Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Yoke Peng Loh

oaepub2019@yahoo.com

Ph.D., American Biochemist and Molecular Biologist, Bethesda, MD, USA

Research Interests:  brain extracellular vesicles, neurodegeneration disease, Alzheimer’s disease neuroprotection, brain tumor

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Chunhai Fan

CAS academician, Chair Professor, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Research Interests:  nucleic acids chemistry, molecular machines, DNA nanotechnology, DNA computing and storage, biosensors and bioimaging

Executive Editor (Europe)

Michael W. Pfaffl

Professor, Division of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany

Research Interests:  biomarker development, EV biology, circulating biomarkers, gene expression profiling, RT-qPCR, RNA sequencing, microRNA, mRNA, lncRNA, integrative biostatistical methods, multivariate algorithms

Executive Editor (China)

Weiliang Xia

Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Research Interests:  lung/prostate cancer progression, treatment resistance, novel targets, exosome, FGF/FGFR, tissue repair

Associate Editors

Gal Bitan

Professor, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, drug development, biomarker development, neurodegenerative diseases

Shilpa Buch

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

Research Interests:  drugs of abuse, neuroAIDS, immunology, extracellular vesicles

Chulhee Choi

Professor, Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Yusong, South Korea

Research Interests:  exosome engineering, drug Delivery, biopharmaceuticals, cancer cell biology, bioengineering

Wojciech Chrzanowski

Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Research Interests:  nanosafety, stem cells and exosomes delivery, drug delivery, nano-bio-characterisation

Juan Manuel Falcon-Perez

Professor, Exosomes Lab & Metabolomics Platform, CIC bioGUNE-BRTA, Derio, Spain

Research Interests:  proteomics, biomarker discovery, exosomes, metabolomics

Lexie Shannon Holliday

Associate Professor, Department of Orthodontics, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL, USA

Research Interests:  osteoclasts, V-ATPase, bone, exosomes, extracellular vesicles

Shenglin Huang

Professor, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Research Interests:  tumor-related RNA, specific transcript identification, blood extracellular vesicle, exosomal RNA

Zhaohui Huang

Professor, Wuxi Cancer Institute, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Research Interests:  noncoding RNA, extracellular vesicle, exosomal miRNA, tumor microenvrionment

Liwen Jiang

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Cell and Developmental Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Research Interests:  plant cell and molecular biology, plant EVs, protein targeting and trafficking in plant cells, organelle biogenesis and function in plants, plant bioreactors for pharmaceutical proteins

Peiyong Jiang

Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Research Interests:  bioinfomatics, statistics, genetic diagnosis

Kasper Rouschop

Associate Professor, Department of Radiotherapy, Maastricht Universiteit, Maastricht, Netherlands

Research Interests:  cancer, hypoxia, autophagy, unfolded protein response

Erik A. Sistermans

Professor, Head of the Department of Human Genetics, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Research Interests:  NIPT, cell-free DNA, fragmentomics, prenatal screening, genome diagnostics, mutation analysis

Frank R.M. Stassen

Associate professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Research Interests:  bacterial outer membrane vesicles, infection, microbiology, exosomes, extracellular vesicles

Isaac Kirubakaran Sundar

Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Lawrence, KS, USA

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, exosomes, biomarkers, miRNAs, circadian rhythms, chronic lung diseases, COPD, e-cigarettes, proteomics

Wei Seong Toh

Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore City, Singapore

Research Interests:  musculoskeletal regeneration, mesenchymal stem cells, extracellular vesicles, exosomes, cell-free therapy

Seppo J. Vainio

Professor, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Research Interests:  organogenesis, biosensors, Wnt, kidney, extracellular vesicles

Janos Zempleni

Professor, Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

Research Interests:  milk, extracellular vesicles, exosomes, non-coding RNA, drug delivery, nutrition

