Current Pharmaceutical Design

Editorial Board

Honorary Senior Advisor(s)

Abba J. KastinThe International Neuropeptide Society
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, LA
USA

Mariam MatarUAE Genetic
Diseases Association
Dubai
UAE

Andrew V. Schally(Nobel Laureate)
Endocrine, Polypeptide Cancer Institute
VA Medical Center
Miami, FL
USA

Editor-in-Chief

Alessandro Antonelli Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Co-Editor(s)-in-Chief

Eleonore FröhlichCenter for Medical Research
Medical University of Graz
Graz
Austria

Stefan Kloiber Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto
Toronto
Canada

Concettina La Motta Department of Pharmacy
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Mattia Mori Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy
University of Siena
Siena
Italy

Paolo E. Puddu Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Nephrological and Geriatrical Sciences
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
Rome
Italy

Manfredi Rizzo School of Medicine
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy

Rongling Wu Departments of Public Health Sciences and Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania, PA
USA

Regional Editor(s)

Marcos R. T. Palone Ribeirão Preto Medical School
University of São Paulo
São Paulo
Brazil

Asia

Sanjula Baboota Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER)
Jamia Hamdard
New Delhi
India

Seiji ShiodaDepartment of Anatomy
Hoshi University
Tokyo
Japan

Country Editor(s)

Jimmy T. EfirdDurham Veterans Administration Health Care System (DVAHCS)
Durham, NC
USA

Antonino TuttolomondoDepartment of Internal Medicine
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy

Section Editor(s)

Section: CNS

George Anderson CRC Scotland & London
London
UK

Section: CMR and Preventive Cardiology

Emmanuel S. AndroulakisDepartment of Imaging Centre

Royal Brompton Hospital

Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

London

Section: Biofactors

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

Section: Toxicology

Francesco P. Busardò

Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health

Polytechnic University of Marche

Ancona

Italy

Section: Dug Conjugates

Ivana Cacciatore Department of Pharmacy
University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara
Chieti Scalo
Italy

Section: In silico GPCR Drug Discovery

Antonio Carrieri

Department of Pharmacy- Drug Science

University of Bari

Bari

Italy

Section: Mood and Psychotic Disorders

Andre F. Carvalho Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto
Toronto
Canada

Section: Drug Therapy in Ischemic Nephropathy

Rosario Cianci Department of Clinical Medicine
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome
Italy

Section: Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy in the Rehabilitation of chronic diseases

Daniele CoraciPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation

University of Padova

Padua

Italy

Section: Medicinal Chemistry

Barbara De Filippis Department of Pharmacy
Universita' Degli Studi G. D'Annunzio Di Chieti - Pescara
Chieti
Italy

Section: Immunology

Juan Bautista De Sanctis
Faculty of Medicine
Central University of Venezuela
Caracas
Venezuela

Section: Detection of drugs and antioxidants

Carlos Fernandez Analytical Chemistry and Programme
Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen
UK

Section: Personalized Medicine

Augusto Fusco Department of Aging, Neurological, Orthopaedic and Head-Neck Sciences
Agostino Gemelli University Policlinic
Rome
Italy

Section: Ophthalmology

Andzej Grzybowski Department of Ophthalmology
University of Warmia and Mazury
Olsztyn
Poland

Section: Artificial Intelligence and Computational Drug Discovery

Shicheng Guo Department of Medical Genetics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
USA

Section: Phytomedicine and omics

Da-Cheng HAO School of Environment and Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Institute
Dalian Jiao tong University
Dalian
China

Section: Vaccines

Yuxian He Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Peking Union Medical College
Beijing
China

Section: Nanomedicine

Yu Hua Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences
University of Macau
Zhuhai
China

Section: Tauopathies and Dementia

Andrej KovacSlovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Neuroimmunology
Bratislava
Slovakia

Section: Drug Resistance

Alberto J. Lazarowski Clinical Biochemistry Department
University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Section: Phytomedicine

Kefeng Li School of Medicine
University of California
San Diego, CA
USA

Section: Machine learning for pharmaceutical and life science-based applications

Wing-Kuen LING School of Information Engineering
Guangdong University of Technology
Guangzhou
China

