Recent Patents on Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Zhe-Sheng (Jason) Chen Institute for Biotechnology
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
St. John's University
New York, NY
USA

Associate Editor(s)

Luca Ronconi School of Chemistry
National University of Ireland Galway
Galway
Ireland

Anna Sapino Department of Medical Sciences
University of Turin
Turin
Italy

Regional Editor(s)

Asia

Andrew M. Chan Faculty of Medicine, School of Biomedical Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin
Hong Kong

Chung-Yi Chen School of Medical and Health Sciences
Fooyin University
Kaohsiung
Taiwan

Hongbin Sun Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Discovery for Metabolic Disease
China Pharmaceutical University
Nanjing
China

Europe

Amedeo Amedei Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine Section of Internal Medicine -Immunology Division
University of Florence
Firenze
Italy

Alfredo BudillonDepartment of Research
National Cancer Institute - G. Pascale
Napoli
Italy

Irena Kostova Department of Chemistry
Medical University
Sofia
Bulgaria

Luca Munaron Department of Animal Biology
University of Torino
Torino
Italy

North America

Terry Lichtor Department of Neurosurgery
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
USA

Jianyu RaoDivision of Pathology
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
USA

Oceania

Vasso ApostolopoulosInstitute for Health and Sports
Victoria University
Melbourne
Australia

Country Editor

Domenico Ribatti Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche di Base, Neuroscienze ed Organi di Senso
Università degli Studi di Bari
Bari
Italy

Section Editor(s)

Amr Amin Biology Department
United Arab Emirates University
Al-Ain
UAE

Section: Cancer Neuroscience

Wei-Lin Jin Institute of Cancer Neuroscience
Medical Frontier Innovation Research Center
The First Hospital of Lanzhou University
Lanzhou
China

Section: Antibodies and Peptides in Cancer Therapy

Hang F. Kwok Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Macau
Taipa
China

Section: Rare Tumours

Consolato M. Sergi Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Alberta
Edmonton
Canada

Section: Molecular Responses to Anticancer Drugs

Alexander Shtil Blokhin Cancer Center
Moscow
Russia

Section: Cancer Stem Cells and Chemoresistance

Weiguang Wang Faculty of Science and Engineering
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
UK

Section: Autophagy

Xianbin Zhang Department of General Surgery
Shenzhen University General Hospital
Shenzhen
China

Frontiers Section Editor

Section: Molecular Targets for Cancer

Qingping P. Dou Department of Oncology, Pharmacology and Pathology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
USA

Editorial Board Member(s)

Xiukun Lin

Department of Pharmacology

Capital Med. University

Beijing

China

Rakesh K. TiwariSchool of Pharmacy
Harry and Diane Rinker Health Sciences Campus
Chapman University
Irvine, CA
USA

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

Anna M. Almerico Department Farmacochimico, Tossicologico e Biologico
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy

Ritu Aneja Department of Biology
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
USA

Alexandre Arcaro Department of Clinical Research
Bern University Hospital
Bern
Switzerland

Mohsen Asker Microbial Biotechnology Department
National Research Center National Research Center
Cairo
Egypt

Andrew Bateman Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre
Montreal
Canada

Anupam Bishayee Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Larkin University
Miami, FL
USA

Ignacio Blanco Genetic Counselling Unit
Catalan Institute of Oncology
Barcelona
Spain

Benedetta Bussolati Department of Internal Medicine
University of Turin
Torino
Italy

Kevin Camphausen Radiation Oncology Branch
National Cancer Institute
Rockville, MD
USA

Michele Caraglia Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and General Pathology
Second University of Naples
Naples
Italy

Nuno Cerqueira Chemistry Department
University of Porto
Porto
Portugal

Fener Chen Department of Chemistry
Fudan University
Shanghai
China

Haixia Chen School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology
Tianjin University
Tianjin
China

Paolo Chieffi Department of Experimental Medicine
Second University of Naples
Naples
Italy

Lucio Cocco Department of Anatomical Sciences
University of Bologna
Bologna
Italy

Luigi Dall'Olmo

Dept. Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology

Padua University

Padua

Italy

Lisa V. Dalla University of Padova
Padova
Italy

Frank Entschladen MetaVi Labs
Witten
Germany

Francesco Esposito Federico II University of Naples
Naples
Italy

Zeev Estrov Department of Leukemia
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
USA

Richard A. Franklin Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
USA

Gerhard Fritz Institute of Toxicology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Germany

Liwu Fu Department of Experimental Research (Cancer Institute)
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou
China

Simone Fulda Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in Pediatrics
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Germany

Mathea S. Galanski Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
University of Vienna
Vienna
Austria

Pawel Grieb Department of Experimental Pharmacology
Mossakowski Med. Res. Ctr. Polish Acad. of Sci
Warsaw
Poland

Lei Han Department of Neurosurgery
Tianjin Medical University
Tianjin
China

Tong C. He Department of Surgery
The University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
USA

John W. Ho School of Life Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin
Hong Kong

Wei Hu Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Houston, TX
USA

Hsu-Shan Huang Department of Pharmacy Practice
Taipei Medical University
Taipei
Taiwan

Ken-Ichiro Inoue Centre for Medical Science
International University of Health International University of Health and Welfare
Otawara
Japan

