Editor-in-Chief
Kiminobu Sugaya
Affiliation: Professor of Medicine,Head of Neuroscience,Chair of Multidisciplinary Neuroscience Alliance, Chair of Institutional Review Board, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences,College of Medicine,University of Central Florida,Orlando.
Research Expertise: Develop stem cell therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer?s disease, Parkinson?s disease and ALS.
Editorial Board Members
John Albert St. Cyr
Affiliation: Regulatory & Clinical Research Institute,
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis.
Research Expertise: Myocardial metabolism,
Congenital and adult Cardiovascular Surgery,
Congenital Heart Disease,
Stem Cell Therapies,
Blood Viscosity,
Dialysis,
RBC storage.
Guodong Cao
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh,
USA.
Research Expertise: Brain ischemia, neuroprotection, neurogenesis, white matter injury, white matter restoration.
Murugan Ramalingam
Affiliation: Stem Cells and Regenerative Biology,
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine,
India.
Research Expertise: Development of multiphase biomedical materials, through conventional to nanotechnology to biomimetic approaches, Microfabrication, Cell Patterning, Stem Cell Differentiation, Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery.
Colen, B.D
Affiliation: Director,
Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology,
Harvard Stem Cell Institute,
USA.
Research Expertise: B. D. Colen is a Harvard University Senior Communications Officer for University Science and the Director of Communications at Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Yumin Li
Affiliation: Director, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, China.
Adam Abdul Gafoor
Research Expertise: Dr. Gafoor's current research is focused on personalized regenerative therapy, which is the process of replacing or regenerating human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function by stimulating the body's own repair mechanisms to heal previously irreparable tissues or organs.
Sivan Vadakkadh Meethal
Affiliation: Senior Scientist of Medicine,
University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Research Expertise: Dr. Vadakkadath Meethal has research interests that focus on the endocrine and epigenetic regulation of neurogenesis, neurodegeneration, neuroregeneration, cancer and aging.
Farid Menna
Affiliation: Professor, Principal Investigator, Director,
Department of Stem Cells Fluorotronics, Inc,
San Diego, California,
USA.
Research Expertise: The main current focuses are related to preventive, personalized, translational, integrative and nanomedicine, especially in the areas of oncology, regenerative medicine and gerontology, in order to prevent and implement early diagnosis and efficient therapy.
Mohammad Reza Hashemzadeh
Affiliation: Department of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Royesh Stem Cell Biotechnology Institute, Mashhad, Iran
Research Expertise:Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine especially in Cardiovascular System (Studies of gene expression, RNA and protein expression, differentiation, transplantation)
Ssang-Goo Cho
Affiliation: Professor,Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biotechnology,
Director of IDASI (Incurable Disease Animal model & Stem cell Institute),
Konkuk University,Korea.
Research Expertise: Signalling pathways in stem, Cancer, and Cancer Stem Cells, Molecular Mechanism of Cellular Reprogramming, Apoptosis and Autophagy, Cancer Stem Cells, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Pancreatic Beta-Cell Differentiation, Pancreatic Cancer Cells.
Evan Y. Snyder
Affiliation: Professor,
Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine,
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute,
USA.
Research Expertise: Fundamental stem cell biology,
Developmental neuroscience,
Neural transplantation,
Developmental biology,
Cellular (in vitro) and animal models of disease Differentiation of pluripotent and multipotent stem cells,
Neurodegenerative diseases,
Neural injury and repair,
Ethics and public policy,
Science education.
Hung-Fat Tse
Affiliation: Professor,
Cardiovascular Medicine,
The University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong.
Research Expertise: Cardiovascular regenerative medicine using gene-based and cell-based, including adult, embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells.
James H-C. Wang
Affiliation: Professor,
Orthopaedic Surgery,
University of Pittsburgh,
USA.
Research Expertise: Dr. Wang?s primary investigative interests are in tendon mechanobiology, particularly in understanding the role of tendon stem/progenitor cells (TSCs) in the development of tendinopathy, and their role in imparting the beneficial effects of exercise on aging tendons.
Giovanni Camussi
Affiliation: Professor,
Medical Biotechnology,
University of Turin,
Italy.
Research Expertise: Main current interests are the role of bone-marrow derived or resident stem cells in renal tissue regeneration as well as in the molecular mechanisms driving stem cell recruitment and differentiation. Moreover, he is working on the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy.
