Acknowledgements 2017

We wish to thank to all referees listed below, who have reviewed the manuscripts submited. Their time and effort is particularly appreciated.

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Takaaki Abe
Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Vascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Aditya Ambade
Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

Florence Apparailly
INSERM, U844, University Hospital Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Mukundan Attur
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University (NYU) School of Medicine and NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

Katarzyna Augoff
Department of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Medical University of Wroclaw, Poland

B. Vijayalakshmi Ayyar
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Gustavo Baldassarre
Division of Molecular Oncology, CRO Aviano, National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy

Rafal Bartoszewski
Department of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Teresa Basińska
Department of Engineering of Polymer Materials, PAS, Łódź, Poland

Gabriel Bassi
Instituto de Neurociências e Comportamento, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Zsuzsanna Bebok
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Anshul Bhardwaj
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ewelina Biskup
Department of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nicholas Blazanin
Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Center for Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

Hiltrud Brauch
Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany

Alejandro  Bravo-Cuéllar
Departamento de Inmunología, Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Occidente, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Sierra Mojada, Colonia Independencia, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Václav Brázda
Department of Biophysical Chemistry and Molecular Oncology, Institute of Biophysics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

René Buchet
Universite Lyon 1, UFR Chimie Biochimie, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

Li Cai
Department of Internal Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Juan Carlos Cancino-Díaz
Departamento de Microbiología, Laboratorio de Microbiología General, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, México, México

Xu-Chen Cao
The First Department of Breast Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin, China

Flaminia CesareMarincola
Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy

Ching-Pin Chang
Krannert Institute of Cardiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Dapeng Chen
Fenselau laboratory Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, USA

Huan Chen
Department of General Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Pei-Yu Chen
Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Yu Chen
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Yu-Xin Chen
Department of General Surgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China

Yundai Chen
Department of Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Divaker Choubey
Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Renata Ciccarelli
Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnology Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy

Yari Ciribilli
Laboratory of Transcriptional Networks, Centre for Integrative Biology, CIBIO, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Anita H. Corbett
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Harold Corke
Department of Botany, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

Christian Cortés-Rojo
Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mich, México

Diego Cotella
Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy

Aleksander Czogalla
Department of Cytobiochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

Ekaterina Dadachova
Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

Ruiying Dang
Emergency Department, Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University of Engineering, Handan City, Handan, Hebei Province, P. R. China

Frederic N. Daussin
URePSSS: Physical Activity - Muscle - Health Research Team, University of Lille, Lille, France

Javier del Pino
Departamento de Toxicología y Farmacología, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Roman Dembinski
Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

Jingcheng Dong
Department of Chinese Integrative Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

Min Du
Laboratory of Nutrigenomics and Growth Biology, Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

Monika Ehnman
Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ralf Einspanier
Freie Universität Berlin, FUB, Berlin, Germany

Jianghong Fan
OGD, US Food and Drug Administration, USA

Palma Fedele
Medical Oncology & Breast Unit, “A. Perrino” Hospital, Brindisi, Italy

Fabrizio Ferrè
University of Bologna Alma Mater, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), Bologna, Italy

Philippe G. Frank
INSERM UMR1069, Faculté de Médecine, Université François, Rabelais de Tours, Tours Cedex, France

Paula Fratini
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Xiuping Fu
Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA

Thierry Galli
Membrane Traffic in Neuronal & Epithelial Morphogenesis, INSERM, University Denis Diderot/Paris, France

G. Ian Gallicano
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center , Washington, USA

Minghui Gao
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Olof Gidlöf
Department of Cardiology, Clinical Sciences, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Martin Giera
Leiden University Medical Center, Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden, The Netherlands

Sophie Giorgetti-Peraldi
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS UMR7277, IBV, Nice, France

Carlotta A. Glackin
Department of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, City of Hope–Beckman Research Institute Duarte, California, USA

Raul S. Gonzalez
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, USA

Steven R. Goodman
Department of Pediatrics and Department of Physiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

Michele Gregório
State Medical School at São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP) , Internal Medicine Department, Hypertension Clinic of FAMERP and Hospital de Base , São José do Rio Preto , São Paulo , Brazil

Michał Grzybek
Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Centre Munich at the University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Romain Guinamard
Institut de Physiologie et Biologie Cellulaires, Université de Poitiers, UMR CNRS 6187, Poitiers, France

Peng Guo
Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Mandana Haack-Sorensen
Cardiology Stem Cell Laboratory, The Heart Centre, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Klaus Hamprecht
Institute of Medical Virology, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Michael R. Harowicz
Department of Radiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Melanie L. Hart
Siegfried Weller Institute for Trauma Research, BG Trauma Clinic Tuebingen, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Jeffrey J. Hayes
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

