Youth Editorial Board

Wijnand den Dekker

Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Research Interests: Calcified lesions, ACS and multivessel disease, vulnerable plaque, orbital atherectomy.

Sanjeet Singh Avtaar Singh

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK.

Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, mechanical circulatory support, transplantation, primary graft dysfunction, thoracic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, intensive care, ECMO.

Massimo Baudo

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.

Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, CABG, mitral valve, atrial fibrillation, aortic valve, meta-analysis.

Riccardo Cau

Department of Radiology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.

Research Interests: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardiovascular imaging, coronary, carotid arteries.

Vinod Kumar Chaubey

Conway Medical Centre, SC, USA.

Research Interests: Translational research, clinical trials, cardiac surgery outcomes, clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based medicine, outcome assessment, health services research, quality improvement, risk assessment, risk adjustment.

Ting Chen

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

Research Interests: Stem progenitor cells, vascular biology.

Zhangling Chen

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.

Research Interests: Nutrition, lifestyle, cardiometabolic health, gut microbiome, microbiota, omics, cardiovascular epidemiology, public health, RCT.

Liang Chen

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Beijing, China.

Research Interests: Heart failure, cardiomyopathy, cardiac surgery, heart transplantation, cohort study.

Jaesung Peter Choi

Centre for Inflammation, Centenary Institute and University of Technology Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.

Research Interests: Cerebral cavernous malformation, microbiome, inflammation, vascular malformation, stroke, mouse model.

Ruben M. L. Colunga Biancatelli

Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA.

Research Interests: Acute and chronic lung injury, inflammation, inflammasome, endothelial dysfunction, endothelial barrier function, heat shock proteins, oxidative stress, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19.

Gianni Dall'Ara

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, campus Forlì, Italy.

Research Interests: Myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization, chronic total occlusion, antithrombotics, transcatheter aortic valve replacement, left atrial appendage closure, transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral and tricuspid repair.

Wolf-Hans Eilenberg

Department of General Surgery, Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria.

Research Interests: Aortic Aneurysm; Abdominal; Biomarkers; Pharmacological; Carotid Artery Diseases; Randomized Controlled Trial.

Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar

Department of Pharmaceutics, Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology, West Bengal, India.

Research Interests: Drug targets for cancer treatment, cancer targeted drug delivery systems, nanotechnology for cancer treatment and diagnosis.

Yuhu He

Department of Cardiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.

Research Interests: Pulmonary hypertension, vascular remodeling, peripheral arterial disease, PASMC, inflammation.

Zhiqing He

Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, No. 415, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Basic and clinical research against cardiovascular diseases based on integrative medicine

Mohammed Idhrees

Institute of Cardiac and Aortic Disorders, SIMS Hospitals, Chennai, India.

Research Interests: Aortic dissection, aortic aneurysm, clinical implication of surgery in aorta, association of diabetes mellitus and aortic disorder, coronary artery disease, cardiac valve disease and surgery.

Nicola Lamberti

Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.

Research Interests: Exercise therapy, exercise training, rehabilitation, cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, exercise testing, near-infrared spectroscopy.

Xiaodong Li

Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Hypertension, vascular remodeling, cardiac remodeling, renal injury, metabolic diseases, angiogenesis.

Roberto Licordari

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.

Research Interests: Heart failure, clinical cardiology, echocardiography, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, cardiac function, cardiovascular medicine, atherosclerosis.

Jie Liu

State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Medical Innovation Center, Shanghai Heart Failure Research Center, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Atherosclerosis, hypertension, vascular remodeling and restenosis, aortic aneurysm, vascular and valvular calcification, shear stress, mechanosensor, cardiac remodeling, heart failure, myocardial infarction, cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis, heart regeneration, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, translational research.

Emilio Lozupone

Department of Neuroradiology, Ospedale Vito Fazzi Hospital, Lecce, Italy.

Research Interests: Diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology, endovascular therapies, CNS vascular disorders, brain aneurysm, CNS AVM and DAVF, ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, head and neck hypervascular tumor.

Nils Ludwig

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Research Interests: Head and neck cancer, oral squamous cell carcinoma, tumor angiogenesis, tumor microenvironment, small extracellular vesicles, exosomes, intercellular communication.

Yongting Luo

Department of Nutrition and Health, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular biology, therapeutic target, cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, aortic dissection, pulmonary hypertention, bioactive nutrients, nutritional intervention.

