Editors and Editorial Board

Editor in Chief

Ricordi
Camillo Ricordi MD, FNAI
Stacy Joy Goodman Professor of Surgery; Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology; Director, Diabetes Research Institute and Cell Transplant Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Managing Editor

Marco Infante MD
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Clinical Cell Transplant Program (CCTP), Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), Miami, FL, USA

Editorial Board

Reza Abdi MD
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Rodolfo Alejandro MD
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Julie G. Allickson PhD
Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Anthony Atala MD
G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA

Julio C. Barredo MD

Medical Director, Alex’s Place at SCCC and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Holtz Children’s Hospital,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Per-Olof Berggren PhD
Professor and Head Cell Biology and Experimental Endocrinology, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Director The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ekaterina Berishvili MD
Director, Georgian National Institute of Medical Research, Tbilisi, Georgia

Thierry Berney MD, MSc, FEBS (Transplant Surgery)
Professor of Surgery, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Massimiliano Berretta MD, PhD
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina Italy

Federico Bertuzzi MD
Head of Diabetes Unit, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy

Michela Bosetti PhD
Professor of Human Anatomy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Research Director Tissue Regeneration Lab, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy

Tiziana Brevini MD
Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

F. Charles Brunicardi
Department of Surgery, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Dowling, Toledo, OH, USA

Arnold I. Caplan PhD
Director, Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Sylvia Daunert PhD
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

David Della Morte MD, PhD
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Anil Dhawan MD, FRCPCH

Director, NIHR/Welcome Trust and King’s College Hospital, Cell Therapy Unit, King’s College Hospital, London, UK

Jason Dictenberg PhD
AccelBio, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Gianluca D’Ippolito PhD
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Gennaro D’urso PhD
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Paolo De Coppi MD
UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK

Dalton Dietrich PhD

Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Cell Biology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Juan Dominguez-Bendala MSc, PhD

Res. Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Surgery, Stem Cell & Pancreatic Regeneration Laboratory, Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Massimo Dominici MD
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Chris Evans PhD
John and Posy Krehbiel Professor of Orthopaedics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Vincent Falanga MD, FACP
Professor Emeritus, Dermatology and Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

Fulvio Gandolfi PhD
Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – Production, Landscape, Agroenergy, Milan, Italy

Marta Garcia-Contreras PhD
Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Stanford ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Antonio Gasbarrini MD

Internal Medicine, and *Area Gastroenterologia ed Oncologia Medica, Dipartimento di Scienze Gastroenterologiche, Endocrino-Metaboliche e Nefro-Urologiche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli – IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Nady Golestaneh PhD, MSc
Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology;
Director of Research, Department of Ophthalmology; Immediate Past President, Georgetown Women In Medicine (GWIM),
Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

Kenneth W. Goodman PhD
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Fabio Grassi MD, PhD
Mucosal Immunology, Head Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona
Switzerland

Bruno Gridelli MD
ISMETT, Palermo, Italy

Joshua M. Hare MD
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Bernhard J. Hering MD
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Johnny Huard PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA

Jeffrey A. Hubbell PhD
Institute of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, IL, USA

Suzanne Ildstad MD
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

Aisha Khan MBA
University of Miami, Miami FL, USA

Jonathan RT Lakey, PhD, MSM
Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Robert Langer PhD
MIT and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Giacomo Lanzoni PhD
Diabetes Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Elina Linetsky PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Diabetes Research Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Wei Liu MD
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China

Livio Luzi MD
Director, Endocrinology, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Department, MultiMedica Hospital and Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Cinzia Marchese PhD
Chief of the Lab of Cellular Biotechnology, Director of the Unit of Regenerative Medicine, Dept. Experimental Medicine, University Sapienza of Rome, Rome, Italy

Giovanni Marfia MD, PhD
Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

James F. Markmann MD, PhD

Chief, Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Claude E. Welch Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Philip O’Connell MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACP, FAHMS
Executive Director, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead, NSW, Australia

Klearchos K. Papas
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Ricardo Pastori PhD
Research Professor of Medicine at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Bruno Péault
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Lorenzo Piemonti MD
Professor of Endocrinology, Director, Diabetes Research Institute (SR-DRI), Head, Beta Cell Biology Unit, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Marta Pokrywczyńska PhD, DSc
Head of Department of Regenerative Medicine Cell and Tissue Bank, Ludwik Rydygier Medical College in Bydgoszcz,
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun University Hospital No 1, Torun, Poland

Paul Robbins
Institute on the Biology of Ageing and Metabolism, University of Minnesota, MN, USA

Marco Romanelli, MD, PhD
Full Professor of Dermatology, Chairman Dept. of Dermatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Barry Sears
President of the Inflammation Research Foundation, Peabody, MA USA

Nicolò Scuderi
Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery “P. Valdoni”, Unit of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

A. M. James Shapiro
Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Bernard Siegel
Genetics Policy Institute, Palm Beach, FL, USA

Cherie Stabler
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Riccardo Tamburrini
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA

Jianming Tan
Professor of Shanghai Jiatong University, Professor of the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

H. Thomas Temple
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Alice A. Tomei PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Immunology at the University of Miami and Director of the Islet Immunoengineering Lab at the Diabetes Research Institute, Miami, FL, USA

Alan Trounson
Hudson Institute for Medical Research, San Francisco, CA, USA

Aruna V. Vanikar MD, FICPath, PhD
Litt. I/C Vice Chancellor, Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences (GUTS) and Prof. and Head, Dept. of Pathology, Lab Medicine, Transfusion Services and Immunohematology, and Prof., Dept. of Stem Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, G.R. Doshi and K.M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC), Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS), Civil Hospital Campus, Asarwa, Gujarat, India

Carlo Ventura MD, PhD
Full Professor of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Director, National Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Stem Cell Engineering – Eldor Lab of the Istituto Nazionale di Biostrutture e Biosistemi (INBB – www.inbb.it) at the Innovation Accelerators of CNR, Bologna, Italy

Rodrigo Vianna
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Matthias von Herrath
Vice President and Head, NovoNordisk Type 1 Diabetes R&D Center, Seattle, WA; La Jolla Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

Collin J. Weber
Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Voluntary Assoc. Professor of Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA