Editorial Board
52 Editors in 11 Countries/Region
Editor-in-Chief
Ali J. Marian 
ali.j.marian@uth.tmc.edu Center for Cardiovascular Genetics, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: cardiomyopathies; genetics; genomics; heart failure; signaling pathways
Editors’ Preamble to The Journal of Cardiovascular Aging
Effects of tamoxifen inducible MerCreMer on gene expression in cardiac myocytes in mice
Principles of scientific research conduct, peer review, and publication: an editor’s perspective
Genetic basis of cardiovascular aging is at the core of human longevity
Mutant SRF and YAP1 remodel the chromatin to entice cardiac myocyte nuclear division
PANoptosis is a prominent feature of desmoplakin cardiomyopathy
ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and biomedical writing
Cytosolic DNA sensing protein pathway is activated in human hearts with dilated cardiomyopathy
Associate Editors
Roberto Bolli
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Research Interests: cardiology; cardiovascular disease; ischemic preconditioning
Nikolaos Frangogiannis
The Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Research Interests: myocardial inflammation; cardiac fibrosis; myocardial infarction; heart failure; macrophages; fibroblasts; pericytes; chemokines;
Richard T. Lee
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: cardiac regeneration; diabetes; aging and metabolism; heart regeneration with stem cells
Junichi Sadoshima
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
Research Interests: molecular mechanisms of heart failure; the hippo signaling pathway; autophagy/mitophagy; the thiol signaling pathway
Yi-Bin Wang
Professor and Director, Signature Program in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School; Senior Principal Investigator and Co-Director, Singhealth Duke-NUS National Heart Research Institute Singapore (NHRIS), National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore.
Research Interests: molecular signaling; metabolism and genomics of cardiometabolic diseases
Senior Guest Editors
Joshua Hare
Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
Research Interests: stem cells; cardiology regenerative medicine; heart failure; stem cell therapeutics for human heart disease; myocardial infarction; inIflammatory diseases of the heart; heart transplantation
Robert Roberts
Cardiovascular Genomics & Genetics, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Department of Medicine, Dignity Health at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Research Interests: the
Senior Advisory Editors
Naranjan S. Dhalla
Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital, Albrechtsen Research Centre, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Research Interests: pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy of congestive heart failure; ischemia-reperfusion injury; diabetes induced cardiomyopathy; stress-induced heart disease
Peter Libby
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: atherosclerosis; preventive cardiology; vascular biology; inflammation; immunology
Jagat Narula
Executive Vice President, Chief Academic Office, Professor of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: atherosclerosis; immunology; cardiovascular imaging
Consulting Editors
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte
Gene Expression Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Research Interests: regenerative medicine; aging, stem cell biology; organ and tissue development and regeneration; somatic cell reprogramming and genetic editing; pluripotent cells; gene alteration of stem cells
Feng Cao
Cardiology Department, General Hospital of People's Liberation Armydisabled, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: coronary heart disease; myocardial infarction
Anthony J. Donato
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Research Interests: vascular aging; cellular; molecular; tissue specific events
Toren Finkel
Aging Institute, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Research Interests: mitochondrial function; cellular metabolism; oxidative stress and aging
Priyatansh Gurha
Center for Cardiovascular Genetics, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: epigenetics; non-coding
Editors’ Preamble to The Journal of Cardiovascular Aging
Effects of tamoxifen inducible MerCreMer on gene expression in cardiac myocytes in mice
Thermophiles reveal the clues to longevity: precise protein synthesis
PANoptosis is a prominent feature of desmoplakin cardiomyopathy
ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and biomedical writing
Understanding cardiac senescence one cell type at a time
Cytosolic DNA sensing protein pathway is activated in human hearts with dilated cardiomyopathy
Kui Hong
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Research Interests: arrhythmia; atrial fibrillation; cardiomyopathy; syncope
Aarif Y. Khakoo
Department of Drug Development, Calico Life Sciences, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Research Interests: cardiometabolic; inflammation; neuroscience and oncology; vitro diagnostics; digital health
Lorrie Kirshenbaum
Departments of Physiology and Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Research Interests: cell death signaling in the heart; manipulate cardiac cell growth and cell death
Guido Kroemer
Equipe Labellisée Par La Ligue Contre Le Cancer, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Université, INSERM U1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France; Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France; Pôle de Biologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, France; Suzhou Institute for Systems Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Research Interests: mitochondria; cell death
Massoud Leesar
Division of Cardiology, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Research Interests: percutaneous coronary intervention; peripheral vascular disease
Raffaella Lombardi
Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
Research Interests: cardiomyopathies; genetics; molecular biology
Rosalinda Madonna
Institute of Cardiology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Center for Cardiovascular Biology and Atherosclerosis Research, McGovern School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: stem cells; iPS cells; cardiac development; gene cloning and gene therapy; biomaterials; physiopathology of atherosclerosis in diabetes
Luisa Mestroni
School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
Research Interests: medical genetics and genomics; cardiomyopathies; clinical cardiology; heart failure
Ryuichi Morishita
Department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Research Interests: vascular medicine; hypertension; cardiology; metabolic syndrome; coronary artery disease; macrophage
Sherif F. Nagueh
Department of Cardiology, Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: cardiomyopathy; heart transplant; diastolic function; noninvasive imaging; heart failure
Anthony N. Rosenzweig
Cardiovascular Research Center, Division of Cardiology, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: heart failure; apoptosis; signal transduction; noncoding
Sakthivel Sadayappan
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Research Interests: muscle-specific diseases at the molecular level
Payel Sen
Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Research Interests: epigenetics; aging and senescence; chromatin
Cathy Shanahan
School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences, James Black Centre, King's College London, London, UK.
