Editorial Board

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Robert Bals, Saarland University, Germany
Prof. Bals is the director of the Saarland University’s Department of Pulmonology, where Prof. Bals focuses on teaching, research, and patient care. In the research area, Prof. Bals covers preclinical and clinical research and has contributed to 250 papers and several books. His research areas are inflammatory lung disease, asthma, COPD, and infection. In the basic science laboratory, Prof. Bals and his team investigate the mechanisms how the lung interacts with the environment including smoke, allergens, and microorganisms with a focus on stem cell biology and regeneration. In clinical research, he performs investigations in COPD, asthma, pneumonia and cystic fibrosis. He established and manages the German alpha-1-antitrypsin registry and is member of the steering committee of COSYCONET.

 

 

 

 

Dale Tang, Albany Medical College, United States of America
Research website
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Twitter: @DaleTang7
Specialisms: Smooth muscle biology, Cytoskeletal regulation, Asthma, Signal transduction, MicroRNA, Transcriptional regulation
Prof. Tang is a Professor of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Albany Medical College, New York, United States of America. He is Director of Cytoskeletal Signaling and Asthma Research Program at the school. His research is involved in asthma, pulmonary arterial hypertension, lung inflammation, smooth muscle biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology. His research has been funded by multiple NIH grants and other funding agencies. 

 

 

FOUNDING EDITOR

Peter Barnes, Imperial College London, UK








ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Tiago Alfaro, MD, PhD, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Steven An, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Research website
ORCID profile
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
Research website
ORCID profile
Specialisms: Alveolar epithelial cell cross talk in lung fibrosis, Epigenetic mechanisms and therapeutics in interstitial lung disease, Lung regeneration.

 

 

 

 

Professor Takuya Aoki, MD, PhD, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Japan

Cristina Ardura-Garcia, MD, PhD, University of Bern, Switzerland

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





Su Bo, MD, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, China

Agnes Boots, PhD, Maastricht University, Netherlands

Professor Mario Cazzola, MD, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

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






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





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.



Olivier Danhaive, MD, University of California San Francisco, USA

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.  

 

 

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

Peisong Gao, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Research website
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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

Tsukasa Kadota, MD, PhD, University of California, USA
Research website
Specialisms: Fibrosis, COPD, ARDS, Lung regeneration, Senescence






Theodore Kapellos, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Research website
Twitter: @KapellosTS
Specialisms: Myeloid cells, Immunology, Single-cell omics, COPD, Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis, Asthma

 

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

 

Victor Laubach, University of Virginia School of Medicine, United States of America
Research website
ORCID profile
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.

Anna Lavizzari, MD, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Italy

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

 

 

Micheal Mac Aogain, PhD, St. James's Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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

 

Federico Mei, MD, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy

Professor Stylianos Orfanos, MD, PhD, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

 

Professor Francesca Pennati, PhD, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Professor Giovanni Sotgiu, MD, PhD, University of Sassari, Italy 

Franco Fabio Stellari, PhD, Chiesi Farmaceutici, Italy

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

Professor Chengdi Wang, PhD, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, China
Research website
ORCID profile
Specialisms: Pulmonary infection, Lung cancer, Multi-omics analyses, Radiology, Artificial intelligence, Lower respiratory infection

 

 

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

 

 

 

Tilo Winkler, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
ORCID profile
Research website
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
Research website
ORCID profile
Specialisms: Pulmonary infection, Bronchiectasis, COPD

 

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

 

 

Anny Xiaobo Zhou, University of Virginia, United States of America
Research website
ORCID profile
Specialisms: Lung epithelial repair/regeneration, Cellular metabolism, Respiratory viral infection, Cell-cell communication

 

 

 

Editorial Board

Professor Shama Ahmad, PhD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Negah Ahmadvand, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine, USA

Francesco Amati, MD, Humanitas University, Italy
Chiara Autilio, PhD, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Professor Manfred Ballmann, MD, University Hospital Rostock, Germany

Shaney Barratt, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Lluis Blanch, MD, Corporacio Sanitària Parc Tauli, Hopsital of Sabadell, Spain

