Oncology Research Open Access Editors-in-Chief: Edward Chu, Enrico Mini
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Editors-in-Chief
Edward Chu

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

Interests: cancer pharmacology and drug development

Enrico Mini

University of Florence Florence, ITALY

Interests: the mechanisms of tumor drug resistance, in particular to antimetabolites and metal-based drugs, cancer pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics, and controlled clinical trials in gastrointestinal cancers

Emeritus Editor-in-Chief

Late Prof. Kazuo Umezawa

Aichi Medical University, JAPAN

Interests: CPR, resuscitation, critical care medicine, intensive care medicine, hypothermia, emergency management, emergency treatment, sepsis, ventilation, ICU

Editorial Board Members

Sirin A. Adham

Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, OMAN

Interests: breast cancer, integrin beta 3, chemoresistance, adriamycin, cyclophosphamide

 

Aamir Ahmad

University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Interests: cancer metastasis, drug resistance, miRNA and cancer health disparity

 

Mamoun Ahram

The University of Jordan, JORDAN

Interests: cancer biology, molecular and cell biology, biobanking, breast cancer, androgen

 

Dante Amelio

Proton Therapy Center, Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari (APSS), ITALY

Interests: astrocytoma, bone tumor, brain tumor, chordoma, craniopharyngioma, glioblastoma, meningioma, pituitary tumor, schwannoma

 

Roberto Bei

Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Rome, ITALY

Interests: Oncology: Analysis of immune response to tumor associated antigens (ErbB receptors, AFP, CEA, PSA) in cancer patients and cancer immunotherapy. Analysis of the expression of tumor antigens in tumors and normal tissues; Virology: Production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies to viral proteins; Nutrition: Effect of natural compounds on cancer cell growth.

 

Luca Bertolaccini

European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, ITALY

Interests: lung cancer surgery, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, thoracic oncology, biostatistics

 

Guido Bocci

University of Pisa, ITALY

Interests: Cancer Biology; Clinical Studies; Pharmacodynamics; Clinical Pharmacokinetics; Pharmacokinetics; Genetics Oncology; Tumors; Cancer Research

 

Giuseppe Broggi

Department “G.F. Ingrassia”, Anatomic Pathology, University of Catania, ITALY

Interests: Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Neuropathology and Histopathology

 

George Gong CHEN

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG

Interests: head and neck cancers, especially thyroid cancer and laryngeal cancer

 

William CHO

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, HONG KONG

Interests: molecular biology, proteomics, genomics, immunology, bioinformatics, next-generation sequencing

 

Maria Caffo

University of Messina, ITALY

Interests: glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), astrocytoma, medulloblastoma, neuroradiology, magnetic resonance, glioma, molecular oncology, meningioma,neurosurgery

 

Jianyuan Chai

Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, CHINA

Interests: molecular and cellular biology of wound healing, angiogenesis, apoptosis, cancer development, esophageal cancer, gastrointestinal injury and malignancy

 

Nipon Chattipakorn

Cardiac Electrophysiology Research and Training Center (CERT), Thailand; Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, THAILAND

Interests: Cardio-oncology, chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity, mitochondria, programmed cell death, molecular cardiology

 

Xiaofang Che

The First Hospital of China Medical University, CHINA

Interests: tumor microenvironment, hypoxia, immunology, cancer, proliferation, drug resistance, metastasis, exosome, non-cording RNA, m6A methylation, post-translational modification, biomarker

 

Tianhui Chen

Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, CHINA

Interests: clinical epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, genetic epidemiology of familial cancer (colorectal cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer)

 

Maoquan Chu

Tongji University, CHINA

Interests: advanced nanostructures for in vivo target drug delivery, advanced nanostructures and strategy for in vivo cancer target imaging and therapy

 

Ri Cui

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Wenzhou Medical University, CHINA

Interests: Bioinformatics, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, non-coding RNAs, cancer pathogenesis

 

Valentina De Falco

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ITALY

Interests: Molecular Oncology, Preclinical Investigation, Targeted Therapies, Kinase Inhibitors, Personalized Medicine

 

