American Journal of Translational Research

ISSN: 1943-8141

AJTR

Editorial Board Policy

Editor-in-Chief

Liang Cheng, MD
Brown University Medical School 
Providence, RI, USA

Editor Emeritus

Wen-Hwa Lee, PhD
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA

Managing Editor

Qiping Zheng, MD, PhD

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Kenneth A. Iczkowski, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI, USA

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Dengshun Wang, MD, PhD

Senior Editorial Board

  • Moulay Alaoui-Jamali, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Fabrice Andre, MD, PhD, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
  • Paolo Antonio Ascierto, MD, National Tumor Institute “Fondazione G. Pascale”, Naples, Italy
  • Sanjay Asthana, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
  • Jessie L-S Au, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Mimoun Azzouz, PhD, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  • Suk-Chul Bae, PhD, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea
  • Xue-Feng Bai, MD, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Hamid Band, MD, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
  • Mitchel S. Berger, MD, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Claudio Brancolini, PhD, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
  • Julia A. Bridge, MD, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
  • Helen E Bryant, PhD, The University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, UK
  • Peter D. Burbelo, PhD, National Institutes of Health/NIDCR, Bethesda, MD, USA
  • Charles W. Caldwell, MD, PhD, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
  • Joseph Califano, MD, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Marina Cavazzana-Calvo, MD, PhD, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France
  • Haiquan Chen, MD, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China
  • Herbert Chen, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
  • Shiuan Chen, PhD, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
  • Shi-Yuan Cheng, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Roberto Chiarle, MD, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
  • James CS Chim, MD, PhD, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China
  • De-Maw Chuang, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
  • Francois X Claret, PhD, University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
  • Richard Coico, PhD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  • Kevin D. Cooper, MD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • Anne E. Cress, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
  • Nicola J. Curtin, PhD, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • Angelo M. DeMarzo, MD, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Dennis W. Dickson, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA
  • Chen Dong, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
  • Reinhard Dummer, MD, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Adel K. El-Naggar, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
  • Deyu Fang, PhD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Shengyun Fang, MD, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA  
  • Gianfranco Delle Fave, MD, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
  • Alan P. Fields, PhD, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL, USA
  • Paul B. Fisher, PhD, MPh, VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Richmond, VA, USA
  • Thomas J. FitzGerald, MD, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA
  • Amy Fulton, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Ronald B. Gartenhaus, MD, The University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Candece L. Gladson, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • Michael Goggins, MD, The Johns Hopkins University,  Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Dragan J. Golijanin, MD, Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
  • Gaia Goteri, MD, PhD, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, Italy
  • Elizabeth A. Grimm, PhD, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
  • Qing Guo, MD, PhD, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA  
  • Henry H. Q. Heng, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
  • F. Michael Hoffmann, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
  • Xiao-Jun Huang, MD, Peking University, Beijing, China
  • Kelly K Hunt, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
  • Julie Irving, PhD, Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • Allan S. Jaffe, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
  • Ralf G. Janknecht, PhD, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
  • Bankole A. Johnson, DSc, MD, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  • Faye M. Johnson, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  • Ashish M. Kamat, MD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
  • Yibin Kang, PhD, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
  • Patrick Kehoe, PhD, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  • John M. Kirkwood, MD, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Joan M. Lakoski, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Eric W Lam, MD, Imperial College London, London, UK
  • Frederick F. Lang, Jr, MD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
  • Bernard Le Foll, MD, PhD, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Chow H. Lee, PhD, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
  • Eva Y. Lee, PhD, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
  • Jae K. Lee, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
  • Peng Lee, MD, PhD, New York University, New York, NY, uSA
  • Allan I. Levey, MD, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Fengzhi Li, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
  • Guo-Min Li, PhD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
  • Shiyong Li, MD, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Xiaoming Li, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
  • Antonio Liras, PhD, School of Biological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
  • Jinsong Liu, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
  • Yusen Liu, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Horace H. Loh, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • Balakrishna L. Lokeshwar, PhD, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
  • Leendert H.J. Looijenga, PhD, Erasmus MC-University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Walter C. Low, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • Irina A. Lubensky, MD, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, MD, USA
  • Mariano Malaguarnera, MD, Catania University, Italy
  • Ferdinando Mannello, PhD, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Urbino, Italy
  • Zixu Mao, MD, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • James McCarthy, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • Joseph M. McCune, MD, PhD, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Donald M. Miller, MD, PhD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
  • Jung-Joon Min, MD, PhD, Chonnam National University, Hwasun, Korea
  • Holger Moch, MD, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Kamal A Mohammed, PhD,University of Florida,Gainesville, FL, USA
  • Manabu Muto, MD, PhD, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Harikrishna Nakshatri, PhD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
  • Marja Nevalainen, MD, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA  
  • Michael Ohh, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Michael Ochs, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  • Kutluk Oktay, MD, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY
  • Iman Osman, MD, New York University, NY, New York.
  • Stéphane Palfi, MD, PhD, Paris XII University, Paris, France
  • Edith A Perez, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
  • Russell O. Pieper, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, CA
  • Richard Press, MD, PhD, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR
  • Vito Quaranta, MD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • Jianyu Rao, MD, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  • Ratna B. Ray, PhD, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
  • Antoni Ribas, MD, University of California at Los Angeles, Las Angeles, CA
  • Elliott Richelson, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
  • David D. Roberts, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
  • William N. Rom, MD, New York University, New York, NY
  • Jack A. Roth, MD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  • Eytan Ruppin, MD, PhD, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Helmut R. Salih, MD, Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen, Germany
  • Charles E. Samuel, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  • George E. Sandusky, DVM, PhD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
  • Fazlul H. Sarkar, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
  • Ronald E. See, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
  • Meng-Ru Shen, MD, PhD, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
  • Zhiyuan Shen, MD, PhD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
  • Gene P. Siegal, MD, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham [UAB], Birmingham, AL  
  • Robert A. Sikes, PhD, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
  • Justin Stebbing, MD, PhD, Imperial College, London, UK
  • Bing Su, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  • Yi Sun, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Russell S. Taichman DMD, DMSc, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Yoh Takuwa, MD, PhD, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
  • Dongfeng Tan, MD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  • Ilker Tasci, MD, Gulhane School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
  • Fattaneh A. Tavassoli, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
  • Ann D. Thor, MD, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
  • Li-Huei Tsai, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
  • Ming-Jer Tsai, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  • Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • Barbara Tudek, PhD, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
  • Aykut Uren, MD, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
  • Marry M. van den Heuvel-Eibrink, MD, Sophia Children’s Hospital/Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Jean-Luc Van Laethem, MD, PhD, Erasme University Hospital-ULB-Brussels, Belgium
  • Theodorus van der Kwast, MD, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
  • Altaf A. Wani, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH  
  • Chih-Hung Wang, MD, PhD, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Cong-Yi Wang, MD, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA
  • Cong-Yi Wang, MD, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
  • Yu Wang, PhD, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China
  • Xiao-Fan Wang, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC  
  • Xuejun Wang, MD, PhD, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
  • Yi-Ching Wang, PhD, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
  • David J. Weber  PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  • Qingyi Wei, MD, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
  • James C. Willey, MD, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
  • Tzyy-Choou (TC) Wu, MD, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  • Xue-Ru Wu, MD, New York University, New York, NY
  • Yingbin Xiao, MD, PhD, Xinqiao Hospital, Chongqing, China
  • Jianming Xu, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  • Liang Xu, MD, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
  • Riqiang Yan, PhD, Cleveland Clinic,  Cleveland, OH
  • Guang-Yu Yang, MD, PhD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
  • Qinglin Yang, MD, PhD, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
  • Ximing Yang, MD, PhD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
  • Robert Yarchoan, MD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
  • Yuxin Yin, MD, PhD, Beijing University School of Medicine, Beijing, China
  • Hon-Kan Yip, MD, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Ken H Young, MD, PhD, Duke University Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, USA
  • Dihua Yu, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  • Jian-Ting Zhang , PhD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
  • Kezhong Zhang, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
  • Wenxin Zheng, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
  • Yong Zhu, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  • Zhengping Zhuang, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Associate Editorial Board

