FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE;
MANAGING EDITORS AND TITLES OF SPECIAL ISSUES

Editorial Profile Title of special issue Launch Date
1996
Dr Elisabetta Baldi Sperm biology, From basic to Clinic 1/96
Dr Kenth T Gustafsson Carbohydrates in immunology/Evolution of the immune system (in particular MHC) 1/96
Dr Rajesh Naz Male reproductive medicine 9/96
Dr Frank Jenkins Human viruses and cancer 10/96
1997
Dr William W Barrow Mycobacterial pathogenesis and anti-mycobacterial drug design 1/97
Dr Adriana Heguy New and emerging targets for antiviral therapy 1/97
Dr Staffan Johansson Integrins, cell migration and extracellular matrix 3/97
1998
Dr Xavier Grana Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Control 1/98
Dr Rajeshwar Rao Tekmal Hormonal mediated carcinogenesis 8/98
Dr René St-Arnaud Signal transduction in bone cells 8/98
Dr Norbert Berndt Cellular functions of protein phosphatases 9/98
Dr Andrius Kazlauskas Signaling through protein kinase C 11/98
Dr Howard Safran Novel approaches in the management of pancreatic cancer 11/98
1999
Dr JD Rosenblatt Gene Therapy approaches to HIV-1 Infection 1/99
Dr Kenneth Rosenthal Immune Peptide Enhancement of Peptide Based Vaccines 1/99
Dr Marcelo E Tolmasky Bacterial resistance to aminoglycoside and beta-lactam antibiotics: molecular genetics and dissemination 1/99
Dr Adhip Majmudar Gastrointestinal growth and carcinogenesis 3/99
Dr Graham Pawelec T cell immunosenescence 3/99
Dr Charles Malemud Fundamental pathways in osteoarthritis 11/99
Dr Hector Rasgado-Flores Magnesium and cell proliferation and differentiation 11/99
Dr Eric Wickstrom Anti-sense therapeutics 11/99
Dr Hisao Masai DNA replication (mechanisms and regulation) 12/99
2000
Dr John J. Foxe Congition and attention 1/00
Dr Peter L Gutierrez Mechanisms of action of quinone-containing alkylating agents 1/00
Dr Richard Pestell Cell cyle dysregulation in disease 2/00
Dr Owen M. Rennert Genetic Diseases 3/00
Dr Everly Conway de Macario Anti-stress mechanisms in archaea: implications for biology and medicine 9/00
Dr Victor Preedy Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Muscle Pathology 9/00
2001
Dr Francis J. Castellino Gene targeting in hemostasis 1/01
Dr Jerome Schaack Early Region Gene Function in Adenovirus Vectors 2/01
Dr Robert Schneider Frontiers in natural medicine research 2/01
Dr Surinder K. Batra Mucins 4/01
Dr David G. Capco Molecular and biochemical control of preimplantation development 4/01
Dr Antonio Giordano Gene Targets for Modulating Cell Growth 4/01
Dr Wei Dai Cell cycle checkpoint control 5/01
Dr Gerald V. Denis The role of bromodomain proteins in the cell cycle and cancer 5/01
Dr Jeffrey D. Cirillo Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens 6/01
Dr Austin J Cooney Nuclear receptor function and mechanism of action 6/01
Dr Subrata Haldar Signature of normal and cancer cells: molecular targets for cancer therapy 8/01
Dr Liesl B. Jones Schizophrenia, Pathology and Treatment 8/01
Dr Jeremy J. Mao Biomimetics and engineering of skeletal tissues 8/01
Dr Maria Laura Avantaggiati DNA metabolism within a nucleosomal context 9/01
Dr David S Chi Molecular basis and therapeutic options in cardiovascular disease and vasculopathy 9/01
Dr JeanMarie Houghton H. pylori- bacterial pathogenesis and immune response 9/01
Dr Guha Krishnaswamy Molecular basis and therapeutic options in cardiovascular disease and vasculopathy 9/01
Dr Robert W. Hoffman Pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus 10/01