Vittorio Gebbia

University of Enna Kore, ITALY

Interests: medial oncology, hematology, lung cancer, chemotherapy

 

David A. Gewirtz

Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Interests: autophagy, cell biology, programmed cell death, apoptosis and senescence

 

Bahil Ghanim

Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, AUSTRIA

Interests: biomarkers, thoracic surgery, lung cancer, mesothelioma, minimal invasive surgery and solitary fibrous tumor of the lung

 

Pia Giovannelli

University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, ITALY

Interests: cancer biology, molecular biology, cancer cells, epigenetics, gene expression

 

Nocentini Giuseppe

University of Perugia, ITALY

Interests: pharmacology, immunotoxicology and pharmacoimmunology

 

Manuel Graeber

The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Interests: brain tumours, glioblastoma, microglia, brain macrophages, tumour microenvironment, neurogenetics

 

Zongsheng Guo

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNITED STATES

Interests: Cancer Immunotherapy, Oncolytic Viruses, Epigenetic Therapy, and Cancer Biology

 

Sanjay Gupta

Case Western Reserve University, USA

Interests: cancer biomarkers, cancer therapeutics and drug repurposing and cancer stem cells research

 

Jing He

Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, CHINA

Interests: cancer genetics, cancer epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, cancer therapy, signal transduction, pediatric oncology, evidence-based medicine (meta-analysis), molecular biology

 

Mehdi Hedayati

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Research Institute for Endocrine Science, Cellular and Molecular Endocrine Research Center, IRAN

Interests: biochemistry and genetic aspects of thyroid cancer, biostatistics, endocrine oncology

 

Ryouichi Horie

Kitasato University, JAPAN

Interests: molecular hematology, medical sciences

 

Ciro Isidoro

Università del Piemonte Orientale, ITALY

Interests: cancer biology, autophagy, cell death, cell biology, cancer research, apoptosis, cell proliferation

 

Kwang Won Jeong

College of Pharmacy, Gachon University, Gachon Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Science 191 Bambakmoe-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 21936, KOREA

Interests: Molecular Biology, Epigenetics, PCR, Gene Expression, RNA, Transcription Factors, DNA Methylation, Genetics

 

Gyeong-Hoon Kang

Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Laboratory of Epigenetics, Seoul National University Cancer Research Institute, Seoul, KOREA

Interests: Lower gastrointestinal tract pathology, DNA methylation, Epigenetics, Gastrointestinal cancer

 

Naoki Katase

Department of Oral Pathology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, JAPAN

Interests: Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC); oral cancer; gene therapy

 

Snježana Kaštelan

School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, CROATIA

Interests: etiopathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and ocular oncology

 

Shirabe Ken

Graduate School of Medical Sciences Fukuoka, JAPAN

Interests: Hepato-pancreato-biliary Surgery, Liver Transplantation Surgery

 

Cheorl-Ho Kim

Sungkyunkwan University, KOREA

Interests: innate immunity; microbe-host interasction; angiogensis; differentiation; invasion; ethnopharmcology; molecular and cellular glycobiology; cancer research

 

I-Ta Lee

School of Dentistry, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, CHINA

Interests: Oral Pathology; Oral Medicine; Inflammatory Biomarkers; Cell Signaling; Inflammatory diseases; Cancers; Anticancer effects and mechanisms of Chinese herbal medicine

 

Chien-Feng Li

Chi Mei Medical Center, TAIWAN, CHINA

Interests: the effect of genetic, epigenetic, expression, and metabolic alternations on cancer progression and metastasis

 

Yingying Lin

Shanghai Jiaotong University, CHINA

Interests: tumor microenvironment, protease, glioma

 

Tao Liu

Lowy Cancer Research Centre, AUSTRALIA

Interests: oncology and carcinogenesis, cancer cell biology, cancer genetics, cancer therapy

 

Jinhui Liu

The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, CHINA

Interests: biomarker, prognostic model, non-coding RNA, machine learning, bioinformatics, immunology

 

Ying Liu

Qingdao University, CHINA

Interests: basic and applied research on nuclear receptor signal transduction, protein post-translational modification, identification of tumor biomarkers, and bioinformatics

 

Cesar Lopez-Camarillo

Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México Mexico, MEXICO

Interests: microRNAs, lncRNAs and proteins deregulated in cancer using diverse omics approaches (genomics, proteomics, expression profiling, etc).

