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Editorial Board

52 Editors in 11 Countries/Region

USA (32)
China (3)
Italy (3)
United Kingdom (3)
Singapore (2)
Canada (2)
Spain (2)
Australia (2)
Japan (1)
Germany (1)
Greece (1)

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

Contributions:

Editors’ Preamble to The Journal of Cardiovascular Aging

Pharmacological suppression of the WNT signaling pathway attenuates age-dependent expression of the phenotype in a mouse model of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

A combinatorial oligogenic basis for the phenotypic plasticity between late-onset dilated and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy in a single family

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

Oligogenic cardiomyopathy

The WNT/β-catenin pathway regulates expression of the genes involved in cell cycle progression and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in the postmitotic cardiac myocytes

Genetic basis of cardiovascular aging is at the core of human longevity

Deletion of the Lmna gene in fibroblasts causes senescence-associated dilated cardiomyopathy by activating the double-stranded DNA damage response and induction of senescence-associated secretory phenotype

Mutant SRF and YAP1 remodel the chromatin to entice cardiac myocyte nuclear division

PANoptosis is a prominent feature of desmoplakin cardiomyopathy

What ails the NIH peer review study sections and how to fix the review process of the grant applications

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

Contributions:

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The sad plight of cell therapy for heart failure: causes and consequences

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; TGF-beta; matricellular proteins

Contributions:

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Fibroblasts, myofibroblasts and cardiac arrhythmias

Why animal model studies are lost in translation

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

Contributions:

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PLA2G7, caloric restriction and cardiovascular aging

GDF11 and aging biology - controversies resolved and pending

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

Contributions:

The coming of age for branched-chain amino acids

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

Contributions:

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S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR) deficiency accelerates cardiomyocyte differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells

Systemic delivery of large-scale manufactured Wharton’s Jelly mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles improves cardiac function after myocardial infarction

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 MBCK quantitative test; molecular biology and genetics; genes associated with CAD

Contributions:

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Genetic risk stratification, pivotal to precluding the CAD pandemic

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

Contributions:

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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

Contributions:

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Why the bee in our bonnets about Beethoven's hair?

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

Contributions:

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A role for somatic mutations in the evolution of lifespan

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

Contributions:

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Senolytic vaccination: a new mandate for cardiovascular health?

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

Contributions:

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Deletion of the Lmna gene in fibroblasts causes senescence-associated dilated cardiomyopathy by activating the double-stranded DNA damage response and induction of senescence-associated secretory phenotype

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

Contributions:

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GSK-3β mediates cardiac senescence through inhibition of ULK1 directed autophagy

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

Contributions:

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Raffaella Lombardi

Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: cardiomyopathies; genetics; molecular biology

Contributions:

Deletion of the Lmna gene in fibroblasts causes senescence-associated dilated cardiomyopathy by activating the double-stranded DNA damage response and induction of senescence-associated secretory phenotype

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

Contributions:

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Cellular aging and rejuvenation in ischemic heart disease: a translation from basic science to clinical therapy

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

Contributions:

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Changes in cardiac structure and function with aging

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 RNA; cellular senescence

Contributions:

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Sakthivel Sadayappan

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Research Interests: muscle-specific diseases at the molecular level

Contributions:

Optimization of tamoxifen-induced gene regulation in cardiovascular research

Payel Sen

Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Research Interests: epigenetics; aging and senescence; chromatin

Contributions:

Epigenetic dysregulation in cardiovascular aging and disease

Understanding cardiac senescence one cell type at a time

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

Contributions:

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Transient reprogramming primes the heart for repair

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

Contributions:

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Pulse wave velocity: why is it important to know to estimate?

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

Contributions:

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Physical exercise in older patients with heart failure

Associations between estimated and measured carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity in older Black and White adults: the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study

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

Contributions:

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Senolytics rejuvenate the reparative activity of human cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells

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

Contributions:

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Reassessment of genes associated with dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a Chinese Han population

Rare variants in the FBN1 gene are associated with sporadic dilated cardiomyopathy in a Chinese Han population

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

Contributions:

In-depth characterization of a mouse model of postoperative atrial fibrillation

Characterization of atrial and ventricular remodeling in an improved minimally invasive mouse model of transverse aortic constriction

Endothelial cell dysfunction: the culprit for cardiac denervation in aging?

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; NMR imaging; heart failure

Academic Assistant Editors

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

Contributions:

Mechanisms and implications of sex differences in cardiac aging

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

Contributions:

Senolytics rejuvenate the reparative activity of human cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells

The use of targeted LNP/mRNA technology to generate functional, transient CAR T cells and treat cardiac injury in vivo

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)

Contributions:

Arriving on time: decoding macrophage involvement in atrial fibrillation

Lipid overload - a culprit for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?

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

Contributions:

Metabolic targets in cardiac aging and rejuvenation

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

Contributions:

The role of paracrine crosstalk between myeloid and endothelial cells in myocardial angiogenesis and infarcted heart repair

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