Editorial Board

Robert Bals, Saarland University, Germany

 

 

 

Dale Tang, Albany Medical College, United States of America
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Specialisms: Smooth muscle biology, Cytoskeletal regulation, Asthma, Signal transduction, MicroRNA, Transcriptional regulation

 

 

Peter Barnes, Imperial College London, UK

 

 

 

 

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
 

Steven An, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
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Specialisms: Asthma, Obstructive Lung Disease, Airway Smooth Muscle, Cell Mechanics, Biophysics, G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling and Function

 

Sureshbabu Angara, Norton Thoracic Institute, Creighton University School of Medicine, USA
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Specialisms: Alveolar epithelial cell cross talk in lung fibrosis, Epigenetic mechanisms and therapeutics in interstitial lung disease, Lung regeneration.

Paolo Bironzo, University of Torino, Italy
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Specialisms: Lung cancer, Pleural mesothelioma, Thymic tumors, Immunotherapy, Targeted therapy

 

 

Sergio Chiarella, Mayo Clinic, USA
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Specialisms: Asthma, Airway epithelium, Biologics

 

 

Kuei-Pin Chung, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan
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Specialisms: Pulmonary medicine, Critical care, Sepsis, Acute respiratory distress syndrome
 

 

Peisong Gao, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
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Theodore Kapellos, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
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Twitter: @KapellosTS
Specialisms: Myeloid cells, Immunology, Single-cell omics, COPD, Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis, Asthma

 

 

Takemoto Kazuhiro, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
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Specialisms: bioinformatics, deep learning, medical image analysis

 

 

Stelios Kokkoris, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, Greece
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Specialisms: Critical care, Ards, Acute kidney injury, Kidney-lung interaction, Clustering

 

 

Victor Laubach, University of Virginia School of Medicine, United States of America
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Specialisms: Acute lung injury, Lung transplant, Ischemia-reperfusion injury, Endothelial barrier, DAMPs, Lung perfusion
Dr. Laubach, PhD, Professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia, is a molecular and cell biologist by training. His laboratory studies acute lung injury and inflammation with a focus on mechanistic and translational studies of ischemia-reperfusion injury after transplantation. This research involves investigating the roles of epithelial, endothelial and innate immune cells as well as signaling pathways including oxidative stress, DAMPs, cytokines, purinergic signaling, and resolution of injury. His laboratory also investigates methods to recondition marginal donor lungs via ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) using murine and pig lung transplant models.


Heedoo Lee, Changwon National University, Korea (South)
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Specialisms: Extracellular vesicles, Exosomes, Lung inflammation, Acute lung injury, Non-coding RNAs




Arnaud Mailleux, Université Paris Cité, France
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Twitter: @ArnaudMailleux
Specialisms: Lung fibrosis, Mesenchymal cells, Cell signalling, Transcription factors


Fabio Perrotta, University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, Italy
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Specialisms: Interstitial lung disease, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, Clinical research, COPD

Ilias Siempos, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
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Specialisms: Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Acute hypoxemic respiratory failure; Acute lung injury; Critical care
 

 

Marry Smit, PhD, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands
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Specialisms: Acute respiratory distress syndrome, Acute respiratory failure, Critical care, Lung ultrasound, Quantitative lung imaging



Tao Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
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Specialisms: Pulmonary hypertension, Interventional treatment of respiratory diseases
 

 

Tilo Winkler, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
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Specialisms: Pulmonary imaging, Computed tomography, CT, Positron emission tomography, PET, Mathematical model, Biomedical engineering, Ventilation imaging, Perfusion imaging, Asthma, Mechanical ventilation, ARDS

Jin-Fu Xu, Tongji University School of Medicine, China
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Specialisms: Pulmonary infection, Bronchiectasis, COPD




Hongwei Yao, Brown University, United States of America
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Specialisms: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, COPD, Pulmonary hypertension, Senescence, Metabolism, Mitochondrial dysfunction




Anny Xiaobo Zhou, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States of America
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Specialisms: Lung epithelial repair/regeneration, Cellular metabolism, Respiratory viral infection, Cell-cell communication

 

 

Tiago Alfaro, MD, PhD, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Professor Takuya Aoki, MD, PhD, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Japan
Cristina Ardura-Garcia, MD, PhD, University of Bern, Switzerland

Professor Francesco Blasi, MD, PhD, University of Milan, Italy

MD, FERS is Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation University of Milan, Head of Internal Medicine Department and Respiratory Unit IRCCS Fondazione Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Milan, Italy.  Director Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center of the Lombardia Regional referral CF Center. Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Milan.

Former President of European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2012-13.

President Italian Respiratory Society (SIP/IRS) 2016-2017.

Professor Blasi has published more than 280 papers in International Journals [May 2017: h-index:58, Citations: 13303].

His research interests include pneumonia, COPD, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis and lung transplantation.

Su Bo, MD, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, China
Agnes Boots, PhD, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Professor Mario Cazzola, MD, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Taylor Cohen, PhD, Medimmune, USA 
Taylor Cohen received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, studying the roles of sepsis and mechanical injury on epithelial tight junction structure and function. Following a postdoctoral research period in the laboratory of Dr. Alice Prince at Columbia University, in which he worked to further understand the host pathogen interaction in the lung, Dr. Cohen joined the Infectious Disease Department at Medimmune LLC in 2014. At MedImmune he has continued his work on understanding the interactions of major human pathogens with the innate immune system.