Dr Xiangwei Wu p53 and Apoptosis 10/01
Dr Mohammad Z. Abedin Molecular basis of gallstone pathogenesis 11/01
Dr Josephine Adams Cell Protrusions in Cell Adhesion, Motility and Communicating Interactions 11/01
Dr Stacy Branch Mechanisms of Xenobiotically-Induced Abnormal Development 11/01
Dr Adam Goldfarb Topics in Molecular Hematology 11/01
Dr Carl Marrs Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases 11/01
Dr Michael E Trigg Marrow transplantation in children: "current results and controversies" 11/01
Dr Yung Yu Genetics, Structures and Disease Associations of the Human Central MHC 11/01
Dr Michael Hortsch Neural cell adhesion molecules 12/01
Dr Patrick L Lai Persistent Infection and Immunity 12/01
Dr Todd Miller Autoinhibition in Signal Transduction Proteins 12/01
Dr George Perry Alzheimer's disease 12/01
Dr Mark A. Smith Alzheimer's disease 12/01
Dr Marcos Rojkind From Regeneration to Scar Formation 12/01
Dr Jagannadha K. Sastry Peptide-based vaccines and therapeutics against immune disorders 12/01
Dr Denong Wang Post-genomic research and technologies 12/01
Dr Jian Wu Liver Fibrosis and Targeting Therapy 12/01
Dr Yuqi Zhao Cell Cycle Control in Viral Infection 12/01
2002
Dr Denong Wang Post-genomic research and technologies 1/02
Dr Lindsey A Miles Plasminogen Receptors 1/02
Dr Girija Muralidhar Regulation of T cell anergy and apoptosis during viral and microbial infections 1/02
Dr Pamela A. Norton Liver Fibrosis and Targeting Therapy 1/02
Dr William Okulicz Progesterone Action and the Endometrium 1/02
Dr Vincent Planelles Gene Therapy approaches to HIV-1 Infection 1/02
Dr Roger Pomerantz Engineered Retroviruses 1/02
Dr Liang Qiao Papillomaviruses: Immunology and Vaccines 1/02
Dr JianYu Rao Tumor markers for bladder cancer early detection 1/02
Dr Erle Robertson DNA Viruses and Human Malignancies 1/02
Dr Jerry W. Simecka Mycoplasma 1/02
Dr Rakesh Sindhi Immunemodulation and immunosuppressants 1/02
Dr Emanuel Strehler Calcium homeostasis and calcium signaling in health and disease 1/02
Dr Alex Tsygankov Tyrosine protein phosphorylation in cell signaling 1/02
Dr Héctor H. Valdivia The Structure And Function of Calcium Release Channels 1/02
Dr Homer S Black Photocarcinogenesis 2/02
Dr Karin Bornfeld Tachykinin-mediated modulation of the immune response 2/02
Shiuan Chen Endocrine disruptors 2/02
Dr Swapan K. Ghosh Detection and Immunotherapy of Cancer 2/02
Dr Cormac T Taylor Role of epithelial cells in inflammatory processes 2/02
Dr Abraham Bautista Role of epithelial cells in inflammatory processes 3/02
Dr Heping Zhang Statistics and Bioinformatics in Medicine 3/02
Dr Purdur Jagadeeswaran The zebrafish as a model for human disease 4/02
Dr Bing-Hua Jiang Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signaling 4/02
Dr John Iacomini Transplantation Tolerance 5/02
Dr John Nambu Regulation of Programmed Cell Death 5/02
Dr Herbie Tanowitz Infectious Diseases of the Myocardium 6/02
Dr Jie Wu Biology and Medicine of ErbB Tyrosine Kinases 6/02
Hussain Naveed Mechanisms Of Inflammation And Resolution In Hyperoxia-Induced Chronic Lung Disease Of Premature Infants 7/02
Dr Amit Banerjee Ubiquitin-Mediated Proteolysis in Cellular Regulation 8/02
Dr Jens Eckstein Current Topics in Lead Discovery 8/02
Dr Irwin Gelman Scaffolding Proteins as Regulators of Signaling 8/02
Dr Erwin Van Meir Encyclopedia of Neuro-Oncology 8/02
Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh DNA supercoiling and gene expression 8/02