Peault, Bruno
Affiliation: Professor,
Regenerative Medicine & Cardiovascular Science,
University of Edinburgh Orthopaedic Surgery,
University of California,
USA.
Research Expertise: Prospective identification and purification and functional characterization of multi-lineage stem cells present in human adult organs and tissues.
Morris Kletzel
Affiliation: Professor,
Pediatrics,
Northwestern University,
USA.
Research Expertise: Stem Cell Transplantation for Pediatric diseases,
Minimal residual disease in leukemia,
Neuroblastoma and its treatment,
Stem Cell differentiation,
Tumor vaccines.
Chi H. Lee
Affiliation: Professor,
Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Missouri,
USA.
Research Expertise: Working on the formulation development for prevention against sexually transmitted disease including AIDS and cancer onset.
Borje S Andersson
Affiliation: Professor of Medicine and Internist,
The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, Texas, USA.
Research Expertise: My research is focused on developing less toxic and more efficacious pre-transplant conditioning therapies while increasing the understanding of acquired leukemic cell resistance to bi-functional DNA-alkylating agents.
Shuo Lin
Affiliation: Professor,
Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology,
University of California Los Angeles,
USA.
Research Expertise: The main focus of this research is to understand the genes and cells that direct pancreatic organogenesis.
Prasad Koka
Affiliation: Professor,
Cancer Stem Cells Research,
Global Gene Coroporation,
INDIA.
research Expertise: Translational medicine and biomedical sciences: molecular factor,mechanisms and therapies of hematological disorders in HIV Infection and in mother to child transmission of HIV Infection.
Chan Wai Yee
Affiliation: Professor,
Biomedical Sciences,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong.
Research Expertise: Developmental genomics and epigenomics of germ cell development, germinal stem cell biology, functional genomics of developing male gonads, molecular genetics of human reproductive and endocrine disorders, non-coding RNA, antisense transcript, microRNA in normal and abnormal development, and genetics and genomics of foetal development.
Yong Li
Affiliation: Professor, Department of BioMedical Engineering, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker, USA.
Research Expertise: Adult stem cell regulation, Musculoskeletal regeneration, Fibrosis, Translational studies.
Dominique Bonnet
Affiliation: Honorary Professor,
Bioscience,
University College of London,
UK.
Research Expertise: Our group is interested in studying normal human Haematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs) and Leukaemic Stem Cells (LSCs).
Dashzeveg Bayarsaihan
Affiliatin: Associate Professor,
Center for Regenerative Medicine and
Skeletal Development,
Department of Reconstructive Sciences,
UConn Health,
USA.
Research Expertise: His main research interest is to understand molecular changes in chromatin topology, epigenomic states and gene regulatory networks associated with large genomic deletions underlying complex human disorders.
YoungJin Lee
Affiliation: Associate Professor,
Educational Technology,
University of Kansas,
USA.
Research Expertise: Constructivist learning technologies, computerized tutoring systems, computer simulations, mobile learning environments, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education.
Bing Wang
Affiliation: Associate professor,
Orthopaedic Surgery,
University of Pittsburgh,
USA.
Research Expertise: Developmental anatomy and biology of ACL,
Gene therapy for musculoskeletal disease and injury,
Genetic engineering of stem cells for tissue regeneration,
Gene activated biomaterials for musculoskeletal injuries and disease,
Cellular and gene therapy for spine disc degeneration and inflammation,
Gene replacement and anti-inflammation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy,
Development and optimization of viral vectors techniques and applications.
Abdi Reza
Affiliation: Associate Professor,
Medicine,
Harvard Medical School,
USA.
Research Expertise: Dr. Abdi?s research is focused on investigating the roles of regulatory pathways such as PI3K pathways in the process of allograft rejection with the goal of developing preclinical strategies to be used in transplantation.
Ming Pei
Affiliation: Director,
Associate Professor (with tenure),
Department of Stem Cell,
University of West Virginia ,
USA.
Research Expertise: Cartilage Tissue Engineering and Regeneration and Defect Repair,Intervertebral Disc Tissue Engineering.
Michos Odysse
Affiliation: Senior Research Associate, Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Biology, University of Southern California, USA.
