Current Medicinal Chemistry

Editorial Board

Honorary Senior Advisor(s)

John Gurdon(Nobel Laureate)The Gurdon Institute
University of Cambridge
Cambridge
UK

Jean-Marie Lehn
(Nobel Laureate)
Laboratoire de Chimie
Supramoléculaire ISIS
Université de Strasbourg
Strasbourg
France

Mariam MatarUAE Genetic
Diseases Association
Dubai
UAE

Richard N. ZareDepartment of Chemistry
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
USA

Editor-in-Chief

Atta-ur-Rahman, FRSHonorary Life Fellow
Kings College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge
UK

Co-Editor(s)-in-Chief

Simone Carradori Department of Pharmacy
University of G. d’Annunzio Chieti and Pescara
Chieti
Italy

William J. Hoekstra Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Durham, NC
USA

Massimiliano F. Peana Dipartimento di Chimica e Farmacia
Università degli Studi di Sassari
Sassari
Italy

Bernard Pirotte Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Liege
Liege
Belgium

Antonio Scilimati Department of Pharmacy
University of Bari
Bari
Italy

Eduardo Sobarzo-SánchezFaculty of Health Sciences

Health Research and Innovation Institute

Central University of Chile

Santiago

Chile

Xi-Ming Yuan Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Linköping University
Linköping
Sweden

Associate Editor(s)

Wolf-Rainer Abraham Chemical Microbiology
Helmholtz Center for Infection Research
Braunschweig
Germany

Pier G. Baraldi Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche
Universita' di Ferrara
Ferrara
Italy

Susanna Fürst Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Semmelweis University
Budapest
Hungary

Francis Johnson Department of Chemistry
State University of New York
Albany, NY
USA

Alan P. Kozikowski StarWise Therapeutics LLC
Chicago, IL
USA

Tian Liu School of Bioengineering
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian
China

Regional Editor(s)

East Asia

Lin Sun Department of Nephrology
The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University
Changsha
China

Europe

Joaquín M. C. Rosa Department of Pharmaceutical and Organic Chemistry
University of Granada
Granada
Spain

Oceania

Chen ChenSchool of Biomedical Sciences
University of Queensland
Victoria
Australia

Country Editor

Donatella MarazzitiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Section Editor(s)

Section: Therapeutic Peptides

Jian Huang School of Life Science and Technology
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chengdu
China

Section: Chemical Biology

Raffaele Saladino Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche
Università della Tuscia
Viterbo
Italy

Section: Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents

Gerasimos Siasos3rdDepartment of Cardiology

Sotiria Thoracic Diseases General Hospital

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Athens

Greece

Section: Genetics in Inherited Cardiomyopathy

Emmanuel S. AndroulakisDepartment of Imaging Centre

Royal Brompton Hospital

Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

London

Section: Drug Design

Anna Artese Department of Health Sciences
University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro
Catanzaro
Italy

Section: Toxic and Essential Metals and Trace Elements

Geir Bjørklund Council for Nutritional and Environmental Medicine
Mo i Rana
Norway

Section: Antibiotics

Giovanni Di Bonaventura Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences
G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
Chieti
Italy

Section: Targeted Biologics

Stefano Bruno Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti e del Farmaco
Università di Parma
Parma
Italy

Section: Targeted Biologics

Paul W. Buehler Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, MD
USA

Section: Cancer Drug Resistance and Therapeutics

Monica Cantile INT G. Pascale Foundation
University of Naples Federico II
Naples
Italy

Section: G Protein-Coupled Receptors

Maria C. Caroleo Department of Pharmacy Health and Nutritional Sciences
University of Calabria
Rende
Italy

Section: Bioinformatics or Computational Biology

Wei Chen School of Life Sciences
Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Chengdu
China

Section: Anti-Cancer Agents

Rafael Covenas Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León (INCYL)
University of Salamanca
Salamanca
Spain

Section: Bioinformatics in Drug Design and Discovery

Walter Filgueira De Azevedo Jr.Laboratory of Computational Systems Biology
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre
Brazil

Section: Inflammation

Oreste GualilloIDIS (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago)

Santiago University Clinical Hospital

Santiago de Compostela

Spain

Section: Self Assembling Materials for Targeted Drug Delivery

Christina Karavasili Department of Pharmaceutical Technology
Aristotle University
Thessaloniki
Greece

Section: Metalloproteinase

Cheorl-Ho Kim
Department of Biological Science
Sungkyunkwan University
Kyunggi-Do
South Korea

