Editorial Board
- Agricultural and Food Biotechnology Section
- Computational Biology Section
- Environmental Biotechnology Section
- Industrial Biotechnology Section
- Medical Biotechnology Section
- Biotechnology Regulation Section
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Department of Law, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Interests: bioethics and biolaw; law and science; law and biotechnology; welfare animal law; digital law
Interests: bioethics and biolaw; law and science; law and biotechnology; welfare animal law; digital law
Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Interests: ncRNAs; ultra-conserved DNA regions
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Interests: ncRNAs; ultra-conserved DNA regions
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Dr. Ana Isabel Fernández
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1. Department of Cardiology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, 28007 Madrid, Spain
2. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, CIBERCV, 28029 Madrid, Spain
Interests: gene variants linked to diseases; genomics; transcriptomics; metagenomics; cardiovascular disease; cardiomyopathies; pulmonary hypertension
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Interests: gene variants linked to diseases; genomics; transcriptomics; metagenomics; cardiovascular disease; cardiomyopathies; pulmonary hypertension
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Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine—DIMES, University of Bologna, Via S. Giacomo, 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: molecular diagnostics; microRNAs; non-coding RNA; cancer expression profile; liquid biopsy; microvescicles
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Interests: molecular diagnostics; microRNAs; non-coding RNA; cancer expression profile; liquid biopsy; microvescicles
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Prof. Dr. Atsushi Fukushima
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Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
Interests: bioinformatics; plant metabolomics; metabolic and regulatory networks; integrated analysis of omics data; next generation sequencing; network systems biology; plant science
Interests: bioinformatics; plant metabolomics; metabolic and regulatory networks; integrated analysis of omics data; next generation sequencing; network systems biology; plant science
Genomic Oncology Research Group, Department of Physiology & Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, D02 YN77 Dublin, Ireland
Interests: genomic oncology; cancer bioinformatics; cancer genomics
Interests: genomic oncology; cancer bioinformatics; cancer genomics
Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: microRNA; long non coding RNA; prostate cancer
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Interests: microRNA; long non coding RNA; prostate cancer
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Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav), Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Ciudad de México 07360, Mexico
Interests: application of high-throughput DNA sequencing to describe microbial communities associated to human diseases; food; biotechnology and bioremediation processes
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Interests: application of high-throughput DNA sequencing to describe microbial communities associated to human diseases; food; biotechnology and bioremediation processes
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Herbal Analysis Services UK, Greenwich, University of Greenwich, London, UK
Interests: natural products chemistry; pharmacology; drug discovery; pharmacognosy
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Interests: natural products chemistry; pharmacology; drug discovery; pharmacognosy
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Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Interests: human; antibody (IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE); immediate-type hypersensitivity; allergy; immunoassay; lateral flow assays; humoral immune responses; adverse reactions in clinical trials; anaphylaxis; in vitro diagnostic methods; allergen components
Interests: human; antibody (IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE); immediate-type hypersensitivity; allergy; immunoassay; lateral flow assays; humoral immune responses; adverse reactions in clinical trials; anaphylaxis; in vitro diagnostic methods; allergen components
Department of Immunology and Oncology, National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council, C/Darwin 3, 28043 Madrid, Spain
Interests: computational biology; structural bioinformatics; functional annotation of cancer-related variants; ChIP-seq; ATAC-seq; RNA-seq
Interests: computational biology; structural bioinformatics; functional annotation of cancer-related variants; ChIP-seq; ATAC-seq; RNA-seq
Department of Neurosurgery, Nanomedicine Research Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 110 N. George Burns Rd., Davis 2100, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
Interests: drug delivery on the nanoscale for cancer treatment; nanodrugs; nanomedicine; single molecule nanodrugs to deliver chemotherapeutica, antisense oligonucleotides, siRNA, MicroRNA,proteins and peptides; brain and breast tumors; breast and lung metastases of the brain; polymalic acid polyanion biodegradable nanoparticle; polyfunctional delivery vector; targeted drug delivery; blood-brain-barrier; membranolytic activity; transferrin receptor (antibody); nanodrug toxicity; nanoscale contrast reagent for magnetic resonance-imaging (MRI); MRI contrast enhancer reagent; Gd-DOTA; MRI of Alzheimer plaques; stem cells in brain tumor (Glioma multiforme); anti-tumor treatment brain and breast; triple-negative breast cancer; Her2-positive breast cancer; peptidomimetics; theranostic nanodevices
Interests: drug delivery on the nanoscale for cancer treatment; nanodrugs; nanomedicine; single molecule nanodrugs to deliver chemotherapeutica, antisense oligonucleotides, siRNA, MicroRNA,proteins and peptides; brain and breast tumors; breast and lung metastases of the brain; polymalic acid polyanion biodegradable nanoparticle; polyfunctional delivery vector; targeted drug delivery; blood-brain-barrier; membranolytic activity; transferrin receptor (antibody); nanodrug toxicity; nanoscale contrast reagent for magnetic resonance-imaging (MRI); MRI contrast enhancer reagent; Gd-DOTA; MRI of Alzheimer plaques; stem cells in brain tumor (Glioma multiforme); anti-tumor treatment brain and breast; triple-negative breast cancer; Her2-positive breast cancer; peptidomimetics; theranostic nanodevices
Department of Cellular and Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
Interests: imaging mass spectrometry; omics analysis; cell engineering
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Interests: imaging mass spectrometry; omics analysis; cell engineering