Section: Anti-Cancer Drugs

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

Section: Cardiovascular Drugs

Manuel Martínez-Sellés Department of Cardiology
Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Madrid
Spain

Section: Dug Conjugates

Ismail Ocsoy Department of Analytical Chemistry
Erciyes University
Kayseri
Turkey

Section: Metabolomics

Yunping Qiu The Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center (ES-DRC)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
NewYork, NY
USA

Section: Vascular Medicine

Domenico Di RaimondoDepartment of Internal Medicine
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy

Section: Pediatric Pharmacology

Antonio Ruggiero Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Rome
Italy

Section: Nanotechnology for drug/gene/vaccine delivery

Alexander M. Seifalian Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine Commercialisation Centre
London BioScience Innovation Centre
London
UK

Section: Neuropharmacology

Nicola Simola Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Cagliari
Cagliari
Italy

Section: Molecular Structure and Properties

Ponam Tandon Physics Department
University of Lucknow
Lucknow
India

Section: Psychopharmacology

Panayotis K. Thanos Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University at Buffalo
New York, NY
USA

Section: Oncology

Amit. K. Tiwari
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH
USA

Section: Malignancies of the CNS

Victo V. Uteshev Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
University of North Texas HSC
Fort Worth, TX
USA

Section: Phytomedicine

Yuefei Wang Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Tianjin
China

Section: Precision Medicine

Weiwei WangGenesis Beijing Co., Ltd.
Beijing
China

Section: Toxicology

Zhining WenCollege of Chemistry
Medical Big Data Center
Sichuan University
Sichuan
China

Section: Enzymology

Qing Yang Department of Bioengineering
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian
China

Section: Immunotherapeutics

Shikun Yang Department of Nephrology
Central South University
Changsha
China

Section: Phosphodiesterases in Health and Disease

Hanting ZhangHealth Sciences Center
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
USA

Section: Nanoscience

Jian ZhongCollege of Food Science and Technology
Shanghai Ocean University
Shanghai
China

Section Editor(s)(Special Issues)

Carlo CervellatiDepartment of Translational Medicine
University of Ferrara
Ferrara
Italy

Renata V. Contri

Faculty of Pharmacy

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Porto Alegre

Brazil

Anton R. Kiselev

Coordinating Center for Fundamental Research

National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine

Moscow

Russia

Sidharth Mehan

Department of Pharmacology

ISF College of Pharmacy

Moga

India

Seiji Okada

Division of Hematopoiesis

Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection

Kumamoto University

Kumamoto

Japan

Marina B. P. Pinheiro

Faculty of Pharmacy

University of Porto

Porto

Portugal

Hongzong Si

State Key Laboratory

Qingdao University

Qingdao

China

Editorial Board Member(s)

Javad Sharifi-Rad
Gulf Center for Technological and University Studies
Veracruz
Mexico

Xiaojun YaoCentre for Artificial Intelligence Driven Drug Discovery

Faculty of Applied Sciences
Macao Polytechnic University
Macao
China

Jasvinder A. Singh Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology
University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL
USA

Votech Adam Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mendel University in Brno
Brno
Czech Republic

Aijaz Ahmed Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital
Johannesburg
South Africa

Vasilios G. Athyros Department of Internal Medicine
Aristotelian University
Thessaloniki
Greece

William A. Banks Seattle VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Seattle, WA
USA

Yochai Birnbaum The Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
USA

Monica V. Butnariu Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Discipline
Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
Timisoara
Romania

Antoni Camins Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Chemistry
University of Barcelona
Barcelona
Spain

Nicola CosentinoIntensive Cardiac Care Unit
Centro Cardiologico Monzino
IRCCS
Milan
Italy

Magali Cucchiarini Center of Experimental Orthopaedics
Saarland University Medical Center
Homburg
Germany

Gerardino D'Errico Department of Chemical Sciences
University of Naples
Naples
Italy

Roland E. DollePharmacopeia, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
USA

Hazem O. R. ElkadyPharmaceutical Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design Department
Faculty of Pharmacy
Al-Azhar University

