Editorial Board

Fudi Wang

fwang@zju.edu.cn

School of Public Health, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Research Interests: Ferroptosis, metal homeostasis, iron, zinc, manganese, copper, chronic disease prevention, precision nutrition, metal-related organ injury, targeted therapy

Ashley Bush

Clinical Lead Mental Health Mission, Director of the Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, Head of the Oxidation Biology Unit, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Research Interests: Molecular and pathogenic mechanisms underlying the role of metals (including iron and zinc) and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases, development of cutting-edge diagnostic tools and transformative disease-modifying therapeutic strategies for neurological disorders

Günther Weiss

Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

Research Interests: Regulatory interactions between iron homeostasis & immune function, functional characterization of macrophage host resistance genes against intracellular bacteria, mechanisms of anemia of inflammation, and development of its diagnostic tools & therapeutic interventions

Martina Muckenthaler

Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.

Research Interests: Regulatory mechanisms maintaining iron homeostasis, pathological consequences of iron overload and iron deficiency, and associated studies

Tom Vanden Berghe

Cell Death Signaling Lab, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

Research Interests: Cell death (ferroptosis, pyroptosis/inflammation) and associated diseases, exploration of ferroptosis as anti-cancer therapy for therapy-resistant cancers, development of a comprehensive ferroptosis platform

Junxia Min

Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Research Interests: Metal metabolism, ferroptosis, ferroptotic signaling mechanisms and human major diseases, cancer biology & targeted therapy, molecular regulatory factors in human longevity

Charareh Pourzand

Associate Dean (Community, Culture and Inclusion, Faculty of Science), Department of Life Sciences, Centre for Therapeutic Innovation, Centre for Bioengineering & Biomedical Technologies (CBio), University of Bath, UK.

Research Interests: Iron-related cellular events in skin cell pathological damage, design of iron chelating/antioxidant small molecules, development of light-activated caged-iron chelators and organelle-targeted iron sensors/chelators

Daolin Tang

Department of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Research Interests: Mechanisms and functions of regulated cell death and autophagy in human disease, with particular emphasis on gastrointestinal cancers and infectious diseases

Zhongyan Chang

Laboratory of Molecular Iron Metabolism, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.

Research Interests: Mechanisms of iron metabolism, pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies for iron dysregulation and redox imbalance in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and neuropsychiatric disorders, development and safety evaluation of brain-targeted nanomedicines

Ligong Chen

State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China.

Research Interests: SLC transporters on the polarization, differentiation and antibody production of immune cells for the development of immunomodulatory drugs, mechanisms of neuronal regeneration, remyelination and neurotransmitter homeostasis regulation by SLC transporters for potential therapeutic strategies for neurological diseases, regulation of metabolic homeostasis by SLC transporters in liver and adipose tissues

Shi Chen

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbiology in Genomic Modification & Editing and Application, Shenzhen Institute of Translational Medicine, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.

Research Interests: Epigenetics, sulfur modification

Zhen Cheng

Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China.

Research Interests: Molecular imaging, nuclear medicine

Hao Gao

College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Research Interests: Natural products, Isolation and elucidation, Bioactive substances in traditional medicine, Biosynthesis

Hajo Haase

Director for Institute of Immunology, RWTH-Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.

Research Interests: Centers on immunology of zinc, focusing on exploring zinc’s regulatory roles in immune responses, maintenance of immune homeostasis, and its mechanisms in modulating cytokine activity and T cell-mediated immune processes.

Rongrong He

College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Research Interests: Stress, disease susceptibility, oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, oxidative lipid metabolism, key enzymatic targets, neuronal cell death, immune cell death

Weilin Jin

Institute of Cancer Neuroscience, Medical Frontier Innovation Research Center, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.

Research Interests: Cancer neuroscience, epigenetics and drug repurposing, microbiota medicine

Taiho Kambe

Division of Integrated Life Science, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Japan.

