MEDCOMM - Future Medicine

Editorial board

Editors-in-Chief

Robin Ali, Biomedical Research Center, King’s College, London, UK

Robin Ali, Director and Professor of Human Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy at King's College London, has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, including landmark papers and preclinical proof-of-concept studies for various ocular disorders. He has garnered numerous awards for his work, including the Pfizer/ARVO Translational Award for Ophthalmology and the Alcon Research Institute Award. He is an NIHR Senior Investigator and past President of the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.

Michael Karin, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

Michael Karin is a Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Pathology at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, and American Association for Cancer Research Academy. He has published over 300 papers in top-tier journals, including over 100 articles in Nature, Science, and Cell, and has been cited over 300,000 times with an h-index of 275. His research focuses on the link between inflammation, cancer, and metabolic disease.

Kang Zhang, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China

Kang Zhang, Director and Chair Professor at Macau University of Science and Technology, is a prolific clinical researcher and elected Fellows of AAAS, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Association of American Physicians, and American Society of Clinical Investigation. He has received numerous international awards and was named as the World’s 100 Most Influential Ophthalmologists. His research covers genetics, epigenetics, stem cells, nano-engineering, clinical trials, and artificial intelligence. He has over 60,000 citations and an h-index of 104.

Associate Editors

  Stephan Beck, University College London, London, UK

  Heping Cheng, Peking University, Beijing, China

  Kanmin Xue, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  Yudong Zhang, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Editorial Board Members

  Takahisa Furukawa, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Fan Fan Hou, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  Wei Li, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

  Tianming Liu, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

  Yang Shi, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  Woong Sun, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

Yang Sun, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  Periasamy Sundaren, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Madurai, India

Frank Talke, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

  Zhongzhao Teng, Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  Stephen Tsang, Columbia University, SC, USA

  Shan X. Wang, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  David Williams, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  Peng Xiang, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

  Wenjun Xiong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Zhenglin Yang, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China

  Xianjie Yang, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ali Zarrabi, Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

Bo Zhang, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Liangfang Zhang, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Jiankang Zhu, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

Editorial Staff

Daniel Baptista-Hon, Center for Biomedicine and Innovations, Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau S.A.R..

Daniel Baptista-Hon, PhD is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, and Honorary Lecturer at the School of Medicine, University of Dundee. He obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh and did his postdoctoral training at the University of Dundee, where he obtained the Stewart Trust Fellowship to investigate the role of voltage-activated sodium channels in colon cancer. In Macau, he established a patch-clamp electrophysiology laboratory to continue his research. Dr. Baptista-Hon has published in international journals including Signal Transduction & Targeted Therapy, British Journal of Pharmacology, British Journal of Anaesthesia etc. He serves as a review editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Yuanxu Gao, Postdoctoral Fellow, State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China

Dr. Gao obtained his Ph.D. degree in human physiology at Peking University with a focus on bioinformatics. In 2021, he was offered a postdoctoral position at the State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences of Macao University of Science and Technology in Macao (China) under the supervision of Prof. Kang Zhang. His research interest was modeling and understanding mechanisms of complex diseases using multi-omics technologies and artificial intelligence.

Jun Zou, Associate professor of the Center for Clinical Translational Innovations, Molecular Medicine Research Center, West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Dr. Jun Zou received his Ph.D. degree in biological sciences in 2010 at Sichuan University, China, followed by two years of postdoctoral training. In 2012, he joined the Molecular Medicine Research Center at West China Hospital, Sichuan University. His research is focused on the development of new computational algorithms for small-molecular drug design and optimization based on artificial intelligence. Dr. Zou is teaching drug design and discovery to medical students, chemistry undergraduates, and graduate students.

Maggie Wang, PhD

Senior Editor

Maggie joined the MedComm – Future Medicine editorial team in June 2023. She completed her PhD at Sichuan University National Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, where she researched mental and neurodegenerative disorders, examining the effects of misfolded protein buildup using clinical studies and animal models. At present she is the Senior Editor of MedComm – Future Medicine.