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EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Yasumasa Kato

New Content Item (1)Ohu University, Japan

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Specialisms: Metastasis, Cancer microenvironment
 

Andy Tao Yin Lau, PhD, Shantou University Medical College, China 

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Specialisms: Cancer proteomics, Epigenetic toxicology, Epimodifications, Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity
 

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Lucie Brisson

New Content Item (1)Inserm, University of Bordeaux, France

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Specialisms: Tumor microenvironment, Glioblastoma, Metabolism, Autophagy
 

Alejandra Bruna

New Content Item (1)The Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom

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Specialisms: Cancer evolution,
Single-cell RNA sequencing, Paediatric cancer research, Breast cancer research, Functional genomics

 

Ratna Chakrabarti

New Content ItemUniversity of Central Florida, USA

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Specialisms: Noncoding RNA, Regulation of gene expression, Cancer biology, Drug resistance
 

Chenbo Ding

New Content ItemShanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China

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Specialisms: Colorectal cancer, Enteric nervous system, Epigenetic modification, Tumor immunity

Guanxiong Ding

New Content ItemHuashan hospital, China




Specialisms: Prostate cancer

Jesús Espinal-Enríquez

New Content Item (1)National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico

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Specialisms: Cancer genomics, Multi-omics in cancer, Gene co-expression networks, NGS in cancer, Gene regulatory networks
 

Giuseppe Fiume

New Content ItemUniversity of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia", Italy

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Specialisms: Cell biology, Tumor microenvironment, Immune cells
 

Snehal Gaikwad

National CaNew Content Itemncer Institute, USA

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Specialisms: Cancer biology, Multiple myeloma, Chemoresistance, Molecular imaging, Drug discovery and development


Peeyush Goel

New Content Item (1)University of Pennsylvania, USA

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Specialisms: Breast cancer therapeutics, Bone biology, Osteoclasts, Antibody engineering
 

Juan Carlos Gomora

New Content Item (1)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

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Specialisms: Voltage-Gated sodium channels, Beta subunits, Metastasis, Repurposing drugs
 

Haojie Jin

New Content ItemShanghai Cancer Institute, China

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Specialisms: Oncology, Cancer therapy, Genetic screen, Liver cancer

Goodwin Jinesh

New Content ItemMoffitt Cancer Center, USA

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Specialisms: Cancer stem cells, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenetics, Genetics, Immunology, Cell biology, NGS, Oncology, Tumorigenesis, Metastasis

Sanjay Kumar

New Content Item (1)Sharda University School of Basic Sciences and Research, India

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Specialisms: Extracellular vesicles (exosomes and microvesicles), Cancer, Kidney disease
 

Dongjun Lee

New Content ItemPusan National University School of Medicine, South Korea

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Specialisms: Hematological Malignancy, Oncology, Hematology

Chang Liu

New Content Item (1)University of Rhode Island, USA

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Specialisms: Cancer immunotherapy, Immune checkpoints, Proteomics, Natural products
 

Naoshad Muhammad

New Content ItemWashington University in Saint Louis, United States of America

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Specialisms: Cancer Biology, Metabolism, Obesity, Radiation Oncology

Deepak Parashar

New Content ItemMedical College of Wisconsin, United States of America

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Specialisms: MicroRNA, Cancer Testis Antigens, Angiogenesis, Chemo resistance, Exosomes, Small molecule inhibitors

Suja Pillai

New Content Item (1)The University of Queensland, Australia

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Specialisms: Colon, Genetics, Endocrine


Jin Qian

New Content ItemStanford University, USA

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Specialisms: Cancer treatment resistance, Tumor microenvironment, Ovarian cancer, Gastric cancer
 

Vinagolu K. Rajasekhar

New Content ItemMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

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Specialisms: Cancer Stem Cells and Patient Tumor Heterogeneity, Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment, Macrophage Plasticity and targeting Adaptive Immune Cell Therapy, Metastatic Clonal Evolution,Humanized PDX Models

Biswarup Saha

New Content Item (1)H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, USA

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Specialisms: Tumor biology, Cancer stem cell, Epigenetics, Tumor microenvironment, Cell signalling, Drug resistance
 