 

Wenxue Ma

University of California, USA

Interests: cancer stem cell (CSC), cancer immunotherapy, antigen presentation, tumor neoantigens, Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes (CTLs), tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), dug delivery with nanotechnology (Nanomedicine), targeted cancer therapy, circulating tumor cell (CTC), biomarkers

 

Muzafar Ahmad Macha

Watson-Crick Center for Molecular Medicine, Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST), Awantipora, Kashmir, INDIA

Interests: Genetic/Epigenetic modification in cancer, Signal transduction mechanisms, Novel therapeutics for the treatment of Head and Neck Squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), Esophageal and Pancreatic Cancer, Development of Genetically Engineered Mouse models of HNSCC, Artificial Intelligence and Cancer

 

Chun Mao

School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, CHINA

Interests: Nanobiotechnology; Nanomaterials; Bionanotechnology; Tumor Therapy

 

Sebastiano Mercadante

La Maddalena Cancer Center, ITALY

Interests: cancer pain, palliative medicine, anesthesiology

 

Constantinos Mikelis

University of Patras, GREECE

Interests: investigating the role of the small GTPase RhoA on developmental and tumor-induced angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, on the role of endothelial RhoA on cancer cell trans-endothelial migration, signaling circuits, genetic alterations taking place in the endothelium upon incorporation of cancer-derived exosomes, as part of the pre-metastatic niche

 

Hiroshi Miyamoto

Director of Genitourinary Pathology at University of Rochester Medical Center, Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Urology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, USA

Interests: Bladder and prostate cancers; molecular biology of steroid hormone receptors in genitourinary tumors; the role of androgen receptor signaling in promoting the development and progression of bladder cancer, as well as resistance to non-surgical therapy

 

Syam Mohan

Substance Abuse and Toxicology Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jazan University, 45142, Saudi Arabia

Interests: Molecular Pharmacology; Phytopharmacology; Toxicology; Cancer Research; Apoptosis

 

Yuseok Moon

Pusan National University, KOREA

Interests: Microbiology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Toxicology, Immunology

 

Jiri Neuzil

Griffith University, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA

Interests: Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology

 

Kiyoshi Ohtani

Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University, 1 Gakuen Uegahara, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1330, JAPAN

Interests: Cell Growth Control, Cancer Research

 

Hiroyuki Osada

RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), JAPAN

Interests: chemical biology research

 

Chunlin Ou

Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, CHINA

Interests: the regulatory mechanism of non-coding RNAs in cancers, clinical application of mRNA vaccine in cancers.

 

Wen-Bin Ou

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, CHINA

Interests: functional mechanisms of receptor tyrosine kinases, tumor suppressors, and oncogenes in lung cancer, mesothelioma, sarcomas, and target drug resistant mechanisms

 

Petar Ozretić

Laboratory for Hereditary Cancer, Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), CROATIA

Interests: cancer genetics, epigenetics, bioinformatics, biostatistics and molecular oncology

 

Pierlorenzo Pallante

IEOS, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), ITALY

Interests: non-coding RNA, cancer biology, biomarkers, cell biology, cancer therapy, prognosis, pharmacology, cancer chemotherapy, translational research in the field of lung and colorectal oncology

 

Roberto Passera

University of Torino, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza (Molinette Hospital), ITALY

Interests: cancer clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, systematic reviews and meta-analyses in surgical oncology, chemo- and immunochemo- regimens in onco-hematology, new biomarkers for prostate cancer, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic trials in oncology

 

Shankargouda Patil

College of Dental Medicine, Roseman University of Health Sciences, South Jordan, Utah-84095, USA

Interests: Immunobiology, Oral Pathology, Oral Microbiology, Oral Oncology, Translational Oncology, Dental Pulp Stem Cells, Molecular biology, Molecular Oncology

 

