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Journal of Translational Medicine is an open access journal publishing articles focusing on information derived from human experimentation so as to optimise the communication between basic and clinical science.

The journal covers all areas of translational medicine but also has several special sections:
Cancer microenvironment - Edited by Davide Bedognetti
Cardiovascular, Metabolic and Lipoprotein Translation - Edited by Nehal N. Mehta
Cell, tissue and gene therapy - Edited by David Stroncek
Clinical translation - Edited by Lana Kandalaft
Combination strategies - Edited by Paolo A. Ascierto
Computational modelling and Epidemiology- Edited by Michael Liebman and Sabrina Molinaro
Data- driven clinical decision processes - Edited by Enrico Capobianco
Disease biomarkers - Edited by Xiangdong Wang
Hot Topics - Edited by Richard Ablin
Illnesses of Unknown Etiology - Edited by Monica Panelli
Immunobiology and immunotherapy - Edited by Adrian Bot
Immunovirology - Edited by Luigi Buonaguro
Medical Bioinformatics - Edited by Samir K. Brahmachari
Neuroscience - Edited by Luis F. Alguacil
Nutrition & metabolism - Edited by Laura Soldati
Pain, Critical Care and Anesthesia - Edited by Yasin S. Al Makadma
Patient-targeted molecular therapies - Edited by Francesco Chiappelli and Francesco Piva
Personalized medicine - Edited by Lotfi Chouchane
Translational Genomics and Genetics - Edited by Wei Liu
Translational Imaging - Edited by Ravinder Reddy
Translational hematology- Edited by Seah H. Lim

Research article
Review
Protocol
Methodology
Commentary
Meeting report

Editor-in-Chief
Dr Francesco Marincola, Refuge Biotechnologies, USA
Deputy Editors
Dr Christian Brander, Irsicaixa AIDS Research Institute, Spain
Dr Graham G.P. Pawelec, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany 
Dr Ena Wang, Sidra Medical and Rseaerch Center, Qatar
Prof Xiangdong Wang, Fudan University, China

Senior Editors
Prof Samir Brahmachari, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, India
Dr Adrian Bot, Kite Pharma Inc, USA
Dr Gennaro Ciliberto, National Cancer Institute Fondazione G. Pascale, Italy 
Dr Soldano Ferrone, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Dr Willy Flegel, National Institutes of Health, USA 
Dr Doug Schwartzentruber, Indiana University Health, USA

Section Editors
Cancer microenvironment
Dr Davide Bedognetti , Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Cardiovascular, metabolic and Lipoprotein translation
Dr Nehal Mehta, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, USA 
Cell, tissue and gene therapy
Dr David Stroncek, National Institutes of Health, USA
Clinical translation
Dr Lana Kandalaft, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Combination strategies
Dr Paolo A Ascierto, Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione G. Pascale, Italy
Computational modelling and Epidemiology
Dr Michael Liebman, Strategic Medicine, Inc, USA
Dr Sabrina Molinaro, National Research Council, Italy
Data-driven Clinical Decision Processes
Dr Enrico Capobianco, University of Miami, USA 
Disease biomarkers
Prof Xiangdong Wang, Fudan University, China
Hot Topics
Dr Richard J. Ablin, University of Arizona College of Medicine, USA
Illnesses of Unknown Etiology
Dr Monica C. Panelli, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, USA 
Immunobiology and immunotherapy
Dr. Alessandra Cesano, Nanostring Technologies, Inc., USA
Immunovirology
Dr Luigi Buonaguro, National Cancer Institute, Italy 
Medical bioinformatics
Prof Michele Ceccarelli, University of Sannio, Italy
Neuroscience
Dr Luis F. Alguacil, CEU-San Pablo University, Spain
Nutrition & metabolism
Dr Laura Soldati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Pain, critical care and anesthesia
Dr Yasin Al Makadma, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Patient-targeted molecular therapies
Dr Francesco Piva, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy
Personalized medicine
Prof Lotfi Chouchane, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Qatar
Translational Genomics and Genetics
Dr Wei Liu, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Translational imaging
Prof Ravinder Reddy, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Translational hematology
Dr Seah H. Lim, Rhode Island Hospital, USA 
Translational Medicines "Ecosystem"
Dr Vijay Mahant, MediLite Diagnostika, Inc., USA


Associate Editors
Prof Emmanuel Akporiaye, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Dr Souhaila Al Khodor, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Dr Robert Allison, National Institute of Health, USA
Dr Stefan Ambs, National Cancer Institute, USA
Dr. Tao Cai, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, USA
Dr Damien Chaussabel, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, USA 
Dr Maurizio Chiriva-Internati, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA 
Dr Giovanni Cizza, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, USA 
Dr Sandra Demaria, NYU Langone Medical Center, USA
Dr Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Dr Ralph S. Freedman, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Dr Imed Gallouzi, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar 
Dr Paolo Gasparini, Burlo Garofolo Children's Hospital, Italy
Prof Sebastiano Gattoni-Celli, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Dr Norbert Gleicher, Center for Human Reproduction, USA.