Section: Coronavirus

Giuseppe Lanza Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties
University of Catania
Catania
Italy

Section: Photodynamic Therapy

Mafalda Laranjo Faculty of Medicine
University of Coimbra
Coimbra
Portugal

Section: Coronavirus

Giovanni Lentini Department of Pharmacy-Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari
Italy

Section: Coronavirus

Yu Ligen Talent Recruitment and Career Support (TRACS) and Bibliometrics Analysis
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore City
Singapore

Section: Cancer Drug Resistance and Therapeutics

Wonbong Lim Department of Premedical Science
Chosun University
Gwangju
South Korea

Section: Drug Resistance Mechanisms

Huanxiang Liu School of Pharmacy
Lanzhou University
Lanzhou
China

Section: Peptides and Small Molecules in Cancer Therapy

Anna L. Tornesello Molecular Biology and Viral Oncogenesis Unit
National Cancer Institute IRCCS-Fond. G. Pascale
Naples
Italy

Section: Crystallographic Approaches in Medicinal Chemistry

Fiorella Meneghetti Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Milan
Milan
Italy

Section: Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology

Michael D. SpartalisDivision of Cardiology Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens
Greece

Section: Inflammation

Giovanni Tarantino Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery
University of Naples Federico II
Naples
Italy

Section: Oxidative Stress

Andres Trostchansky Department of Biochemistry
University of the Republic

Montevideo
Uruguay

Section: Molecular Modeling and Medicinal Chemistry

Marco Tutone Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy

Section: Cytotoxicity of Organic Compounds

Mustafa Yilmaz
Department of Chemistry
Selcuk University
Konya
Turkey

Section: Anti-Cancer Agents

Bin Yu
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Zhengzhou University
Zhengzhou
China

Section: Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

Andrey A. Zamyatnin Jr.

Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Moscow

Russia

Frontiers Section Editor

Section: QSAR and Cheminformatics Approaches

Marcus T. Scotti Department of Chemistry
Federal University of Paraíba
João Pessoa
Brazil

Section Editor(s)(Special Issues)

Ahmed A. Al-Karmalawy

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

The University of Mashreq

Baghdad

Iraq

Vítor A. AlmodôvaDepartment of Chemistry
University of Coimbra
Coimbra
Portugal

Ismail Celik
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Erciyes University
Kayseri
Türkiye

Jianmin Chen School of Pharmacy and Medical Technology

Putian University

Putian

China

Weiqi Dai

Shidong Hospital

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Shanghai

China

Ilgiz Gareev

Central Research Laboratory

Bashkir State Medical University

Ufa

Russian Federation

Syed Shams ul Hassan

Department of Natural Product Chemistry

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai

China

Shigao Huang

Department of Radiation Oncology

Xijing Hospital

Fourth Military Medical University

Xi’an

China

Katarzyna Kulik Department of Bioorganic Chemistry

Institute - Center for Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Lodz

Poland

Yasheng Li Department of Infectious Diseases & Anhui Center for Surveillance of Bacterial Resistance

The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University

Hefei

China

Junfeng Li

Department of Translational Research & Cellular Therapeutics

Arthur Riggs Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute

Duarte, CA

USA

Haixiong Lin

Department of Orthopedics

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

China

Edgar A.M. Brazón

Chemistry and Biology, Natural Science

Universidad del Norte

Barranquilla

Colombia

Silvia Gatti-McArthur

Department of Neuroscience

McArthur and Associates GmbH

Basel

Switzerland

Fabrizio Medici

Department of Chemistry

University of Milan

Milan

Italy

Igor J. S. Nascimento

Department of Pharmacy

State University of Paraiba

Campina Grande

Brazil

David Paul

Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research

Kolkata

India

Vladimir S. Rogovskii

Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Radiobiology

Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

Moscow

Russian Federation

Mika E.T. Sillanpaa

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Johannesburg

Johannesburg

South Africa

Sinosh Skariyachan

Department of Computational Biology and Microbiology

St. Pius X College Rajapuram, Kannur University

Kannur

India

Ravi Tomar
Department of Chemistry
SRM Institute of Science and Technology NCR Campus
Ghaziabad
India

Muhammad Umair

Medical Genomics Research Department

King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC)

Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs

Riyadh

Saudi Arabia

Peter Wang

Research Center

Wenzhou Medical University

Wenzhou

China

Peng Wang

Xi’an Ninth Hospital

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Xi'an

China

Wang Xiaoqiang
Renji Hospital
Department of Anesthesiology
Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
Shanghai
China

