Editors in Chief

David Williams DSc, FREng
Professor of Biomaterials and Director of International Affairs, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA and Chairman, Strait Access Technologies Pty, Cape Town, South Africa

Camillo Ricordi MD
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

Peggy O’Donnell MSc
Morgan & Masterson LLC, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 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
Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Julio C. Barredo MD
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Per-Olof Berggren PhD
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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

Thierry Berney MD
Hopitaux Universitaire de Geneve, Switzerland

Massimiliano Berretta MD
National Cancer Institute – I.R.C.C.S., Aviano (PN), Italy

Federico Bertuzzi MD
Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda, Milan, Italy

Michela Bosetti PhD
Università del Piemonte Orientale, 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
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
Child Health 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
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Juan Dominguez-Bendala PhD
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

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

Chris Evans PhD
Mayo Clinic, MN, USA

Vincent Falanga MD
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

Fulvio Gandolfi PhD
Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Antonio Gasbarrini MD
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Nady Golestaneh PhD
Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

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

Fabio Grassi MD, PhD
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, CH

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 Lakey MD
University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

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

Giacomo Lanzoni PhD
Diabetes Research Institute, Clinical Cell Transplant Program, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Elina Linetsky PhD
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

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

Livio Luzi MD
Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Cinzia Marchese MD
Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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

James F. Markmann MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Philip O’Connell
University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Australia

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

Ricardo Pastori
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

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

Lorenzo Piemonti
San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Marta Pokrywczyńska
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

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

Marco Romanelli
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Barry Sears
Inflammation Research Foundation, Marblehead, MA, USA

Nicolò Scuderi
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

Stephen Strom
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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

Jianming Tan
Fujian Key Laboratory of Transplant Biology, Xiamen University, Fuzhou, China

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

Alice A. Tomei
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

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

Aruna V. Vanikar
Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Carlo Ventura
Università di Bologna, 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
Emory University School of Medicine, Atalanta, GA, USA

Michael D. West
BioTime, Alameda, CA, USA

Piotr Witkowski
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Editorial Office Director

Patrizia Verduci

Editorial Office Deputy Directors

Gianni Lombardi and Mariella Verduci