Exploration of Neuroprotective Therapy

Editor-in-Chief

Rafael Franco, PhD

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Email: rfranco123@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Abdelhamid Benazzouz, PhD

Section: Brain stimulation

Research Director, Team Leader, Neurochemistry, Deep brain stimulation & Parkinson’s disease, Neurodegenerative Diseases Institute, Bordeaux University, Bordeaux, France

David Blum, PhD

Section: Translational research on neuroprotection

Senior Research Director, Inserm Alzheimer & Tauopathies Team, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, Lille, France

Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang, PhD

Section: Neuroimmunology

Professor, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ta-Yuan (T.Y.) Chang, PhD

Section: Neurological alterations caused by cholesterol dyshomeostasis

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Shile Huang, PhD

Section: Mechanisms of neurodegeneration/neuroprotection

Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Louisiana State University Health Science Center, Shreveport, LA, USA

Peter Illes, MD

Section: Neuron-glia protective interactions

Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University of Leipzig, Germany

Weidong Le, MD, PhD

Section: Biomarkers

Professor and Vice Dean, Medical School and Director of Neurology Institute, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences-Sichuan Provincial Hospital, Chengdu, China;
Professor and Director of Center for Translational Research on Neurology Disease, the 1st Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

Jorge Manzanares, PhD

Section: Mental health and addictive disorders

Professor of Pharmacology, Universidad Miguel Hernández.CSIC, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain;
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, USA

Zixu Mao, MD, PhD

Section: Neural stress response and signaling

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology and Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Thomas Müller, MD

Section: Chronic neurodegeneration with a focus on dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Professor at Department of Neurology, St. Joseph Hospital Berlin-Weissensee, Berlin, Germany

Nicolas Sergeant, PhD

Section: Amyloidopathies and tauopathies

Research Director, Alzheimer & Tauopathies Team, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition, Université de Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, Lille, France

Vijay K. Sharma, MD

Section: Regulatory challenges

Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore;
Senior Consultant, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore

Christopher A. Shaw, PhD

Section: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Professor at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Yong Tang, PhD

Section: Mechanisms of neuroprotection afforded by complementary and alternative medicine

Professor, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

Henning Ulrich, PhD

Section: Synucleopathies and Parkinson’s disease

Full Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the Dep. of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo, Brazil

Editorial Board Members

Noureddin Nakhostin Ansari, PhD

Interests: neurorehabilitation; physiotherapy; spasticity; stroke

Professor of Physiotherapy at School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

Jesus Avila, PhD

Interests: Alzheimer's disease; tau protein; neurodegeneration; neuronal reprogramation; aging

Professor, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Vladimir Josef Balcar, PhD

Interests: glutamate; GABA; neurotransmitter transporters; genetics of neurodegenerative diseases

Honorary Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia

Yujie Chen, MD, PhD

Interests: subarachnoid hemorrhage; intracerebral hemorrhage; blood-brain barrier; pericyte; neuroinflammation

Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Cristoforo Comi, MD, PhD

Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; neuroimmunology; Parkinson's disease; multiple sclerosis; Alzheimer's disease

Associate Professor of Neurology, Head of the Multiple Sclerosis Center, and the Movement Disorders Center, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy

Howard E. Gendelman, MD

Interests: neuroprotective immunity; regulatory T cells; adaptive immunity; Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Said Ghandour, PhD

Interests: gliogenesis; oligodendrocytes; myelination; myelin repair; animal models of brain white matter abnormalities; neuronal-glial interaction and neuroprotection

Emeritus Research Director (Professor), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France

Henrik Hagberg, MD, PhD

Interests: perinatal brain inury; neonatal; neuroprotection in the newborn; mechanisms of injury

Professor, Head of Centre of Perinatal Medicine & Health, Inst of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Guoku Hu, PhD

Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; drugs of abuse; brain aging

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Antonio Ibarra, PhD

Interests: spinal cord injury; cerebral ischemia; cognitive impairment; neuroprotection; neuroregeneration; immunonutrition