Dr Peter Wong Defense Science, Stem Cells and Infectious Diseases 8/02
Dr Peter Zuber Prokaryotic transcriptional regulation: Beyond the enteric paradigms 8/02
Dr Michael Fannon Angiogenesis 9/02
Dr Jodi Flaws Molecular basis of ovarian development and function 9/02
Dr Wu-Nan Kuo Nitric Oxide and Related Research 11/02
2003
Dr Anna Barrett Spatial attention, motor intention: disorders and treatment 1/03
Dr Ralph Dornburg Engineered Retroviruses 1/03
David Hui Lipid and lipoprotein metabolism 1/03
Mahmood Hussain Lipid binding, modifying and transferring proteins 1/03
Dr Lin Liu Functions of Alveolar Epithelial Cells 1/03
Dr Viswanath Kurup Allergic Aspergillosis 1/03
Dr Ramesh Natarajan Nitric Oxide And ROS Mediated Signaling 1/03
Dr Aftab A. Ansari Natural lentivirus infection of non-human primates 5/03
Dr Norbert Berndt Microcirculation 5/03
Di Chen TGFbeta/BMP Receptor Signaling 5/03
Dr Marina Emborg Parkinson's Disease 5/03
Candece L. Gladson FAK Family Kinases in Disease 5/03
Dr Ruo-Pan Huang Protein array: an excellent tool for biomedical discovery 5/03
Dr Conrad Johanson Cerebrospinal Fluid and Ependymal Interactions with Brain 5/03
Dr Konstantin Kandror Insulin regulation of glucose transport 5/03
Dr A Lien-Chang DNA repair and genome stability 5/03
Dr Phillip E. Klebba Bacterial Membrane Transport 5/03
Dr Saeed Khan Kidney Stones; Their Formation, Removal and Prevention 5/03
Dr James Krueger Basic Science of Sleep 5/03
Dr Alexander V. Ljubimov 1. Molecular mechanisms of eye diseases 2. Basement membranes and proteinases in pathology 5/03
Dr Kenneth Roebuck Inflammatory response mechanisms 5/03
Dr Jose Romero Pathophysiology of Cellular Cation Regulation in Human Disease 5/03
Dr Gianluca Tosini Circadian Rhythms from Molecules to Behavior 5/03
Dr Joy Warer Mechanisms of Progression in Prostate and Ovarian Cance 5/03
Dr Forouzan Golshani Computational Biometrics 8/03
Dr Michael Green Proton transport in biological systems 9/03
Dr Katherine Hajjar New Insights into Angiogenesis 9/03
Dr Chung Lee From TGF-beta to cancer therapy 9/03
Dr Kenneth G Matnon Bio-Demographic effects of genome-proteome interactions 9/03
Dr Andrej Romanovsky Fever and Hypothermia in Systemic Inflammation 9/03
Dr Sadiq H. Wasfi Polyoxometalates: Synthesis, Characterization, Properties, and Applications 9/03
Wayne Hynes Extracellular virulence factors of Gram Positive Bacteria 11/03
2004
Dr Steven Alexander Inflammatory Disorders of the Nervous system 1/04
Jian-Jun Chen Tumor-induced immunosuppression: implications for cancer immunotherapy 1/04
Dr Hanjoong Jo Advances in Chemical, Biochemical, and Biomedical Principles and Applications of Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Polynucleotides 1/04
Dr Ramachandra Hosmane Advances in Chemical, Biochemical, and Biomedical Principles and Applications of Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Polynucleotides 1/04
Dr John Leah Regulation of Gene Expression in the Brain 1/04
Dr Feng Liu Grb7/Grb10/Grb14 adaptor protein family: Structure, regulation, and function in cell signaling 1/04
Dr Craig Malbon Wnt-Frizzled Signaling in Developmen 1/04
Dr Alireza Minagar Inflammatory Disorders of the Nervous system 1/04
Dr Ying Zhang Drug-resistant and persistent tuberculosis: two major challenges for control 1/04
Dr Subhas Chakrabarty Selected Topics in Cancer Research:Current Advances 5/04
Dr Hiroshi Ashihara Purine, pyrimidine and pyridine metabolism in plants 5/04
Dr Kenneth L. Bost Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Diabetes-accelerated Atherosclerosis 5/04
