AJTR Copyright © 2009-All rights reserved. Published by e-Century Publishing Corporation, Madison, WI 53711
Editor-in-Chief:
Wen-Hwa Lee, PhD
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA

Associate Editor-in-Chief:
Mien-Chie Hung, PhD
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Associate Editor-in-Chief:
Kenneth A. Iczkowski, MD
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO
American Journal of Translational Research---AJTR: ISSN 1943-8141
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Senior Editorial Board (In alphabetical order)                          Editorial Board Policy

Judith Abrams, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Gustavo D. Aguirre, VMD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Moulay Alaoui-Jamali, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sanjay Asthana, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Jessie L-S Au, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Gustavo E. Ayala, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Suk-Chul Bae, PhD, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea

Hamid Band, MD, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Mitchel S. Berger, MD, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Claudio Brancolini, PhD, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

Julia A. Bridge, MD, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Peter D. Burbelo, PhD, National Institutes of Health/NIDCR, Bethesda, MD  

Charles W. Caldwell, MD, PhD, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Joseph Califano, MD, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Ann F. Chambers, PhD, University of Western Ontario, Ontario N6A 4L6 Canada

Wing C (John) Chan, MD, University of Nebraska , Omaha , NE

Herbert Chen, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Shiuan Chen, PhD, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA

Shi-Yuan Cheng, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Roberto Chiarle, MD, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Ting-Chao Chou, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

De-Maw Chuang, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD  

Leland W. K. Chung, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Marie-Veronique Clement, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Richard Coico, PhD, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA  

Kevin D. Cooper, MD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Richard J. Cote, MD, University of Southern California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Anne E. Cress, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ  

Nicola J. Curtin, PhD, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Angelo M. DeMarzo, MD, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Dennis W. Dickson, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL

Chen Dong, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Lars Egevad, MD, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Adel K. El-Naggar, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Michael R. Emmert-Buck, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD

Shengyun Fang, MD, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD  

Alan P. Fields, PhD, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL

Paul B. Fisher, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Thomas J. FitzGerald, MD, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA

Amy Fulton, PhD, University of Maryland, Maryland, MD

Kevin Gardner, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Baltimore, MD

Ronald B. Gartenhaus, MD, The University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Candece L. Gladson, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Stefan Glück MD PhD, University of Miami, Miami, FL   

Michael Goggins, MD, The Johns Hopkins University,  Baltimore, MD

Gaia Goteri, MD, PhD, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, Italy

Elizabeth A. Grimm, PhD, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Qing Guo, MD, PhD, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK  

Henry H. Q. Heng, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

James  M.  Hill , PhD, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA

Fred H. Hochberg, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

F. Michael Hoffmann, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Chuanshu Huang, MD, PhD, New York University, NY, NY

Jiaoti Huang, MD, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Shuang Huang, PhD, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

Tim Hui-ming Huang, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Peter A. Humphrey, MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Maha H. Hussain, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Allan S. Jaffe, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Ralf G. Janknecht, PhD, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

Kuan-Teh Jeang, MD, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Bankole A. Johnson, DSc, MD, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Ashish M. Kamat, MD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Yibin Kang, PhD, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Michael S. Kinch, PhD, Functional Genetics, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD

Mark S. Kindy, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

John M. Kirkwood, MD, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

Toru Kondo, PhD, Ehime University, Ehime, Japan

Hari K Koul, PhD, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO  

Rakesh Kumar, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Joan M. Lakoski, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Eric W Lam, MD, Imperial College London, London, UK

Frederick F. Lang, Jr, MD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Allan SY Lau, MD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Eva Y. Lee, PhD, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

Jae K. Lee, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Peng Lee, MD, PhD, New York University, New York, NY

Stephen L. Lessnick, MD, PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Allan I. Levey, MD, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Fengzhi Li, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY  

Guo-Min Li, PhD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Jian-Dong Li, MD, PhD, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Joseph K-K Li, PhD, Utah State University, Logan, UT  

Lei Li, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Shiyong Li, MD, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Song Li, PhD, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Xiaoming Li, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Yen Li, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bethesda, MD

Dongxin Lin, MD, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Jinsong Liu, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Leroy F. Liu, PhD,  University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ

Yang Liu, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Yusen Liu, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Massimo F. Loda, MD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Horace H. Loh, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Balakrishna L. Lokeshwar, PhD, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Leendert H.J. Looijenga, PhD, Erasmus MC-University, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Walter C. Low, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Irina A. Lubensky, MD, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, MD

Mariano Malaguarnera, MD, Catania University, Italy

Linda H. Malkas, PhD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

James S. Malter, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Ferdinando Mannello, PhD, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Urbino, Italy

William R. Markesbery, MD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Daniela E. Matei, MD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Nipun B. Merchant, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

James McCarthy, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Joseph M. McCune, MD, PhD, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Enrico Mihich, MD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY

Donald M. Miller, MD, PhD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Jung-Joon Min, MD, PhD, Chonnam National University, Hwasun, Korea

Yin-Yuan Mo, PhD, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, IL

Holger Moch, MD, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Gabriele Multhoff, MD, Technical University of Munich , Munich, Germany

Manabu Muto, MD, PhD, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Yusuke Nakamura MD, PhD, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Harikrishna Nakshatri, PhD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Keith C. Norris, MD, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Lynwood, CA

Terry D. Oberley, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Michael Ohh, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Michael Ochs, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Iman Osman, MD, New York University, NY, New York.

