Journal of Clinical and Experimental Genetics

Dr. Shirzadian-Khorramabad Reza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Guilan, Iran. With expertise in Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Dr. Shirzadian-Khorramabad’s research focuses on understanding genetic mechanisms at the molecular level and applying advanced biotechnological approaches for innovation in genetic manipulation and molecular diagnostics. As an academic and researcher, Dr. Shirzadian-Khorramabad has contributed significantly to the advancement of molecular biology and biotechnology education and research in Iran, mentoring students and collaborating on cutting-edge genetic engineering projects.  

Research: Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering

Dr. Modyanov received his PhD in from the Shemyakin- Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia in 1973, where he subsequently was doing research for 25 years. He was a Head of Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry since1986. In 1994 he joined the University of Toledo College Of Medicine as Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology. He is a member of the Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research. He has published many articles. For over 30 years his research has focused on the molecular aspects of the ion-transporting X, K-ATPases (Na,K- and H, K-ATPases): receptors for cardiotonic and anti-ulcer drugs. He resently discovered   the unique BetaM proteins encoded by ATP1B4 genes, members of X, K-ATPase gene family.   

Research: Dr. Modyanov’s research interest includes Gene co-option Placental mammals development  Evolution

Dr. Charles Wang is presently working as a Professor at Loma Linda University, US. He is also the Director of a center for Genomics. He has completed his Ph.D. from University of Washington. He is an Editorial board member for many Journals. He has a membership in many Professional societies. He received many honors and special awards. He published many articles in various journals.

Research: Dr. Charles Wang’s research interest includes: Diet-moduated epigenomic reprogramming Epigenomic reprogramming of adult cardiomyocyte dedifferentiated progenitors Single-cell genomics & transcriptomics Cancer genomics  

Dr. Eric Huang is currently working as a Professor in University of California, United States. He has received many honors. He has memberships in many associations. He participated in reviewing of many manuscripts. He participated in ongoing research support. 

Research: Dr. Eric Huang’s research interest includes: Non-invasive Vaccination Proteomics Ultrafiltration Mass Spectroscopy

Dr. Tsinoremas is an international leader in computational genomics and bioinformatics with over 20 years of academic and industrial experience.  He currently holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Computer Science, and Health Informatics at the University of Miami.  In addition to the faculty appointments, he is the Founding Director of the Center for Computational Science, which was established to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations requiring computation.  He received his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Athens, Greece, and his Ph.D.  in Molecular Biology from the University of Leeds, UK.   Dr. Tsinoremas served as Senior Director of Informatics at The Scripps Research Institute- Florida. In the past, he was Director of Computational Genomics and Genomic Discovery at Rosetta/Merck where he directed the project that combined informatics and computational approaches with gene expression profiling and genetics to discover, prioritize, and define drug target genes.  Prior to working for Merck/Rosetta, Tsinoremas was the Vice-President of Genomics at DoubleTwist Inc., where he determined the scientific direction of DoubleTwist¹s bioinformatics applications and databases.

Research: Dr. Nicholas Tsinoremas's research interests include Computational science and informatics. 

Dr. Masayoshi Yamaguchi is currently working as an Adjunct Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA. He has a membership in many Professional Organizations. He is serving as editors and editorial board members of reputed 60 international Journals. He received many honor and awards. He had registered over 20 national and international patents in the fields of his research interesting. 

Research: Dr. Masayoshi Yamaguchi’s research interest includes: Endocrinology Molecular biology Metabolism Nutrition Pharmacology Toxicology Cell signaling mechanism Bone biology, nutritional factor and osteoporosis prevention, Diabetes and diabetic osteoporosis Cancer bone metastasis. He also discovered two novel proteins and genes; cell signaling suppressor protein (named regucalcin; 1978) and transcriptional factor RGPR-p117 (regucalcin gene promoter region-related protein; 2001) in mammalian cells.  

Dr. Saima Riazuddin is currently working as an associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at University of Maryland, United states. Her research has been publishe in highly ranked scientific journals. Dr. Riazuddin is the principal investigator of two NIH R01 grants and multiple other national and international grants.

Research: Dr. Saima Riazuddin’s research interests include: Investigating the molecular and genetic basis of hearing loss and deaf-blindness (Usher syndrome), utilizing human and mouse genetics. The pedigrees are analyzed by linkage analysis and through various genetic approaches genes essential for hearing process are identified. Functional analysis of the newly identified genes associated with deafness and deaf-blindness promises new insights into the molecular mechanisms of auditory and vision functions and will facilitate the rational design of therapies for hearing loss and blindness. 

Dr. Zubair M Ahmed is presently working as an Associate professor of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery at University of Maryland, United States. He has a membership in professional societies. He has earned several national and international awards. He has been continuously funded as a principal investigateor since 2007. He is acting as an Editorial Member and peer reviewer for many Journals. He has many publications.  