Yona Keisari Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv
Israel

Michael Khan Department of Biological Sciences, Molecular Medicine
Biomedical Research Institute
Coventry
UK

Haroon Khan Department of Pharmacy
Abdul Wali Khan University
Mardan
Pakistan

Hong Y. Kim Department of Internal Medicine
Korea University Anam Hospital Cancer Center
Seoul
South Korea

Sang G. Kim College of Pharmacy
Seoul National University
Seoul
Korea

Serguei V. Kozlov Center for Advanced Preclinical Research
National Cancer Institute
Frederick, MD
USA

Marina Kriajevska Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine
University of Leicester
Leicester
UK

Atul Kumar Department of Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division
CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute
Lucknow
India

Markus D. Lacher BriaCell Therapeutics Corp.
Moraga, CA
USA

Chung-Hang Leung Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences
University of Macau
Taipa
Macau

Jun Lin Department of Anesthesiology
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
USA

Carlota L. Lopez-Cara University of Granada
Granada
Spain

Bashir A. Lwaleed Department of Urology
University of Southampton
Southampton
UK

Ferdinando Mannello Department of Biomolecular Sciences (DISB)
University Carlo Bo of Urbino
Urbino
Italy

Maria P. MarquesDepartment of Life Sciences
University of Coimbra
Coimbra
Portugal

Mark J. McKeage Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology
The University of Auckland
Auckland
New Zealand

Luigi Messori Department of Chemistry
University of Florence
Sesto Fiorentino
Italy

Olivier Micheau Facultes de Medecine et de Pharmacie
INSERM
Dijon
France

Vijay Mishra School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Lovely Professional University
Phagwara
India

Simone MocellinDepartment of Experimental Medicine and Immunotherapy
University of Padova
Padova
Italy

Faustino Mollinedo Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Cancer Cancer Research Center
CSIC-University of Salamanca
Salamanca
Spain

Pascale Moreau Clermont Auvergne University
Clermont-Ferrand Institute of Chemistry
Clermont-Ferrand
France

Jeong-Seok Nam School of Life Sciences
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Gwangju
Korea

Jiri Neuzil School of Medical Science
Griffith University
Queensland
Australia

Zui PanCollege of Nursing and Health Innovation
The University of Texas
Alington, TX
USA

Evangelia Papadimitriou Department of Pharmacy
University of Patras
Patras
Greece

Antonio Pesce Unit of General Surgery
Delta Hospital
Lagosanto
Italy

Valeria Pittalà Department of Drug and Health Science
University of Catania
Catania
Italy

Maurizio Provenzano Department of Urology
University Hospital Zurich
Zurich
Switzerland

Maria D. Pujol Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Barcelona
Barcelona
Spain

Jiang-Jiang Qin College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Zhejiang Chinese Medical University
Hangzhou
China

Drazen Raucher Department of Biochemistry
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
USA

Tadeusz Robak Department of Hematology
Medical University of Lodz
Lodz
Poland

Patrizia Russo Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology
IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana
Rome
Italy

Majid Asadi-Samani Medical Plants Research Center, Basic Health Sciences Institute
Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences
Shahrekord
Iran

Luciano Saso Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Sapienza University
Rome
Italy

Evelyne Segal-Bendirdjian Basic Sciences and Biomedical Department
Paris Descartes University
Saints-Peres
Paris
France

Maqsood S. Sheikh Department of Pharmacology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
USA

Zhi Shi Department of Cell Biology & Institute of Biomedicine Jinan University
Jinan
China

Hifzur R. Siddique Department of Zoology
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh
India

Deepika Singh Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS)
Allahabad
India

Xueying Sun Department of General Surgery
Harbin Medical University
Harbin
China

Amit. K. Tiwari Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
The University of Toledo
Toledo
USA

Antonio ToninelloDipartimento di Scienze Biomediche
Università degli Studi di Padova
Padova
Italy

Giuseppe Tonini Department of Oncology
University Campus Bio-Medico
Rome
Italy

Eugene Tulchinsky Department Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine
University of Leicester
Leicester
UK

Giovanni Vitale Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health
University of Milan
Milan
Italy

Masatoshi Watanabe Division of Materials Science and Engineering
Yokohama National University
Tokiwadai
Japan

Dariusz Wolowiec Department of Hematology
Medical University of Wroclaw
Wroclaw
Poland

Kwong K. Wong Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
USA

Kaiming Ye Department of Biomedical Engineering
State University of New York
Albany, AR
USA

Yingyan Yu Department of Surgery
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China

Xi-Ming Yuan Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Linköping University
Linköping
Sweden

Leli Zeng

The Seventh Affiliated Hospital

Sun Yat-sen University

Shenzhen

China

Yunkai Zhang Department of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
USA

Xiaoli Zhang Department of Biomedical Informatics
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
USA

Hua Zhu Department of Surgery
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, OH
USA

Associate Editorial Board Member(s)

Hui-Ling Cao Xi'an Medical University
Xi'an
China

Rahul R. Deshmukh LECOM-School of Pharmacy
Bradenton, FL
USA

Sercan Ergun Department of Medical Biology
Ordu University
Ordu
Turkey

Vineet Kumar Lovely Professional University
Jalandhar
India

Salvatore G. Vitale Unit of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties
University of Catania
Catania
Italy