Mitsuo Sato

New Content ItemNagoya University, Japan

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Specialisms: Lung cancer, Oncogene, Senescence

Cristian Scatena

New Content Item University of Pisa, Italy

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 Specialisms: Breast cancer, melanoma, molecular pathology, cellular biology

Sahabjada Siddiqui

New Content Item (1)Era University, India

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Specialisms: Natural products, Anticancer and antiosteoporosis biological activities, In silico drug design and development
 

Atit Silsirivanit

New Content ItemKhon Kaen University, Thailand

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Specialisms: Glycosylation, Biomarker, Metastasis, Drug resistance, Glycan, Lectin, Mucin, Glycobiology
 

Santosh Singh

New Content Item (1)Morehouse School of Medicine, USA

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Specialisms: Cancer, Drug delivery, Drug resistance, Targeted therapy, Combination therapy, Chemokines


Ichidai Tanaka

New Content ItemNagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

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Specialisms: Lung cancer, Mesothelioma, Molecular biology, Cell culture 
 

Franco Vizeacoumar

New Content Item (1)University of Saskatchewan, Canada

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Specialisms: Cancer genomics, Telomerase, Polo-like kinase, TERRA, CRISPR/Cas9 screens, Genome instability, DNA repair

Yan-Ming Xu

New Content ItemShantou University Medical College, China

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Specialisms: Cancer biology, Therapeutics, Natural compounds, Nutriepigenetics

 

Pei-Ming Yang

New Content Item (1)Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

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Specialisms: Cancer biology, Autophagy, Cancer therapeutics, Drug resistance, Drug repurposing
 

Ling Zhang

New Content ItemH Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, United States of America

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Specialisms: Hematology

Ying Zou

New Content ItemThe Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States of America

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Specialisms: Cancer Genetics, Next generation sequencing, Mutations, Solid tumors, Leukemia/lymphoma, Telomere

Editors-in-Chief
Yasumasa Kato, MedScD, PhD, Ohu University, Japan
Andy TY Lau, PhD, Shantou University Medical College, China