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Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Biocentre 3, P.O. Box 65, Viikinkaari 1, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: genomics and evolution; biology of mobile elements; applications as markers for biodiversity and breeding; identification of mobile elements; bioinformatics (string searching and complexity analysis, search of repeats, DNA alignment and assembly, PCR primer/probe design)
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Interests: genomics and evolution; biology of mobile elements; applications as markers for biodiversity and breeding; identification of mobile elements; bioinformatics (string searching and complexity analysis, search of repeats, DNA alignment and assembly, PCR primer/probe design)
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Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science, 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150, USA
Interests: artificial intelligence; bioinformatics; information retrieval; natural language processing; machine learning
Interests: artificial intelligence; bioinformatics; information retrieval; natural language processing; machine learning
INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la récherche medicale), U848, Apoptosis, Cancer and Immunity, Institut Gustave Roussy, F-94805 Villejuif, France
Interests: cancer; immunogenic cell death; drug repositioning; molecular pharmacology; host-tumor interactions
Interests: cancer; immunogenic cell death; drug repositioning; molecular pharmacology; host-tumor interactions
Dr. Lorant Lakatos
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1. Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary
2. Department of Dermatology and Allergology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Interests: RNA biology; viruses; miRNA; siRNA; RNA silencing; non-coding RNA
Interests: RNA biology; viruses; miRNA; siRNA; RNA silencing; non-coding RNA
Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems - Functional Molecular Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Interests: cell microarrays; droplet microarrays; superhydrophobicity; polymer chemistry; gene-delivery; transfection; combinatorial chemistry
Interests: cell microarrays; droplet microarrays; superhydrophobicity; polymer chemistry; gene-delivery; transfection; combinatorial chemistry
Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia
Interests: wastewater treatment process
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Interests: wastewater treatment process
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Faculty of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
Interests: single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); gene expression; microarrays; RNA stability; mtDNA; DNA sequencing; human identification
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Interests: single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); gene expression; microarrays; RNA stability; mtDNA; DNA sequencing; human identification
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Dr. Gerald Lushington
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1. CSO and Co-Founder, Qnapsyn Biosciences, Inc., 2933 Lankford Dr., Lawrence, KS 66046, USA
2. Courtesy Professor, Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics & Health, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Interests: neuroscience; microbiology; informatics; molecular modeling; structural biology; pharmacology; toxicology
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2. Courtesy Professor, Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics & Health, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Interests: neuroscience; microbiology; informatics; molecular modeling; structural biology; pharmacology; toxicology
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Institute for Social Sciences, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Interests: sociology of crime; justice and social reintegration; gender and sexuality; design, cultur and society; technology, science and innovation; leisure sociology and sociological theories
Interests: sociology of crime; justice and social reintegration; gender and sexuality; design, cultur and society; technology, science and innovation; leisure sociology and sociological theories
Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Interests: immobilization procedure of biomolecules; protein–DNA complexes; aptamer; enzymatic sensors; thick-film technology; nanodispensing technologies; micro-flow systems; carbon nanotubes; nanoparticles; nanocomposite polymers; molecular imprinted polymers; protein-polymer conjugates
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Interests: immobilization procedure of biomolecules; protein–DNA complexes; aptamer; enzymatic sensors; thick-film technology; nanodispensing technologies; micro-flow systems; carbon nanotubes; nanoparticles; nanocomposite polymers; molecular imprinted polymers; protein-polymer conjugates
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Dr. Angelo Minucci
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Department of Basic Biotechnological Sciences, Intensive Care and Perioperative Clinics Research, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
Interests: next generation sequencing; genetics; mutation
Interests: next generation sequencing; genetics; mutation
Department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: next-generation sequencing; genomics; epigenomics; third-generation sequencing
Interests: next-generation sequencing; genomics; epigenomics; third-generation sequencing
Douglas Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC H4H 1R3, Canada
Interests: functional genomics; miRNA; single-cell transcriptomics; single-cell epigenomics; psychiatric phenotypes; high-resolution molecular imaging; spatial neurotranscriptomics
Interests: functional genomics; miRNA; single-cell transcriptomics; single-cell epigenomics; psychiatric phenotypes; high-resolution molecular imaging; spatial neurotranscriptomics
PhD Program in Microbiology, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL 36101 USA
Interests: DNA microarrays; gene meters; biotechnology; microbiology
Interests: DNA microarrays; gene meters; biotechnology; microbiology
Department of Toxicology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-631 Poznan, Poland
Interests: toxicology; the anti-cancer activity of methylated resveratrol analogues; the proliferation and differentiation of stem cells; reproductive biology; transcriptomics
Interests: toxicology; the anti-cancer activity of methylated resveratrol analogues; the proliferation and differentiation of stem cells; reproductive biology; transcriptomics
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests: DNA and peptide arrays; microfabrication; photolithography; primer extension assays
Interests: DNA and peptide arrays; microfabrication; photolithography; primer extension assays
Institute of Pharmacy – Medicinal Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 2+4, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Interests: protein ligands; fragment ligation assays; drug discovery; high-throughput screening; dynamic ligation screening (DLS)
Interests: protein ligands; fragment ligation assays; drug discovery; high-throughput screening; dynamic ligation screening (DLS)
