Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Honorary Editor
Douglas Wallace
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
Associate Editors
David Chan
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Research interests: Mitochondrial dynamics in health and disease
The primary focus of our lab is to understand the role of mitochondrial dynamics in cellular physiology, development and human disease. In addition, we study other aspects of mitochondrial biology, including organellar quality control and biogenesis.
Zhenglong Gu
Institute of Precision Medicine, Fudan University, Guangzhou, China
Minxin Guan
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Research interests: Human mitochondrial genetics and biomedicine.
Guan’s pioneering work with mitochondrial diseases included the discoveries of the mitochondrial cause of maternally inherited non-syndromic and aminoglycoside induced hearing loss. Currently, Dr. Guan's lab is focusing on investigating the mechanisms underlying the aberrant mitochondrial tRNA metabolisms including the synthesis, processing, maturation, CCA addition, posttranscriptional nucleotide modification and aminoacylation of tRNA, and their impact on human diseases including deafness, optic neuropathy and hypertension.
Koji Okamoto
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Research interests: mitochondrial degradation, mitochondrial dynamics and mitochondrial proteostasis.
Managing Editor
Du Feng
Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou
Editorial Board Members
Yidong Bai
University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, USA
Research interests: Dynamics of the machinery for oxidative phosphorylation, the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in human diseases including cancer and aging process. Various approaches are also explored in restoring the mitochondrial function in cells with mitochondrial deficiency.
Paolo Bernardi
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Vilhelm A Bohr
Section on DNA repair, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, USA
Afl Prof University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Michelangelo Campanella
Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine
William Harvey Research Institute
FMD Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Evandro F. Fang
Molecular Gerontology, University of Oslo (UiO), Lørenskog, Norway
Jin Han
Inje University, Busan, South Korea
Cole Haynes
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
Primarily interested in how cells in establish a mitochondrial network during cell specification and maintain that network over a lifetime. We focus on mitochondrial-to-nuclear communication and regulation of mitochondrial stress response.
Adam Hughes
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Research interests:
1. Organelle Communication in Aging and Disease
2. Metabolite Toxicity as a Driver of Aging and Disease
3. Organelle Remodeling During Nutrient Stress
4. Quality Control of Mis-localized Mitochondrial Proteins
Hui Jiang
National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China
Research interests:
1. Mitochondria associated degradation pathways in mitochondrial quality control and homeostasis.
2. Mitochondrial dysfunction, innate immunity, and degenerative diseases.
3. Signaling mechanisms of mitochondrial stress responses.
Takumi Koshiba
Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
Research interests:
1. Mitochondria and innate immunity
2. Structure-function analysis of mitochondrial enzymes
3. Mitochondria-related cellular stress response in mammals
Hsin-Chen Lee
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, China
Research interests:
1. Mitochondrial DNA mutations and energy metabolic reprogramming in human malignant progression
2. Mitochondrial stress response in human cancer cells
3. Mitochondria-to-nucleus communications in mammalian cells
4. Development of therapeutic strategy to targeting mitochondrial related pathways in human disease
Xingguo Liu
Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Guangzhou, China
Research interests:
1. Mitochondrial remodeling and metabolic controlling in cell fate determination, including ROS, calcium and UPR signaling, mitochondrial fusion-fission, motility, mitophagy dynamics, and mitochondrial metabolism et al.
2. Mitochondrial DNA and related diseases and aging.
3. Mechanisms of mitochondrial diseases and therapy by stem cells.
Jiankang Liu
Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Research interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging and stress-associated diseases with a focus on free radical and mitochondrial biology and medicine.
Previous and current editorial work includes Associate Editor-in-Chief of Current Topics in Nutraceutical Research, Associate Editor of Nutritional Neuroscience, Advisory board member of Antioxidants, Editorial board member of Neurochemical Research, Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, Mitochondrion, Free Radical Biology & Medicine etc.
Bin Lu
Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, China
Giovanni Manfredi
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA
Giovanni Manfredi’s work focuses on the genetics and biochemistry of mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological diseases. With a broad background in clinical neurology, cell biology, and biochemistry, he has contributed significantly to the field of mitochondrial disorders, neurodegeneration, and mitochondrial biochemistry and physiology. Dr. Manfredi has authored over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Hum Mol Genet, Nat Genet, J Biol Chem, J Cell Biol, Cell Metab, Brain, J Neurosci and Mol Biol Cell.
Noriyuki Matsuda
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
Thomas McWilliams
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Martin Picard
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA
Miyuki SATO
Gunma University, Gunma, Japan
Research interests are mechanisms and physiological roles of mitophagy in C. elegans.
Luca Scorrano
University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Minho Shong
Choongnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
Zhiyin Song
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Focus on the role of mitochondrial dynamics and mitochondrial quality control in normal cellular function and human neurodegenerative diseases. To address these issues, we develop some novel technologies for mitochondrial research, and create some animal models to study the occurrence and development of mitochondria associated human neurodegenerative diseases.
Yasushi Tamura
Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan
My research interests are mitochondrial protein transport, phospholipid metabolism such as intracellular phospholipid traffic, mitochondria morphogenesis, and inter-organelle contacts.
Maojun Yang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
We are mainly interested in the structural and functional studies on sever disease-related proteins, and also covering small molecule screening and structure-based designing of specific inhibitors for these proteins. We obtained some achievements in understanding the structures and mechanisms of mitochondrial proteins.
Zhuohua Zhang
Central South University, Changsha, China
Research interest is in pathogenic mechanism of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Parkinson's disease. We focus on roles of mitochondria and lysosomes in cellular quality control and cell survival. The experimental models use in the laboratory include primary cultured cells, Drosophila and mouse. Human genetics is often employed to verify our research findings.