liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry; peptide-based smart materials.
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    • Dr.  Yoshimasa Kawaguchi

      Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

      Research Interests:
      intracellular delivery; drug delivery systems (dds); protein engineering; liquid–liquid phase separation (llps).
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    • Dr.  Ana Sofia Pina

      Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal.

      Research Interests:
      liquid-liquid phase separation; supramolecular chemistry; peptide materials; biocatalysis; peptide catalysis; soft biolectronics.
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    • Dr.  Kata Horváti

      Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

      Research Interests:
      peptide-based vaccines; peptide amphiphiles; peptide formulation; encapsulation; antimicrobial peptides; antifungal peptides.
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    • Dr.  Lucia Ferrazzano

      Department of Chemistry “G.Ciamician”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

      Research Interests:
      peptide synthesis; peptidomimetics; oligonucleotide synthesis; sustainable synthesis; bioactive molecules; oligonucleotide-peptide conjugates.
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    • Assoc. Prof.  Marta De Zotti

      Department of Chemistry, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

      Research Interests:
      peptide; conformational analysis; 3D-structure; CD; membrane-active peptides; Aib; peptide-based materials; liposomes.
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