Dr Marco Grasso, San Gerardo Hospital, Italy 
Dr Jean-Charles Grivel, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Dr. Jian Han, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, USA
Dr Lotta Kristina Gustafsson, Lund University, Sweden 
Dr Stephen Hewitt, National Cancer Institute, USA 
Prof Markus Hinder, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Switzerland
Prof Dongming Hou, Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, USA
Dr Thomas Ichim, Medistem Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
Dr Giuseppe Intini, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, USA 
Dr Ibrahim Janahi, Hamad Medical Corporation,Qatar
Prof W. Martin Kast, University of Southern California, USA
Dr Lindsay McDonald, Medical University of South Carolina, USA 
Dr Howard Kaufman, Columbia University, USA 
Dr Gottfried Koehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr Shailesh Kumar, University of Virginia, USA
Dr Razelle Kurzrock, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA 
Dr Maciej Lesniak, The University of Chicago, USA
Dr De-Jia Li, Wuhan University, China
Prof Xin Li, Southern Medical University, China
Dr Steven Libutti, National Cancer Institute, USA
Dr Paolo Lusso, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA
Dr James Lyons-Weiler, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, USA
Prof Pier Giorgio Natali, Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Italy 
Dr Hideho Okada, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dr. Sara Isabel Pai, Harvard University, USA
Dr Elizabeth A. Repasky, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA
Prof Noriyuki Sato, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan
Dr Aamir Shahzad, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr Henning Stockmann, AbbVie, USA 
Dr Claire Vanpouille-Box, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA 
Dr Craig Webb, Numedi, USA 
Dr Qian Xie, East Tennessee State University, USA
Prof Chunxiang (Kevin) Zhang, New Jersey Medical School, USA 
Cancer microenvironment
Dr James M Barnes, AbbVie, USA
Prof Michele Ceccarelli, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Dr Julie Decock, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Dr Renato Franco, Università della Campania, Italy
Dr Steven Highfill, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr Kevin Hollevoet, KU Leuven, Belgium
Dr Ronit Mazor, MedImmune, USA
Dr Maulik Patel, AbbVie, USA
Prof Barbara Seliger, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 
Dr Meng Su, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA
Dr Gabriele Zoppoli, Università degli studi di Genova, Italy
Cardiovascular, metabolic and Lipoprotein translation
Dr Yvonne Baumer, National Institute of Health, USA
Dr Amit K. Dey, National Institute of Health, USA
Prof Salvatore De Rosa, University of Magna Graecia, Italy
Dr Pradeep Dagur, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, USA
Dr Prasanna Krishnamurthy, Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA
Dr David Lin, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Gabriele G. Schiattarella, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA 
Cell, tissue and gene therapy
Dr Julie Allickson, Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA
Dr Monique Dao, Refuge Biotechnologies, USA
Dr Ding Jin, NIH Clinical Center, USA
Dr Boris Minev, Stemimmune Inc., USA
Dr Richard Schäfer, Goethe-University Hospital, Germany
Combination strategies
Dr Santosh Kesari,  John Wayne Cancer Institute, USA
Dr Dominic Law, AbbVie, USA
Prof Giuseppe V. Masucci, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Dr Howard Streicher, National Cancer Institute, USA
Data-driven Clinical Decision Processes
Dr Marco Aiello, SDN Neuroanatomy and Image Processing Lab, Italy
Dr Marco Dominietto, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Dr Alessandro Gialluisi, IRCCS Neuromed, Italy
Dr Antonio Mora, Guangzhou Medical University, China
Disease biomarkers
Prof Yi Ming Zeng, The Second Hospital of Fujian Medical University, China
Dr Vincent Lombardi, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Illnesses of Unknown Etiology
Dr Ludovic Giloteaux, Cornell University, USA
Prof Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Griffith University, Australia
Prof Donald Staines, National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases, Australia
Dr. Marcie Zinn, DePaul University, USA
Immunobiology and immunotherapy
Dr Sriram Ambadapadi, Abbvie, USA
Prof Hamid Boulares, LSU Health Sciences Center, USA
Dr Cheng Yang, Fudan University, China
Prof. Andrea De Maria, Università di Genova, Italy