Anna M. Waszkielewicz

Department of Bioorganic Chemistry

Chair of Organic Chemistry

Faculty of Pharmacy

Jagiellonian University Medical College

Krakow

Poland

Yunhao Wu

Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center

Shandong First Medical University

Jinan

China

Renhao Xue

Shanghai First Maternity & Infant Hospital

Tongji University

Shanghai

China

Weitao Yan
School of Basic Medical Science
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Central South University
Changsha
China

Guan-Jun Yang

School of Marine Sciences

Ningbo University

Ningbo

China

Amira ZarroukMedical faculty
Ibn Jazzar University of Sousse
Sousse
Tunisia

Solomon T. Zeleke

Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Idaho State University

Pocatello, ID

USA

Editorial Board Member(s)

Xiao-Jiang Hao Kunming Institute of Botany
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunnan
China

Khosrow Kashfi Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
The City College of New York CUNY
New York
USA

Helmut Schmidhammer Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck
Austria

Rosa Amoroso Department of Pharmacy
University of Chieti
Chieti
Italy

Firoz Anwar Department of Biochemistry
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia

Mohamed S. AttiaDepartment of Chemistry
Faculty of Science
Ain Shams University
Cairo
Egypt

Jonathan B. Baell Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Monash University
Parkville
Australia

Bimal K. Banik Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Community Health Systems of South Texas (CHSST)
Edinburg, TX
USA

Janina Baranowska-Kortylewicz Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
USA

Fatima Z. Basha Department of Chemistry
University of Karachi
Karachi
Pakistan

Giovanni L. Beretta Department of Experimental Oncology and Molecular Medicine
IRCCS National Cancer Institute Foundation
Milan
Italy

Rita Berisio Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging
Italian Research Council (CNR)
Naples
Italy

Gildas BerthoLCBPT-CNRS

Université Paris Cité

Paris

France

Sandip B. Bharate Medicinal Chemistry Division
CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine
Jammu and Kashmir
India

Mariangela Biava Department of Chemistry and Drug Technologies
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome
Italy

Nicholas Bodor Center for Drug Discovery
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
USA

Maria L. Bolognesi Department of Pharmaceutical Science
University of Bologna
Bologna
Italy

Gunther K. Bonn Institute for Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry
University of Innsbruck
Innrain
Austria

Przemyslaw BozkoDepartment of Internal Medicine I
University Hospital Tuebingen
Tubingen
Germany

John B. Bremner Department of Chemistry
University of Wollongong
Wollongong
Australia

Catherine Brenner Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Paris-Sud
Châtenay-Malabry
France

Jean Brunel Faculty of Pharmacy
Aix-Marseille University
Marseille
France

Roberta Budriesi Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche
University of Bologna
Bologna
Italy

Terrence R. Burke Chemical Biology Laboratory
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
USA

Anna CapassoDepartment of Pharmacy
University of Salerno
Salerno
Italy

Loredana Cappellacci School of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry Unit
University of Camerino
Camerino
Italy

Anna Carbone Department of Pharmacy (DIFAR)
University of Genoa
Genoa
Italy

Alessia C. Carocci Department of Pharmacy-Drug Science
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari
Italy

Alessia Catalano Department of Pharmacy-Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Bari
Bari
Italy

Guido Cavaletti

Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Technologies

University of Milan "Bicocca"

Milan

Italy

Sebastiano Cavallaro Institute of Neurological Sciences
Italian National Research Council (CNR)
Catania
Italy

Vicente M. Centelles

Departamento de Química

Universitat Politècnica de València

Valencia

Spain

Fener Chen Department of Chemistry
Fudan University
Shanghai
China

Elena Cichero Department of Pharmacy
University of Genoa
Genova
Italy

Agata G. Copani Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Catania
Catania
Italy

Maria P. Costi Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Modena
Italy

David J. CraikInstitute for Molecular Bioscience

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science

The University of Queensland

Brisbane

Australia

Sunliang Cui College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou
China

Russell Dahl Neurodon LLC
Crown Point, IN
USA

Silvio Danese IBD Center
Division of Gastroenterology
Institute of Clinician Humanitas
Milan
Italy

Vincenzo De Filippis Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and CRIBI Biotechnology Center
University of Padua
Padua
Italy

Nageswara R. Desaboini Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
USA

Sergey A. Dyshlovoy Department of Oncology, Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hamburg
Germany

Thomas Efferth Department of Pharmaceutical Biology
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Mainz
Germany