  • Roger Abounader, MD, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, USA
  • Ioannis (Yannis) P. Androulakis, PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
  • Weibo Cai, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
  • Renjie Chai, PhD, Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
  • Sic L. Chan, PhD, The University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, uSA
  • Mark P. Chao, MD, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
  • Wei Cheng, PhD, The Affiliated Huaian No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China
  • Lucian R. Chirieac, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  • Javier Cortés, MD, PhD, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
  • Xiaofeng Dai, PhD, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
  • Tao Dong, PhD, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
  • Anette Duensing, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Panos Fidias, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
  • Thomas W. Flaig, MD, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
  • Markus Frank, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  • Jonna Frasor, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Thorbald van Hall, PhD, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
  • Ngan Huang, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
  • Wei Huang, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
  • Gareth Inman, PhD, The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK
  • Bechir Jarraya MD, PhD, Paris University, Paris, France
  • Hongchuan Jin, MD, PhD, Zhejiang UNiversity, Hangzhou, China
  • Emad Kandil, MD, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
  • Tiebang Kang, PhD, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
  • Sangsoo Kim, PhD, National Cancer Center, Seoul, Korea
  • Kyoichi Kaira, MD, PhD, Gunma University Hospital, Gunma, Japan
  • Shahriar Koochekpour, MD, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
  • Amaya Puig , PhD, Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
  • Jay M. Lee, MD, University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USA
  • Vera V. Levina, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Yang Yang Li, PhD, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Xin Li, PhD, New York University, New York, NY, USA
  • Ji Li, PhD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
  • Eugene Lin, PhD, Vita Genomics Institute, Taipei, Taiwan   
  • Xuesheng Liu, MD, PhD, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
  • Jianfeng Lu, MD, PhD, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
  • Fabrizio Marcucci, MD, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
  • Xinliang Mao, MD, PhD, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
  • José Pablo Maroto-Rey, PhD, Barcelona Autonomous University, Barcelona, Spain
  • Kevin J. Mulhall, MD, Mater Misericordiae University, Dublin, Ireland
  • Kamal A. Mohammed, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL,USA
  • Rémy Pedeux, PhD, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
  • Sergio Rutella, MD, PhD, John van Geest Cancer Research Centre, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
  • Joshua T. Schiffer, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Yuval Shaked, PhD, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Jian-Yong Shao, MD, PhD, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
  • Gergely Szakacs, PhD,  Institute of Enzymology, Budapest, Hungary
  • Apollonia Tullo, PhD, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Bari, Italy
  • Ju-Ming Wang, PhD, Institute of Bioinformatic and Biosignal transduction, NCKU, Taiwan  
  • Xin Wang, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  • Daxuan Wang, PhD, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Fujian, China
  • Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD,  University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • Yun Wu, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
  • Baoming Wu, PhD, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
  • Sai Yendamuri, MD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Bafflo, NY, USA
  • Zhong Yun, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
  • Jing Zhang, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
  • Ren Zhang, PhD, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
  • Xin Zhang, MD, PhD, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA, USA
  • Yan Zhang, PhD, Peking University, Beijing, China
  • Jihe Zhao, MD, PhD, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
  • Hui Zheng, PhD, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
  • Renqian Zhong, MD, PhD, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China
  • Quanmin Zou, MD, PhD, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China