Dr Hawtin, Gilead Science, Inc., USA
Dr Nicholas Van Panhuys, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Dr Warren, Nanostring Technologies, Inc., USA
Dr Adisak Wongkajornsilp, Mahidol University, Thailand
Dr Lei Wu, Pfizer Global Research & Development, USA
Dr Bingfei Yu, University of California, San Diego , USA
Dr Chen Zhu, Sanofi Oncology, USA
Immunovirology
Dr Pierre Coursaget, INSERM, France 
Dr Ali A Hssain, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
Dr Quentin Sattentau,Oxford University, UK
Dr Mariella Tagliamonte, National Cancer Institute, Italy
Medical bioinformatics
Dr Vitaly Balan, Refuge Biotechnologies, USA
Dr Francesco Iorio, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Prof Houtan Noushmehr, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Prof Vladimir Bajic, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Neuroscience
Prof Maria jose Polanco Mora, University Foundation San Pablo CEU, Spain
Prof María Dolores Pérez Carrión, University San Pablo CEU, Spain
Nutrition and methabolism
Dr Luigi Barrea, Federico II University Naples, Italy
Dr Paola De Simone, University of Milano, Italy
Prof Giancarlo Micheletto, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Dr Francesca Pivari, University of Milan, Italy
Pain, critical care and anesthesia
Dr Abdelazeem A Eldawlatly, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Mrs Ranya Fakih, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar 
Dr Howard Roemer, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Dr Monzer Sadek, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Dr Aisha Yousuf, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Translational Genomics and Genetics
Dr Sharon Adams, National Institutes of Health, USA
Dr Yunfei Guo, Roche Sequencing Solutions, USA
Dr Panagiotis Paliogiannis, University of Sassari, Italy
Translational imaging
Dr Mohammad Haris, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Dr Puneet Bagga, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Translation hematology
Dr Dorothy Adcock, Labcorp, USA
Dr Patrycja Dubielecka-Szczerba, Brown University, USA
Dr Loren Fast, Brown University, USA
Prof Jonathan Kurtis, Brown University, USA
Prof Ken Mills, Queens University Belfast, UK
Translational Medicines "Ecosystem"
Dr Robert B. Cole, AutoGenomics, USA
Dr Waldemar Radziszewski, HUYA Bioscience International, USA
Dr Christina S. Zacamy, Zacamy & Co. LLC, USA

Editorial Board
Dr H. Richard Alexander, National Cancer Institute, USA
Dr Mohammed Amir, The Scripps Institute, USA
Dr J Breitmeyer, Applied Molecular Evolution, USA
Prof Vincenzo Bronte, Universita Degli Studi Di Padova, Italy 
Dr Richard Childs, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, USA
Dr James CS Chim, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
Dr Pierre-Olivier Couraud, Institut Cochin, France
Dr Ranjeet Prasad Dash, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Dr Lucia G Delogu, University of Sassari, Italy 
Prof Alexander Eggermont, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands 
Dr Je' rome Galon, INSERM AVENIR, France
Dr Helen Gogas, University of Athens, Medical School, Greece
Dr Weihua Gong, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Dr Johannes Graumann, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany
Prof Ursula Grohmann, University of Perugia, Italy
Dr. Motahar Heidari-Beni, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences,Iran
Dr Wael Harb, Horizon Oncology Research, Inc., USA
Dr Johan Hoebeke, C.N.R.S., France
Prof Steven M. Holland, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA 
Dr Christopher S Hourigan, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, USA
Dr Steven Jacobson, National Institutes of Health, USA 
Dr Ying Jiang, WuXi AppTec (Suzhou) Co, China
Dr Dean H. Kedes, University of Virginia Health Systems, USA 
Dr Santosh Kesari, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, USA
Dr Samir N. Khleif, National Cancer Institute, USA 
Dr Alshad Lalani, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA
Prof Allan Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr Junxian Lim, The University of Queensland, Australia 
Dr. Elena Lopez Villar, Hospital Universitario Niño Jesus, Spain
Dr Anatoli Malyguine, SAIC-Frederick, USA
Dr Upender Manne, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Dr Michael P. Manns, University Medical Hospital Hannover, Germany 
Dr Jeffery N. Martin, University of California, USA
Prof Ignacio Melero, Univerity of Navarra, Spain
Prof Ying Meng, Sun Yat-sen University, China 
Dr Simone Mocellin, University of Padova, Italy 
Dr Hideho Okada, University of Pittsburgh, USA 