Cairo
Egypt

Susanna Esposito Department of Medicine and Surgery
University of Parma
Parma
Italy

Daiming Fan Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases
Fourth Military Medical University
Xi'an
China

Stefano FiorucciDepartment of Medicine and Surgery
University of Perugia
Perugia
Italy

Francesco Fornai Human Anatomy School of Medicine
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Nigel H. GreigIntramural Research Program
National Institutes of Health
Baltimore, MD
USA

Mehmet Gumustas Institute of Forensic Sciences
Ankara University
Ankara
Turkey

Girish K. Gupta Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Sri Sai Group of Institute
Pathankot
India

Khalid R. Hakeem Department of Biological Sciences
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia

Syed Shams ul Hassan

Department of Natural Product Chemistry

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai

China

Dominique Heymann West Cancer Institute
University of Nantes
Nantes
France

Tingjun Hou College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Zhejiang University
Zhejiang
China

Richard A. Houghten Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
University of California at Berkeley
Port St. Lucie, FL
USA

Maria E. Jaramillo-FloresNational School in Biological Sciences
National Polytechnic Institute
Mexico City
Mexico

Rangasamy Jayakumar Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre
Kochi
India

Xiqun Jiang College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Nanjing University
Nanjing
China

Ranjith K. KankalaCollege of Chemical Engineering
Huaqiao University
Quanzhou
China

Alireza Karimi Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
USA

Keith W. Kelley Professor of Immunophysiology
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
USA

Alexander Kornienko Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
USA

Miguel A. Prieto Analytical and Food Chemistry Department
University of Vigo
Ourense
Spain

Yoongho Lim Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology
Konkuk University
Seoul
South Korea

Paul R. Lockman Health Sciences Center
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
USA

Tong-Bu Lu Institute for New Energy Materials and Low Carbon Technologies
Tianjin University of Technology
Tianjin
China

Giuseppe Maina Department of Neuroscience
University of Turin
Turin
Italy

José L. Medina-Franco School of Chemistry
University of Mexico
Mexico City
Mexico

Dinesh K. Mishra
School of Pharmacy & Technology Management
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
Shirpur
India

John E. MorleySchool of Medicine
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO
USA

Paola A. Mura Department of Chemistry
University of Florence
Florence
Italy

John H. Musser Glycomed
Alameda, CA
USA

Arnon NaglerDirector Hematology Division
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv
Israel

Kazufumi Nakamura Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Okayama University
Okayama
Japan

Amit K. Nayak

Department of Pharmaceutics

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University)

Bhubaneswar

India

Ali Nokhodchi
School of Life Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton
UK

Ruth Nussinov Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Frederick, MD
USA

Emmanuel C. Opara Wake Forest School of Medicine
Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences (SBES)
Winston-Salem, NC
USA

Gian M. PacificiDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Pasquale Pagliaro University of Torino
Orbassano
Italy

Hai-Feng Pan Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Anhui Medical University
Anhui
China

Zhiqing Pang

Department of Pharmaceutics

Fudan Universiy

Shanghai

China

Giuseppe FerranteDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine
Humanitas Research Hospital
Rozzano
Italy

Luana Perioli Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Perugia
Perugia
Italy

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

Zhiyong Qian West China Hospital
Sichuan University
Chengdu
China

Nima RezaeiResearch Center for Immunodeficiencies

Children's Medical Center

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Tehran
Iran

Rita Rezzani Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences
University of Brescia
Brescia
Italy

Carlo Riccardi Department of Medicine
University of Perugia
Perugia
Italy

Silvia Rivara Department of Food and Drug Sciences
University of Parma
Parma
Italy

Manfredi Rizzo
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy

Gavin P. Robertson Department of Pharmacology
The Pennsylvania State University
Hershey, PA
USA

Matteo A. RussoIRCCS San Raffaele Pisana
Rome
Italy

Andrew V. Schally(Nobel Laureate)
Endocrine, Polypeptide Cancer Institute
VA Medical Center
Miami, FL
USA

Francesco P. Schena Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation
University of Bari
Bari
Italy

