Editor-in-Chief

Ekaterine Berishvili, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, School of Natural Sciences and Medicine, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Group Leader, Department of Surgery, Laboratory of Tissue Engineering and Organ Regeneration, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering, Islets of Langerhans, Organoids, Biomaterials, Regenerative medicine

Managing Editor

Marco Infante, MD, FACN
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Clinical Cell Transplant Program (CCTP), Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), Miami, FL, USA; Diabetes Research Institute Federation (DRIF), Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; Adjunct Professor of Endocrinology, UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Rome, Italy

Areas of Expertise: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 Diabetes, Autoimmunity, Clinical Endocrinology

Editorial Board Members

Reza Abdi, MD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Renal Division, Boston, MA, USA

Areas of Expertise: Transplant Immunology

Rodolfo Alejandro, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism and Director of the Clinical Cell Transplant Program (CCTP), Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Type 1 Diabetes, Islet Transplantation, Regenerative Medicine 

Julie G. Allickson, PhD
Michael S. and Mary Sue Shannon Director of Mayo Clinic’s Center for Regenerative Medicine and the Otto Bremer Trust Director, Biomanufacturing and Product Development, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

Areas of Expertise: Bone Marrow Transplant, Regenerative Medicine

Anthony Atala, MD
Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; Department of Urology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine

Per-Olof Berggren, PhD
Professor and Head of Cell Biology and Experimental Endocrinology, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Director of The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Head of Cell Biology and Signal Transduction and the Mary Lou Held Visiting Scientist at the Diabetes Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Surgery at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; Visiting Professor, Division of Integrative Biosciences and Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea; Visiting Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine/Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Senior Research Investigator, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of Imperial College, London, UK; Distinguished Professor, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; Member of EMBO, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine (USA), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Class VII, and the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Areas of Expertise: Diabetes, Bioengineering, Islets of Langerhans, Organoids, Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine

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

Areas of Expertise: Pancreas, Islets of Langerhans, Intestine

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

Areas of Expertise: Endocrinology, Diabetes, Islets of Langerhans, Pancreas

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

Areas of Expertise: Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine

Tiziana Brevini, MD
Full Professor of Anatomy and Embryology, Laboratory of Biomedical Embryology, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Areas of Expertise: Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine

F. Charles Brunicardi, MD, FACS
Chair of Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Dowling, Toledo, OH, USA; Senior Vice President and Dean of the College of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Areas of Expertise: Pancreas and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Cancer, Molecular Biology

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

Areas of Expertise: Regenerative Medicine, Progenitor and Stem Cell Therapies 

Sylvia Daunert, PhD
Professor and Lucille P. Markey Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Nanotechnology, Nanocarrier-based targeted drug delivery, Cancer therapy

David Della Morte, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology and Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Areas of Expertise: Regenerative Neurology, Aging, Vascular and Metabolic Disease

Anil Dhawan, MD, FRCPCH

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

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric Hepatology, Hepatocyte Biology, Hepatocyte transplantation

Paolo De Coppi, MD
Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Section, DBC Programme, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK

Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Cellular Reprogramming, Expansion and Differentiation, Regenerative Medicine

Dalton Dietrich, PhD
Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Cell Biology, and Scientific Director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Cell Therapy, Neuroplasticity, Neuroprotection, Neuroregeneration, Traumatic Brain Injury

Juan Dominguez-Bendala, MSc, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Stem Cell & Pancreatic Regeneration Laboratory, Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering, Islets of Langerhans, Stem Cell Therapies-Regenerative Medicine

Massimo Dominici, MD
Full Professor of Medical Oncology and Director, Laboratory of Cellular Therapy, Program of Cell Therapy and Immuno-Oncology, Division of Oncology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences for Children and Adults, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Areas of Expertise: Regenerative Medicine, Immuno-Oncology, Cell Therapy

Christopher H. Evans, PhD
John and Posy Krehbiel Professor of Orthopaedics, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Areas of Expertise: Orthopedic Surgery, Cell Therapy

Vincent Falanga, MD, FACP
Emeritus Professor of Dermatology and Biochemistry, Laboratory of Cutaneous Wound Healing, Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

Areas of Expertise: Wound Healing, Cell Therapy

Fulvio Gandolfi, PhD
Full Professor of Veterinary Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Biomedical Embryology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – Production, Landscape, Agroenergy and Center for Stem Cell Research, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Areas of Expertise: Animal anatomy and genetics, Animal morphology and physiology, Veterinary Medicine

Marta Garcia-Contreras, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Areas of Expertise: Exosomes, Exosome Therapeutics

Antonio Gasbarrini, MD
Full Professor of Internal Medicine and Head, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Areas of Expertise: Clinical Gastroenterology, Gut Microbiota, Liver Transplantation

Nady Golestaneh, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, & Biochemistry and Director of Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; Immediate Past President, Georgetown Women In Medicine (GWIM), Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

Areas of Expertise: Ophthalmology, Aging, Age-related macular degeneration, Regenerative Medicine in Ophthalmology

Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FACE
Professor of Medicine, Founder and Director, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Department of Medicine; Co-director, University Ethics Programs, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Bioethics, Public Health

Fabio Grassi, MD, PhD
Full Professor of Biology, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Mucosal Immunology Group Leader, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University of Italian Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Areas of Expertise: Molecular Biology, T-cell biology, Adaptive Immunity, Immunology