Associate Editors
Lucie Brisson, PhD, University of Tours, France
Ratna Chakrabarti, PhD, University of Central Florida, USA
Gang Chen, PhD, Guangxi Medical University, China
Chenbo Ding, MD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
Guanxiong Ding, PhD, Huashan hospital, China
Jesús Espinal-Enríquez, PhD, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico
Giuseppe Nicolò Fanelli, MD, PhD, University of Padua, Italy
Giuseppe Fiume, PhD, University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia", Italy
Snehal Gaikwad, PhD, National Cancer Institute, USA
Anjali Geethadevi, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Peeyush Goel, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Juan Carlos Gómora Martinez, PhD, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Yuchao Jessica Gu, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Atif Hashmi, MD, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Pakistan
Giuseppe Ingravallo, MD, PhD, University of Bari, Italy
Haojie Jin, PhD, Shanghai Cancer Institute, China
Goodwin Jinesh, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Vivek Kashyap, PhD, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA
Priyanka Khare, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Ritu Kulshreshtha, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Sanjay Kumar, PhD, Sharda University, India
Dongjun Lee, PhD, Pusan National University School of Medicine, South Korea
Yumin Li, PhD, Lanzhou University, China
Chang Liu, PhD, University of Rhode Island, USA
Wenbo Meng, MD, PhD, Lanzhou University, China
Naoshad Muhammad, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Subhadip Mukhopadhyay, PhD, New York University Langone Medical Center, USA
Antonio Giuseppe Naccarato, PhD, University of Pisa, Italy
Aejaz Nasir, MD, MPhil, FCA, Eli Lilly & Company, USA
Tamara Nikuševa-Martić, PhD, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Alessia Nottegar, MD, San Bortolo Hospital of Vicenza, Italy
Nootan Pandey, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Deepak Parashar, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Junseong Park, PhD, The Catholic University of Korea, South Korea
Jennifer Pasquier, PhD, Breast Cancer Institute - Nice Santa Maria, France
Suja Pillai, PhD, University of Queensland, Australia
Agnese Po, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome. Italy
Jin Qian, MD, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Vinagolu K. Rajasekhar, MPhil, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Mitsuo Sato, PhD, Nagoya University, Japan
Cristian Scatena, MD, PhD, University of Pisa, Italy
Sahabjada Siddiqui, PhD, Era University, India
Atit Silsirivanit, PhD, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Santosh Kumar Singh, PhD, Morehouse School of Medicine, USA
Ichidai Tanaka, MD, Nagoya University, Japan
Andrey Turchinovich, PhD, MBA, German Cancer Research Center, Germany
Franco Vizeacoumar, PhD, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Amy Yan-Ming Xu, PhD, Shantou University Medical College, China\
Pei-Ming Yang, PhD, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Ling Zhang, MD, Moffitt Cancer Institute, USA
Ying Zou, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Editorial Board
Elena Adinolfi, MD, PhD, University of Ferrara, Italy
Faisal Aziz, PhD, University of Minnesota, USA
Michele Caraglia, MD, PhD, Second University of Naples, Italy 
Rosa A Cardone, PhD, University of Bari, Italy
Wenbin Chen, PhD, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Zhijian Duan, PhD, University of California Davis, USA
Yi Hu, PhD, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical Univ., China and Univ. of California San Diego, USA*
Tim Illidge, PhD, FRCP, FRCR, FRCPath, The University of Manchester, UK
Ruy Jaeger, DDS, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 
Xiaohua Jiang, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Manoj Kashyap, PhD, Amity University Haryana, India 
Khandan Keyomarsi, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Sajid Khan, PhD, University of Florida, USA
Vinod Kumar, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Mokenge Malafa, MD, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Parvin Mehdipour, PhD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Javier A Menendez, PhD, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) and Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI)Spain
Sritama Nath, PhD, MedThink Communications, USA
Athanasios G. Papavassiliou, MD, PhD, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Nives Pećina-Šlaus, MD, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Geoffrey Pilkington, PhD, FIScT, FRSB, FRCPath, University of Portsmouth, UK 
Tao Ren, MD, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Carlos Sonnenschein, MD, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA
Christian Stock, PhD, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Carlos Telleria, PhD, McGill University, Canada
Koraljka Gall Trošelj, PhD, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
Sivakumar Vallabhapurapu, PhD, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - Tirupati, India
Go J. Yoshida, MD, PhD, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan

Trusted Reviewers
Raziyeh Abooshahab, PhD, Curtin University, Australia
Imran Ahmad , PhD, King George's Medical University, India
Rosario Avolio, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Nabamita Boruah, PhD, North Eastern Hill University, India
Yanyang Cao, PhD, Ohio University, United States
Alessandro Cavaliere, MD, University of Turin, Italy 
Ankita Chatterjee, PhD, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, India
Shan-Shan Cheng, PhD, Tongji University, China
Laetitia Collet, MD, Institut Jules Bordet, Belgium
Charlotte M Degorre, PhD, National Cancer Institute, United States
Nilambra Dogra, PhD, Panjab University, India
Yongfei He, PhD, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, China
Muzammal Hussain, PhD, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States
Mohit Jadli, PhD, University of Delhi, India
Qi Jia, PhD, Shanghai Cancer Institute, China
Tariq Nadeem, PhD, University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Priya Ramanathan, PhD, Cancer Institute (W.I.A.), India
Khurram Rehman, PhD, Gomal University, Pakistan
Snigdha Saikia, PhD, Gauhati University, India
Jorge Sandoval-Basilio, PhD, Universidad Hipócrates, Mexico
Real Sumayya Abdul Sattar, PhD, University of Delhi, India
Kazumasa Sekihara, PhD, Kanagawa Prefectural Hospital Organization, Japan
Igor A Sherman, PhD, Alpha Cancer Technologies, Canada
Bo Sun, PhD, Wuhan Union Hospital, China
Kulbhushan Thakur, PhD, University of Delhi, India
Alfredo Toledo-Leyva, PhD, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico
Mansoor-Ali Vaali-Mohammed, PhD, King Saud University, Saudi Arabi

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