Songqing He
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guilin Medical University Affiliated Hospital; Laboratory of Liver Injury and Repair Molecular Medicine, Guilin Medical University, China

Maria A. Hidalgo
Institute of Pharmacology and Morphophysiology, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

Martin Hohenegger
Institute of Pharmacology, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Chih-Hung Hsu
Graduate Institute of Oncology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Songhua Hu
Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Joseph U. Igietseme
National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, GA, USA

Marina Jendrach
Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Eui-Bae Jeung
Laboratory of Veterinary Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Veterinary Medical Center and College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea

Himanshu Joshi
Centre for Wildlife Forensic and Health, Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

Chungho Kim
Department of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Ewa Kliszczewska
Department of Virology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Tatsuya Kobayashi
Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Kamil Kostyn
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław Wrocław, Poland

Sridhar Koteshwar
Department of Cell Therapy, Sri Research for Tissue Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Sri Shankara Research Center, Rangadore Memorial Hospital, Shankarapuram, Bangalore, India

Leszek Kotula
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

Konstantinos A. Kouremenos
Metabolomics Australia, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, Parkville, Australia

Marek Kowalczuk
School of Biology, Chemistry and Forensic Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

Rajko Kusec
Department of Hematology , University Hospital Dubrava , Zagreb , Croatia

Katarzyna Kwiatkowska
Laboratory of Molecular Membrane Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Santo Landolfo
Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Sandra Laner-Plamberger
University Clinic for Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University (PMU), Salzburg, Austria

Mina Lee
College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Moon-Kyu Lee
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Frank Lezoualch
Inserm, UMR-1048, Institut des Maladies Métaboliques et Cardiovasculaires, Toulouse, France

Ai-Jun Li
Programs in Neuroscience, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA

Lei Li
Vaxine Pty Ltd, Bedford Park, Adelaide, Australia

Xu Lin
Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China

Y. Lin
State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Lingqi Liu
Department of Urology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Robert B. Lochhead
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Fei Luo
Department of Orthopedics, National & Regional United Engineering Laboratory of Tissue Engineering, Southwest Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Linlin Luo
Georgetown Medical Center Washington, D.C., USA

Xue-Qun Luo
Xue-Qun Luo Department of Pediatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Caio Cesar Floriano Luz
Department of Pathology, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, SP, Brazil

Yan-Ni Lv
Pharmacy Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Tieliang Ma
Central Laboratory, The Affiliated Yixing Hospital of Jiangsu University, Yixing, Jiangsu, P.R. China

Yongxin Ma
Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Patrick W. Mantyh
Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (PWM), USA

Wojciech Marlicz
Department of Gastroenterology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Ina Martin
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

R.T. Matthews
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

Vincent P. Mauro
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

Přemysl Mladěnka
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University in Prague, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Piotr Mlynarz
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

Bertrand Mollereau
Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Cell, UMR5239 CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Biosciences Lyon Gerland, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France

K.C.M. Moraes
Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências, Rio ClaroSP, Brasil

Giampaolo Morciano
Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Hamid Morjani
MEDyC-Unité CNRS UMR7369, SFR CAP-Santé FED4231UFR de Pharmacie, Reims Cedex, France

Christian Morsczeck
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Asok Mukhopadhyay
Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Anjana Munshi
Centre for Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Hua Naranmandura
Department of Toxicology, School of Medicine and Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Patrick Nasarre
Department of Medicine, Hematology Oncology Division, MUSC, Charleston, SC, USA

Mohsen Nikbakht
Hematology Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Takashi Nomiyama
Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

Seon-Hee Oh
Department of Pathology, College of Dentistry, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea

Chika Ohata
Department of Dermatology, Course of Molecular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Magnus Olsson
Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Biochemical Toxicology, Stockholm, Sweden

Gareth I. Owen
Department of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Michitaka Ozaki
Department of Biological Response and Regulation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Alexander F. Palazzo
Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Canada

Magdalena Paplińska-Goryca
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

Tae Sub Park
Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Zhiping Peng
Department of Radiological Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chonging, China

Selene Perez-Garcia
Faculty of Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Emma Phillips
DKFZ Junior Group Brain Tumor Translational Targets, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Jeroen Pouwels
Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Tomasz Powrózek
Department of Pneumonology, Oncology, and Allergology Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

N. Rajendra Prasad
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, India

Monika Primon
Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Hong Qing
School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China

Ravi S. Radhakrishnan
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

Markus Radsak
Department of Hematology, Medical Oncology, & Pneumology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Gayatri Ramakrishna
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India