Dr Klaus Pantel, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany 
Dr Ketan S Patil, St. John's University, USA
Dr Michael Perricone, Genzyme Corporation, USA 
Dr Maurizio Provenzano, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr William E Pullman, Sanofi-Aventis, USA
Dr Pedro Romero, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr Larry Rubinstein, National Institutes of Health, USA
Dr Sergio Rutella, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar 
Dr Saurabh Saha, BioMed Valley Discoveries, USA 
Dr Gaetano Santulli, Columbia University, USA
Dr Hemant Sarin, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, USA 
Dr Nicholas J Sarlis, Incyte Corporation, USA
Prof Dolores Schendel, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany
Dr Herbert Slade, 3M Pharmaceuticals, USA
Dr Kai-Christian Sonntag, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Dr Giulia M. Stella, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo, Italy
Dr Cheng-Cao Sun, Wuhan University, China
Dr Xiuju Sun, China Medical University, China 
Mr Patrick F. Terry, PXE International Inc., USA
Dr J Thistlethwaite, University of California, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, USA 
Dr Cuneyt Ulutin, Gulhane Miltary Medicine Academy, Turkey
Dr Walter J. Urba, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, USA
Dr Efstathios Vassiliadis, Gubra A/S, Denmark 
Dr Krishna Vyas, Mayo Clinic, USA
Dr Chunyu Wang, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Dr Wei Wei, Stanford University, USA
Dr Yiyong Wei, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China 
Dr Cassian Yee, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA 
Dr Yingdong Zhao, National Institutes of Health, USA 
Dr Dahai Zhu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 
Cancer microenvironment
Dr Adriana Albini, Multimedica IRCCS, Italy 
Prof Michael Andreeff, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA 
Prof Robert S. Bresalier, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA 
Dr Wouter Hendrickx, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Prof Christoph A. Klein, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Dr Cristina Maccalli, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Prof Kristofer Rubin, Uppsala University, Sweden
Prof Antonio Sica, Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca, Italy 
Prof Isaac Witz, Tel Aviv University, Israel 
Cardiovascular, metabolic and Lipoprotein translation
Prof James A de Lemos, University of Texas, USA 
Dr Daniel Rader, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Dr Alan Remaley, National Institutes of Health, USA
Dr Michael Rickels, University of Pensylvania, USA 
Prof Paul M Ridker, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Cell, tissue and gene therapy
Hermann Eichler, Universitat und Universitatsklinikum des Saarlandes, Germany
Dr Peiman Hematti, UW-Madison, USA 
Dr Ping Jin, National Institutes of Health, USA
Dr Jeff McCullough, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr David McKenna, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr John McMannis, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Dr Felipe Prosper, University of Navarra, Spain
Dr Raj K. Puri, Division of Cellular and Gene Therapies, FDA, USA
Dr Paolo Rebulla, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, Italy 
Dr Marianna Sabatino, National Institutes of Health, USA 
Dr Philip Schwartz, Children's Hospital of Orange County, USA
Dr Zbigniew M Szczepiorkowski, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, USA
Dr John Tisdale, NHLBI, USA
Dr Mai-Britt Zocca, DanDrit Biotech A/S, Denmark 
Clinical translation
Dr Michael Atkins, Georgetown University, USA 
Dr Stephen Eck, Eli Lilly, USA
Dr Rachel Humphrey, Cytomix, USA
Dr Elizabeth Jaffee, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Dr Carl June, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr Israel Lowy, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA
Dr Ira Mellman, Genentech, Inc., USA
Dr Gail Naughton, Histogen, USA
Dr Daniel Rader, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr jeffrey weber, New York University, USA
Combination strategies
Dr David Bearss, University of Utah, USA
Dr ida deichaite, UCSD, USA
Dr Keith Flaherty, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr Michele Guida, National Oncology Institute, Italy
Dr Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, USA 
Dr John Kirkwood, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA 
Dr Michele Maio, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Italy
