Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Nikolaos E. Labrou
Department of Biotechnology
Agricultural University of Athens
Athens
Greece

Co-Editor(s)-in-Chief

Luisa Fiandra Department of Biotechnology and Bioscience
University of Milano- Bicocca
Milan
Italy

Cheorl-Ho Kim
Department of Biological Science
Sungkyunkwan University
Kyunggi-Do
South Korea

Vladimir P. Torchilin Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
USA

Associate Editor(s)

Zeno Foldes-Papp Asklepios Clinic Lindau
Bavaria
Germany

Peter H. Lu Chemistry Department
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH
USA

Regional Editor

East Asia

Jun Lu College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Southwest University
Chongqing
China

Section Editor(s)

Section: Medicinal Plant

Shanfa LuChinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Peking Union Medical College
Beijing
China

Section: Neurogenetics and Neuroscience

Kenneth Blum Graduate School of Biomedical Science
Western University of Health Sciences
Pomona, CA
USA

Section: Forensic Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Vittorio Fineschi Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome
Italy

Section: Regenerative Medicine

Hai-dong Guo Department of Anatomy
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Shanghai
China

Section: Marine Drugs

Shiwei Hu Zhejiang Ocean University
Zhejiang
China

Section: Epidemiology

Giuseppe La Torre Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome
Italy

Section: Pharmacology and Medicinal Applications

Natália A. P. D. C. Martins
Department of Biomedicine
University of Porto
Porto
Portugal

Section: Recombinant DNA Technologies

Heinz P. Nasheuer Department of Biochemistry
National University of Ireland Galway
Galway
Ireland

Section: Biotech Tools and Innovative Research Technologies

Yan Pei University of Aizu
Aizuwakamatsu
Japan

Section: Cancer

Sanjeeb K. Sahoo
Nanomedicine Laboratory
Institute of Life Science
Bhubaneswar
India

Section: Advance in Biological Targets for Inflammation, Immunity and Cancer-Related Diseases

Donghua Xu Department of Rheumatology and Immunology
Weifang Medical University
Weifang
China

Section Editor(s)(Special Issues)

Alaa A. AljabaliFaculty of Pharmacy
Yarmouk University
Irbid
Jordan

Hwa-Jung Choi

Department of Beauty Art

Youngsan University

Busan

South Korea

Satish V. Rojekar

Department of Pharmacological Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

USA

Editorial Board Member(s)

Muhammad I. Qadir
College of Pharmacy
Bahauddin Zakariya University
Multan
Pakistan

Fillippo Rossi Dipartimento di Chimica Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica “Giulio Natta”
Politecnico di Milano
Milano
Italy

Luca Agnifili Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences
University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara
Chieti
Italy

Amirhossein Ahmadi Faculty of Pharmacy
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Sari
Iran

Pablo T. Antelo Condensed Matter Department
University of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela
Spain

Athar Ata Department of Chemistry
The University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Canada

Sofia Avnet Orthopaedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Medicine Unit
University of Bologna
Bologna
Italy

Ajay K. Banga Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mercer University
Atlanta, GA
USA

Biswanath Bhunia
Department of Bioengineering
National Institute of Technology
Agartala
India

Cesar Lopez-Camarillo Molecular Physiology Unit
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas
Autonomous University of Mexico City
México City
México

Paolo Carpineto Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences
University “G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara
Chieti
Italy

Giovanni Cizza National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institute of Health
Section on Neuroendocrinology of Obesity
Bethesda, MD
USA

Cristoforo Comi Department of Translational Medicine
University of Piemonte Orientale
Vercelli
Italy

Pablo Del Pino CIC biomaGUNE
University of Santiago de Comspotela
Santiago de Compostela
Spain

Martin F. DesimoneAnalytical and Physical Chemistry Department
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Jesús Devesa Department of Physiology
Medical Center Foltra
Teo
Spain

Nicola Di Daniele Department of Systems Medicine
Università Tor Vergata
Rome
Italy

Michael L. Doyle Protein Science Department
Bristol-Myers Squibb Research and Development
Princeton, NJ
USA

Daniel E. Gomez Medical School
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Edward Eisenstein Department of Bioengineering
University of Maryland
Rockville, MD
USA

Yujiang FangDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
Des Moines University
Des Moines, IA
USA

Massimiliano Filosto Center for Neuromuscular Diseases
University of Brescia
Brescia
Italy

Antonella Fioravanti Rheumatology Unit- Azienda Ospedaliera Senese
Siena
Italy

Carlos M. F. AbuínUniversity of Santiago de Compostela
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
Santiago de Compostela
Spain

François Niyonsaba Atopy (Allergy) Research Center
Juntendo University
Tokyo
Japan

Hattori Fumiyuki Department of Cardiology
Keio University School of Medicine
Tokyo
Japan

Nilesh W. Gaikwad Gaikwad Steroidomics Laboratory
Davis, CA
USA

Alessandra Gianoncelli Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine Doctor of Pharmacy
University of Brescia
Brescia
Italy

Shreya Goel Department of Nanomedicine
Houston Methodist Research Institute
Houston, TX
USA

Antonio Gonzalez-Bulnes Comparative Physiology Lab at INIA
Madrid
Spain

Roberta Granese Department of Human Pathology in Adult and Childhood “G. Barresi”
University Hospital of Messina
Messina
Italy

Solomon Habtemariam
Pharmacognosy Research Laboratories & Herbal Analysis Services
University of Greenwich
Kent
UK

Hao Hong Department of Radiology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
USA

