**About the Editors**

### **Stefano Castellani**

Stefano Castellani, Ph.D., is associate professor in General Pathology at the Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePRe-J), Aldo Moro University of Bari, Bari, Italy. His research interests have concerned the pathophysiology of cystic fibrosis and geneand drug-based delivery for its treatment. In recent years, he has been involved in in vitro studies of nanoparticle delivery for the treatment of pathologies, such as chronic airway inflammatory diseases and Parkinson's disease. In particular, from 2015 to 2018 he was project manager of the research project "Delivery of natural anti-oxidants to the lung using paramagnetic nanoparticles for the treatment of chronic respiratory diseases" and of the project "Nanotechnologies applied to the delivery of natural substances for the therapy of chronic respiratory diseases". As per Scopus, Dr. Castellani has currently published 59 peer-reviewed scientific articles with a h-index of 18.

#### **Massimo Conese**

Massimo Conese, M.D., Ph.D., is full professor in General Pathology and the Director of the Laboratory of Experimental and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy. His general interests are in the pathophysiology of cystic fibrosis, as well as in gene-, drug-, and stem cell-based treatments. He is presently working on nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery and plant-derived extracellular vesicles aimed at treating chronic airway inflammatory diseases, Parkinson's disease, and inflammatory bowel disease. He is also studying the role of human adipose-derived stem cells in the treatment of intractable wounds. He was appointed Coordinator in the European Community (EC) project (FP5) "Development and application of chromosome-based gene transfer vectors for cell therapy" (2003–2006) and was Partner in two EC projects (FP6) "Improved precision of nucleic acid based therapy of cystic fibrosis" (2005–2008) and "European Coordination Action for Research in Cystic Fibrosis" (2005–2009). As per Scopus, Dr. Conese has published 169 peer-reviewed scientific articles, with a h-index of 39.Dr. Conese is Editorial Board Member of *Open Medicine, Current Stem Cell Research & Therapy, Case Reports in Medicine, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Cells, Journal of Respiration, Pathophysiology* and *Stem Cell Investigation*.
