Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

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

Associate Editors

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

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

José Manuel Fernández-Real

Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Dr. Josep Trueta University Hospital, Girona, Spain.

Research Interests:  Metabolic impacts of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and the gut microbiota-brain axis

David Rubinsztein

UK Dementia Research Institute, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Research Interests:  Autophagy, proteostasis, huntington’s Disease, Tau, parkinson’s disease

Güenter 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

Jun Yu

Institute of Digestive Disease, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests:  Molecular pathogenesis, microbiome, diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets of gastrointestinal cancers and fatty liver disease

Deputy Editors

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

Editorial Board Members

Yanzhong Chang

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

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests:  Solute carrier (SLC) transporters, immune cell polarization and differentiation, antibody production, immunomodulatory drug development, neuronal regeneration and remyelination, neurotransmitter homeostasis, neurological disease therapeutics, metabolic homeostasis regulation

Shi Chen

Shenzhen Institute of Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.

Research Interests:  Epigenetics, sulfur modification

Tianhui Chen

Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Research Interests:  Cancer epidemiology, population-based prevention and control for asbestos-related cancers, timely assessment of 5-year relative survival for patients with various cancer types using period analysis, genetic epidemiology of familial cancer

Zhen Cheng

Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.

Research Interests:  Molecular imaging, nuclear medicine

James R. Connor

Department of Neurosurgery, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States.

Research Interests:  Iron metabolism in the brain and neural system, brain cancer stem cells, blood-brain barrier

Qinghua Cui

School of Sports Medicine, Wuhan Sports University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

Research Interests:  Systems biology, computational medicine, noncoding RNA, drug discovery

Youjun Feng

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

Research Interests:  Antimicrobial resistance, druggable biotin pathway, bacterial immunity

Hao Gao

College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.

Research Interests:  Natural products, isolation and elucidation, bioactive substances in traditional medicine, biosynthesis

Yelena Ginzburg

The Tisch Cancer Institute, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Tisch Cancer Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

Research Interests:  Apoptosis/cell death, cellular differentiation, hematopoiesis, iron metabolism, molecular biology, transgenic mice

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

Weidong Han

General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China.

Research Interests:  Design of multiple tumor biological immunotherapy protocols

Rongrong He

College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.

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

Jianwei Jiao

State Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Reconstruction, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Research Interests:  Brain development mechanism, microglia, brain vessels, brain barrier, blood-brain barrier, meninges

Weilin Jin

The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 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

Haidong Kan

Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests:  Air pollution, climate change, epidemiology

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, Jiangsu Province, China.

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

Haitao Li

School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests:  Epigenetic regulation, post-translational modifications and modification biology, structural biology, protein design, cancer and aging-associated diseases

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

College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.

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

Yangzhong Liu

The Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, China.

Research Interests:  Metal-related chemical biology, including mechanistic investigation of metallodrugs and metalloproteins, and drug delivery

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

Jianruan Luo

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests:  Protein post translational modification in cancer and aging, ferroptosis, protien homeostasis and aging

Xiaoping Miao

School of Public Health at Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, china.

Research Interests:  Tumor molecular epidemiology, prospective cohort studies, disease-specific cohorts, genetic susceptibility, multi-omics integration, gene–environment interactions, early cancer screening and risk prediction

Hua Naranmandura

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

Haobo Pan

Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Biomedical Materials, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.

Research Interests:  Bone-related biomaterials, tissue regeneration, bone regeneration, osteoimmunology, 3D-bioprinting, bioactive glass, wound dressing, marine biomaterials, chemical iology, cytobiology

Kostas Pantopoulos

Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Research Interests:  Regulation of systemic and cellular iron metabolism, understanding pathophysiological mechanisms in iron-related disorders, and exploring new therapies in iron-related disorders

Jack Rogers

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

Research Interests:  Iron homeostasis, neurodegenerative disease, RNA therapeutics

Chunlin Shao

Institute of Radiation Medicine, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests:  Radiobiology and radioimmunity, radioprotection, radiation-induced bystander and abscopal effect, mechanisms of tumor radiotherapy and radioimmunotherapy, and environmental radiation responses

Dongquan Shi

Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.

Research Interests:  Epigenetic regulation, post-translational modifications and modification biology, structural biology, protein design, cancer and aging-associated diseases

Guoli Song

Brain Disease and Big Data Research Institute, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.

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

Matthew Sweet

Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Research Interests:  Zinc, macrophages, innate immunity, antibacterial defence, inflammation, Gram-negative bacterial infections, chronic liver disease

Jie Tian

National Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Beijing, China.

Research Interests:  Medical imaging, biomedical engineering, biomedical and health informatics

Ben Wang

The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Research Interests:  Biomineralization, chemical biology, translational medicine

Jiucun Wang

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

Research Interests:  Autoimmune diseases, systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), genetic susceptibility, pulmonary fibrosis, skin phenome

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. Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, Chian.

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:  Major chronic diseases, 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

Jinliang Xing

Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.

Research Interests:  Tumor, tumor mitochondrial biology, transformation of tumor markers

Li Yu

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests:  Migrasome, tetraspanin, secretion, cell-cell communication, therapeutic potentials

Jian Zhang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests:  Artificial intelligence, precision target identification, first-in-class drugs, drug discovery, drug development

Lingqiang Zhang

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

Research Interests:  Protein post-translational modifications, human diseases, disease pathogenesis

Pingyu Zhang

Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.

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

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

Yan Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.

Research Interests:  Enzymology, biochemistry, synthetic biology

Jianguo Zhao

The National Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Intelligent Manufacturing, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Research Interests:  Genome editing

Jincun Zhao

The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.

Research Interests:  Respiratory infectious diseases

Yanjun Zhao

Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.

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

Yuzheng Zhao

East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests:  Cell Metabolism, real-time monitoring, metabolic regulation, disease diagnosis, drug screening

Minghua Zheng

Mafld Research Center, Department of Hepatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Research Interests:  Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH), clinical research, basic research, translational research

Bing Zhou

Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, 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, Hubei Province, 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

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