Alessandra Bragonzi, PhD, San Raffaele Scientific Institue, Italy
Professor Vito Brusasco, MD, University of Genoa, Italy

Giammaria Cammarota, MD, PhD, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Professor Marco Confalonieri, MD, University Hospital of Trieste, Italy

Joana Cruz, PhD, Politecnico de Leiria, Portugal

Yu-Bao Cui, PhD, The Affiliated Wuxi People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China
Sanjukta Dasgupta, PhD, Brainware University, India
Professor Keertan Dheda, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Professor Fabiano Di Marco, MD, PhD, University of Milan, Italy

Martin Donnelley, PhD, Adelaide Medical School, Australia
Professor Isabelle Dupin, PhD, Centre de Recherche Cardio-thoracique de Bordeaux, France

Professor Harald Ehrhardt, MD, PhD, Ulm University, Germany
Professor John Engelhardt, PhD, University of Iowa, USA

Professor Dean Everett, PhD, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Koustav Ganguly, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Wei Gao, MD, Tongji University School of Medicine, China

Robert Huhle, PhD, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Germany

Professor Naveed Hussain, MD, UCONN School of Medicine, USA

James Irving, PhD, University College London, UK
Professor Konstantinos Kakosimos, PhD, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
Thodoris Karampitsakos, MD, PhD, University of South Florida, USA
Richard Kim, PhD, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Cynthia Koziol-White, PhD, Rutgers University, USA
Liang Li, PhD, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Alexander Mathioudakis, MD, PhD, FERS, The University of Manchester, UK

Professor Ulrich Maus, PhD, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Michael McGeachie, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Alessandra Merlini, MD, Turin University, Italy
Maya Mikami, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, 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

Steffen Ohlmeier, PhD, University of Oulu, Finland

Tsukasa Okamoto, MD, PhD, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

Joo Hun Park, MD, Ajou University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea
Professor David Price, MD, University of Aberdeen, UK
Irfan Rahman, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Sara Rolandsson Enes, PhD, Lund University, Sweden
William Rom, MD, Bellevue Hospital and NYU Langone Medical Center, USA
Professor Barbara Ruaro, MD, University of Trieste, Italy
Yun Michael Shim, MD, University of Virginia, USA

Trishul Siddhartan, MD, University of Miami, USA

Pradeesh Sivapalan, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Claudia Staab-Weijnitz, PhD, Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany

Anna Stainer, MD, Humanitas University, Italy
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
Huifang Tang, MD, PhD, Zhejiang University, China
Dimitrios Toumpanakis, MD, PhD, Sotiria Chest Hospital, Greece

Professor Franziska Trudzinski, MD, Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg, Germany

Professor Alice Turner, MD, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Eirini Vasarmidi, MD, PhD, University of Crete, Greece
Marcus Victor, MD, Massachussets General Hospital USA

Hong Xu, PhD, North China University of Science and Technology, China 

Zhaozhong Zhu, ScD, Massachussets General Hospital, USA


Trusted Reviewers

Aleksandra Babicheva, PhD, University of Minnesota, USA
Molly M. Baldwin, PhD, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (Respiratory), UK
Ishita Choudhary, PhD, Louisiana State University, USA
Balázs Csoma, PhD, Semmelweis University, Hungary
Enya Daynes, PhD, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK
Joice Mara De Oliveira, PhD, Universidade Norte do Paraná, Brazil
G M Monsur Habib, PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK
Seo Am Hur, MD, University of British Columbia, Canada
Shah Saddad Hussain, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Nur Sabrina Idrose, PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jie Ji, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Mengyuan Kan, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Junichiro Kawagoe, PhD, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Japan
Ben Knox-Brown, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Takafumi Koyauchi, PhD, Sirei Mikatahara Hospital, Japan
Sanwal Mehta, MD, University of Tennessee, USA
Madhusmita Mohanty Mohapatra, MD, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, India
John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt, PhD, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Mari Ozaki, PhD, Keio University, Japan
Nicole M Robertson, MD, University of Kentucky, USA
Christian Philip Ronn, PhD, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Reoto Takei, MD, Tosei General Hospital, Japan