Research Interests: vascular smooth muscle cell; vascular calcification; cardiovascular cell functions
Mark Sussman
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
Research Interests: signal transduction; myocardial biology; structural and molecular basis or heart failure; stem cells; regenerative medicine
George E. Taffet
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: heart failure: calcium and aging; vascular aging; physiology and biochemistry: using mouse models of human aging and disease
Hirofumi Tanaka
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Research Interests: vascular dysfunction with aging; association between peripheral and cerebrovascular dysfunction; role of exercise and nutrition on destifnfening of arteries
Thomas Thum
Institute of Molecular and Translational Therapeutic Strategies (IMTTS), Center of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, NI, Germany; Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine (ITEM), Hannover, NI, Germany; REBIRTH Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, NI, Germany.
Research Interests: transcriptional control in cardiovascular biology by transcription factors and noncoding RNAmolecules; development and treatment of heart failure; diverse aspects in translational cardiovascular medicine, including large animal and early clinical trial studies
Daniele Torella
Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy.
Research Interests: cardiac stem cell biology and their regenerative potential; smooth muscle cell plasticity regulating vascular remodeling
Dao Wen Wang
Department of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: molecular cardiology; translational medicine; molecular biology; cardiovascular internal medicine
Xander H.T. Wehrens
Cardiovascular Research Institute, Departments of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Medicine, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, And Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: biochemistry and biophysics; cardiovascular sciences; human disease; molecular mechanisms and mouse models of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure; intracellular calcium homeostasis; new drug development; cardiac gene therapy
Jianyi (Jay) Zhang
Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine and School of Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Research Interests: cardiac tissue engineering;
Academic Assistant Editors
Leila Rouhi
Center for Cardiovascular Genetics, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: cardiovascular disease
Editors’ Preamble to The Journal of Cardiovascular Aging
Hard work takes you where luck can find you
Effects of tamoxifen inducible MerCreMer on gene expression in cardiac myocytes in mice
To live in your growth zone, you need to leave your comfort zone
On being a scientist and a mom; successfully walking a tightrope
PANoptosis is a prominent feature of desmoplakin cardiomyopathy
Pursuing the physician-scientist path to satisfy research curiosity and passion for patient care
Every day is an opportunity to learn something new
Passion for science: a journey of inspiration and dedication
Cytosolic DNA sensing protein pathway is activated in human hearts with dilated cardiomyopathy
Editorial Board Members
Antoni Bayes-Genis
Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain; Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Research Interests: clinical: precision medicine in heart failure, biomarkers, sudden death, devices, new treatment options and epidemiology; basic-translational: novel regenerative approaches to rejuvenate the heart, including tissue engineering, cell-derived products and other
Danielle R. Bruns
Kinesiology & Health, and Wyoming WWAMI Medical Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.
Research Interests: impact of age on the failing right heart; sex differences in heart failure development and treatment; exercise as medicine for heart failure; the identification of new therapies for the treatment of cardiac disease
Jun Chen
Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Research Interests: nanotechnology and bioelectronics for energy, sensing; therapeutic applications in the form of smart textiles, wearables, and body area networks
Georgina M. Ellison-Hughes
Centre for Human and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, King's College London, London, UK.
Research Interests: ageing; cardiovascular; regenerative medicine; skeletal muscle; stem cells
Jennifer Gamble
Vascular Biology Program Centenary Institute and Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Research Interests: endothelial cell function particularly in the area of inflammation; how dysfunction can influence disease
Djordje Jakovljevic
Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK.
Research Interests: cardiovascular ageing; heart failure
Angela S. Koh
National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
Research Interests: cardiovascular imaging; cardiovascular ageing; pre-clinical and clinical cardiovascular disease conditions
Na Li
Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: inflammatory signaling in the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation (AF); molecular mechanisms of cardiac conduction disorder (CCD)
Jason Roh
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: heart failure; atrial fibrillation; frailty, and pregnancy-related cardiovascular diseases
Christodoulos Stefanadis
First Cardiology Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Attica, Greece; Institute for Longevity and Study of Diseases Associated with Ageing, Athens, Attica, Greece.
Research Interests: cardiovascular medicine; geriatric medicine; vascular disease; interventional cardiology; cardiology
Junjie Xiao
Cardiac Regeneration and Ageing Lab, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: cardiac regeneration and ageing
Phillip C. Yang
Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Research Interests: clinical translation of the fundamental molecular and cellular processes of myocardial restoration
Young-sup Yoon
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Research Interests: cardiovascular regeneration with stem cells and bioengineering
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