Jeanine D'Armiento, MD, PhD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
Jeanine M. D’Armiento is an Associate Professor of Medicine in Anesthesiology at Columbia University. Dr. D’Armiento is Director of the Center for Molecular Pulmonary Disease in Anesthesiology and Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, and Director of the Center for Lymphangiomyomatosis (LAM) and Rare Lung Disease. Dr. D’Armiento’s research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of lung injury and repair. Her laboratory integrates both in vitro and in vivo approaches and is uniquely situated to characterize the molecular changes in the study of lung injury and disease so as to identify potential therapeutic targets. Dr. D’Armiento’s clinical work focuses on Rare Disease, and she is the Director of the Center for LAM and Rare Lung Diseases at Columbia University, which serves one of the largest populations of women with LAM in addition to patients with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency. She presently serves on the Executive Board of the Alpha-1 Foundation and as a Consultant to the Director of the Office of Rare Disease, NCATs. In addition, Dr. D’Armiento serves on the Executive committee of the Columbia University senate and Chairs the Commission on the Status of Women at the University.  

Olivier Danhaive, MD, University of California San Francisco, USA
Rafael E. de la Hoz, MD, MPH, MSc, ATSF, FACP, FCCP, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Sara De Matteis, MD, MPH, PhD, University of Milan, Italy
Deepak Deshpande, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Orianne Dumas, PhD, Inserm, France
Elaine Fuertes, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Eric Garshick, MD, VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Andrea Gramegna, MD, University of Milan, Italy
Kathleen Haley,MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Søren Helbo Skaarup, MD, PhD, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Professor Marco Idzko, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Dany Jaffuel, MD, PhD, Regional University Hospital of Montpellier, France
Anna Lavizzari, MD, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Italy
Micheal Mac Aogain, PhD, St. James's Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Professor Stylianos Orfanos, MD, PhD, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Bi-Yun Qian, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Professor Giovanni Sotgiu, MD, PhD, University of Sassari, Italy 
Franco Fabio Stellari, PhD, Chiesi Farmaceutici, Italy
Pei Yee Tiew, MBBS, MRCP(UK), FAMS, PhD, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Professor David Tingay, MD, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Australia
Sara Tomassetti, MD, Careggi Hospital, Italy
Argyris Tzouvelekis, MD, PhD, University of Patras, Greece
Niki Ubags, PhD, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Switzerland
Professor Johan Verbraecken, MD, PhD, Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium

Editorial Board
Professor Ian Adcock, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Chiara Autilio, PhD, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Professor Sir Peter Barnes, MD, Imperial College London, UK
Lluis Blanch, MD, Corporacio Sanitària Parc Tauli, Hopsital of Sabadell, Spain
Professor Vito Brusasco, MD, University of Genoa, Italy
Carlos Andres Celis-Preciado, PhD, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall, MD, PhD, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
Professor Marco Confalonieri, MD, University Hospital of Trieste, Italy
Professor Keertan Dheda, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Martin Donnelley, PhD, Adelaide Medical School, Australia
Professor Isabelle Dupin, PhD, Centre de Recherche Cardio-thoracique de Bordeaux, France
Professor John Engelhardt, PhD, University of Iowa, USA
Professor Emeritus Leonardo Fabbri, MD, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy
Professor Jeffrey Fredberg, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Professor Edward Gabrielson, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Koustav Ganguly, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Thodoris Karampitsakos, MD, PhD, University of South Florida, USA
Richard Kim, PhD, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Yong Chul Lee, PhD, Chonbuk National University Medical School, South Korea
Professor Quan Lu, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
Professor William MacNee, MD, University of Edinburgh, UK
Michael McGeachie, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Manlio Milanese, MD, PhD, University of Genoa, Italy
Marc Miravitlles, MD, PhD, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Spain
Professor Maria Molina-Molina, MD, PhD, University Hospital of Bellvitge, Spain 
Marco Mura, MD, PhD, Western University, Canada
Professor Nicola Murgia, MD, PhD, Ferrara University, Italy
Paul O'Byrne, PhD, McMaster University, Canada
Professor Francesca Pennati, PhD, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Francesca Polverino, MD, University of Arizona, USA
Professor David Price, MD, University of Aberdeen, UK
Irfan Rahman, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Professor Paul Reynolds, PhD, Brigham Young University, USA
Sara Rolandsson Enes, PhD, Lund University, Sweden
William Rom, MD, Bellevue Hospital and NYU Langone Medical Center, USA
Yun Michael Shim, MD, University of Virginia, USA
Professor Lidwien Smit, PhD, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Claudia Staab-Weijnitz, PhD, Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany
Professor Alastair Stewart, PhD,FBPharmSoc, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Robert Stockley, MD, DSc, University Hospital Birmingham, UK
Jie Sun, PhD, Mayo Clinic, USA
Dominic Sykes, MD, Hull University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, UK
Dimitrios Toumpanakis, MD, PhD, Sotiria Chest Hospital, Greece
Eirini Vasarmidi, MD, PhD, University of Crete, Greece
Xiang Zeng, PhD, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, China
Zhaozhong Zhu, ScD, Massachussets General Hospital, USA