Dr Ignazio Marino, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Dr Vincenzo Montesarchio, University Hospital Naples, Italy 
Prof Giuseppe Palmieri, National Research Council, Italy 
Dr Antoni Ribas, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Dr Mario Sznol, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Dr Philip Tarr, University Hospital Center, Switzerland
Dr Jon Wigginton, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., USA
Dr Paul Workman, The Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Disease biomarkers
Dr Rodrigo T Calado, University of São Paulo, Brazil 
Dr Tianxiang Chen, Zhejiang University, China 
Prof Peter Dicpinigaitis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 
Prof Ben He, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China
Prof John Ioannidis, Stanford School of Medicine, USA
Prof Harald Mischak, University of Glasgow, UK 
Dr Ornella Piazza, Università di Salerno, Italy 
Dr Raj K. Puri, Food and Drug Administration, USA
Dr Magdalena Thurin, National Cancer Institute, USA 
Prof Xiangdong Wang, Lund University, Sweden 
Dr Peter A Ward, University of Michigan Medical School, USA
Prof Robert W Williams, UTHSC, USA
Prof Feng Xu, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Hua Zhou, Shanghai Shuguang Hospital, China
Immunobiology and immunotherapy
Dr Bernard Fox, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, USA
Dr Thomas Gajewski, University of Chicago, USA 
Dr Patrick P Hwu, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA 
Dr Elizabeth Jaffee, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Dr Ulrich Keilholz, Charite, CBF, Germany
Dr William J. Murphy, University of California-Davis, USA
Dr Rienk Offringa, Genentech, Inc., USA
Dr A. Karolina Palucka, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, USA
Dr Giorgio Parmiani, San Raffaele Foundation, Italy
Dr Antoni Ribas, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Dr Stanley Riddell, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA 
Dr Craig L. Slingluff, University of Virginia, USA
Prof Paul Sondel, University of Wisconsin, USA
Prof Walter Storkus, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dr Robert Vonderheide, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Dr Jon Wigginton, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., USA
Dr Lingbing Zhang, Stanford University, USA 
Dr Laurence lz Zitvogel, Institut Gustave Roussy, France
Immunovirology
Dr Sergio Abrignani, National Instituto of Molecular Genetics, Italy
Prof Roberto Accolla, University of Insubria, Italy
Prof Jan JA Albert, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Dr Franco M Buonaguro, Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fond "G. Pascale", Italy
Prof Andrea De Maria, University of Genoa, Italy 
Prof Robert C Gallo, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, USA
Prof Bin Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr Lucia Lopalco, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy 
Prof Alberto Mantovani, University of Milan, Italy 
Dr Lynn Morris, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa
Dr George Pavlakis, National Cancer Institute, USA 
Prof Guido Poli, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy 
Dr Maurizio Provenzano, University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland
Dr Robert Purcell, NIAID, USA
Dr Rino Rappuoli, Novartis Vaccines, Italy 
Dr Ruth Ruprecht, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, USA
Dr Gabriella Scarlatti, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy 
Prof Hanneke Schuitemaker, Academic Medical Center, Netherlands
Prof Yiming Shao, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China 
Dr Mario Stevenson, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Prof Amalio Telenti, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr Emmanuel Thomas, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, USA 
Prof Sjoerd H. van der Burg, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Dr Gerald Voss, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Belgium
Dr Davide Zella, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA 
Prof Anna Linda Zignego, University of Florence, Italy
Medical bioinformatics
Dr Anurag Agrawal, CSIR -Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India
Dr Anthony Brookes, University of Leicester, UK
Debasis Dash, CSIR -Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India
Dr Sanjeev Jain, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India
Prof Doron Lancet, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 
Dr Mitali Mukerji, CSIR -Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India