Ram Kumar Subramanyan
Affiliation: Assistant Professor,
Surgery,
University of Southern California,
USA.
Research Expertise: His research focuses on the mechanisms governing the development of heart and blood vessels, and their translational role in improving end-organ perfusion in ischemia, as well as curtailing angiogenesis in vascular proliferative disorders, including cancer.
AnastasiosG. Kriebardis
Affiliation: Assistant Professor,
Technological Institute Education (T.E.I.) of Athens,
Greece.
Research Expertise: My new research interest is the red cell microparticles in health and many diseases.
Tatsuya Kobayashi
Afffiliation: Assistant Professor, Medicine Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts, General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA.
Lan Zhou
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, The Penn State University
Research Expertise: Spatial Statistics, Clinical Studies, Neuroimaging, Multivariate Analysis
Darabi, Radbod
Affiliation: Assistant Professor,
Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine,
University of Texas Health Science Center,
USA.
research Expertise: Dr. Darabi?s lab main interest is using pluripotent stem cells for skeletal muscle regeneration. During the last few years, Dr. Darabi has developed novel methods for using mouse/ human embryonic stem cells (ES cells) and induced pluripotent cells (iPS cells) for cell therapy in mouse models of muscular dystrophies.
Nau Amy
Affiliation: Assistant Professor,
Ophthalmology,
University of Pittsburgh,
USA.
Research Expertise:Dr. Nau's laboratory focuses on basic and translational research involving sensory substitution for blindness. Our current research studies include: Structural and functional brain reorganization for sensory substitution in the elderly and blind.
Jackson-Grusby, Laurie
Affiliation: Assistant Professor,
Pathology,
Harvard University,
USA.
Research Expertise: Research in the Jackson-Grusby laboratory is aimed at understanding the epigenetic basis of disease. In contrast to gene mutations, epigenetic changes refer to the stable silencing of gene expression without a change in the DNA sequence.
Satish Latha
Affiliation: Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Plastic Surgery,
University of Pittsburgh,
USA.
Research Expertise: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of scarless wound healing,
Genomic analysis of Dupuytren?s contracture,
Biological means to reduce palmar fascia fibrosis,
Probiotic therapy for wound management,
Bacterial bio-burden and biofilms in burn wounds, Chronic wound healing.
Rami A. Namas
Affiliation: Assistant Professor,
Surgery,
University of Pittsburgh,
USA.
Research Expertise: His research interests have focused on:
Mechanisms regulating trauma-induced inflammation coupled with data-driven modeling to gain insights into the dynamics of the inflammatory response in human blunt trauma Novel class of biohybrid devices for regulating inflammation that target Tumor Necrosis Factor-a (TNF-a) through delivery of a protein antagonist (sTNFR) via genetically modified human hepatocytes.
Dearth, Christopher
Affiliation: Assistant Professor,
Surgery,
University of Pittsburgh,
USA.
Research Expertise: Dr. Dearth?s research is focused on investigating the use of biomaterials to facilitate regeneration of various tissues for regenerative medicine / tissue engineering applications.
Rakesh Karmacharya
Affiliation: Assistant Professor,
Human Genetic Research,
Harvard University,
USA.
Research Expertise: Dr. Karmacharya and his team are applying chemical biology approaches to identify "disease signatures" for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, using neuronal cells generated from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
Carlone, Diana
Affiliation: Instructor,
Pediatrics,
Harvard Medical School,
USA.
Research Expertise: My research is focused on the identification and functional characterization of adult stem cells using telomerase (mTert) as a biomarker. I am particularly interested in defining the signaling pathways involved in stem cell self-renewal and cell fate decisions.
Medet Jumabay
Affiliation: Research Scientist,
Cardiology,
University of California,
USA.
Research Expertise: Dr. Jumabay's research concentrated on the isolation of stem cells from adipose tissue and the generation of dedifferentiated fat cells (DFAT), white mature adipocyte derived stem cells and tissue regeneration.
Tobias David Merson
Affiliation: Neural Stem Cell and Myelin Neurobiology,
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health,
Australia.
Research Expertise: His research examines the life cycle of the oligodendrocyte, the cell type responsible for myelination within the central nervous system focusing on how oligodendrocytes are generated during development, how they are regenerated after injury and their role in supporting the function of axons.