Dr Norio Kagawa Gene regulation and structure-function of P450/Cold stress response 5/04
Dr Shu Liu Molecular and biomechanical bases of vascular tissue engineering 5/04
Dr Kun Ping Lu Prolyl Isomerases in Cell Signaling and Diseases 5/04
Dr Curtis Machida mRNA Stability and Posttranscriptional Control of Receptors and Channels in the Nervous System 5/04
Dr Michael Maguire 1) Microbial Magnesium Transport and the Role of Magnesium in Pathogenesis 2) Microbial Manganese Transport and the Role of Manganese and Manganese Enzymes in Pathogenesis 5/04
Dr Ernst Niggli Biological Applications of Multi-Photon Microscopy 5/04
Dr Yubo Sun Crystals-associated Arthropathies and Therapeutic Development 5/04
Dr Michael Taffe Nonhuman primate models of neuropsychopathology 5/04
Dr Abdelouahab Aitouche Immunological Tolerance to our Own Antigens 09/04
Dr George Blanck Tumor cell regulation of the immune system 9/04
Narendra Chirmule Molecular Aspects to Vaccine Design Molecular Aspects to Vaccine Design 9/04
Dr Bruce Dolnick Thymidylate Synthase in Biology and Cancer Treatment 9/04
Dr Cheng Dong Cellular Biomechanics 9/04
Dr Sergei Granda Nonneuronal Acetylcholine in Normal physiology and Pathology 9/04
Dr Joseph Holoshitz The Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis 9/04
Dr Yuan Luo Oxidative stress, Neurodegenerative disorders and Neuroprotection 9/04
Dr Rhoda Maneckjee New perspectives in the therapeutic use of opioids 9/04
Dr Warren Nothnick Tissue Remodeling Factors in the Physiology and Pathophysiologies of the Female Reproductive Tract 9/04
Dr Phillip Patston Serpins in Biology and Medicine 9/04
Dr Mathew Pincus Computations of the Structures of Proteins and Nucleic Acids and Implications for Drug Design 9/04
Dr Linda Spatz Mechanisms for the maintenance and the breakdown of B cell tolerance 9/04
Dr Xueji Zhang Biosensors and their applications 9/04
2005
Dr Sushanta K. Banerjee Growth Factors and Cancer 1/05
Dr David Binion Microvasculature in chronic intestinal inflammation 1/05
Dr Hriday Das Current Status in Alzheimer's Research 1/05
Dr Q Ping Dou Potential Molecular Targets for Chemoprevention 1/05
Dr Dieter Kabelitz Role of unconventional T cells in immune defense 1/05
Dr Yiwen Li Tumor Angiogenesis 1/05
Dr Susan Marriott Taking Control of the Host: Molecular Strategies of HTLV-I Infection 1/05
Dr Shu-Wing Ng Molecular Targets for drug resistance 1/05
Dr Samir S. Raychoudhury Cell-cell interactions and cell adhesion molecules in the gonads 1/05
Dr Manuel Valenzuela Initiation of DNA Replication 1/05
Dr Guangming Zhong Microbial interactions with their hosts 1/05
Dr Bin Ren Tumor Growth and Metastasis: Molecular Signaling and Therapy 5/05
Dr Nobuhiro Sato Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) 5/05
Dr Sharron Francis Cyclic GMP Signaling through cGMP-dependent protein kinases and cGMP phosphodiesterases 5/05
Dr Yi-Xun Liu Gene regulation and signal transduction in gonads 5/05
Dr Douglas Ruden Epigenetic Effects During Development and Disease Launch 5/05
Dr John Chiang Regulation of bile acid synthesis 5/05
Dr Olen Brown Oxygen in Biology 5/05
Dr Vinayaka R. Prasad RNA Therapeutics for AIDS 5/05
Dr Avadhesh Sharma Advances in Systemic Inflammatory Response 5/05
Dr Kenneth P. Nephew The Role of Epigenetics in Development and Disease 5/05
Dr Vicente Andrés Genetically-modified animals as research models in development and disease 5/05
Dr Yi-Ping Li Skeletal Biology and Diseases 5/05