Godefridus (Frits) J. Peters

Department Medical Oncology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Biochemistry, Medical University of Gdansk, POLAND

Interests: translation of preclinical pharmacology of anticancer agents to the clinic, regulation of transport, cellular drug distribution, metabolism of anticancer drugs, DNA repair, apoptosis and protein processing

 

Abdur Rauf

Department of Chemistry, University of Swabi, Swabi, PAKISTAN

Interests: Medicinal Chemistry; Pharmacology; Nanotechnology; Organic Chemistry; Metabolites; Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Anticancer

 

Leonardo Oliveira Reis

Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, BRAZIL

Interests: prostate cancer; urologic surgical; bladder cancer; cancer diagnostics; urologic oncology; cryosurgery; translational research; evidence based medicine; hydronephrosis

 

Hasan Mahmud Reza

North South University, BANGLADESH

Interests: pharmaceutical dosage form development, pharmacological studies with natural products and available molecules using animal disease models, molecular biology and biochemistry, cell culture

 

Belgin SEVER

Anadolu Üniversitesi, TURKEY

Interests: targeted anticancer drug development; medicinal chemistry; computational chemistry; QSAR; molecular modelling; molecular simulations; virtual screening; in silico ADME analysis; drug design and development

 

Jan H.M. Schellens

Modra Pharmaceuticals B.V., Amsterdam, North Holland, NETHERLANDS

Interests: Medical oncology, Translational and clinical oncology research, Clinical pharmacology, Pharmacology, General internal medicine, Regulatory strategies, Health Technology Assessment, Project management, Innovation management

 

Consolato Sergi

University of Ottawa, CANADA

Interests: biology and pathology of the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal System and gut, bile microbiome, bone cell biology, pediatric pathology with nanotech applications for oncology

 

Zhendong Shi

Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital,CHINA

Interests: Clinical Immunology, Oncology, Nanomedicine, Breast cancer

 

Alexander Shtil

Blokhin Cancer Center, Moscow, RUSSIA

Interests: mechanisms of tumor cell death, drug resistance, antitumor drug design

 

Yang Shun-Fa

Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, TAIWAN,CHINA

Interests: pharmacology, oral cancer metastasis, cancer biology, genetic polymorphism and environment risk factors in oral cancer

 

Johnson Stanslas

Pharmacotherapeutics Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, MALAYSIA

Interests: Clinical Pharmacology, Cancer Research, Neuroscience, Oncology, Pharmacy

 

Stefania Nobili

University of Florence, ITALY

Interests: pharmacology, applied pharmacology

 

Yong Teng

Emory University School of Medicine, USA

Interests: tumor microenvironment, tumor metabolism, and metastasis with an emphasis on molecular determinants

 

Giovanni Tossetta

Dept Expt & Clin Med, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, ITALY

Interests: Endometriosis, Endometrial cancers, Ovarian Cancer, Immunofluorescence Staining, Colon Cancer, Signalling, Western Blot, Cytokines, Immunohistochemistry, ELISA, Cell Culture, Real-Time PCR

 

Chin-Hsiao Tseng

National Taiwan University Hospital, TAIWAN, CHINA

Interests: diabetes, arsenic-related health hazards, cancer issues related to diabetes and antidiabetic drugs

 

Jinhua Wang

National Center for Pharmaceutical Screening, Institute of Materia Medica, CHINA

Interests: the mechanism and drug targets of cancers

 

Jaw-Yuan Wang

Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Chong-Ho Memorial Hospital, TAIWAN,CHINA

Interests: Surgical and Molecular oncology, Colorectal cancer, Gastrointestinal malignancy and disease, Nutrition therapy, Robotic surgery, Microbiota

 

Shuhang Wang

Clinical Trial Center, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, CHINA

Interests: cancer, oncology, drug, clinical trial

 

Paul Workman

The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK

Interests: Cancer biology, Drug development, Drug discovery, Pre-clinical research, Personalised molecular medicine, Cancer genome

 

Guoxiong Xu

Research Center for Clinical Medicine, Jinshan Hospital, Fudan University, CHINA

Interests: Oncology, Physiology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Apoptosis, Cell Signaling, Cancer Biology, Cell Proliferation, Cancer Biomarkers