Research: Dr. Zubair M Ahmed’s research interests include: Functional analysis of the newly identified genes associated with deaf-blindness and OCA promises new insights into the molecular mechanisms of vision and auditory development and functions and will facilitate the rational design of potential therapies.  

Dr. Stefan Hiendleder is currently working as Professor in University of Adelaide, Australia. He studied Agricultural/Animal Science at Justus-Liebig University (JLU) of Giessen, Germany where he obtained a PhD in 1989. He was appointed Assistant Professor Animal Breeding and Genetics at JLU in 1990. After sabbaticals at the Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan (1991) and the University of Saskatchewan, Canada he obtained a habilitation degree in Animal Genetics (Dr.agr.habil.) in 1996. He worked at JLU as Associate Professor until joining the Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology Group at the Gene Center of the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Dr. Hiendleder focused on the emerging field of Epigenetics and completed a second habilitation degree (Dr.med.vet.habil.) in Functional Genomics and Biotechnology. He was appointed JS Davies Professorial Fellow in 2005 and leads a research group investigating non-mendelian genetic and epigenetic effects in the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and the Robinson Research Institute. He has published extensively and received several awards and fellowships.

Research: Dr. Stefan Hiendleder’s research interest includes: Genetics and Epigentics Experimental Genetics Conservation Genetics Animal Breeding Reproductive Biotechnology Reproductive Physiology

Dr. Alfred Cheng is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Sung in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at CUHK in 2002 and completed post-doctoral training characterizing the roles of cyclooxygenase-2 in hepatitis B-induced hepatocarcinogenesis. From 2004 to 2007, he was trained as a post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Tim Huang’s lab at Ohio State University where he developed an integrated genome-wide and bioinformatics approach to interrogate gene regulatory network in cancer. He has received several scientific awards including the American Association of Cancer Research Scholar-in-Training Awards for 3 consecutive years from 2004 to 2006 and Travel Grants/Oral Free Paper Prize from the United European Gastroenterology from 2011 to 2013. Prof. Cheng has published in international journals including Molecular Cell, Nature Genetics, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Cancer Cell, Cancer Research, Gastroenterology and Gut. He has served as Principal Investigator capacity in 10 competitive local and national research projects.      

Research: Dr. Alfred Cheng’s research interests are transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of carcinogenesis. 

Dr.  Chiang-Ting Chien is currently working as a professor in Biology Department at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He has given various contributions for academic societies.  He is specialized in various fields.  He has many publications.

Research: Dr.  Chiang-Ting Chien’ research interest includes: Apoptosis, autophagy and pyroptosis Anti-aging and oxidative stress molecular medicine Immunology Neurosciences

Dr. Guey-Jen Lee-Chen is a Professor at the Department of Life Science, NTNU, Taiwan since 1999. She has considerable experience in molecular genetic analysis of human genetic disease, including mutation screen and characterization, case-control study of at risk polymorphism and/or cell model studies in spinocerebellar ataxias, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. To develop therapeutic strategy targeting protein misfolding and aggregation for the treatments of associated neurodegenerative disease, selected Chinese herbal medicines and natural/synthetic compounds are currently being examined. She has many publications.

Research: Dr. Guey-Jen Lee-Chen’s interest includes: Neuroscience Human Genetics Molecular Biology Neurodegenerative Diseases Neuroprotective Drug  

Dr. Pei-Chun Liao is currently working as an Associate Professor of Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University. He worked as Associate Professor at Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (2009-2012). Liao has worked in fields of population genetics and molecular evolution and with broad interesting in local adaptation, gene evolution and the adaptive character shift, evolutionary interaction between plants and microorganisms, plant speciation and hybridization, disease and immunogene evolution in primates. 

Research: Dr. Pei-Chun Liao’s research interests include: Population genetics Gene evolution Local adaptation Speciation and hybridization Environmental microbiology

Dr. Wai‑Yee Chan is currently working as a Professor of Biomedical Sciences in Chinese university Hon Kong. Prior to returning to Hong Kong in 2009, he was a tenured Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.  He also served as Chief of the Division of Genetics and Metabolic Diseases and Director of the Molecular Genetics Diagnostic Laboratory at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Research: Dr. Wai‑Yee Chan’s expertise is in Developmental genomics and epigenomics, Germinal stem cell biology Molecular genetics of reproductive and endocrine disorders  

Dr. Gyorgy Nagy is currently an associate professor in the Department of Rheumatology and Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Rheumatology State University of New York, Syracuse, USA from 2001 to 2003, and a resident and research fellow in the 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest. 

