Editorial Board

Dayi Hu

[email protected]

Department of Cardiology, Heart Laboratory, People's Hospital of Peking University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: preventative cardiology, treatment and prevention of hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmias

Ali J. Marian

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

Roberto Bolli

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.

Research Interests: cardiology; cardiovascular disease; ischemic preconditioning

Feng Cao

Cardiology Department, General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: coronary heart disease; myocardial infarction

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

Xinyang Hu

Department of Cardiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Research Interests: basic and clinical research on stem cell therapy for heart failure; interventional therapy for coronary heart disease

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

Zhigang She

Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

Research Interests: mechanism and targeted therapy of atherosclerosis; heart failure; metabolic diseases

Qizhu Tang

Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

Research Interests: myocardial remodeling; heart failure

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

Martin Young

Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Research Interests: circadian rhythm; cardiomyocytes; cardiac disease; metabolism

Lemin Zheng

The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: cardiovascular metabolism, lipid metabolism, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular research, cardiovascular translational medicine

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

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

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

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 RNA; heart failure; genomics; RNA biology; cardiomyopathies

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

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 RNA; cellular senescence

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

Catherine 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; NMR imaging; heart failure

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

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

Houzao Chen

State Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: aging-related cardiovascular diseases; epigenetic regulation

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

Dominic Del Re

Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.

Research Interests: molecular mechanisms of cardiac injury, remodeling, and heart failure, with a focus on fibrosis and inflammation

Dobromir Dobrev

University of Duisburg-Essen Institute of Pharmacology, Essen, Germany.

Research Interests: mechanisms of arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, basic science

Georgina Ellison

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

Ana Maria Gomez

Signaling and Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, UMR-S 1180, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France.

Research Interests: cardiac excitation-contraction coupling, ryanodine receptor, calcium related arrhythmias, intracellular calcium

Tzung Hsiai

Department of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Research Interests: vascular biology, mechanobiology, biomechanics, AI/ML, cardiometabolic disorders

Djordje Jakovljevic

Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK.

Research Interests: cardiovascular ageing; heart failure

Giuseppe Lembo

Department of Angiocardioneurology and Translational Medicine, IRCCS INM Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy.

Research Interests: hypertension; heart failure; autonomic nervous system; neuroimmune interfaces; dementia

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)

Sean M. Wu

Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Research Interests: cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, cardiac, cardio-oncology, cardiac prevention, valve disorders

Jun Ren

Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Research Interests: cardiac pathophysiology in alcoholism; diabetes; obesity and aging

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

Celestino Sardu

Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Piazza Luigi Miraglia 2, Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: heart failure; arrhythmias; CRT; devices; ischemic heart disease; myocardial infarction

Gabriele G. Schiattarella

Deutschen Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC) – Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany

Research Interests: HFpEF, heart failure and metabolic disease, cardiometabolic diseases, obesity, metabolic syndrome

Moshi Song

State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: molecular mechanisms underlying cardiac aging and related diseases; interventive strategies targeting cardiac aging and related 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

Thomas M. Vondriska

Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA，Los Angeles, USA

Research Interests: Chromatin biology, epigenetics, heart failure, fibrosis

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

Hua Zhu

Department of Surgery, Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Research Interests: cell death pathways and non-coding RNAs in cardiovascular diseases and sarcopenia