Editorial Board

Fudi Wang

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School of Public Health, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Research Interests: Ferroptosis, metal homeostasis, iron, zinc, manganese, copper, chronic disease prevention, precision nutrition, metal-related organ injury, targeted therapy

Ashley Bush

Clinical Lead Mental Health Mission, Director of the Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, Head of the Oxidation Biology Unit, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Research Interests: Molecular and pathogenic mechanisms underlying the role of metals (including iron and zinc) and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases, development of cutting-edge diagnostic tools and transformative disease-modifying therapeutic strategies for neurological disorders

Günther Weiss

Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

Research Interests: Regulatory interactions between iron homeostasis & immune function, functional characterization of macrophage host resistance genes against intracellular bacteria, mechanisms of anemia of inflammation, and development of its diagnostic tools & therapeutic interventions

Martina Muckenthaler

Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.

Research Interests: Regulatory mechanisms maintaining iron homeostasis, pathological consequences of iron overload and iron deficiency, and associated studies

Junxia Min

Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Research Interests: Metal metabolism, ferroptosis, ferroptotic signaling mechanisms and human major diseases, cancer biology & targeted therapy, molecular regulatory factors in human longevity

Charareh Pourzand

Associate Dean (Community, Culture and Inclusion, Faculty of Science), Department of Life Sciences, Centre for Therapeutic Innovation, Centre for Bioengineering & Biomedical Technologies (CBio), University of Bath, UK.

Research Interests: Iron-related cellular events in skin cell pathological damage, design of iron chelating/antioxidant small molecules, development of light-activated caged-iron chelators and organelle-targeted iron sensors/chelators

Daolin Tang

Department of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Research Interests: Mechanisms and functions of regulated cell death and autophagy in human disease, with particular emphasis on gastrointestinal cancers and infectious diseases

Tom Vanden Berghe

Cell Death Signaling Lab, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

Research Interests: Cell death (ferroptosis, pyroptosis/inflammation) and associated diseases, exploration of ferroptosis as anti-cancer therapy for therapy-resistant cancers, development of a comprehensive ferroptosis platform

Zhongyan Chang

Laboratory of Molecular Iron Metabolism, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.

Research Interests: Mechanisms of iron metabolism, pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies for iron dysregulation and redox imbalance in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and neuropsychiatric disorders, development and safety evaluation of brain-targeted nanomedicines

Shi Chen

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbiology in Genomic Modification & Editing and Application, Shenzhen Institute of Translational Medicine, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.

Research Interests: Epigenetics, sulfur modification

Hajo Haase

Director for Institute of Immunology, RWTH-Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.

Research Interests: Centers on immunology of zinc, focusing on exploring zinc’s regulatory roles in immune responses, maintenance of immune homeostasis, and its mechanisms in modulating cytokine activity and T cell-mediated immune processes.

Taiho Kambe

Division of Integrated Life Science, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Japan.

Research Interests: Regulatory mechanisms of zinc homeostasis and metabolism, physiological functions of zinc transporters and zinc enzymes, pathological consequences of zinc deficiency, and other aspects of zinc biology

Qiong Liu

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdon, China.

Research Interests: The biological effects of trace elements in neurodegenerative diseases

Rink Lothar

Director for Institute of Immunology, RWTH-Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.

Research Interests: Centers on immunology of zinc, focusing on exploring zinc’s regulatory roles in immune responses, maintenance of immune homeostasis, and its mechanisms in modulating cytokine activity and T cell-mediated immune processes

Hua Naranmandura

Department of Toxicology, School of Medicine and Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Research Interests: Arsenic trioxide, leukemia, molecular mechanisms, innovative therapies, heat shock therapy, aptamer therapy, hematologic diseases, clinical translation, drug toxicity, organelle toxicity, targeted therapy, chemotherapeutic drugs

Yihang Pan

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digestive Cancer Research, Precision Medicine Center, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, China.

Research Interests: Nanomedicine, cancer therapeutics, tumor resistance, molecular mechanisms, precision medicine, ferroptosis, drug delivery

Jack Rogers

Neurochemistry Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital (East), and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA.

Research Interests: Iron homeostasis, neurodegenerative disease, RNA therapeutics

Guoli Song

Brain Disease and Big Data Research Institute, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Ecology, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Research Interests: Neurodegenerative disease, trace element, selenium; selenoprotein

Ben Wang

Cancer Institute (Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, China National Ministry of Education), The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.

Research Interests: Biomineralization, chemical biology, translational medicine

Zhanyou Wang

Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Major Chronic Diseases of Nervous System of Liaoning Province, Health Sciences Institute of China Medical University, Shenyang, China.

Research Interests: Brain aging, neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, metal ion homeostasis, amyloid-β pathology, ferroptosis, natural products, brain-targeted drug delivery

Bengang Xing

Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kowloon Hong Kong SAR China.

Research Interests: Chemical biology, molecular probes & imaging, biomedical labeling, molecular therapy, nano-theranostics engineering

Wanqi Zhang

Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.

Research Interests: Iodine nutrition, micronutrient nutrition, iodine deficiency disorders, public nutrition, dietary reference intakes, tolerable upper intake level, pregnancy and lactation nutrition, thyroid health, precision nutrition, food safety

Yuping Zhang

Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.

Research Interests: Metals in medicine, bioinorganic chemistry, chemical biology, therapeutic metal complexes, photodynamic therapy, sonodynamic therapy, photoredox metal catalysts, photoactivated complexes, metalloantibiotics

Zhenli Zhu

State Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.

Research Interests: Plasma-based techniques, elemental analysis, isotopic analysis, geoscience, human health, analytical methodologies, advanced plasma sources, high-precision measurements, high-sensitivity measurements, geochemistry, environmental science, biomedical research