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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
Bong-Kiun Kaang, PhD, Seoul National University, South Korea
Satoshi Kida, PhD, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Graham Collingridge, PhD, CBE, FRS, University of Toronto, Canada

Founding and Former Editors
Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, PhD, Fujita Health University, Japan (retired 2024)
Min Zhuo, PhD, FRSC, University of Toronto, Canada (retired 2017)

Review Editors
Samuel Cooke, PhD, King's College London, UK
Long-Jun Wu, PhD, Mayo Clinic, USA

Section Editors
Angel Barco, PhD, Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC, Spain
Benoit Coulombe, PhD, Université de Montréal, Canada
Paul Frankland, PhD, SickKids Hospital, Canada
Yuichi Iino, PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yong-Seok Lee, PhD, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea
Lin Mei, MD, PhD, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA
Guo-li Ming, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Tuck Wah Soong, PhD, National University Singapore, Singapore
Jun Xia, PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Editorial Board
Thomas Abrams, PhD, University of Maryland, USA
Joon-Yong An, PhD, Korea University, South Korea
Vijay Balasubramanian, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Guoqiang Bi, PhD, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Haruhiko Bito, MD, PhD, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Vadim Bolshakov, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Scott T Brady, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Tao Chen, PhD, Air Force Medical University, China
Vernon Clarke, PhD, Brandeis University, USA
Mauro Costa-Mattioli, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA 
John Georgiou, PhD, Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, Canada
Peter Giese, PhD, King's College London, UK
Jianguo Gu, MB, PhD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Jin-Hee Han, PhD, KAIST, South Korea
Won Do Heo, PhD, KAIST, South Korea
Eloisa Herrera, PhD, CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Michihiro Igarashi, MD, Niigata University, Japan 
Kazuhide Inoue, PhD, Kyushu University, Japan
Takuji Iwasato, DSc, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Zhengping Jia, PhD, Sick Kids Hospital, Canada
Sheena Josselyn, PhD, FRSC, University of Toronto, Canada 
Masahisa Katsuno, MD, Nagoya University, Japan
Joung-Hun Kim, PhD, POSTECH, Korea
Makoto Kinoshita, MD, Nagoya University, Japan
Takashi Kitamura, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Centre, USA
Eric Klann, PhD, New York University, USA
Katsunori Kobayashi, MD, Nippon Medical School, Japan
Jin-A Lee, PhD, Hannam University, South Korea
Sung Joong Lee, PhD, Seoul National University, South Korea
Weidong Li, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Michael Lin, MD, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Naoki Matsuo, PhD, Kyushu University, Japan
Elek Molnar, MD, PhD, University of Bristol, UK
Philippe Monnier, MSc, MBA, PhD, University Health Network, Canada
Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Jose R Naranjo, PhD, National Center of Biotechnology, Spain
Ferdinando Nicoletti, MD, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Yong Rao, PhD, McGill University Health Centre, Canada
Kobi Rosenblum, PhD, University of Haifa, Israel
Michael Salter, MD, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Gleb Shumyatsky, PhD, Rutgers University, USA
Bai Chuang Shyu, PhD, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Woong Sun, PhD, Korea University, South Korea
Changiz Taghibiglou, PhD, PharmD, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Keizo Takao, PhD, University of Toyama, Japan
Tomonori Takeuchi, PhD, Aarhus University, Denmark
Naomi Visanji, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada 
Lu-Yang Wang, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Koji Yamanaka, MD, PhD, Nagoya University, Japan
Jun Yan, MD, University of Calgary, Canada 
Yao Yao, PhD, University of Georgia, USA
Seong-Woon Yu, PhD, DGIST, South Korea
Keisuke Yonehara, PhD, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Scott Zeitlin, PhD, University of Virginia, USA 

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