Academic Editors
The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ. These active academics are the Editors who seek peer reviewers, evaluate their responses, and make editorial decisions on each submission to the journal. Learn more about becoming an Editor.
Anna Panchenko
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. Editor, Journal of Molecular Biology
Jorge P. Muschietti
Professor of Biology at the University of Buenos Aires. Research investigator at the Argentinian National Research Council (CONICET). Vice-director of INGEBI (Institute of Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology). Associate editor of BMC Plant Biology and Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.
Luke O'Neill
Chair of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin & Academic Director of the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. Awards include the Royal Irish Academy Medal for Biochemistry, The Irish Society for Immunology medal, the Royal Dublin Society/Irish Times Boyle medal for Scientific Excellence & the Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year Award. Co-founder and director of Opsona Therapeutics. In 2008 he was appointed Chair of the Immunity & Infection panel of the European Research Council
Christopher D. Brown
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Eduardo Moreno
Eduardo Moreno received his PhD in 2000 for research performed with Ginés Morata at the CBMSO, Spain. He stayed there for another 18 months as a postdoc before moving to Zurich, Switzerland, to continue his postdoc with Konrad Basler. From 2004 to 2010, he was a group leader at the CNIO in Madrid, where he received an ERC Starting Grant Award in 2007. Eduardo is at the Institute of Cell Biology in Bern, Switzerland, since 2011. He received the prestigious Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Award in 2011.
Randal J. Kaufman
Professor and Director of the Degenerative Diseases at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Formerly Professor of Biological Chemistry and Internal Medicine and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute at the University of Michigan Medical School. Awards include the Murray Thelin Award, the ìPrix Henri Chaigneauî, the ISTH Investigator Recognition Award , the ESACT Van Wezel Prize, and fellow of the AAAS.
Tamas Fulop
Dr. Tamàs Fülöp is Assistant Director of the Age Research Centre and Full Professor within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada. He is also Head of the Immune Inflammation Laboratory and Medical Director of the Memory Clinic.
M.D: From the Unversity of Geneva.
His postdoctoral research was in the biochemistry of connective tissues, and his PhD is in immunology and gerontology. His research interest is aging in relation to immunity.
Stefan Vieths
Vice President and Head of the Division of Allergology, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany. Professor of Food Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Member of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immonology. Member of the German Chemical Society and the German Food Chemisty Society. Chairman of the International Union of Immunological Societies Allergen Standardization Subcommittee.
Keiko Sugimoto
Group leader at RIKEN Plant Science Center. Editorial Board Member of Cell Reports, The Plant Cell, Genes to Cells, Plant and Cell Physiology, and Frontiers in Plant Science
Nicoletta Sacchi
Nicoletta Sacchi, Professor of Oncology and Distinguished Member of Genetics at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo) previously worked at the Johns Hopkins University, the National Cancer Institute, and the University of Milan. Together with Piotr Chomczynski, she identified the principle for the separation of RNA from DNA in 1987 that led to the classic Single Step Method for RNA isolation. Her expertise is in the field of genetics and epigenetics of cancer.
Ludmilla A Morozova-Roche
Professor of Medical Biophysics, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umea University, Sweden. Editor of journal "Diseases".
Jeremy A. Simpson
Assistant Professor, University of Guelph. Editorial board, Frontiers in Respiratory Physiology