Bernhard J. Hering, MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Translational Medicine, Executive Director of the Schulze Diabetes Institute, and Director of Islet Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Areas of Expertise: Diabetes, Immune Tolerance, Islets of Langerhans

Johnny Huard, PhD
Distinguished Chair in Orthopaedic Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, USA; Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and Director, Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine, Steadman Philippon Research Institute (SPRI), Vail, CO, USA

Areas of Expertise: Gene therapy, Tissue engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Regenerative Sports Medicine

Jeffrey A. Hubbell, PhD
Eugene Bell Professor in Tissue Engineering and Deputy Dean for Development, Pritzker School for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, IL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Immunotherapy, Immune Response, Autoimmune Diseases, Growth Factor Variants

Suzanne T. Ildstad, MD
Jewish Hospital Distinguished Professor of Transplantation Research, Director of the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, and Professor in the Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

Areas of Expertise: Cell therapy, Immunology, Transplantation

Aisha Khan, MBA
Executive Director of Laboratory Operations, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) Cell Processing Facility, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Research and Development in Medicine, Regulatory Research, Regulatory Science

Robert Langer, PhD
Institute Professor and Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Areas of Expertise: Nanoparticles, drug delivery systems, tissue engineering, biocompatible materials, polymers

Giacomo Lanzoni, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), Cell Transplant Center, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Stem Cell Therapies, Islets of Langerhans, Regenerative Medicine

Elina Linetsky, PhD
Research Assistant Professor and Director of cGMP Advanced Cell and Biologic Products Manufacturing Facility, Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), Cell Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Cell Therapies, Type 1 Diabetes

Wei Liu, MD, PhD
Professor of Plastic Surgery and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Areas of Expertise: Regenerative Medicine, Plastic Surgery

Cinzia Marchese, PhD
Full Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Chief of the Lab of Cellular Biotechnology, and Director of the Unit of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Areas of Expertise: Regenerative Medicine

James F. Markmann, MD, PhD
Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery and Director of Clinical Operations at the Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Claude E. Welch Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Areas of Expertise: Islets of Langerhans, Diabetes, Immune Tolerance, Regenerative Medicine

Philip O’Connell, MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACP, FAHMS
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Executive Director of the Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Areas of Expertise: Kidney Transplantation, Islets of Langerhans, Transplant Immunology

Klearchos K. Papas, MD
Professor of Surgery and Director, Institute for Cellular Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Areas of Expertise: Regenerative Medicine, Islets of Langerhans

Bruno Péault, PhD
Professor, Orthopedic Hospital Research Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA/Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Chair of Vascular Regeneration, BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Areas of Expertise: Stem cells, Regenerative Medicine, Regenerative Orthopaedics, Cell culture

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

Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering, Islets of Langerhans, Organoids, Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine

Marta Pokrywczyńska, PhD, DSc
Chair of Urology and Andrology, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Cell and Tissue Bank, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Torun, Poland

Areas of Expertise: Cell culture, Stem Cell Biology, Tissue Engineering

Paul Robbins, MD
Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, Institute on the Biology of Ageing and Metabolism, University of Minnesota, MN, USA

Areas of Expertise: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Biophysics

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

Areas of Expertise: Regenerative Nutrition

A.M. James Shapiro, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Medicine and Surgical Oncology, and Director of the Clinical Islet and Living Donor Liver Transplant Programs, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering, Islets of Langerhans, Regenerative Medicine

Bernard Siegel, MD
Founder and Chair, World Stem Cell Summit; Executive Director, Genetics Policy Institute (GPI), Palm Beach, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Regenerative Medicine, Stem cell therapy

Cherie Stabler, PhD
Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering, Islets of Langerhans, Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine

Riccardo Tamburrini, MD, PhD
General Surgery Resident, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine

Jianming Tan, MD
Professor, Shanghai Jiatong University and Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Areas of Expertise: Regenerative Medicine, Stem cell therapy

Alice A. Tomei, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Immunology, and Director of the Islet Immunoengineering Laboratory, Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Bioengineering, Islets of Langerhans, Biomaterials, Nanoencapsulation, Regenerative Medicine

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

Areas of Expertise: Transplantation, Transplantation Pathology

Carlo Ventura, MD, PhD
Full Professor of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Bologna; Director of the National Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Stem Cell Engineering of the National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems (NIBB) – Eldor Lab, at the Innovation Accelerators of CNR, Bologna, Italy

Areas of Expertise: Molecular Biology, Stem Cell Engineering, Regenerative Medicine

Rodrigo Vianna, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Director, Miami Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Transplant Surgery, Liver Transplantation

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

Areas of Expertise: Type 1 Diabetes, Autoimmunity

Collin J. Weber, MD
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Voluntary Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Surgery, Cancer Surgery, Regenerative Medicine

Michael D. West, PhD
Founder, AgeX Therapeutics, Alameda, CA, USA

Areas of Expertise: Cell Technology, Aging, Molecular Biology

Piotr Witkowski, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Director, Pancreatic and Islet Transplant Program, Transplantation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Type 1 Diabetes, Islets of Langerhans

Xiumin Xu, MD
Researcher, Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), Cell Transplant Centre, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Pancreatic islet isolation, Pancreatic islet transplantation, Transplantation

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