Research Interests: Regulatory mechanisms of zinc homeostasis and metabolism, physiological functions of zinc transporters and zinc enzymes, pathological consequences of zinc deficiency, and other aspects of zinc biology

Baoming Li

Institute of Brain Science and Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Research Interests: Neural mechanisms underlying prefrontal cognitive functions and psychiatric disorders, development of child brain and cognition, biological, behavioral and mental consequences of childhood psychosocial adversity on prefrontal cortical development

Guideng Li

Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Suzhou, China.

Research Interests: Tumor immune microenvironment, cancer immunotherapy, immune resistance, and T cell–mediated immune recognition

Houwen Lin

Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, College of Clinical Pharmacy, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Marine natural products chemistry，clinical pharmacy

Qiong Liu

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdon, China.

Research Interests: The biological effects of trace elements in neurodegenerative diseases

Rink Lothar

Director for Institute of Immunology, RWTH-Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.

Research Interests: Centers on immunology of zinc, focusing on exploring zinc’s regulatory roles in immune responses, maintenance of immune homeostasis, and its mechanisms in modulating cytokine activity and T cell-mediated immune processes

Hua Naranmandura

Department of Toxicology, School of Medicine and Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Research Interests: Arsenic trioxide, leukemia, molecular mechanisms, innovative therapies, heat shock therapy, aptamer therapy, hematologic diseases, clinical translation, drug toxicity, organelle toxicity, targeted therapy, chemotherapeutic drugs

Jack Rogers

Neurochemistry Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital (East), and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA.

Research Interests: Iron homeostasis, neurodegenerative disease, RNA therapeutics

Guoli Song

Brain Disease and Big Data Research Institute, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Ecology, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Research Interests: Neurodegenerative disease, trace element, selenium; selenoprotein

Ben Wang

Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education), The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.

Research Interests: Biomineralization, chemical biology, translational medicine

Jiucun Wang

School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Genetics and molecular mechanisms of autoimmune diseases, such as scleroderma/systemic sclerosis and associated skin/pulmonary fibrosis

Liang Wang

Department of Public Health, Global Health Institute, Marshall University, Huntington, USA.

Research Interests: Obesity, nutrition epidemiology, global health, health education and promotion

Min Wu

Center of of RNA Research and Drug Development, Wenzhou Institute University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University.

Research Interests: Respiratory infectious diseases, pathogenesis and immunity, novel bacterial immune systems, gene editing strategies, cell therapy, chronic respiratory diseases, aging, cancer, mechanism-based therapeutics

Yangfeng Wu

Clinical Research Institute, Institute of Advanced Clinical Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: Causal risk factors of cardiovascular disease, effective preventive and control interventions, clinical research theory, clinical research methods and methodology

Bengang Xing

Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kowloon Hong Kong SAR China.

Research Interests: Chemical biology, molecular probes & imaging, biomedical labeling, molecular therapy, nano-theranostics engineering

Lingqiang Zhang

State Key Lab of Medical Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, China.

Research Interests: Protein post-translational modification and human diseases

Wanqi Zhang

Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.

Research Interests: Iodine nutrition, micronutrient nutrition, iodine deficiency disorders, public nutrition, dietary reference intakes, tolerable upper intake level, pregnancy and lactation nutrition, thyroid health, precision nutrition, food safety

Yuping Zhang

Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.

Research Interests: Metals in medicine, bioinorganic chemistry, chemical biology, therapeutic metal complexes, photodynamic therapy, sonodynamic therapy, photoredox metal catalysts, photoactivated complexes, metalloantibiotics

Jincun Zhao

Department of Clinical Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease & National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

Research Interests: Respiratory infectious diseases

Yanjun Zhao

Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.

Research Interests: Drug delivery, gene delivery, biomaterials, nanomedicine

Bing Zhou

Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China.

Research Interests: Metal metabolism and physiology in Drosophila and mammals, anti-mitochondrial action of artemisinins and their new antimicrobial applications

Zhenli Zhu

State Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.

Research Interests: Plasma-based techniques, elemental analysis, isotopic analysis, geoscience, human health, analytical methodologies, advanced plasma sources, high-precision measurements, high-sensitivity measurements, geochemistry, environmental science, biomedical research