Dr Joseph I. Shapiro Regulation and function of NaK-ATPase in health and disease 9/05
Dr Ning Wei Regulation of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like protein conjugation pathways 9/05
Dr Maxim Trushin New Modalities in Cancer Therapy 9/05
Dr Arthur Chu Blood coagulation, inflammation, and thrombosisr 9/05
Dr Shohreh Amini and Martyn White AIDS-related malignant diseases 9/05
Dr Keith Black New innovations in management of brain tumors 9/05
Dr Laure Aurelian Virus modulation of signaling pathways in central nervous system disease 9/05
Dr Philippe Gascard Role of the cytoskeleton in cellular architecture and functions - Pathologies associated with cytoskeletal defects 9/05
Dr Juergen Reichardt Molecular Basis of Complex Diseases 9/05
Dr Suzie Chen Recent Advances in Melanoma 9/05
Dr Alexey Belkin Cellular functions of tissue transglutaminase 9/05
Dr Sherif Karam Adult Stem Cell Biology 9/05
2006
Dr Charles Malemud Matrix Metalloproteinases in Health and Disease 1/06
Dr Vineet Bhandari Genetic Basis for Disorders affecting the Premature Newborn 1/06
Dr Cesar Borlongan Gene Therapy for Stroke 1/06
Dr Howard Kaufman Cancer Vaccine 1/06
Dr Masoud Manjili Gene regulation and signal transduction in CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells 1/06
Dr Antonio Sechi Signalling and actin cytoskeleton dynamics in the onset and maintenance of the immune response 1/06
Dr Tatsuo Watanabe Stress responses: from molecular to integrative bioscience 5/06
Dr Richard Nicholson Corticotrophin Releasing Hormone 5/06
Dr Elizabeth Vincan Wnt/FZD signalling in cancer and disease 5/06
Dr Ulhas Naik Platelet Physiology 5/06
Dr Changping Zou Cancer Chemoprevention 5/06
Dr Maxim Trushin Recent advances in mycoplasmology 9/06
Dr Hiroki Yokota Matrix Metalloproteinases 9/06
Dr Kuan-Teh Jeang Human cancer causing viruses 9/06
Dr Guo-Min Li DNA Repair Genes and human diseases 9/06
Dr Allal Ouhtit Oxidative stress and cardiovascular diseases 9/06
Dr Ana Navarro Mitochondria: physiological function, signaling and oxidative damage 9/06
Dr Alberto Boveris Mitochondria: physiological function, signaling and oxidative damage 9/06
Dr Mala Chinoy Developmental genes 9/06
Dr Karen Coats Animal models of lentiviral vertical transmission 9/06
Dr Kounosuke Watabe Pathogenesis of tumor progression in breast and prostate cancer 9/06
Dr Yuefei Liu Muscular adaptation to cellular stress 9/06
Dr George Hemstreet Genes in genitourinary neoplasia 9/06
Dr Meena Kishore Sakharkar Bioinformation 9/06
Dr Pandjassarame Kangueane Bioinformation 9/06
Dr Jean Jiang Gap Junctions and Hemichannels 9/06
Dr Yongmei Chen Mechanisms of Stroke Injury 9/06
Dr Jose Mates Glutamine as a cellular signal 9/06
2007
Dr Laurence Morel Role of B cells in systemic and organ-specific autoimmune diseases 1/07
Dr Alister Ward GCF and its receptor 1/07
Dr Julia Hurwitz Harnessing immune potential by vaccination 1/07
Dr Xiaofeng Charles Zhou Genomic approaches for the identification of biomarkers for cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis 1/07
Dr Yuping Wang Placenta, endothelium, and preeclampsia 1/07
Dr Troy Hornberger Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Growth and Atrophy 1/07
Dr Eliezer Shalev Molecules in regulation of labor 1/07
Dr Weihai Ying Mechanisms of Neuronal Injury in Neurological Diseases 1/07
Dr Heribert Stoiber Immune responses to retroviral infections 1/07
Dr Sindhi Rakesh Endpoints in Immunomodulatory Trials 1/07
Dr Paul Shapshak NeuroAIDS and Drug Abuse 1/07
