Advisory Board and Editors Diabetes & Endocrinology
Ashish K Solanki
My Ph.D. (Structural Biology/Biochemistry) focused on studying the pathogenesis of the HIV-1 virus and finding ways to combat its infection. It included structural analysis of the interaction of HIV-1 gp120 with neutralizing and non-neutralizing mAbs, chimeric antibody-CD4 IgG2, and with the host cell surface glycoprotein CD4. Although in the past I have been working on structural, biophysical, and biochemical methods to answer some of the critical questions in biology, my interest in cell signaling and protein trafficking enabled me to join the Dept. of Nephrology, MUSC, South Carolina as a postdoctoral fellow. I have gained a large amount of experience in the field of protein biochemistry and substantial knowledge of podocyte biology during months spent as a postdoc. I explored the role of the exocyst complex in podocyte development and functions, critical aspects of cell signaling, studying pathophysiology and diseases progression caused by mutations in slit diaphragm proteins, which not only helped to get publications but increased my understanding in the field of podocyte biology. The understanding and development of animal model systems in the lab further helped me to strengthen my podocyte experience. I also worked on developing a novel cell-based assay to diagnose recurrent Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis.
Himangshu Sonowal
Dr. Himangshu Sonowal is Assistant Project Scientist within the Moores Cancer Center, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
His research expertise includes Cell and Molecular Biology, Biochemical Pharmacology, Cancer, Vascular Biology, Diabetes and Inflammation.
Ursula Stochaj
Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at McGill University, Montreal.
Research interests: protein and RNA transport, nuclear function and organization, stress, signaling, chaperones, nanobiology, stem cell biology, microscopy, quantitative image analysis, high-throughput screening.
Aslı Suner
Dr. Aslı Suner Karakülah currently works at Ege University, School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics in Turkey as an associate professor. She obtained BSc (2005), MSc (2007) and PhD (2013) degrees from Dokuz Eylül University, Science Faculty, Statistics Department in Turkey. Between March 2011 and February 2012, she joined Professor Klaus-Peter Adlassnig’s research group as a visiting PhD student at Medical University of Vienna, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Section for Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems, Vienna, Austria. Her main research interests include: biostatistics, bioinformatics, medical informatics and applied statistics – particularly the analysis of problems in decision theory, multicriteria decision making, clinical decision support systems, and data mining.
Durga N Tripathi
Durga Nand Tripathi works at the Baylor College of Medicine in Center for Precision Environmental Health (CPEH), Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Houston, TX, USA. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center at Science Park, Smithville, TX and Institute of Bioscience and Technology at Texas A&M University Health Science at Houston. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology & Toxicology from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, India. He is also serving as Editorial Board Member in the journal 'Medicine' and as a peer reviewer for various journals such as Cancer Letters, Scientific Reports, Autophagy, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Nutrition Research, Toxicology Reports and Journal of Pineal research etc.
Shibiao Wan
Dr. Shibiao Wan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also the Assistant Director for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core at UNMC.
With more than 13 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >40 articles in top-tiered journals such as Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals such as Briefings in Functional Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals including Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes.
Dr Wan is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >50 prestigious journals including Nature Computational Science, Nucleic Acids Research, Cancer Research, Genome Medicine, and Briefings in Bioinformatics. He is a recipient of the global peer review awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 awarded by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is also an Outstanding Young Alumni Awardee in 2021-2022. Dr. Wan is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM.
G. William Wong
Dept. of Physiology and Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research, Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. G. William Wong is Professor of Physiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on mechanisms governing metabolic homeostasis, function of adipose-and skeletal muscle-derived hormones, and mechanisms of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
He received in B.S. from Washington State University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. Dr. Wong completed post-doctoral work in biochemistry, cell biology, and physiology at M.I.T’s Whitehead Institute from 2001 - 2007. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2008.
Dr. Wong’s lab seeks to understand mechanisms employed by cells and tissues to maintain metabolic homeostasis and is currently addressing how adipose- and skeletal muscle-derived hormones (adipokines and myokines), discovered in his lab, regulate tissue crosstalk and signaling pathways to control energy metabolism.
Zhijin Wu
I develop statistical methodology and software for the analysis of -omics data. I am particularly interested in the regulation of transcription: the molecular mechanism as well as its association with disease.
Xiaofeng Xin
Xiaofeng Xin is a research scientist working in the Broad Technology Labs developing novel next-generation sequencing library preparation methodologies, which aim to reduce cost and input materials. He came to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2015 after completing his postdoc at MIT, where he studied type 2 diabetes using a systems biology approach.
Xin received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto; during the course of his doctoral studies, he worked as a visiting scientist in the Vidal Lab at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
He has extensive research experience in genomics, functional genomics, systems biology, synthetic biology, molecular biology, yeast genetics, biochemistry, and bioinformatics.
Guangdong Yang
Dr. Yang’s research focuses on a group of gasotransmitters, especially H2S, in the regulation of cellular functions and human diseases. Dr. Yang has received numerous awards and recognitions, including New Investigator award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and Maureen Andrew Award from Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. In his career, Dr. Yang has published ~100 peer-reviewed research articles, some of them published in high-impact journals, including as Science, Circulation, PNAS, and EMBO report etc. Their total citations are 7,481 (September 24, 2018).