Research: Dr. Gyorgy Nagy’s research interests focus on molecular mechanisms of autoimmune diseases, with a special interest in the role of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen intermediates in disease. He also studies the role of microparticles in the pathogenesis of various autoimmune diseases.

Dr. Mohamed A Sabry is currently working as an Associate professor in College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain.  He has published many articles and wrote chapter in books. Many of his publications were selected at national/international meetings.  He has a membership in many committees. HE acts as a reviewer for Clinical Genetics and Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Research: Dr. Mohamed A Sabry’s research interests include: Identification of recognized dysmorphogenetic syndromes Arab populations Identification of a novel human gene C15OR Study of causative (new) mutations of biochemical genetic phenotypes/ in Arab/ non-Arab populations The identification of teratogenic syndromes in Beduins  Cytogenetic studies in Arabs

Dr. Juro Gregan is currently working as Associate Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He received his PhD degree from University of Vienna, Austria and completed his postdoctoral training at University of Oxford, UK and Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria. He was a group leader at Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna.

Research: Dr. Gregan’s research interest includes: Genetics Cell biology Chromosome biology Mitosis and meiosis

Dr. Hsien-Yuan Lane is presently working as Professor and Chief in the Department of Psychiatry, China Medical University and Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. He completed his Ph.D in 2000 from National Defense Medical College, Taipei. He received many honors. He is also an Editorial Board Member for many journals. He published many articles and many books. He acts as a invited Speaker for International Symposiums.

Research: Dr. Hsien-Yuan Lane’s research includes: Schizophrenia NMDA Psychopharmacology Social cognition Neurocognition Genomics Neuropsychopharmacology Pharmacogenomics Psychiatric genetics Cognitive neuroscience

Dr. Saber Abd-Allah is the Founder of 4 International Journals and Editor -in- Chief of 14 International Journals in addition; he is editor or reviewer in many journals. He is Editorial board member of > 100 International Journals. Also, he serves as a peer reviewer for > 200 International Journals. Dr. Abd-Allah has been author for 5 books and published more than 25 articles as single or first author, 20 of which are cited by the science citation index (SCI) or PubMed.     

Research: Dr. Abd-Allah scientific research is focused on various areas of Cell biology including Embryonic Stem Cell Culture and Development Induced Pleuripotent Stem Cell Neural Differentiation Oocyte and embryo culture In vitro fertilization In vitro embryo production Embryo Transfer Cryopreservation of ovaries, oocytes, embryos and semen, Follicle Ablation, Ovum Pick-Up Ovarian Superovulation.   Cytogenetic and Molecular biology. 

Dr. Azad Kumar Kaushik presently working as Associate Professor in University of Guelph, Canada. He is a consultant to several international organizations (USVIRN and CIgW in the US, and IMGT in France). He was recognized as the Esther Z Greenberg Honors Chair in Biomedical Research, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, USA, in 1998. He has published over 85 research articles, two books and four patents on cattle antibodies. He Received BVSc and AH (Honors) in 1976 and MVSc (1978) from the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Hisar, India; followed by a DSc in 1987 from the Pasteur Institute (University of Paris VII), France.  

Research: Dr. Azad Kumar Kaushik’s research interests include Molecular Immunoglobulin Genetics Antibody Engineering and Transgenesis Auto immunity and Systemic Autoimmune Disease Therapeutics and Vaccines Immunodiagnostics Clinical Veterinary Immunology  

Dr. Hung-Jen Liu is a distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology at the National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He completed his D.V.M. degree at the Department of Veterinary Medicine in National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree from Auburn University in USA and completed his postdoctoral training in 1997 from Manitoba University School of Medicine in Canada. He is particularly interested in studying virus and host interaction and development of subunit vaccines using a baculovirus display system. He serves as an Editor-in-Chief and editorial board members of 10 international scientific journals and published more than 150 publications, patents, and book chapters.  

Research: Dr. Hung-Jen Liu’s research interest includes: Molecular virology Vaccine development Signaling transduction Biotechnology Veterinary medicine. 

Hassen Chaabani is Full Professor at the University of Monastir (Tunisia). He was Director of Department of fundamental sciences in the Faculty of Pharmacy (1990 - 1996) and Director of research unit entitled "Biology and Molecular Anthropology applied to Development and Health" (until 2013). Specialist in Human Genetics, Biological Anthropology and some cultural and religious subjects, he published several articles and books. Hassen Chaabani  is the Founder and the President of the Tunisian Association of Anthropology. He is the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Modern Anthropology and Editorial Board Member in several academic international journals. Several research works of Master and Doctorate were done under his management. He was chairman of several international congress and lecturer in several scientific and cultural congress and conferences at the national and international scale.

Research: Dr. Hassen Chaabani’s research interest includes Human and Medical Genetics (including Quantitative Genetics, Population Genetics, Psychiatric Genetics) Immunogenetics