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Editorial Board


Editor-in-Chief

Marianna J. Bledsoe, MA
Independent Research Consultant
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
mbledsoe@liebertpub.com


Deputy Editors
 

Dayong Gao, PhD
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, USA

dayong@u.washington.edu
 

Peter Watson, MB B.Chir FRCPC
Department of Pathology
BC Cancer Agency
2410 Lee Avenue
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada  V8R6V5

pwatson@bccancer.bc.ca
 

Carol Weil, JD
Consultant
Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Biobanking
Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Asian Editor

Junmei Zhou, MD, PhD
Shanghai Children’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanghai, China

junmei_zhou@139.com
 

European Editor

William Mathieson, PhD
Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg
6 rue Nicolas Ernest Barblé
1210 Luxembourg

Luxembourg
William.Mathieson@ibbl.lu
 

Section Editors

EMERGING MARKETS AND TECHNOLOGIES 
Rohit K. Gupta, PhD
Spectrum Solutions
Draper, Utah, USA

 

Zisis Kozlakidis, PhD, MBA
International Agency for Research on Cancer
Lyon, France


 

BIOPRESERVATION SCIENCE
Preservation Processes

John M. Baust, PhD
CPSI Biotech
Owego, New York, USA



Preservation Engineering
Zhiquan Shu, PhD
University of Washington
Tacoma, Washington, USA

 

BIOSPECIMEN SCIENCE
Biospecimen Research
Helen Moore, PhD
NCI/OD
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
 

Liangliang Ruan, PhD
Shanghai Clinical Research Center
Shanghai, China




HUMAN RESEARCH BIOBANKS
Peter H. J. Riegman, PhD
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, Netherlands


 

GENOME RESOURCE BANKING AND ENVIRONMENTAL REPOSITORIES
Pierre Comizzoli, DVM, PhD

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
National Zoological Park
Washington, DC, USA



BIOBANKING MANAGEMENT
Human Research
Daniel Simeon-Dubach, MD, MHA
medservice
Walchwil, Switzerland




BIOBANKING INFRASTRUCTURE
Facilities & Automation
Andy Zaayenga, BSEET
SmarterLab
Martinsville, New Jersey, USA


 

ETHICAL, LEGAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Tohru Masui, PhD  
Keio University
Tokyo Japan


 

Editorial Coordinator

Jamie K. Grainger
biopreservation_eo@liebertpub.com

Social Media Editors


Andy Zaayenga, BSEET
SmarterLab
Martinsville, New Jersey, USA

 

Marianne K. Henderson, MS, CPC
National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
 

Editorial Board

Jason Acker, PhD
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada


Nahla Afifi, MD, PhD
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt

 

Bushra Allah Rakha, PhD
Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University
Rawalpindi, Pakistan


Ida Biunno, PhD
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
IRGB – Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica
Milan, Italy
 

Mustafa Numan Bucak, PhD
Selçuk University
Department of Reproduction and Artificial Insemination  
Konya, Turkey

Antonio Hugo Campos, PhD, MSc
D’Or Hospitals Network / D’Or Institute for Education and Research
São Paulo, Brazil

 

Dianne Chadwick, PhD
Ontario Tumour Bank
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Carolyn Compton, MD, PhD
Arizona State University
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

 

John H. Crowe, PhD
University of California
Davis, California, USA

 

Weiping Ding, PhD
University of Science and Technology of China
Anhui, China

 

Sarah Dry, MD
UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California, USA

 

Koh Furuta, MD, PhD
Urayasu Warakuen Clinic
Urayasu, Japan

 

Rongxing Gan, MD
Shanghai Clinical Research Center
Shanghai, China

 

William E. Grizzle, MD, PhD
University of Alabama Medical Center
Birmingham, Alabama, USA

 

Marianne K. Henderson, MS, CPC
National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
 

Stephen Hewitt, MD, PhD
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Scott D. Jewell, PhD
Van Andel Research Institute
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

 

Elisabeth (Lise) Matzke, MSc, MBA
Provincial Laboratory Medicine Services
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

 

Maimuna E. Mendy, PhD
Jobot Laboratories
Kombo St. Mary Division
The Gambia

Cheryl Michels, BA
Dataworks Development, Inc.
Mountlake Terrace, Washington, USA

 

Helen Morrin, BS
Cancer Society Tissue Bank
University of Otago
Christchurch, New Zealand 

Amanda Rush, MPH, PhD
The University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia



Brent Schacter, MD, FRCPC
Canadian Tumour Repository Network
Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada
 

Wendell Q. Sun, PhD
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Shanghai, China
 

David Toke, PhD
Pieris Pharmaceuticals Inc
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Mehmet Toner, PhD
Shriners Hospital for Children
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Erik John Woods, PhD
Ossium Health, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

 

Aili Zhang, PhD
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China

 

Gang Zhao, PhD
University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, Anhui, China

 

Xueming Zhao, PhD
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Beijing, China



Chunxia Zheng, PhD
National Clinical Research Center of Kidney Diseases, Jinling Hospital
Nanjing University School of Medicine
Nanjing, China

 

Founding Editor

John G. Baust, PhD

 

Editor Emeritus

Jim Vaught, PhD
Consultant
Bethesda, Maryland, USA

 

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