Professor of Medicine and Clinical Immunology at Anahuac University, Senior Researcher; and Coordinator of the Health Sciences Research Center (CICSA), Anahuac University, Mexico

François Ichas, PhD

Interests: α-synuclein amyloids; fibril self-replication cycle; fragmentation; propagation; mutual interaction of α-synuclein amyloids and neurons; Parkinson’s disease; MSA

Researcher, INSERM/CNRS, the SynTeam, Bordeaux, France

Mohammad Moshahid Khan, PhD

Interests: Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's disease; dystonia; oxidative stress and antioxidants; neuroinflammation; DNA damage; long non-coding RNAs; CNS in regulation of muscle weakness

Associate Professor, College of Medicine - Memphis, Department of Neurology, Memphis, USA

Jari E Koistinaho, MD, PhD

Interests: iPSC; microglia; astrocytes; cortical neurons; schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease; brain organoids; drug discovery; inflammation

Professor of Neuropharmacology, Director, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

Giuseppe Lanza, MD, PhD

Interests: clinical neurophysiology; neuroplasticity; neuropsychiatry; sleep disorders; neurodegeneration

Associate Professor, Dean of Applied Medical Sciences Techniques, Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Roger M. Leblanc, PhD

Interests: carbon dots; photoluminescence; surface chemistry

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, Florida, USA

Junghee Lee, PhD

Interests: Huntington’s disease; epigenetics; Alzheimer’s disease; ALS; neurodegeneration

Director of the Laboratory for Neuroimmunology and Cognitive Epigenetics, and Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and VA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts, USA

Francisco López-Muñoz, MD, PhD

Interests: psychopharmacology; drug abuse; history of neuroscience; depression; schizophrenia

Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health, University Camilo José Cela, Madrid, Spain; Vice-Rector of Research and Science, University Camilo José Cela, Madrid, Spain

Jessica Mandrioli, MD

Interests: amyoptrophic lateral sclerosis; motor neuron disease; epidemiology; clinical trials; biomarkers

Associate Professor in Neurology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

José Marco-Contelles, MD, PhD

Interests: Alzheimer's disease; drug design; drug synthesis; medicinal chemistry; stroke

Professor, CSIC - Instituto de Química Orgánica General IQOG, Madrid, Spain

Lucio Marinelli, MD, PhD

Interests: clinical neurophysiology; movement disorders; muscle hypertonia; botulinum toxin

Associate Professor of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DiNOGMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;
Department of Neuroscience, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy

Stuart Maudsley, PhD

Interests: G protein-coupled receptor biology; neurodegeneration; aging-related disorders; pharmaceutical development

Professor, Chief of Receptor Biology Lab, Department of Biomedical Research at the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Janez Mavri, PhD

Interests: neuroscience (theoretical aspects); computational enzymology; multiscale simulation methodology; DNA damages; pharmacology

Head of the Laboratory of Computational Biochemistry and Drug Design, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Rosario Moratalla, PhD

Interests: Parkinson's disease; dopamine systems; striatal projection neurons; L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia; autophagy; anxiety and depression

Professor, Instituto Cajal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain

P. David Mozley, MD

Interests: neuroimaging; quantifying signal transduction; glutaminergic pharmacology; second messenger systems

Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Medicine, Cornell University Weill School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Elliott Mufson, PhD

Interests: Alzheimer’s disease; aging; chemoanatomy; neuroanatomy; neurotrophins

Professor, Department of Translational Neuroscience and Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Rodrigo Pacheco, PhD

Interests: neuroinflammation; neurodegeneration; T cells; Parkinson’s disease; autoimmunity

Associate Investigador at Fundación Ciencia & Vida and Full Profesor at Faculty of Medicine and Science at Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile

Leonel Pereira, PhD

Interests: phycology; biodiversity; taxonomy; biotechnology; bioactive marine compounds; FTIR-ATR; novel food; nutraceuticals: anti-neurodegenerative compounds

