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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
Monica J Carson, PhD, University of California, Riverside, USA
Tammy Kielian, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA

Founding and Consulting Editor
Sue T Griffin, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Founding Editor
Robert E Mrak, MD, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine, USA

Associate Editors
Michelle L Block, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Amanda M. Brown, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Astrid E. Cardona, PhD, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Joseph El Khoury, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA 
Prof. Dr. Thomas Langmann, University of Cologne, Germany
David J. Loane, PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
John Lukens, PhD, University of Virginia, USA
M Kerry O'Banion, MD, PhD, University of Rochester, USA
Keith R Pennypacker, PhD,​​​​​ University of Kentucky, USA
Susanna Rosi, PhD, University of California San Francisco, USA
Lee A Shapiro, PhD, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, USA 
Dandan Sun, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, US

Editorial Board
Katerina Akassoglou, PhD, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, USA
Christophe Altier, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada
Professor Richard B Banati, PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia
Steven W Barger, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Anirban Basu, PhD, National Brain Research Center, India
Staci D. Bilbo, PhD, Duke University, USA
Michael Burton, PhD, University of Texas - Dallas, USA
Etty N Benveniste, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Anna-Lena Berg, AstraZeneca R&D Södertälje, Sweden
Iain L Campbell, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia
Eduardo Candelario-Jalil, PhD, University of Florida, USA
Gregory M Cole, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Carol A Colton, PhD, Duke University, USA
Colin Combs, PhD, University of North Dakota, USA
David Cribbs, PhD, University of California, Irvine, USA
Thiago M Cunha, PhD, University of  São Paulo, Brazil 
Colm Cunningham, PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Lindsay De Biase, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Piet Eikelenboom, MD, PhD, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Netherlands
Ukpong Eyo, PhD, University of Virginia, USA
Zsuzsanna Fabry, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Sally Frautschy, PhD, Veterans Administration and UCLA, USA
Samuel E Gandy, MD, PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Professor Steve M Gentleman, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Nader Ghasemlou, PhD, Queen’s University, Canada
Jonathan Godbout, PhD, The Ohio State University, USA
Paula Grammas, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA
Marc W. Halterman, MD, PhD, University of Rochester, USA 
Brent T Harris, MD, PhD, Georgetown University, USA
Marni Harris-White, PhD, Alkermes, USA
Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Peter Hartung, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Johnny J He, PhD, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, USA
Charles L Howe, PhD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA
Kelly J. Huffman, PhD, University of California, Riverside, USA
Ole Isacson, MD, Harvard Medical School, USA
Erik Andrew Johnson, DO, MPH, FAWM, USAMRICD, USA
Mahmoud Kiaei, PhD, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Mark S Kindy, PhD, FAHA, University of South Florida, USA
Anil Kumar, PhD, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA 
Gary Landreth, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Hyoung-gon Lee, PhD, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Sunhee C Lee, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Prof. Dr. Arthur Liesz, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Ian MacKenzie, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ralph N Martins, PhD, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Thomas Montine, MD, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Elliott Mufson, PhD, Barrow Neurological Institute, USA
Greer Murphy, MD, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Valentin A Pavlov, PhD, The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, USA
Yuri Persidsky, MD, PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, USA
Ana M Planas, PhD, Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Spain
Lynn Pulliam, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Joseph Rogers, PhD, One Step Beyond, Inc., USA
Julian Romero, PhD, Hospital Universitario Fundacion Alcorcon, Spain
Vijayalakshmi Santhakumar, PhD, University of California, Riverside, USA
James W Simpkins, PhD, West Virginia University, USA
Alexis M Stranahan, PhD, Augusta University, USA
Wolfgang J Streit, PhD, University of Florida, USA
Kyoungho Suk, PhD, Kyungpook Natioinal University School of Medicine, South Korea
Rudolph E Tanzi, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital East, USA
Dennis Taub, PhD, Washington D.C. VA Medical Center, USA
Andrea Tenner, PhD, University of California, Irvine, USA
Dietmar R Thal, MD, PhD, KU Leuven, Belgium
Linda Van Eldik, PhD, University of Kentucky, USA
Waldiceu A Verri Jr., PhD, Londrina State University, Brazil
Gary L Wenk, PhD, The Ohio State University, USA
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Med. Heinz Wiendl, University of Muenster, Germany
Donna M Wilcock, PhD, University of Kentucky, USA
Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, Stanford University, USA

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