Senior Editorial Board Members

George A Calin

Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, USA

Research Interests:  microRNAs, non-codingRNAs, non-codingDNAs, genomics, cancer

Carolyn Compton

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

Research Interests:  preanaltics, preanalytical factors, blood specimens, molecular quality, standards, liquid biopsy, cancer

Marco Falasca

Professor, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Research Interests:  lipid metabolism, extracellular vesicles, gastrointestinal diseases, pancreatic cancer, obesity

Georgios Giamas

Professor, Department of Surgery and Cancer, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK

Research Interests:  cancer Biology, tumour microenvironment, extracellular vesicles, kinases, proteomics

Ajay Goel

Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Experimental Therapeutics, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA

Research Interests:  gastrointestinal cancers, precision oncology, genomics, epigenomics, biomarkers, early detection

Georges Emile Raymond Grau

Professor, Vascular Immunology Unit, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Medical Foundation Building (K25), Camperdown, NSW 2042, Australia

Research Interests:  Immunopathological Mechanisms of Infectious Diseases focuses on Cytokines; The Microvascular Endothelium and Extracellular Vesicles

Chuan He

John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Research Interests:  epigenetics, RNA methylation, DNA methylation

David M. Lubman

Maude T. Lane Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Research Interests:  exosomes, biomarkers, glycoproteins, hepatocellular carcinoma, immunoaffintiy methods

Michel Salzet

Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, University of Lille, Lille, France

Research Interests:  modulation of the immune response by endocrine factors

Richard J. Simpson

Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Genetics /La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS), La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Research Interests:  colorectal cancer, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) & exosome biology

Anil K. Sood

Professor, Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, Division of Surgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA

Research Interests:  mechanisms of angiogenesis and metastasis in ovarian cancer, effects of neuroendocrine stress hormones on ovarian cancer growth and progression, development of new strategies for systemic in vivo siRNA delivery

Steven A. Soper

Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Research Interests:  nanofluidics, microfluidics, DNA diagnostics, liquid biopsy

Aijun Wang

Professor, Department of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

Research Interests:  stem cells, extracellular matrix, extracellular vesicle, vascular disease, fetal interventions

Long Zhang

Professor, Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Research Interests:  cellular signal, transduction, cancer metastasis, exosome in human diseases

Min Zhou

Professor, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang, China

Research Interests:  drug delivery, molecular imaging, nanomedicine, translational medicine

Editorial Board Members

Byeong-Cheol Ahn

Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, cancer nanomedicine, nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, precision oncology, radiotheranostics, thyroid cancer, cancer diagnosis, targeted radionuclide therapy, translational medicine, theranostics, cancer biomarkers

Zhijian Cai

Professor, Institute of Immunology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, tumor immunity, autoimmunity, TGF-b, CD4+ T cells

Yong Cheng

Professor, Center on Translational Neuroscience, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China

Research Interests:  neuropsychiatric disease, exosome

William C. Cho

Biomedical Scientist, Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Research Interests:  non-coding RNAs, extracellular vesicles, non-small cell lung cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, cancer biomarkers, proteomics

Chunhui Deng

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Research Interests:  magnetic nanomaterials based exosome separation and analysis

Navneet Dhillon

Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, EV biomarkers, coding and non-coding RNAs, viral infection, lung injury, vascular remodeling, cardio-pulmonary complications

Prakash Gangadaran

Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, cancer nanomedicine, molecular imaging, targeted drug delivery, artificial nanovesicles, cancer immunotherapy, liquid biopsy, precision oncology, theranostics, regenerative medicine

Wolfgang Holnthoner

Professor, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology, The Research Centre in Cooperation with AUVA, Vienna, Austria

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, vascular biology, endothelial cells, angiogenesis

Chenghu Hu

Professor, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Medical Research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Research Interests:  mesenchymal stem cells, exosomes, extracellular vesicles, mirna, bone regeneration, microenvironment

Maheedhar Kodali

Research Scientist, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, United States

Research Interests:  neuroinflammation, extracellular vesicles, cognitive and mood function, transcriptomic changes, microglia, astrocytes and neurons