 

Young Yang

Sookmyung Women's University Seoul, SOUTH KOREA

Interests: Tumor EMT&MET; Mesenchymal Stem cells and Immune regulation; Bone Homeostatsis; Metabolic rewiring

 

Hooman Yarmohammadi

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Interests: diagnostic radiology; diagnosis; pancreatic cancer; interventional radiology; endovascular procedures; tumors; lung; cancer biology; animal studies

 

Zhiling Yu

Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong, HONG KONG

Interests: Melanoma; Atopic dermatitis; Cancer; Skin care; Pharmacology; Inflammation

 

Xu Dong Zhang

University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA

Interests: melanoma, pancreatic, colorectal & rare cancers

Early Career Editorial Board Member

Jiyoon Bu

INHA University, KOREA

Interests: drug delivery, nano engineering, liquid biopsy, immunotherapy

 

Meran Keshawa Ediriweera

University of Colombo, SRI LANKA

Interests: biochemistry, cancer, cancer epigenetics, pharmacognosy, ethnopharmacology

 

Abu Hazafa

University of Salerno, ITALY

Interests: CAR-T cells, tumor immunotherapy, cancer biology, natural product drug discovery

 

Zhengwei Huang

Pharmaceutics College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, CHINA

Interests: nanomedicine, drug delivery, lung cancer therapy, ferroptosis, protein corona, biological fate, bibliometrics

 

Chen Li

Free University of Berlin, GERMANY

Interests: cancer metabolism; cancer immunotherapy; adipose tissue; diabetes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

 

Fernando Mendes

Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, PORTUGAL

Interests: lung cancer, lymphoma, blood bank, immunhematology, cancer treatement, radiotherapy, immune system, forsman blood group

 

Jialin Meng

The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, CHINA

Interests: clinical and basic research on prostate diseases, chronic prostatitis and prostate cancer

 

Jafar Rezaie

Solid Tumor Research Center, Urmia university of Medical Sciences, Urmia, IRAN

Interests: Extracellular Vesicles(EVs) biology; Exosome signaling pathway; Diagnosis and treatment of cancer; Developmental biology; Immunology

 

Mohsen Sheykhhasan

Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, IRAN

Interests: Hematology; Microbiology Cell; Biology; Biotechnology; Orthopedic Surgery; T-cell immunotherapy; Cell biology; Targeted cancer therapy; Biomarkers; Exosomes; Viral infection; Pathophysiology of peripheral vascular and neurological diseases; Crosstalk between long non-coding RNAs and gene signaling pathways

 

Le Su

Jacksonville State University, USA

Interests: epigenetics, childhood cancer (molecular and cellular basis of childhood sarcomas), targeted therapy

 

Yapeng Su

Program in Immunology & Herbold Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, UNITED STATES

Interests: cancer metabolism; cell biology; T cell therapy; systems biology; immunology; cancer

 

Yaying Sun

Huashan Hospital, CHINA

Interests: multi-organic crosstalk in terms of musculoskeletal and immune system, development of novel nanomedicine delivery system, prognostic factors and predictive model establishment of different cancers

 

Ziheng Wang

Nantong University, CHINA

Interests: bioinformatics analysis; clinical problems with machine learning; oncology using single-cell omics strategies; basic and clinical research studies; molecular pathology; etiology and pathogenesis; biomarkers; genomics; transcriptome; proteomics; metabonomics; prognosis

 

Hao Zhang

Chongqing Medical University, CHINA

Interests: tumor microenvironment; cancer immunotherapy; small molecule drug; molecular mechanism; bioinformatics; target therapy; signal transduction

 

Zhongbao Zhou

Urology Surgery, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, CHINA

Interests: Renal Cell Carcinoma; Bladder Cancer; Prostatic Cancer

 

Yutian Zou

Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, CHINA

Interests: Breast cancer; Immunotherapy; Tumor microenvironment; Anti-HER2 therapy; Drug resistance; Single-cell sequencing; CRISPR; CircRNA; Cell death; Ferroptosis; Organoid; Bioinformatics