George Perry, PhD, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio,TX

Shazib Pervaiz, MD, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Russell O. Pieper, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Matthew R. Pincus, MD, PhD, Suny Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY

Nicholas C. Popescu, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

Richard Press, MD, PhD, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR

Vito Quaranta, MD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Jianyu Rao, MD, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Ratna B. Ray, PhD, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO

Antoni Ribas, MD, University of California at Los Angeles, Las Angeles, CA

Elliott Richelson, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL

William N. Rom, MD, New York University, New York, NY

Jack A. Roth, MD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Eytan Ruppin, MD, PhD, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Helmut R. Salih, MD, Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen, Germany

Charles E. Samuel, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

George E. Sandusky, DVM, PhD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Fazlul H. Sarkar, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Minoru Satoh, MD, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Ronald E. See, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Meng-Ru Shen, MD, PhD, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Zhiyuan Shen, MD, PhD, University of Medicine $Denstry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Yufang Shi, PhD, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Gene P. Siegal, MD, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham [UAB], Birmingham, AL  

Robert A. Sikes, PhD, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Mark A. Smith, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Rhonda F. Souza, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Gary S. Stein, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA

Bing Su, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Shi-Yong Sun, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Yi Sun, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Russell S. Taichman DMD, DMSc, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Yoh Takuwa, MD, PhD, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan

Jun Tan, MD, PhD, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Dongfeng Tan, MD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Weihong Tan, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Tse-Hua Tan, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Fattaneh A. Tavassoli, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Bin T. Teh, MD, PhD, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI

Ann D. Thor, MD, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO

Li-Huei Tsai, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA

Ming-Jer Tsai, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Gregory J. Tsongalis, MHS, PhD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

Barbara Tudek, PhD, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland  

Theodorus van der Kwast, MD, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Altaf A. Wani, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH  

Beverly Y. Wang, MD, New York University, New York, NY

Ping Wang, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, MY

Xiao-Fan Wang, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC  

Xuejun Wang, MD, PhD, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD

Yi-Ching Wang, PhD, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

David J. Weber  PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Qingyi Wei, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Andre Van Wijnen, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA  

James C. Willey, MD, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

Tzyy-Choou (TC) Wu, MD, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Xue-Ru Wu, MD, New York University, New York, NY

Shu-Yuan Xiao, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Zhigang Xiong, MD, PhD, Robert S. Dow Neurobiology Laboratories, Portland, OR

Jianming Xu, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Guang-Yu Yang, MD, PhD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Qinglin Yang, MD, PhD, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

Ximing Yang, MD, PhD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Xiao-Ming Yin, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Ming You, MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Dihua Yu, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Robert K. Yu, PhD, MD, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA  

Jian-Ting Zhang , PhD, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Wenxin Zheng, MD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ   

Yong Zhu, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Zhengping Zhuang, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD



Associate Editorial Board (In alphabetical order)

Bassam S. Abdulkarim, MD, PhD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Roger Abounader, MD, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA  

Hirak S. Basu, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Xue-Feng Bai, MD, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Xuefang Cao, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY

Sic L. Chan, PhD, The University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Lucian R. Chirieac, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Robert B. Clarke, PhD, The University of Manchester,  Manchester, UK

Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, MD, PhD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical School, Lebanon, NH

Anette Duensing, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Markus Frank, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Jonna Frasor, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Simone Fulda, MD, PhD, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Thorbald van Hall, PhD, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

Hans-Peter Hauber, MD, PhD, Reserach Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Haojie Huang, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis , MN

Wei Huang, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Gareth Inman, PhD, The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK

Emad Kandil, MD, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Patrick Kehoe, PhD, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Sangsoo Kim, PhD, National Cancer Center, Seoul, Korea

Amaya Puig Kröger, PhD, Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

Jay M. Lee, MD, University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA

Vera V. Levina, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Ji Li, PhD, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY

Eugene Lin, PhD, Vita Genomics Institute, Taipei, Taiwan   

Bolin Liu, MD, University of Colorado, Denver, CO

Fumihiko Nakamura, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Rémy Pedeux, PhD, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

Andrew J. Pierce, PhD, University of Kentucky,  Lexington, KY

Nathalie Scholler, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA  

Yuval Shaked, PhD, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel

Lesley Stark, PhD, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Gergely Szakacs, PhD,  Institute of Enzymology, Budapest, Hungary

Apollonia Tullo, PhD, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Bari, Italy

Jian Z. Wang, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Ju-Ming Wang, PhD, Institute of Bioinformatic and Biosignal transduction, NCKU, Taiwan  

Yu Wang, PhD, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China

Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD,  University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Jörg Wischhusen, PhD, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Liang Xu, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Sai Yendamuri, MD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Bafflo, NY

Kezhong Zhang, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Yuexing Zhang, MD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Song-Guo Zheng , MD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Zhong Yun, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Associate Editor-in-Chief:
Lucia R. Languino, PhD
University of Massachusetts
Worcester, MA

Associate Editor-in-Chief:
Steven M. Dubinett, MD
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Associate Editor-in-Chief:
Dengshun Wang, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Madison, WI