Dr Xianlin Han Lipidomics: Developments and Applications 1/07
Dr Traci Wilgus Emerging trends in wound repair 1/07
Dr Zoi Lygerou The licensing factor Cdt1 and its inhibitor Geminin 1/07
Dr Hideo Nishitani The licensing factor Cdt1 and its inhibitor Geminin 1/07
Dr Alberto Ortiz To die or not to die:following the TRAIL 1/07
Dr Corina Lorz To die or not to die:following the TRAIL 1/07
Dr Everly Conway de Macario Molecular chaperone genes in the human genome 1/07
Dr Alberto Macario Molecular chaperone genes in the human genome 1/07
Dr Davis Randall Neuroinflammation: modulation by drugs of abuse 1/07
Dr Angel Lee Biology of the macrophage in human disease 1/07
Dr Kevin Bunting JAK/STAT signaling in hematopoiesis 5/07
Dr Chang Ming Li Bioarray chips and their biomedical applications 5/07
Dr Kenichi Yoshida Cell division cycle-associated genes in a chromatin context 5/07
Dr Shahriar Koochekpour Translational topics in prostate cancer 5/07
Dr Yong Zhao Transplant immunology 5/07
Dr William Lowry Insights into stem cell niches and their residents 5/07
Dr Ali Akoum Endometriosis: An enigmatic disease 5/07
Dr Pierre Divenyi Behavioral and neurobiological bases of human complex-sound perception 5/07
Dr Brian Gygi Behavioral and neurobiological bases of human complex-sound perception 5/07
Dr Akihiko Wada Insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1 signalings in neuronal cells 5/07
Dr Ravindra N. Singh Pre-mRNA splicing and human diseases 5/07
Dr Purdur Jagadeeswaran Biological sciences 5/07
Dr Olga Greco The tumor microenvironment as a target for therapy 5/07
Dr Simon Scott The tumor microenvironment as a target for therapy 5/07
Dr Eduardo Nillni Peptides controlling energy balance regulation 5/07
Dr Seah Lim Immunologic targeting of hematologic malignancies 5/07
Dr Ariel Fernandez Protein associations: from structural markers to drug development 5/07
Dr Song Li Stem cell engineering 5/07
Dr Frank Dor Transplantation: current developments and future directions 5/07
Dr George Hajishengallis Pattern recognition of P. gingivalis: Periodontal host defense versus immune evasion strategies 5/07
Dr Gilles Benichou New insights in transplantation tolerance 5/07
Dr Hedeel I Guy Evans Intracellular signaling and metabolic control 5/07
Dr Chuanju Liu The biological functions of inducible-inducible p200 family proteins 5/07
Dr Baohong Zhang MicroRNAs: biogenesis, genomics, mechanism, and function 5/07
Dr Qingyu Wu Type II transmembrane serine proteases 5/07
Dr Toni Antalis Type II transmembrane serine proteases 5/07
Dr Sergei Mirkin DNA structures, genome instability and human disease 5/07
Dr Xiaoyuan Chen Molecular imaging of biomarkers 5/07
Dr Muhammad Mukhtar Molecular mechanisms of neurological disorders 5/07
Dr Ursula Winzer Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in adult and developing brain 5/07
Dr Shree Singh Stem cell and organogenesis 5/07
Dr Atsuhiro Ichihara Renin, prorenin, and (pro)renin receptor 5/07
Dr Haseeb Khan Molecular biology in clinical practice 5/07
Dr Rakesh Srivastava Cancer chemoprevention 9/07
Dr Jin-Rong Zhou Diet, nutrition and cancer prevention 9/07
Dr Eran Meshorer Stem cell chromatin 9/07
Dr Mark Jager Tissue engineering and stem cell biology in orthopaedics 9/07
Dr Eric Kmiec Targeted gene repair 9/07
Dr Hetal Parekh-Olmedo Targeted gene repair 9/07
Dr Robert Clarke Classification and prediction in genomics and proteomics 9/07
Dr Guojun Zhang Nanostructures for biological and medical applications 9/07
Dr Xiaodong Cheng