General
The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is devoted to new experimental and theoretical developments in areas related to steroids including vitamin D, lipids and their metabolomics. The Journal publishes a variety of contributions, including original articles, general and focused reviews, and rapid communications (brief articles of particular interest and clear novelty). Selected cutting-edge topics will be addressed in Special Issues managed by Guest Editors. Special Issues will contain both commissioned reviews and original research papers to provide comprehensive coverage of specific topics, and all submissions will undergo rigorous peer-review prior to publication. 
Scope
Manuscripts relating to unsolved issues in genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, structural biology, steroid chemistry, cell biology, molecular medicine, translational research and clinical medicine, are encouraged. Furthermore, the Journal publishes results on functional association studies and 'omics' that are instrumental in our understanding of common complex human diseases. 
Specific aims
Studies on steroid signal transduction pathways, functional annotation of genes and kinetics of metabolic pathways
Provision of steroid-related tools, synthesis and analysis methods, and reference data
Creation of enduring and validated resources for metabolomics and systems biology analyses
Enhancement of our understanding, and the development of approaches to study the interplay between the environment, genomes, metabolism and disease
Exclusion criteria for manuscripts
data that have been as a whole or in part published elsewhere (does not apply to data that has been deposited in a data repository or documents that have been posted on a preprint server)
no functional analyses or mechanistic interpretation are provided
case descriptions or clinical descriptions of cohorts without analyses of mechanisms leading to changed phenotypes
observations collected by experiments in a single cell line
reagents that are not validated (e.g. antibodies that are not characterized, origin and identity of cells that are not depicted)
data based on technical replicates rather than biological replicates
use of inappropriate statistical analyses

Editor-In-Chief
J. Adamski, PhD
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism, German Res. Centre for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany Email J. Adamski, PhD
Associate Editors
A. Odermatt
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
H. Sasano
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
T.L. Rizner
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
M.H. Choi
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seongbuk-gu, Korea, Republic of
D. Bikle
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
K.A. Brown, PhD
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
Honorary Associate Editors
H. Adlercreutz
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
R.J.B. King
University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
Corresponding Editors
P.H. Anderson
University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Area of expertise: Vitamin D biology; Musculoskeletal Physiology; Calcium and Phosphate biology; Metabolic Bone diseases;
R.J. Auchus
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
A.S. Bhatnagar
Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
V. Boonyaratanakornkit
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
R. Bouillon
KU Leuven Association, Leuven, Belgium
U. Ceglarek
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
S. Chen
Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States
B.-C. Chung
Institute of Molecular Biology Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
J.A. Cidlowski
National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States Steroid hormones; regulation of apoptosis
R. Clarke
Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
D.J. Clegg
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States
C. Clyne
Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Australia
Z. Dong
University of Minnesota Hormel Institute, Austin, Minnesota, United States
M. Dowsett
Royal Marsden Hospital Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
D.P. Edwards
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
P. Foster
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Steroid metabolism, Steroid sulfatase, 17-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, Hormone-dependent cancers, Colorectal cancer, Ovarian cancer, Adrenal cancer, Breast cancer
J.W. Funder
Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Australia
S.A. Fuqua
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
G.L. Greene
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
J.A. Gustafsson
Karolinska Institutet Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden
N. Harada
Fujita Health University School of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry, Toyoake, Japan
R.W. Hartmann
Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
V.W. Henderson
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
M. Hewison
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
S.M. Ho
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
T. Iguchi
National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
A. Jansson
Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
V.C. Jordan
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
J. Kitawaki
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
H. Klocker
Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
E.R. de Kloet
Leiden Amsterdam Centre for Drug Research, Leiden, Netherlands
S.X. Lin
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
E. Maser
University of Kiel Institute of Toxicology and Pharmacology for Natural Scientists, Kiel, Germany Special interests: Reductive Drug Metabolism, Carbonyl Reductase; hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases, dihydrodiol dehydrogenase; aldehyde reductase; aldose reductase; reductive enzymes
J.I. Mason
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
C Mathieu
KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
B.S. McEwen
Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States
K. McNamara
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Intracrinology; Breast Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Sex Steroid Metabolism.
C.R. Mendelson
University of Texas at Dallas Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Richardson, Texas, United States
G. Moeller
Helmholtz Center Munich German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany My areas of expertise would be:- hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases- steroid metabolism- steroid related cancer
L.C. Murphy
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
M. I. New
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States
B.W. O'Malley
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
U. Oppermann
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
T.M. Penning
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
D. Picard
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
D. Poirier
CHUL Research Centre, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
M.E. Poirot
Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France Ah receptors, anticancer, apoptosis, breast cancer, CCK, cholecystokinin, cholesterol, endocrine pharmacology, epoxide hydrolase, estrogens, hormones, liver microsomes, nuclear receptors, programmed cell death, sigma receptors, and structure-activity relationships
M. Poutanen
University of Turku, TURKU, Finland Genetically modified mice; sex steroids; endometriosis; and hormonal cancer.
E. Prossnitz
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
A Purohit
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom Reader in Steroid Endocrinology
L. Qiu
Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China Vitamin D, Vitamin D metabolites, Steroid, liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, Reference intervals.
J.P. Raynaud
Sorbonne University, Paris, France
H. Rochefort
National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Paris, France
E.R. Sanchez
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States
H. Sasano
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
E.R. Simpson
Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Australia
C.R. Sonnenschein
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
F.Z. Stanczyk
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States
L. Stárka
Institute of Endocrinology, Praha, Czech Republic
T.R. Sutter
University of Memphis W Harry Feinstone Center for Genomic Research, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
T. Suzuki
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
A.M. Tarrant
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States
A. Tchernof
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
P. Thomas
University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, Texas, United StatesFish Reproductive Physiology/Marine Environmental Toxicology/Stressors
J. Tokarz
Helmholtz Center Munich German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany Steroids in teleosts; Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS); Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases; Steroid metabolism
J.W. Tomlinson
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
G. Vollmer
TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
W. Wahli
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
B.R. Walker
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
M. Wehling
Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Mannheim, Germany
J. H. White
McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
K. Yang
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
M. Young
Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Australia