EDITOR IN CHIEF

CAMILLO RICORDI, MD, FNAI

Stacy Joy Goodman Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Cellular Transplantation; Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology; Director, Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) and Cell Transplant Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors, USA

 

CO-EDITOR IN CHIEF

DAVID DELLA-MORTE CANOSCI, MD, PhD

Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Neurology and Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA; Department of Human Sciences and Promotion of the Quality of Life, San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome, Italy

 

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

NICOLA DI DANIELE, MD

Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

FERDINANDO IELLAMO, MD

Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

 

ASSISTANT EDITOR

FILIPPO CREMONINI, MD

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD

MASSIMO ANTONELLI, Professor, Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation Institute, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

MARCO ARTICO, Full Professor in Human Anatomy, Department of Sensory Organs, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

FRANCESCO BANDELLO, MD, FEBO, Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, University Vita-Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

CRISTIANO GIUSTI, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Campus Biomedico, University of Rome, Italy

SHAN-PING JIANG, Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, GuangZhou, China

CARMELO SCARPIGNATO, Professor, Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine & Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

BARRY SEARS, Inflammation Research Foundation, Peabody, MA, USA

DON D. SIN, St. Paul’s Hospital, and James Hogg iCAPTURE Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

EDITORIAL BOARD

MARIA ALBANESE, Department of System Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

GEORGES AZAR, Faculty of Medicine, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon; Eye and Ear University Hospital, Naccash Road, Dbayeh, Metn, Lebanon

MASSIMILIANO BERRETTA, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina Italy

RAFFAELLA N. BERCHIOLLI, Vascular Surgery Unit, Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Department A.O.U.P., Translational Research and New Surgical and Medical Technologies Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

STEFANO BORIANI, Department of Oncologic and Degenerative Spine Surgery, Rizzoli Institute, Bologna, Italy

WILLIAM J. BRADY, Professor of Emergency Medicine & Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA

RAFFAELE BRUNO, Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

FRANCESCO P. BUSARDÓ, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, University Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

GINO R. CORAZZA, Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Pavia, Italy

MASSIMO CORDARO, Dean of the School of Dentistry, Chair of Ortodontics; School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

ANTONIO COSTANZO, Department of Dermatology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

MARCELLO COVINO, Emergency Department, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma

DIEGO CURRÒ, Institute of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

LISSANDRA DAL LAGO, Medicine Department of Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium

ANTONINO DE LORENZO, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

DANIEL A. DE LUIS, Unit of Investigation, Institute of Endocrinology and Nutrition, School of Medicine, Hospital Rio Hortega, University of Valladolid, Spain

LUCA ANDREA DESSY, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

ROSA P. DE VINCENZO, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

GIANCARLO DI GENNARO, Head of Epilepsy Surgery Center, IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli (IS), Italy

SIMONA DI GIAMBENEDETTO, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

GIANNA DIPALMA, Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

LAURA DI RENZO, Section of Clinical Nutrition and Nutrigenomics, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

MANFREDI GRECO, Unità di Chirurgia Plastica e Ricostruttiva, Università “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy

GABRIELE FINCO, Anestesiology and Intensive Care, Department of Medical Sciences “M. Aresu”, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

FRANCESCO FIORICA, Radiotherapy Oncology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

ANDREA FLEX, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

GIANLUCA FRANCESCHINI, General Surgery, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

ANTONIO FREGA, Department of Medical and Surgical Science and Translation Medicine, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

ALESSANDRO GASBARRINI, Department of Oncologic and Degenerative Spine Surgery, Rizzoli Institute, Bologna, Italy

GIOVANNI GASBARRINI, Internal Medicine Institute, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

RICCARDO GHERMANDI, Spine Surgery Oncologic and Degenerative, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

SILVIA GIOVANNINI, Department of Geriatric, Neurological and Orthopedic Sciences and Head Neck Sciences, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

ANTONIO GRIECO, Department of Internal Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

FIORELLA GUADAGNI, IRCCS San Raffaele Roma, Rome, Italy; Department of Human Sciences and Promotion of the Quality of Life, San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome, Italy

GIUSEPPE GULLO, IVF Unit AOOR Villa Sofia Cervello, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

LYNN GUO, Cardiovascular Science Center, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

LAN HONG, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

FRANCESCO INCHINGOLO, Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine. University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

MARCO INFANTE, UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy

DAVIDE LAURO, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

FRANCO LISI, IVF/ICSI Unit, Villa Salaria Hospital, Rome, Italy

JING LIU, Department of Epidemiology, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing, China

PAOLO F. MANICONE, Division of Oral Surgery and Implantology, Department of Head and Neck and Sensory Organs, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

MARCO MARCASCIANO, Division of Plastic Surgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

ROBERTO MARCI, Unit of Reproductive Medicine and Endometriosis, Department of Gynaecology-Obstetrics, Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

SUSANNA MARINELLI, School of Law, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

MARTINE MAUGET-FAŸSSE, Rothschild Foundation, Paris, France

FRANCIS MEGRAUD, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, C.H.U. Pellegrin Place Amelie Raba-Leon, Bordeaux Cedex, France

MARIA C. MELE, Clinical Nutrition Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

SULTAN AYOUB MEO, Professor and Consultant in Clinical Physiology, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

ALPARSLAN MERDIN, Associate Professor of Hematology, University of Health Sciences, Ankara Gulhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

GIUSEPPE MERRA, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

ANTONIO MINNI, Department of Sensory Organs, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

MONICA MONTOPOLI, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

SEBASTIAN MUELLER, Director, Centre of Alcohol Research (CAR), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, and Vice Head, Department of Medicine, Salem Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany

ENRICO NASTRO SINISCALCHI, Unit of Maxillo-Facial Surgery, University of Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinic G. Martino, Messina, Italy

ISABELLA NERI, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

ANNALISA NOCE, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

VERONICA OJETTI, Emergency Department, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

GERMANO ORRÙ, Molecular Biology Service (MBS), Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

FRANCESCA PACIFICI, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

DONATELLA PASTORE, Department of Human Science and Quality of Life Promotion, San Raffaele Rome University, Rome, Italy

VALERIO PAPA, Department of General Surgery, San Carlo di Nancy Hospital, Rome; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

SURESH K. PARAMASIVAM, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

GIORGIO POMPA, Associate Professor, Director Implant-Prosthetic Unit, Vice-President Faculty Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

FILIPPO RENÒ, Associate Professor of Human Anatomy, Health Sciences Department, Medical School of the University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

DIEGO RIBUFFO, Head, Full Professor of Plastic Surgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

RICCARDO RICCI, Pathology Department, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

LUCA RICHELDI, Head, Division of Respiratory Disease, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy

LUCA RINALDI, Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Science, University of Campania, Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy

VINCENZO ROCCHETTI, Associate Professor of Odontostomatology, Health Sciences Department, Medical School of the University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

VALENTINA ROVELLA, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

ANGELO SANTOLIQUIDO, Professor of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

LUCA SANTORO, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

FRANCESCO SESTI, Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medicine, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy

BRUNO SPOSATO, Pneumology Department, Misericordia Hospital, Grosseto (USLSUDEST Toscana), Italy

GIOVANNI TINELLI, Vascular Surgery Unit, Cardiovascular Area, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

PAOLO TONDI, Professor of Angiology, School of Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

GABRIELE TUCCI, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, S. Giuseppe Hospital, Rome, Italy

VITTORIO UNFER, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

YOSHIO YAMAOKA, Department of Medicine-Gastroenterology (111D), Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affaire, Houston, TX, USA

WEI ZHANG, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

SIMONA ZAAMI, Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

 

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