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Dr. Tomotsugu Koyama

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Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Kyoto 619-0284, Japan
Interests: gene regulation; leaf development; senscence; transcription factor; transgenic plant
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Prof. Dr. Robert Arthur Kratzke

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Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Masonic Cancer Institute, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Interests: lung cancer; mesothelioma; oncolytic therapy

Prof. Dr. Ivan Kreft

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Research Department, Nutrition Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: epigenetics; buckwheat; flavonoids; selenium
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Dr. Stefanie Krick

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Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Interests: precision medicine; risk prediction; copy number variation; polygenic risk score; omics
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Dr. Susanne M. Krug

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Institute of Clinical Physiology/Nutritional Medicine, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Interests: tricellulin: function, regulation, structure, and clinical impact; the interplay of the impaired tight junction and the subjacent immune cells in inflammation; the role of the tricellular tight junction in inflammatory bowel diseases; inflammatory bowel diseases: barrier defect via IL-13 and tricellulin; tricellular tight junction as a pathway for macromolecules; drug absorption enhancement by targeting the tricellular TJ; neuropathic pain resolution by nerve barrier sealing and netrin-1
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Prof. Dr. Seung-Yup Ku

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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea
Interests: infertility; regeneration; stem cells; endocrine; gynecology; fertility; aging
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Prof. Dr. Yasusei Kudo

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Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8504, Japan
Interests: head and neck cancer; cell cycle; ubiquitin-proteasome pathway; invasion; metastasis; oral pathology
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Prof. Ujendra Kumar

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Faculty of Pharmaceutical sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Interests: Neuroscience, GPCR, breast cancer and Pharmacology
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Prof. Dr. Hiroki Kuniyasu

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Department of Molecular Pathology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara 634-8521, Nara, Japan
Interests: cancer metabolism; cachexia
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Prof. Dr. Martin Kupiec

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The Shmunis School of Biomedicine & Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Interests: Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; yeast; genome stability; DNA repair; telomeres
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Dr. Biji Theyilamannil Kurien

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The Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
Interests: systemic lupus erythematosus; Sjögren’s syndrome; prolidase deficiency; free radical biology; experimental urolithiasis; curcumin and other curcuminoids; dietary supplements; microgravity
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Dr. Toshihide Kurihara

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Laboratory of Photobiology, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
Interests: retina; hypoxia response; myopia; optogenetics
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Prof. Dr. Maciej Kurpisz

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Department of Reproductive Biology and Stem Cells, Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 60-479 Poznan, Poland
Interests: stem cells; male infertility; human genetics; reproductive immunology
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Dr. Tomomi Kuwahara

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Department of Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan
Interests: gut microbiome
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Dr. Irina M. Kuznetsova

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Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky Ave., 194064 St. Petersburg, Russia
Interests: structure and dynamics of proteins; protein folding; intrinsic UV fluorescence of proteins; spectroscopy; fluorescent proteins; phytochromes; amyloid fibrils; crowded milieu and liquid-liquid phase separation; crowding agents; intrinsically disordered proteins; membraneless organelles
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Dr. Jung-Taek Kwon

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Division of Environmental Risk Research, Environmental Health Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research, Hwangyong-ro 42, Seogu, Incheon 22689, Republic of Korea
Interests: lung; pulmonary; inhalation; toxicity; cytotoxicity; nanoparticles; microplastics; mixtures; biomonitoring
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Prof. Dr. Marie Christine Kyrtsonis

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First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Laikon General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece
Interests: leukemia; Waldenstroem macroglobulinemia; Ibrutinib; paraproteinemias ixazomib; lenalidomide; multiple myeloma

Prof. Dr. Ján Kyselovič

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5th Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital, Comenius University, Ruzinovska 6, 826 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
Interests: regenerative medicine; molecular pharmacology; hypertension; atherosclerosis
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Prof. Dr. Julia Kzhyshkowska

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Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Mannheim Institute for Innate Immunoscience (MI3), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
Interests: transcriptional, epigenetic, and metabolic programming of macrophages and their precoursors—corculating monocytes; tumor immunometabolism; macrophage biomarkers of therapy resistance; new molecular targets for TAM reprogramming in solid tumors
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Dr. Chiara Laezza

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Institute of Endocrinology and Experimental Oncology, IEOS CNR, Via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: mevalonate pathway; prenylation proteins; cannabinoid and cancer; cell cycle; cancer-related biochemical pathways; cell proliferation; cell signaling; breast cancer; glioblastoma multiforme
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Prof. Dr. Hon-Ming Lam

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Centre for Soybean Research of the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: climate-smart and sustainable agriculture; plant and agricultural biotechnology; genomic studies on crop–environment interaction
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Prof. Dr. Rosa M. Lamuela-Raventos

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1. Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy-XARTA-INSA-UB, School of Pharmacy and Food Science, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
2. Consorcio CIBER, M.P. Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
Interests: polyphenols; carotenoids; Mediterranean diet; health; diabetes; cardiovascular; processing; cooking; sofrito; tomato; wine
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Dr. Daniele Lana

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Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Interests: neuropharmacology; neurodegeneration; neuroinflammation; glia; microbiota; neurodegenerative diseases; hippocampus; behaviour
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Dr. Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez

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BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, UPV/EHU Science Park, 48940 Leioa, Spain
Interests: multifunctional materials; smart materials; energy storage; energy harvesting; sensors; actuators
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Dr. Jessem Landoulsi

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Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France
Interests: surface analysis; biointerfaces; biomineralization; protein adsorption; enzymes; polyelectrolyte multilayers

Prof. Dr. Hsien-Yuan Lane

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Department of Psychiatry, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Interests: neuropsychopharmacology; cognitive neuroscience; precision medicine
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Prof. Dr. Sigrun Lange

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Pathobiology and Extracellular Vesicles Research Group, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London W1W 6UW, UK
Interests: peptidylarginine deimnases; extracelluar vesicles; regenerative medicine; tissue remodelling; cancer; mucosal immunity; innate immunity; stem cells
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Prof. Dr. Dianne Langford

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Department of Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Interests: HIV infection; substance abuse; traumatic brain injury; insult-driven changes in the brain
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Dr. Deborah A. Lannigan

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Departments of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
Interests: breast cancer; signaling pathways; mammary gland homeostasis
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Prof. Dr. Luigi Maria Larocca

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Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Dipartimento di Scienze della vita e Sanità Pubblica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Roma, Italy
Interests: molecular pathology; neuro-oncology; hematopathology; molecular diagnosis in oncology
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