Editor-in-Chief

Kevin A. Roth, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Senior Associate Editor

Martha B. Furie, Stony Brook University

Senior Assistant Editor

Robin G. Lorenz, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Associate Editors

Chris Albanese, Georgetown University Medical Center

Steven L. Carroll, Medical University of South Carolina

William B. Coleman, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Zoran Culig, Medical University of Innsbruck

Patricia A. D’Amore, Schepens Eye Research Institute d Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Lora Hedrick Ellenson, Cornell University

Philippe G. Frank, The University of Tours

Philip Furmanski, Rutgers University

Nisha Jain Garg, University of Texas Medical Branch

Michael S. Goligorsky, New York Medical College

Meera Hameed, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

David M. Hockenbery, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Yoshifumi Itoh, University of Oxford

Christopher G. Kevil, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

Andrew A. Lackner, Tulane University

Satdarshan (Paul) Singh Monga, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

David J. Nikolic-Paterson, Monash Medical Center

William C. Parks, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Charles A. Parkos, University of Michigan

Drucilla Roberts, Massachusetts General Hospital

Shin’ichi Takeda, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry

Jouni Uitto, Thomas Jefferson University

Xiao-Ming Yin, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dani S. Zander, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Managing Editor

Audra E. Cox, PhD, ELS

Assistant Managing Editor

Emily H. Essex

Production Editor

Henry L. Carter, Jr.

Scientific Editor

Chhavi Chauhan, PhD, ELS

Editorial Assistants

Michael Dustin (Sr.), Dia Pellerin, Angela L. Schmeckebier (Birmingham)

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Sarki A. Abdulkadir

Malcolm Alison

Charles E. Alpers

Gianfranco Alpini

Kenneth E. Bernstein

Generoso Bevilacqua

Gloria Bonuccelli

Jeffrey A. Boyd

Arnold R. Brody

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Franco Capozza

Mathew C. Casimiro

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John C. Chatham

Erika Cione

Robert B. Clarke

Paolo M. Comoglio

Mark T. Curtis

Robert D’Amato

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Dolores Di Vizio

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Jocelyn Dupuis

David M. Engman

Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto

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Stephen M. Factor

Melanie B. Feany

Thomas J. Flotte

Agnes Fogo

Michael L. Freeman

Michael R. Freeman

Matthew P. Frosch

Kevin L. Gardner

Elisabetta Gazzerro

Godfrey S. Getz

Andrew Gewirtz

Jeffrey A. Golden

Leonard G. Gomella

Steven Gonias

Avrum I. Gotlieb

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Anton J. Horrevoets

Anthony Howell

Nicholas H. Hunt

Lorraine Iacovitti

Renato V. Iozzo

Elaine S. Jaffe

Jean-Francois Jasmin

Sanjay Katiyar

C. Dirk Keene

Dontcho Kerjaschki

Karen E. Knudsen

Olivier Kocher

Laurie T. Krug

Rakesh K. Kumar

Hans Lassmann

William Lewis

Shengwen Li

Megan S. Lim

Michael P. Lisanti

Ricardo V. Lloyd

Massimo Loda

Nicholas W. Lukacs

James W. Mandell

Yves L. Marcel

Ubaldo Martinez-Outschoorn

Peter A. McCue

Jay M. McDonald

Steven B. McMahon

Isabelle Mercier

David K. Meyerholz

Kohei Miyazono

Carlos S. Moreno

George F. Murphy

Ruth J. Muschel

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Tristrim Parslow

Mercio A. PereiraPerrin

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Daniel Remick

David L. Rimm

Natalia A. Riobo

Charles L. Rosen

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David B. Sacks

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David S. Salomon

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Eveline E. Schneeberger

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Gene P. Siegal

Keith R. Solomon

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William G. Stetler-Stevenson

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