Sophia Ran
Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA

Lisa Rancan
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology III, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Jiangtao Ren
Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA

João Tadeu Ribeiro-Paes
São Paulo State University, UNESP, Campus de Assis, Assis, Brazil

Colette Roche
Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, INSERM, CNRS UMR5286, Faculté Laënnec, Lyon, France

Ricardo Rodríguez-Calvo
Research Unit on Lipids and Atherosclerosis, Sant Joan University Hospital, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain

David A. Rubenstein
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA

Francisco  Ruiz-Ojeda
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, School of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

Ryszard Rzepecki
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Poland

Izabela Sadowska-Bartosz
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology and Agriculture, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland

Seema Saksena
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gina Sanchez
Programa de Fisiopatología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Jorge A. Sánchez
Departamento de Farmacología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N., México, Mexico

Sebastian Schmeier
Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand

Peter J. H. Scott
Interdepartmental Program in Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Isabella Screpanti
Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Aleksi Sedo
Institute of Biochemistry and Experimental Oncology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Takashi Sekiya
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Keio University School of Medicine Shinano-machi, Tokyo, Japan

Giuseppe Servillo
Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Anil Shanker
Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, USA

Julie A. Sharp
Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

LA Shimoda
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Emily Smith
Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, USA

Sozanne R. Solmaz
Chemistry Department, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA

Karel Souček
Department of Cytokinetics, Institute of Biophysics of the CAS, Brno, Czech Republic

Maria Stasiuk
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

Padraig Strappe
School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia

Sigmar Stricker
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Berlin, Germany

Padmanaban S. Suresh
Department of Biosciences, Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

Kathrin Sutter
Department of Virology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Yuki Taga
Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix, Toride, Japan

Tahereh Talaei-Khozani
Tissue Engineering Lab, Anatomy Department, Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Murtaza Tambuwala
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Saad Centre for Pharmacy and Diabetes, Ulster University, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, United Kingdom

Marco Tatullo
Tecnologica Research Institute, Biomedical Section, Crotone, Italy

Kentaro Tojo
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama-city, Japan

Toshihiko Torigoe
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Chuo-Ku, Sapporo, Japan

Paul Trayhurn
Obesity Biology Unit, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Sunil P. Trivedi
ETBL, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Aspasia Tsezou
Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology, Larissa, Greece

Masahiko Tsuchiya
Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Abenoku, Osaka, Japan

Susanne Ullrich
Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University of Tübingen (IDM), Tübingen, Germany

Sakthivel Vaiyapuri
School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK

Peter A. van Dam
Multidisciplinary Oncologic Centre Antwerp (MOCA) Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

Pasquale Verde
CNR Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy

Tanja Vogel
Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany

Domagoj Vucic
Department of Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech, South San Francisco, USA

Jincheng Wang
Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China

Qiang Wang
Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, USA

Shuibang Wang
Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Xiaodong Wang
Tesaro, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA

Yang Wang
Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Yixiang Wang
Department of Prosthodontics, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Marie-Louise Ward
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Ross Weatherman
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Pamela J. Weathers
Department of Biology and Biotechnology at Gateway, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Guoqian Wei
Vasculocardiology Department, The fourth affiliated hospital of Harbin medical University, Harbin, China

B. Daan Westenbrink
Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Anna Wiktorowska-Owczarek
Department of Pharmacology, Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

JIanbo Wu
Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

Mang Xiao
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Haiping Xu
Urology Department, Cangzhou Central Hospital, Hebei, China

Song Xue
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Dean Yamaguchi
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Kimiko Yamakawa-Kobayashi
Laboratory of Human Genetics, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan

Guijun Yan
Collaborative Innovation Platform for Reproductive Biology and Technology of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, P.R. China

Yong Yang
State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Discovery for Metabolic Disease, Center for New Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China

Shuang Ye
Renji Hospital South Campus and Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hae Young Yoo
Chung-Ang University Red Cross College of Nursing, Seoul, Korea

Do-Young Yoon
Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Bio/Molecular Informatics Center, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

Junying Yuan
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Wei Yue
Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia,USA

Weiwei Zhan
Ultrasound Department, Rui Jin Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Shuyan Zhang
Department of Neurotrauma, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, P.R. China

Xiaobo Zhang
Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Yao V. Zhang
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Ji-Sheng Zhao
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Qifeng Zhao
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, P.R. China

Shengguo Zhao
Faculty of Animal Science & Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China

Hongting Zheng
Department of Endocrinology, Xinqiao Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Likun Zhuang
Institute of Transplant Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, P.R. China