Natalia Schlabritz-Lutsevich Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Texas Tech University
Odessa, TX
USA

Claudio Soto Department of Neurology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
USA

Shams Tabrez King Fahd Medical Research Center
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia

Sushma Talegaonkar Department of Pharmaceutics
Jamia Hamdard
New Delhi
India

Ren X. Tan State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine
Nanjing
China

Carlo G. Tocchetti Department of Translational Medical Sciences
The University of Naples Federico II
Naples
Italy

Nese Tuncel Department of Physiology
University of Osmangazi
Eskisehir
Turkey

Muhammad Wahajuddin Division of Pharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics
CSIR- Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI)
Lucknow
India

Qian Wang Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
USA

Jingwei Xie Department of Surgery
University of Nebraska
Omaha, NE
USA

Wuli Yang Department of Macromolecular Science
Fudan University
Shanghai
China

Xiang Y. Zhang Department of Psychiatry
The University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX
USA

Hong Zhang Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Shanghai
China

Lufeng Zheng School of Life Science and Technology
China Pharmaceutical University
Nanjing
China

Shaobing Zhou School of Materials Science and Engineering
Southwest Jiaotong University
Chengdu
China

Qi (Tony) Zhou College of Pharmacy
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
USA

Associate Editorial Board Member(s)

Seyed H. Aghaee-Bakhtiari Department of Medical Biotechnology
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Mashhad
Iran

Puneeta N. GuptaFormulation & Drug Delivery Division
CSIR- Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine
Jammu
India

Majid Khazaei Department of Physiology
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Mashhad
Iran

Hui LvKey Laboratory of Advanced Design and Intelligent Computing Ministry of Education
Dalian University
Dalian
China

Na’il Saleh Department of Chemistry
United Arab Emirates University
Al Ain
UAE

Muthu Thiruvengadam Department of Crop Science
Konkuk University
Seoul
South Korea

Chunlin Zhuang Department of Chemistry
Fudan University
Shanghai
China

Mini Review Editor

Michelle Erickson Department of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
USA

Executive Guest Editor(s)

Amirhossein Ahmadi Faculty of Pharmacy
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Sari
Iran

Md Sabir AlamSGT College of Pharmacy
Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary (SGT) University
Gurgaon
India

Karel Allegaert

Department of Hospital Pharmacy
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rotterdam

Netherlands

Sanjula Baboota Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER)
Jamia Hamdard
New Delhi
India

Francesco P. Busardò

Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health

Polytechnic University of Marche

Ancona

Italy

Marcio F. Chedid Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery Unit
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Porto Alegre
Brazil

Ruth Clapauch Departamento de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia (DGO)
Rio de Janeiro State University
Rio De Janeiro
Brazil

Silvio Danese Department of Gastroenterology
Humanitas Research Hospital
Rozzano
Italy

Martin F. DesimoneAnalytical and Physical Chemistry Department
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Jianxun Ding

Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials

Jilin Biomedical Polymers Engineering Laboratory

Changchun

China

Hao Gao College of Artificial Intelligence
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Nanjing
China

Iilana GozesSackler Faculty of Medicine
Tel Aviv University
Ramal Aviv
Israel

Nigel H. GreigIntramural Research Program
National Institutes of Health
Baltimore, MD
USA

Andzej Grzybowski Department of Ophthalmology
University of Warmia and Mazury
Olsztyn
Poland

Jiwei HuGuizhou Provincial Key Laboratory
Guizhou Normal University
Guizhou
China

Xin Huang Department of Orthopedics
Tongji Medical College
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan
China

Mohammad A. Kamal King Fahd Medical Research Center
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia

Sher B. Khan Department of Chemistry
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah
Saudi Arab

Mallikarjuna KoriviCollege of PE & Health Sciences
Zhejiang Normal University
Jinhua
China

Mingkai Li Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy
Fourth Military Medical University
Xi’an
China

Natália A. P. D. C. Martins
Department of Biomedicine
University of Porto
Porto
Portugal

Weiwei XueSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chongqing University
Chongqing
China

Donghong ZhangCenter for Molecular and Translational Medicine
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
USA

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