Hao Ma

Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Nutritional epidemiology, cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, gene-environment interaction

Elisabetta Moscarella

Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: Interventional cardiology, coronary artery disease, in stent restenosis, bioresosrbable vascular scaffolds, ecimer laser coronary atherectomy, intravascular lithotripsy, acute coronary syndromes, aortic valve disease, bicuspid aortic valve, TAVI.

Andrea Perrelli

Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.

Research Interests: Cerebral cavernous malformation disease, cerebrovascular diseases, oxidative stress, vascular disease, redox signaling in vasculature.

Naga Venkata K. Pothineni

Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute, Overland Park, KS, USA.

Research Interests: Atrial fibrillation, sudden cardiac death, ventricular tachycardia.

Robert W. Regenhardt

Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Research Interests: Neuroendovascular/neurointerventional procedures, cerebrovascular disease, ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, large vessel occlusion, cerebral aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation, dural arteriovenous fistula.

Kirsten Riches-Suman

Cardiovascular Research Group, School of Chemistry and Biosciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.

Research Interests: Smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells, saphenous vein, coronary artery, type 2 diabetes, abdominal aortic aneurysm, cell signalling, ageing, coronary artery bypass grafting.

Andrea Salica

Department of Cardiac Surgery, European Hospital, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: Mitral surgery, aortic surgery, coronay surgery.

Antonio Salsano

Department of Integrated Surgical and Diagnostic Sciences (DISC), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular surgery, valve disease, coronary artery disease, heart tumors, pericardial disease, thoracic aortic disease.

Stefano Schena

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Research Interests: Atrial fibrillation (surgical and hybrid ablation), minimally invasive cardiac surgery, multiarterial CABG, structural heart disease, aortic aneurysm, perioperative care in cardiac surgery.

Andrea Scotti

Department of Interventional Cardiology, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.

Research Interests: Structural heart disease, transcatheter heart valve intervention, valvular disease, percutaneous coronary intervention, cardiovascular therapy, heart failure.

Changsheng Sheng

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Center for Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials and Center for Vascular Evaluation, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Hypertension, atherosclerosis, obesity, diabetes mellitus, metabolism, cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease.

Pavel A. Solopov

Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA.

Research Interests: Diagnosis and therapy of acute and chronic lung injury, including ARDS and fibrosis, anti-inflammatory and lung protective functions of heat shock protein 90 inhibitors, animal models of COVID-19.

Alessandro Sticchi

Campus Bio-Medico Hospital, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: Valvular intervention, structural intervention, multimodality imaging, transcatheter mitral valve intervention, transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention, transcatheter valve repair, transcatheter valve replacement, coronary vulnerable plaque.

Saravanan Subramaniam

Pulmonary Center, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.

Research Interests: COVID-19, viral infections and coagulation disorders, thrombosis, endothelial biology, intravital imaging, tissue factor, protease-activated receptors, immunothrombosis.

Xiaolei Sun

Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular diseases, mitochondria, metabolism.

Yong Wang

Department of Neurology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Ischemic stroke, atherosclerosis, plaque stability, stem cells, exosomes, microglia, epigenetics, aging.

Yang Wang

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: Hypertension and its target organ damage

Janet Wei

Department of Cardiology, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center Smidt Heart Institute Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Research Interests: Ischemia with no obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA), coronary microvascular dysfunction, coronary vasospasm, myocardial steatosis, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).

Lei Xiao

Cardiovascular Research Center, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, receptor signaling, natural nutrients and vascular function.

Fu-Yang Zhang

Department of Cardiology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: Translational medicine, heart failure, myocardial infarction, stem cell biology, mitochondrion, metabolism, obesity, diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Yang Zhang

Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanghai, China

Research Interests: Panvascular aging, heart failure, Coronary arteritis

Yongchao Zhao

Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, China.

Research Interests: Pan-vascular diseases, vascular remodeling, heart failure, cardiac Ischemia, coronary artery diseases, aortic aneurysm, pulmonary artery hypertension.

Zhongyan Zhou

Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy / SKL of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: Pharmacology, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, cardio-oncology, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, cancer, endothelial dysfunction, pro- and anti- angiogenesis, inflammation, vascular integrity and stability, vascular aging, coronary microvascular dysfunction.

Hongming Zhu

State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Aging and Injury in the Cardiovascular System: Basic and Translational Research