Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
Interests: clinical nephrology; chronic kidney disease; glomerulonephritis; diabetic kidney disease; hypertension; thrombotic microangiopathies; renal tubular acidosis; acute kidney injury; dialysis; vitamin D; vascular access
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Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, LAQV-REQUIMTE, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Interests: drought stress; metabolism; plant biology

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Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Interests: cell biology; secretory pathway; ER-Golgi transport; ER-Golgi intermediate compartment; endoplasmic reticulum; Golgi complex ; unconventional secretion; enveloped viruses

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Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Interests: autophagy; autophagy modulators; mTOR-independent autophagy pathways; neurodegeneration; lysosomal storage disorders; human pluripotent stem cells

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Laboratory of Medical Pharmaceutics, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, 4-19-1, Motoyamakita-machi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658-8558, Japan
Interests: cardiovascular disease; atherosclerosis; immunity; inflammation; T cells; regulatory T cells

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Department of Oral Medicine and Stomatology, School of Dental Medicine, Tsurumi University, 2-1-3 Tsurumi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-8501, Japan
Interests: stem cell biology (iPS cells, mesenchymal stem cells, dental-pulp-derived stem cells) and regenerative medicine including tissue engineering; wound healing; cell biology for melatonin; cell biology for leptin; tooth development; cell biology of grapefruit seed extract; cell biology of candida species; cell biology of oral cancer; photodynamic diagnosis and treatment; photoimmunotherapy
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Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Str. 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
Interests: cell therapy; stem cell biology; cellular immunology; tissue engineering; cell biology; gene therapy

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Harvard Medical School, Teaching Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Interests: human embryonic stem cell; endothelial cell specific gene expression; human pluripotent stem cell biology; genome editing; reprogramming; laboratory automation; chemical genetics; imaging technologies

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1. Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
2. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Interests: neurogenetic movement disorders; hereditary ataxias; hereditary spastic paraplegias; leukodystrophies; iPSC-derived neuronal models

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Klinik für Innere Medizin II, Universitätsklinikum Jena, 07740 Jena, Germany
Interests: AML; signal transduction; allogeneic SCT; targeted therapy; infections in hematology

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Interests: membrane traffic; secretory pathway; Golgi; autophagy; Rab GTPases

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Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Himeji Dokkyo University, 7-2-1 Kamiohno, Himeji 670-8524, Japan
Interests: chaperone-mediated autophagy; microautophagy; exosome; spinocerebellar ataxia; Parkinson's disease
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Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Interests: Mitochondrial Ca2+; NCLX; MCU; Ca2+ signaling; ion transport; Ca2+ transport

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Head of the Laboratory of Cell Adhesion Dynamics, Candiolo Cancer Institute – FPO, IRCCS & Department of Oncology, University of Torino School of Medicine, Strada Provinciale 142, Km 3.95, 10060 Candiolo, Torino, Italy
Interests: cell adhesion; endothelial cells; developmental and cancer angiogenesis; integrin activation and traffic; extracellular matrix; guidance cues; semaphorins; neuropilins; plexins

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Department of Neuroscience, Section of Human Anatomy, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: alternative splicing; alternative polyadenylation; human cancers; patient-derived organoids; precision medicine
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1. Cell Biology and Disease Mechanisms Program, Telethon Institute of Genetic and Medicine (TIGEM), Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
2. Medical Genetics, University of Naples "Federico II", Napoli, Italy
Interests: selective autophagy; lysosome biogenesis; TFEB; mTORC1; lysosomal diseases; cartilage and bone

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Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBBC),Unit of Translational Biomolecular Medicine “Rita Levi Montalcini", National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Rome, Italy
Interests: neuropeptides and neurodegenerative diseases; pharmacology of neurotrophic factors
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Center for Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging, BWH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Interests: cell therapy; immunotherapy; cancer; tumor models; brain

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Laboratory of Immune System Biology, Cellular Immunology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Interests: T regulatory cells; autoimmunity; cytokines
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Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: plant developmental biology; plant genetics; plant metabolomics; plant cuticle biology; plant–environment interaction; molecular characterization of genetically modified and genome edited organisms
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Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
Interests: cancer; colorectal cancer; drug resistance mechanisms; reticuloplasmins; tumour dissemination assays

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Sokol Institute for Pharmaceutical Life Sciences and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA
Interests: protein kinase signaling; protein kinases as therapeutic targets; parasitic protein kinases
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Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: membrane biophysics; lipid domains; fluorescence spectroscopy; fluorescence microscopy; sphingolipids; ceramide; lipid-lipid interactions; drug-membrane interactions; lysosomal storage diseases

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Genetics of Cognitive Dysfunction Laboratory, i3S- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
Interests: non-coding repeat expansions; neurodegenerative diseases; spinocerebellar ataxias; RNA-mediated toxicity; gene mapping; gene identification; molecular diagnosis; pentanucleotide repeat insertion; DAB1 gene; SCA37
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Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Interests: extracellular vesicles; exosomes; shed microvesicles; midbody remnants; cytokinesis; colon cancer; EMT; tumour microenvironment; proteogenomics; proteomics; protein chemistry

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1. Division of Endocrinology, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA
2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1781, USA
Interests: breast cancer; signal transduction; hormonal regulation of body composition; aging; obesity and adipose browning; metabolic disorders

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Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge, The Keith Peters Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK
Interests: lipid metabolism; membrane and organelle biogenesis; nuclear envelope; nucleus; endoplasmic reticulum
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Cell and Experimental Pathology, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden
Interests: tumour suppressor; immunotherapy; colon cancer
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