Mostafa El-Sheekh
Botany Department
Tanta University
Tanta
Egypt

Roberta Ettari Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences
University of Messina
Messina
Italy

Caterina Faggio Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences
University of Messina
Messina
Italy

Stephanie Federico Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Trieste
Trieste
Italy

Marco Fiore Department of Sense Organs
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome
Italy

Matthias Gaestel Institute of Biochemistry
Hannover Medical School
Hannover
Germany

Mathea S. Galanski Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
University of Vienna
Vienna
Austria

Alexsandro S. GaldinoMicrobial Biotechnology Laboratory
Federal University of São João del-Rei
Sao Joao del Rei
Brazil

Roberto Gambari Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Ferrara
Ferrara
Italy

Luca Gentilucci Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”
University of Bologna
Bologna
Italy

Ana MartinezInstitute of Medical Chemistry
Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CIB-CSIC)
Madrid
Spain

Gabriele Grassi Department of Life Science Trieste

University of Trieste
Trieste

Italy

Cesare Gridelli Division of Medical Oncology
San Giuseppe Moscati Hospital
Avellino
Italy

Clara Grosso Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV)
Network of Chemistry and Technology (REQUIMTE)
Porto
Portugal

Marco Guazzi Department of Health Sciences
University of Milan
Milan
Italy

Angel Guerrero Department Biological Chemistry and Molecular Modelling
IIQAB-CSIC
Barcelona
Spain

Yuewei Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Materia Medica
Shanghai
China

Isabel Haro Department of Peptide & Protein Chemistry
IIQAB-CSIC
Barcelona
Spain

Dominique Heymann Department of Histology and Embryology
University of Nantes
Nantes
France

Paul Hofman Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology
Côte d'Azur University
Nice
France

John F. Honek Department of Chemistry
University of Waterloo
Ontario
Canada

Sayed J. Hosseinimehr Department of Radiopharmacy
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Sari
Iran

Kurt Hostettmann Institute of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry
UNIL - Université de Lausanne
Geneve
Switzerland

Jianfei Huang

Department of Clinical Biobank

Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University

Nantong

China

Bay B. Huat Department of Anatomy
National University of Singapore
Singapore City
Singapore

Jamshed Iqbal Department of Pharmacy
COMSATS University
Abbottabad
Pakistan

Gérard Jaouen School of Chemistry
C.N.R.S
Paris
France

Wolfgang E. Jelkmann Institute of Physiology
University of Lubeck
Lubeck
Germany

Mankil Jung Department of Chemistry
Yonsei University
Seoul
Korea

Guoyin Kai College of Pharmacy
Zhejiang Chinese Medical University
Zhejiang
China

Huba Kalasz Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Semmelweis University
Budapest
Hungary

Dongchon Kang Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Kyushu University
Fukuoka
Japan

Jagat R. Kanwar Faculty of Health
Deakin University
Geelong
Australia

Nikos K. KaramanosDepartment of Chemistry
Laboratory of Biochemistry
University of Patras
Patras
Greece

Michael KassiouDepartment of PET and Nuclear Medicine
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Camperdown
Australia

Saeed R. Khan Department of Research and Development
Vikor Scientific, LLC.
Charleston, SC
USA

Matthew C. Kiernan Faculty of Medicine and Health
The University of Sydney
Sydney
Australia

Fabian Kiessling Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging (ExMI)
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen
Germany

Thomas Klonisch Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science
Faculty of Medicine
University of Manitoba
Manitoba
Canada

Felix Kratz CytRx Corporation
Innovations Center Freiburg
Freiburg
Germany

Guha Krishnaswamy Department of Allergy and Immunology
Wake Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University
Winston Salem, NC
USA

Donald J. Kyle Discovery Research
Purdue Pharma L.P.
Cranbury, NJ
USA

Enza Lacivita Department of Pharmacy-Drug Sciences
University of Bari
Bari
Italy

Antonio Lauria Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF)
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy

Edmond J. LaVoie Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Piscataway, NJ
USA

Marcello Leopoldo Department of Pharmacy
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari
Italy

Chia-Jung Li

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital

Kaohsiung

Taiwan

Jean-François Liégeois Department of Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory
Hospital Avenue
Liège
Belgium

Feng-Huei Lin Department of Biomedical Engineering
National Taiwan University
Taipei
Taiwan

Hao LinSchool of Life Science and Technology
Center for Informational Biology
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)

Chengdu
China

Vincenzo Lionetti Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Institute of Life Sciences
Pisa
Italy

