Aims & Scope: Adipocyte recognizes that the adipose tissue is the largest endocrine organ in the body, and explores the link between dysfunctional adipose tissue and the growing number of chronic diseases including diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Historically, the primary function of the adipose tissue was limited to energy storage and thermoregulation. However, a plethora of research over the past 3 decades has recognized the dynamic role of the adipose tissue and its contribution to a variety of physiological processes including reproduction, angiogenesis, apoptosis, inflammation, blood pressure, coagulation, fibrinolysis, immunity and general metabolic homeostasis. The field of Adipose Tissue research has grown tremendously, and Adipocyte is the first international peer-reviewed journal of its kind providing a multi-disciplinary forum for research focusing exclusively on all aspects of adipose tissue physiology and pathophysiology. Adipocyte accepts high-profile submissions in basic, translational and clinical research. 
Adipocyte focuses on the following topics:
• Adipose tissue structure and development
• Adipogenesis, adipose stem cells
• Adipose inflammation, immune cells
• Insulin resistance and diabetes
• Metabolism and energy balance
• Mitochondrial dysfunction
• Adipose hypoxia, apoptosis
• Adipokines
• Angiogenesis
• Cardiovascular disease and vascular homeostasis
• Hypertension
• Lipids, fatty acids
• Brown/beige fat
• Reproduction
• Obesity and cancer
• Pharmacology 
We encourage direct submission of manuscripts rejected elsewhere with reviewer's comments included for quick assessment and potential rapid acceptance. 

Editor-in-Chief 
Fahumiya Samad - San Diego Biomedical Research Institute, San Diego, CA, US 

Acquisitions Editor 
Azaam M. Samad - San Diego Biomedical Research Institute, San Diego, CA, US 

Editorial Board 
Nada Abumrad - Washington University, St. Louis, MO, US 
David B. Allison - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US 
Srinivasan Beddhu - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, US 
Guenther Boden - Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, US 
Barbara Cannon - The Wenner-Gren Institute; Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE 
Lisa A. Cassis - University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, US 
Xiaoli Chen - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, US 
Tae-Hwa Chun - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US 
Theodore P.  Ciaraldi - University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, US 
Lily Q. Dong - UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, US 
Keyong Du - Tufts University, Boston, MA, US 
Jürgen Eckel - German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, DE 
Michelle T. Foster - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, US 
Norma Frizzell - University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, US 
Francesco Giorgino - Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro and University Hospital Policlinico, Bari, IT 
James G. Granneman - Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, US 
Gary J Hausman -  University of Georgia, Animal and Dairy Science, Athens, GA, US 
Mark Horowitz - Yale University, New Haven, CT, US 
Gökhan S. Hotamisligil - Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US 
Zhen Y. Jiang - Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Orlando, FL, US 
Takashi Kadowaki - University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP 
Philip A. Kern - University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, US 
Alan Kleinfeld - Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, San Diego, CA, US 
Dwight J. Klemm - University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, US 
Gou Young Koh - KAIST, Daejeon, KR 
Shihuan Kuang - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 
Daniel A. Lawrence - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US 
Beata Lecka-Czernik - University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, OH, US 
Chih-Hao Lee - Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US 
Kyongbum Lee - Tufts University, Medford, MA 
Jongsoon Lee - Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA, US 
Simin Liu - Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, US 
Ormond A. MacDougald - University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, US 
Christian Meyer - Florida Hospital Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes, Orlando, FL, US 
Ron F. Morrison - University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, US 
Balasubramanyam Muthuswamy - Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, India 
Ryozo Nagai - University of Tokyo Hospital Translational Research Center, Tokyo, JP 
Jaap G. Neels - INSERM, Nice, FR 
Satoshi Nishimura - University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP 
Noa Noy - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, US 
Vipul Periwal - NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, US 
Miklos Peterfy - University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, US 
Li Qiang - Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, US 
Daniel J. Rader - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, US 
Manchala Raghunath - National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, IN 
Sushil G. Rane - NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, US 
Matthew Rodeheffer - Yale University, New Haven, CT, US 
Enrique Saez - The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, US 
Masataka Sata - The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokyo, JP 
Jaswinder K. Sethi - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 
Jianhua Shao - University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, US 
Assia  Shisheva - Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, US 
Rajat Singh - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, US 
Cynthia Smas - University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, OH, US 
Jacqueline M. Stephens - Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, US 
Matthias H. Tschöp - Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität München, Garching and Munich, Bavaria, DE 
Yu-Hua Tseng - Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA, US 
Li-Na Wei - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, US 
Aimin Xu - The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, HK 
Patrick Yue - Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, US