Associate Professor, The University of Coimbra, CFE - Centre for Functional Ecology: Science for People & Planet Marine Resources, Conservation and Technology - Marine Algae Lab, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal

Anna Pittaluga, PhD

Interests: neurotransmitters; glutamate receptors; chemokines; complement; aging; presynaptic; multiple sclerosis; neuroinflammation

Full Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy (DIFAR), Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Research, School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Genova, Italy

Aurel Popa-Wagner, PhD

Interests: aging; stroke; epilepsy; brain plasticity; stem cells

Professor of Experimental Neurology and the Chair of Vascular Neurology and Dementia, Essen University Medical School, University of Medicine, Essen, Germany

Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, MD

Interests: traumatic spinal cord injury; cell transplantation; epidemiological

Professor of Neurosurgery, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Sina Hospital, Hasan-Abad Square, Imam Khomeini Ave., Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Michele Roccella, PhD

Interests: neurodevelopmental disorders; gender dysphoria; the study of neuropsychological functions in children with epilepsy and in chromosomal-genetic syndromes

Associate Professor, Director, Child Neuropsychiatry at the Department of Psychological, Pedagogical, Physical Exercise and Training at the University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Agnese Secondo, PhD

Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; calcium homeostasis; ALS; stroke; autophagy

Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, School of Medicine, “Federico II” University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Aruna Sharma, PhD

Interests: nanowired delivery of drugs; brain and spinal cord pathology; blood-CNS barriers dysfunctions in neurological diseases; sleep deprivation induced neurodegenerative diseases and neuroprotection

Secretary of Research International Experimental Central Nervous System (CNS) injury & Repair (IECNSIR), University Hospital, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Hari Shanker Sharma, PhD

Interests: neuroprotection and neuroregeneration in relation to the BBB in stress, trauma, and drugs of abuse in health and disease

Professor of Neurobiology (MRC), the Director of Research (International Experimental Central Nervous System Injury & Repair, IECNSIR), University Hospital, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Teruna J. Siahaan, PhD

Interests: drug delivery and targeting; autoimmune diseases

Director, Center for Global Health Education & Research, School of Pharmacy, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

Vincenzo Silani, MD, PhD

Interests: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Parkinson’s disease; dementia; neurodegenerative diseases; biomarkers

Professor of Neurology and Chairman, University of Milan Medical School at IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

Robert W. Stackman Jr., PhD

Interests: neuroscience of long-term memory; spatial navigation; cellular and circuit mechanisms of learning and memory

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs – Jupiter, John D. MacArthur Campus of Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida, USA;
Professor of Neuroscience, Dean of the Graduate College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida, USA

Salvador Ventura, PhD

Interests: protein aggregation; protein folding; drug discovery; protein engineering; Parkinson’s disease

Professor, Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

Claudio Viegas-Junior, PhD

Interests: drug design; neurodegenerative diseases; multi-target directed ligands; multifunctional drug candidates; hybrid molecules

Full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of Federal University of Alfenas, Alfenas, Brazil

Cinzia Volonté, PhD

Interests: neurodegeneration; neuroinflammation; purinergic signalling; drug targets

Research Director at National Research Council (CNR-IASI Institute) in Rome, Italy

Guanghui Wang, PhD

Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; Parkinson's disease; neuroinflammation; mitochondria; glial cell

Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Soochow University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Ming Xiao, MD, PhD

Interests: Alzheimer’s disease; brain ageing; neurodegeneration

Professor, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Moussa B.H. Youdim, PhD

Interests: Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases; molecular mechanism of neuroprotection; in vitro and in vivo models of neurodegenerative disorders; brain iron metabolism; oxidative stress; anti oxidants; disease modifying drugs; biomarkers

Professor Emeritus, Technion-Rappaport Family Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel

Yongjie Zhang, PhD

Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; frontotemporal dementia; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; TDP-43; C9orf72; biomarker

Associate Consultant II-Research, Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA; Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Jacksonville, Florida, USA