Xinyong Liu Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Shandong University
Shandong
China

Peng Liu State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Lanzhou University
Lanzhou
China

Franco Lori RIGHT - Research Institute for Genetic and Human Therapy
Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo
Pavia
Italy

Liang Ma Division of Nephrology, Kidney Research Institute
West China Hospital of Sichuan University
Chengdu
China

Mauro Maccarrone Campus Bio-Medico
Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome
Rome
Italy

Clementina Manera Department of Pharmacy
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Ionel MangalagiuDepartment of Organic Chemistry
“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi
Iași
Romania

Mauro Maniscalco Pneumology Unit
Hospital S. Maria della Pietà
Naples
Italy

Thierry Meinnel Protein Maturation, Cell Fate and Therapeutics, ISV
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Cedex
France

Nahum Mendez-SanchezFaculty of Medicine
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation
Mexico City
Mexico

Stefano Moro Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Molecular Modeling Section (MMS)
University of Padova
Padova
Italy

Diego Munoz-TorreroFaculty of Pharmacy
University of Barcelona
Barcelona
Spain

Balasubrmanian Narasimhan Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Maharshi Dayanand University
Haryana
India

Orazio Nicolotti Department of Pharmacy
University of Bari
Bari
Italy

Toshio Nishikimi Department of Cardiology
Kyoto University
Kyoto
Japan

Douglas Noonan Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences
University of the Studies of the Insubria
Varese
Italy

Milan M. Obradovic Department of Radiobiology and Molecular Genetics
Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinca”
Belgrade
Serbia

Yoshihiro Oka Department of Cancer Immunology
Osaka University
Osaka
Japan

Athanasios G. Papavassiliou Department of Biological Chemistry
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens
Greece

Federica Pellati Department of Life Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Modena
Italy

Paola Perego Department of Experimental Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Molecular Pharmacology Unit
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
Milan
Italy

Ricardo Pèrez-Tomãs Department of Patologia i Terapeutica Experimental CCBR Group
University of Barcelona
Barcelona
Spain

Riccardo Petrelli School of Pharmacy
Chemistry Interdisciplinary Project (CHIP)
University of Camerino
Camerino
Italy

Bernard M. Pettit Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Houston, TX
USA

John M. Pezzuto College of Pharmacy
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
Hilo, HI
USA

Jens Pietzsch Department of Radiopharmaceutical and Chemical Biology
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research
Dresden
Germany

Waldemar PriebeMD Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas
Austin, TX
USA

Laszlo Prokai Department Molecular Biology and Immunology
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth, TX
USA

Milica S. Prostran Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Belgrade

Belgrade
Serbia

Carmelo Puglia Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Catania
Catania
Italy

Giulio Rastelli Department of Life Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Modena
Italy

Tadeusz Robak Department of Hematology
Medical University of Lodz
Cio kowskiego
Poland

Manuela Rodriquez Department of Pharmacy
University of Salerno
Fisciano
Italy

Giovanna Romeo Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome
Italy

Vincenzo Russo

Department of Cardiology

University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

Naples

Italy

Patrizia Russo Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology
IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana
Rome
Italy

Agapios Sachinidis Center of Physiology and Pathophysiology
Institute of Neurophysiology
Cologne
Germany

Roberto Di SantoDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry at the Chemistry and Technology of Drug

University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Rome

Italy

Satyajit D. Sarker School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool
UK

Moshe Schaffer Department of Oncology
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beersheba
Israel

Alessandro Serretti Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Science
University of Bologna
Bologna
Italy

Rafael Simó Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León (INCYL)
University of Salamanca
Salamanca
Spain

Mikhail Soloviev School of Biological Sciences Royal Holloway
Royal Holloway University of London
Surrey
UK

David S. Soriano Division of Physical and Computational Sciences
University of Pittsburgh-Bradford
Bradford, PA
USA

Caroline J. Springer Cancer Therapeutics Division
Institute of Cancer Research
Surrey
UK

Tatjana P. Stanojkovic Department of Experimental Oncology
Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia
Belgrade
Serbia

Holger StarkInstitut fuer pharmazeutische chemie
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Frankfurt
Germany

Gabriele Stocco Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita
Università di Trieste
Trieste
Italy

Nikos Tagmatarchis National Hellenic Research Foundation
Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute
Athens
Greece

Igor V. TetkoMolecular Targets and Therapeutics Center

Institute of Structural Biology

Neuherberg

Germany

Michele Tonelli Department of Pharmacy (DIFAR)
University of Genoa
Genoa
Italy

Dimitris Tousoulis 1st Cardiology Department
Hippokration General Hospital
Athens
Greece

