Editor Profiles

During my Doctoral degree (Department of Oncology, Southern Medical University), I focused on the basic and pre-clinical/ translational training of gastric cancer (GC) progression. My research investigated the roles of metastasis-associated in colon cancer-1 (MACC1) in GC. I demonstrated that MACC1 not only influences the prognosis of GC patients, but also promotes the proliferation, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), vasculogenic mimicry (VM) formation and endothelium-dependent angiogenesis in vivo and in vitro models. 2 years ago, I joined the laboratory of Dr. David Mulholland at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where I worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow on treatment resistant cancers of the prostate and bladder. I have developed a preclinical model capable of mimicking advanced human prostate cancer, including (1) resistance to hormone therapy and chemotherapy, (2) the presence of exhausted immune cells and (3) formation of metastasis to the bone. 1 year ago, I joined the laboratory of Dr. Michelle Kroggsgaard at NYU Medical Center where I worked as an associate reseatrch scientist on immunotherapy of melanoma. I study the mechanisms of primary resistance to PD-1 checkpoint blockade

Employment and professional appointments 2007-2009 Medical Officer at Chand Clinic, Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, India 2009(May-Sept) Medical officer at KSCH Lady Harding Medical College, Pediatric HIV treatment Center 2009-2010 Medical Officer at Chand Clinic, Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, India 2012 - 2013 Co-Chief Resident at St.Mary Mercy Psychiatry Residency program. 2012-2013 Member of the Resident Recruitment Committee. 2016-2019 Inpatient Adult and Pediatric Psychiatrist, Brooklane Hospital, Hagerstown, MD 2016-2019 Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Robert C.Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 2018-19 President of Medical Staff Committee at Brooklane Hospital, Hagerstown, MD 2019-present Staff Psychiatrist, Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Harrisburg, PA 2019-present Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 2019-present Member of Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Harrisburg, PA

Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised in Brazil since the age of one, graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication, and received and award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she has been presenting her work worldwide, concerning the treatment of various diseases, using techniques based on several medical traditions around the world.

Dr. Dimitrios Karakitsos is an Associate Professor in Medicine (University of South Carolina, School of Medicine) and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Critical Care (Keck Medical School, University of Southern California). He is an international, well-published expert and researcher in critical care ultrasound and crisis resource management in trauma. Currently, he is also affiliated to the Trauma Center of King Saud Medical City (KSMC) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Currently, she is pursuing her post-doctoral studies from Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA in measuring the DNA damage and repair efficiency in human population. In addition, her postdoctoral work even focuses on understanding the DNA damage and repair in cryopreserved blood samples and cells exposed to nanoparticles. She has obtained her PhD in Life sciences from BARC to understand role of DNA repair mechanism in human PBMC exposed to gamma and neutron radiation.

Francisco Javier Buils Vilalta have a MD in General and Digestive Surgery. General Surgery Service and digestive. He is an Associated Professor at the Department of Medicine and Surgery. Rovira I Virgili University. Tarragona.

Anastasios Serbis a MD in English division of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Szeged, Hungary. He is an Lecturer in Paediatrics-Paediatric Endocrinology, Ioannina University, Ioannina, Greece, University General Hospital of Ioannina, Greece.