Xudong Huang Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, MA
USA

Jerzy Jankun Department of Urology
The University of Toledo
Toledo, OH
USA

Lutz Jermutus Cardiovascular Renal Metabolic Diseases
AstraZeneca | AZ · Research and Early Development
University of Cambridge
Zurich
Switzerland

Nagendra K. Kaushik Department of Electrical & Biological Physics
Kwangwoon University
Seoul
Korea

Veysel Kayser School of Pharmacy
The University of Sydney
Sydney
Australia

Masood A. Khan
Department of Basic Health Sciences
Qassim University
Buraydah
Saudi Arabia

Reza Khodarahmi Department of Biochemistry

Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences

Kermanshah

Iran

Seok J. Kim Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
The Catholic University of Korea
Seoul
Korea

Masataka Kinjo Laboratory of Molecular Cell Dynamics
Hokkaido University
Sapporo
Japan

Alexander M. Klibanov Chemistry & Bioengineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
USA

Suresh Kumar Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
University Putra Malaysia
Serdang
Malaysia

Zongjin Li Department of Pathophysiology
Nankai University School of Medicine
Tianjin
China

Giovanni Li Volti Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences
University of Catania
Catania
Italy

Jonathan Lovell Department of Biomedical Engineering
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
USA

Jesus F. Lucas Applied Biotechnology Group
European University of Madrid
Madrid
Spain

Haripada Maity Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Philadelphia, PA
USA

Francesco Marampon Sapienza University of Rome
University of Rome
Rome
Italy

Hongxue Meng Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital
Precision medical Center
Harbin
China

Luca Morini Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine
University of Pavia
Pavia
Italy

Mohammad H. Morowvat Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Shiraz
Iran

Christoph Mulert Fischell Department of Bioengineering
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hamburg
Germany

Giuseppe Musumeci Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences
University of Catania
Catania
Italy

Ilkay E. Orhan
Department of Pharmacognosy
Gazi University
Ankara
Turkey

Sujogya K.Panda KU Leuven
Leuven
Belgium

Jayanta K. Patra Research Institute of Biotechnology & Medical Converged
Dongguk University
Goyang-Si
Republic of Korea

Beatriz Pelaz CiQUS & Inorganic Chemistry Department
University of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela
Spain

Gianfranco Peluso Italian National Research Council - CNR
Naples
Italy

Huang Peng School of Biomedical Engineering
Shenzhen University
Shenzhen
China

Yan Peng Department of Pathology
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
USA

Maria L. Couce Department of Pediatrics
University of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago
Spain

Colin Pouton Drug Delivery Disposition & Dynamics
Monash University
Victoria
Australia

Elia Ranzato DiSIT - Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica
University of Piemonte Orientale
s
Alessandria
Italy

Eva Reali Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
University of Ferrara
Ferrara
Italy

Menotti Ruvo Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini - CNR
University of Naples Federico II
Napoli
Italy

Seiichi Sakamoto Department of Pharmacognosy
Kyushu University
Fukuoka
Japan

Gonzalo Sanchez-Duffhues Department of Cell and Chemical Biology
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden
The Netherlands

Alessandro Sette La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
San Diego, CA
USA

Karuna Shanker CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Lucknow
India

Hari S. Sharma Department of Surgical Sciences
Uppsala University
Uppsala
Sweden

Xuetao Shi Laboratory of tumor targeted and immune therapy, Clinical Research Center for Breast, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy
South China University of Technology
Guangzhou
China

Cynthia Stevenson Nektar Therapeutics
San Diego, CA
USA

Ugur Tamer Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy
Gazi University
Ankara
Turkey

Anna Tesei Department of Medical Oncology and Oncohaematology
Scientific Institute of Romagna for the Study and Treatment of Tumors (IRCCS)
Tumor Institute of Romagna (IRST)
Meldola
Italy

Gian M. Tiboni Department of Medicine and Aging Science
University of Chieti Pescara
Liberata
Italy

Valery V. TuchinResearch-Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics
Saratov State University
Saratov
Russia

Emanuela Turillazzi Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Paola Ulivi Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST)
Meldola
Italy

Jinxiang Xi Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Massachusetts
Lowell, MA
USA

Jianqiang Xu Panjin Industrial Technology Institute
Dalian University of Technology
Panjin
China

Jean-Ralph Zahar Avicenna Hospital
Paris
France

Associate Editorial Board Member(s)

Kathirvelu Baskar Ross Lifescience Pvt Ltd
Pune
India

Claudio Corallo Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neurosciences
University of Siena
Siena
Italy

Eduardo Fernández-Martínez Department of Medicine
Autonomous University of Hidalgo’s State
Hidalgo
Mexico

Alexsandro S. GaldinoMicrobial Biotechnology Laboratory
Federal University of São João del-Rei
Sao Joao del Rei
Brazil

Prashant Mohanpuria School of Agricultural Biotechnology
Punjab Agricultural University
Ludhiana
India

Giandomenico Roviello Department of Health Sciences
University of Florence
Florence
Italy

Leming Sun Department of Life Sciences
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xi'an
China

Emanuel Vamanu School of Library and Information Science
University of Agronomic Science and Veterinary Medicine
Bucharest
Romania

Executive Guest Editor(s)

Ratiram G. Chaudhary Department of Microbiology
R.T. M. Nagpur University
Maharashtra
India

Rituparna Acharya CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute
Jadavpur University
Kolkata
India

Selvaraj Arokiyaraj Department of Food Science and Biotechnology
Sejong University
Seoul
South Korea

Md. A. Barkat Department of Pharmaceutics
University of Hafr Al-Batin
Hafar Al-Batin
Saudi Arabia

Giulia Marrone Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Division of Clinical Nutrition and Nutrigenomic
University Tor Vergata of Rome
Rome
Italy