Maja Kosanović

PI, Institute for the Application of Nuclear Energy—INEP, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Research Interests:  immunomodulatory properties of EVs, therapeutic applications, isolation methods and glycosylation of EVs

Yan Li

Professor, ELATES Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Research Interests:  human stem cells, extracellular vesicles, orgnaoids, neurological disorders, bioreactors, multi-omics, extracellular matrix

Yong Li

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Kogarah, NSW, Australia

Research Interests:  cancer, extracellular vesicles, liquid biopsy, biomarkers, diagnosis, prognosis

Dingbin Liu

Professor, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Research Interests:  biomarkers, extracellular vesicles, liquid biopsy, molecular imaging

Yaping Liu

Assistant Professor, Division of Multiple Sclerosis & Neuroimmunology, The Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

Research Interests:  epigenomics, cell-free DNA, single-cell multiomics, gene regulation, biomarkers

Yang Luo

Professor, School of Biological Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

Research Interests:  nano-material sterilization technology, new nanomedical diagnostic technology, ctDNA, circulating tumor cells, extracellular vesicles

Ki Soo Park

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, molecular diagnostics, nucleic acid nanotechnology, biosensing, theranostics

Gabriella Pocsfalvi

Research Director, Laboratory of Extracellular Vesicles and Mass Spectrometry, Institute of Biosciences and BioResources, National Research Council of Italy, Napoli, Italy

Research Interests:  plant extracellular vesicles and plant-derived nanovesicles

Enrico Ragni

Researcher, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy

Research Interests:  exosomes, extracellular vesicles, cell therapy, regenerative medicine, stem cells

Carlos Salomon

Professor, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Herston Qld, Australia

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, pregnancy, ovarian cancer, biomarkers and therapeutics

Pranav Sharma

Ph.D., Neuroscientist at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

Research Interests:  EV, exosomes, neuroscience, cell biology, rett syndrome, autism

Justin Stebbing

Professor, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK

Research Interests:  immunotherapy for breast, gastrointestinal, and lung cancers

Ming-Jer Tang

Distinguished Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Research Interests:  physiology, cell and molecular biology, tissue engineering, mechanobiology

Yaohui Tang

Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Research Interests:  stroke, extracellular vesicles, stem cells, glial cells, tissue engineering

W. Andy Tao

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

Research Interests:  proteomics, phosphoproteomics, protein post-translational modifications (PTMs), biomarker discovery, chemical proteomics, cancer signaling

Hsian-Rong Tseng

Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Research Interests:  liquid biopsy, cancer diagnostics, prenatal diagnostics, microfluidics, nanomaterials

Yusuke Yoshioka

Researcher, Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Research Interests:  liquid biopsy, extracellular vesicles (EVs), microRNA

Barbara A. Zavan

Professor, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Research Interests:  tissue engineering, stem cells, material sciences, extracellular vesicles

Frederic Zenhausern

Center for Applied Nano Bioscience and Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Phoenix, USA

Research Interests:  nanofabrication, metrology, nanomaterials, nanoparticles, nanoprocessing, nanocontact printing, porous silicon, radiation hardening, DNA data storage

Cuiping Zhang

Professor, Medical Innovation Research Department, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Research Interests:  extracellular vesicles, stem cells, nano-bionic drugs, biomaterials, tissue engineering, wound repair and regeneration

Hao Zhang

Professor, Institute of Precision Cancer Medicine and Pathology, Jinan University Medical College, Guangzhou, China

Research Interests:  oncology and cancer biology

Wei Zhang

Institute for Global Health, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

Research Interests:  epigenetics, biomarkers, liquid biopsy, human genetics, bioinformatics

Zhangfeng Zhong

Assistant Professor, City University of Macau, Macao, China

Research Interests:  study of Plant-derived exosome-like vesicles, research and development of Chinese medicine, discovery and application of natural products, drug screening and lead compound analysis

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