Jakob Troppmair Department of General and Transplant Surgery
Innsbruck Medical University
Innsbruck
Austria

Petri A. Turhanen School of Pharmacy
University of Eastern Finland
Kuopio
Finland

John VargheseDepartment. of Neurology
Drug Discovery Laboratory UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
USA

Nicola VopiDepartment of Life Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Modena
Italy

Wei Wang School of Pharmacy
Hunan University of Chinese Medicine
Changsha
China

Shuchao Wang

Center for Medical Research

The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University

Changsha

China

John S. Williamson Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
USA

Zbigniew J. Witczak Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Nesbitt School of Pharmacy
Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, PA
USA

Yung H. WongDepartment of Biology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong

Kun Xiong

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

School of Basic Medical Science

Central South University

Changsha

China

Jun Xu Director of Research Center for Drug Discovery (RCDD)
Sun Yat-Sen University
Guangzhou
China

Paul ZarogoulidisPulmonary Department

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki

Greece

Peng ZhanDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry

Key laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education)

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Shandong University

Jinan

China

Ruiwen Zhang Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Amarillo, TX
USA

Wen Zhang School of Pharmacy
Second Military Medical University
Shanghai
China

Ao Zhang Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai
China

Yongmin Zhang Parisian Institute of Molecular Chemistry
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Paris
France

Ning Zhang Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tianjin University
Tianjin
China

Associate Editorial Board Member(s)

Mirjana Čolović Department of Physical Chemistry
Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinča“
University of Belgrade
Belgrade
Serbia

Ivo E. Sampaio-Dias

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Porto

Porto

Portugal

Ebrahim Mostafavi Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
USA

Executive Guest Editor(s)

Andrea Angeli Department of Neurofarba
University of Florence
Florence
Italy

Pankaj Attri Center of Plasma Nano-interface Engineering
Kyushu University
Fukuoka
Japan

Sergey O. Bachurin Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds
Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
Moscow
Russia

Rodrigo V. Baez Nutrition Department
University of Chile
Santiago
Chile

Anna Bersano Department of Cerebrovascular Disease
IRCCS C. Besta Neurological Institute
Milan
Italy

Simone Brogi Department of Pharmacy
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Adrián A. S. Cabrera Département de Biochimie et Médecine Moléculaire
Université de Montréal
Montréal
Canada

Rosanna Chianese Department of Experimental Medicine
University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Naples
Italy

Guido Crisponi Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences
University of Cagliari
Cagliari
Italy

Xianting Ding School of Biomedical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China

Laura Franza Department of Internal Medicine
Emergency Medicine Department
Moscow
Russia

Tiziana Latronico Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies, and Biopharmaceutics
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari
Italy

Kuen-Song Lin Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Yuan Ze University
Taoyuan
Taiwan

Cristina MaccalliniDepartment of Pharmacy

University of G. d'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara

Chieti

Italy

Edyta Mikula Department of Biosensors of the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research
Polish Academy of Sciences
Olsztyn
Poland

Giuseppe Pappalardo Institute of Crystallography
National Research Council (CNR)
Catania
Italy

Roza Pawlowska Division of Bioorganic Chemistry
Polish Academy of Sciences
Łódź
Poland

Vadim S. Pokrovsky Department of Biochemistry
People’s Friendship University
Moscow
Russia

Jelena Popovic-Djordjevic Department Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Belgrade
Belgrade
Serbia

Ornelio Rosati Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Perugia
Perugia
Italy

Christos Savopoulos Department of Internal Medicine
AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Greece

Xinhua Shu Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU)
Glasgow
Scotland

Chuanling SiDepartment of Plant Chemistry & Fine

Chemicals
Tianjin University of Science & Technology

Tianjin
China

Jacopo Troisi Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry
University of Salerno
Baronissi
Italy

Domenico Trombetta Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical, and Environmental Sciences
University of Messina
Messina
Italy

Chi-Meng Tzeng School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Xiamen University
Xiamen
China

Cheng WangSchool of Medicine
Changzhou University
Changzhou
China

Yun-Long Wu School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Xiamen University
Xiamen
China

Kang Xu Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Hubei University of Chinese Medicine
Wuhan
China

Kun Zhang Department of Medical Ultrasound
Tongji University School of Medicine
Shanghai
China

Xun Zhang

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Southern University of Science and Technology

Shenzhen

China

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