Mr Bernard Dr. Munos, InnoThink Center for Research in Biomedical Innovation, USA 
Dr Akhilesh Pandey, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA 
Dr Vinod Scaria, CSIR -Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India
Dr Sumio Sugano, University of Tokyo, Japan 
Neuroscience
Dr Luis Beato Fernandez, Hospital General de Ciudad Real, Spain
Dr Michel S. Bourin, University of Nantes, France 
Dr Carmen González-Martín, University CEU San Pablo, Spain 
Dr Wayne K. Goodman, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Dr Sandra L. Helmers, Emory University School of Medicine, USA 
Dr Peter W. Kalivas, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Dr Ronald E. See, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Dr Serge N. Shiffmann, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Nutrition & metabolism
Prof Bharat B Aggarwal, Institute of Inflammation Research, USA
Dr Nasser Al-Daghri, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Dr Paul Amuna, Primary health Care Corporation, Qatar
Dr Simona Bo, University of Turin, Italy 
Dr Laura Di Renzo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Adriana S. Dusso, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Spain
Dr Franco Folli, Univeristy of Texas, USA
Prof George Fuchs, University of Arkansas, USA 
Prof Giovanni Gambaro, Catholic University of Rome, Italy 
Dr Abdelhamid Kerkadi, Qatar University, Qatar
Dr Bodo C Melnik, University of Osbanrück, Germany
Prof Antonio Paoli, University of Padua, Italy
Dr Patricia O Prada, University of Campinas, Brazil
Prof Arturo Pujia, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Dr Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, University of Leuven, Belgium
Dr Annalisa Terranegra, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar
Prof Elisardo C Vasquez, Vila Velha University, Brazil
Prof Regina Maria Vilela, Federal University of Paranà, Brazil
Patient-targeted molecular therapies
Dr Martin Bonamino, Divisão de Medicina Experimental, INCA, Brazil
Prof Xenia Brant, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dr Joseph J Buggy, Pharmacyclics, Inc., USA
Dr Antonio Carneiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Dr Ewa Carrier, University of California, USA
Dr Ugo Covani, Stomatological Research Institute, Italy 
Prof Raffaele D'Amelio, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy 
Dr Jean Gudas, Kite Pharma Inc, USA 
Dr Richard Harrop, Ocford, Biomedica, UK
Dr Candice McCoy, Dendreon Corp, USA
Dr Oluwadayo Oluwadara, UCLA School of Dentistry, USA
Prof RV Subramanyam, Siddhartha Institute of Dental Sciences, India 
Prof Urban Svajger, Blood transfusion center of Slovenia, Slovenia
Dr Mahesh Verma, India Oral Medicine Research Institute, India
Dr Gurinder Wadhwa, Adirondack Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, USA 
Personalized medicine
Dr Fahd Al-Mulla, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Dr Ronald Crystal, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Dr ashraf dallol, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Prof Koussay Dellagi, CRVOI, France 
Dr Luke Hesson, University of New South Wales, Australia 
Dr Wael Kafienah, University of Bristol, UK 
Dr Chong Liu, University of Oregon, USA 
Dr Ravinder Mamtani, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Qatar
Dr Ghulam J Mufti, King's College Hospital, UK
Dr Javaid I Sheikh, Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar
Dr Donny Strosberg, Scripps Research Institute, USA 
Dr Vivek Tanavde, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
Translational imaging
Dr Abass Alavi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Prof Chaitanya Divgi, Columbia University, USA
Dr Assaf Gilad, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Dr Gadi Goelman, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel 
Dr Jongho Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
Dr Armin M Nagel, DKFZ, Germany
Prof Harish Poptani, University of Liverpool, UK
Dr Anup Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Dr Phillip Sun, Harvard University, USA
Prof Siegfried Trattnig, University of Vienna, Austria

Advisory Board
Dr Harvey Alter, National Institutes of Health, USA
Dr Richard Gordon, University of Manitoba, Canada 
Dr Harvey Klein, National Institutes of Health, USA 
Dr Edison Liu, Genome Research Institute, Singapore 
Dr Christopher G. A. McGregor, Mayo Clinic, USA
Dr Robert Nussenblatt, National Eye Institute, USA
Dr Jia Qu, Wenzhou Medical College, China
Prof Martin Wehling, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Prof Yi-Xin Zeng, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, China