**Oxidative Stress Modulators and Functional Foods**

Editor

**Junsei Taira**

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*Editor* Junsei Taira NIT, Okinawa College or National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College Japan

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### **About the Editor**

**Junsei Taira**, Professor, holds an M.S. in Environmental Science (University of Tsukuba, Japan 1987) and Ph.D. from Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan) attained in 1992. He has been employed as researcher at Kanebo Ltd. (currently Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., Japan) since 1987. In 1995, he was employed as a Fellowship Researcher at National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) (USA), and in 1997, he was appointed Principal Investigator at Institute of Health and Environment/Industrial Technology Center in Okinawa Prefectural Government (Japan). He was Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo (Japan), in 2006. In 2007, he was appointed Associate Professor in Department of Bioresources Technology, National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College (Japan), where he was later appointed Professor in 2011. He is current serving on the editorial board of Marine Drugs and as Guest Editor of *Marine Drugs* and *Antioxidants* (MDPI). His research interests cover the field of oxidative stress in cells and the cellular protective/preventive mechanisms of natural product, which have been explored in terrestrial plants and marine natural products.
