Endocrinology Editors and Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Editor Woodruff Teresa largerTeresa K. Woodruff, PhD Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, USA Dr. Woodruff is the dean and associate provost for graduate education in the Graduate School at Northwestern University. She is also the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the vice chair for research, and the chief of the Division of Reproductive Science in Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Woodruff is professor of molecular biosciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of biomedical engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering. She is the director of the Center for Reproductive Science, founder and director of the Women’s Health Research Institute, and director of the Oncofertility Consortium. Dr. Woodruff is an internationally recognized expert in ovarian biology and, in 2006, coined the term “oncofertility” to describe the merging of two fields: oncology and fertility. She now heads the Oncofertility Consortium, an interdisciplinary team of biomedical and social scientist experts from across the country. She has been active in education not only at the professional level but also with high school students. To this end, she founded and directs the Oncofertility Saturday Academy, one of several high school outreach programs that engages girls in basic and medical sciences. Dr. Woodruff was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring in an Oval Office ceremony by President Obama in 2011. Widely recognized for her work, she holds 10 U.S. patents, and in 2013 she was named to Time magazine’s “Most Influential Persons” list. Some of Dr. Woodruff’s recent awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2017), the Society for Endocrinology Transatlantic Medal (2017), and a Leadership Award from the Endocrine Society (2017). She has two honorary degrees, including one from the University of Birmingham College of Medical and Dental Sciences in the United Kingdom (2016). She is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Woodruff is past-president of the Endocrine Society and championed the new NIH policy that mandates the use of females in fundamental research. She is civically active and is an elected member of The Economic Club of Chicago and on the school board of the Chicago-based Young Women’s Leadership Charter School.
Associate Editors Editor Andrews Zane largerZane B. Andrews, PhD Monash University Clayton, Australia Dr. Andrews is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia research fellow and an associate professor at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include neuroendocrinology, obesity and metabolism, and diabetes. His current research focuses on understanding neuroendocrine control of metabolism, mood, and motivation, with a particular attention to the neuroendocrine actions of ghrelin and ghrelin-target cells in the brain.
Editor Auchus Richard largerRichard J. Auchus, MD, PhD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Dr. Auchus is a professor of pharmacology and internal medicine in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University of Michigan and director of the Endocrinology Fellowship Program. His research program ranges from basic chemical principles of steroid biosynthetic enzymes and steroid mass spectrometry to clinical and translational investigation in disorders of the pituitary, adrenal, ovaries and testes that cause hypertension, infertility and obesity. His clinical interests also focus on pituitary, adrenal and reproductive diseases that involve disorders of steroid production, and he is particularly interested in the care of adults with genetic disorders of steroid biosynthesis and action.
Editor Bernard Daniel largerDaniel J. Bernard, PhD McGill University Montréal, Québec, Canada Dr. Bernard is a professor of pharmacology and therapeutics, anatomy and cell biology, physiology, and obstetrics and gynecology at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is the director of the McGill Centre for Research in Reproduction and Development and is a member of the Integrated Program in Neuroscience. The Bernard lab investigates the neuroendocrine control of the reproductive and thyroid axes. The lab is particularly interested in mechanisms of TGFβ superfamily and GnRH regulation of gonadotropin synthesis, as well as mechanisms underlying immunoglobulin superfamily member 1 (IGSF1) deficiency syndrome.
Editor Brubaker Patricia largerPatricia L. Brubaker, PhD University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dr. Brubaker is professor and Canada Research Chair in the departments of physiology and medicine at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include gut hormone secretion and biological activities, with a focus on the incretin and satiety factor glucagon-like peptide-1 and the intestinal growth factor glucagon-like peptide-2.
Editor Chakravarti Debu largerDebabrata Chakravarti, PhD Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, USA Dr. Debabrata (Debu) Chakravarti is professor of obstetrics and gynecology and pharmacology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is also the associate director of the Division of Reproductive Sciences in Medicine and the co-leader of the Cancer Epigenetics and Nuclear Dynamics Program of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. His current research focuses on understanding the basic mechanisms of hormonal, transcriptional, and epigenomic regulation of uterine biology and prostate tumorigenesis, with an ultimate goal of translating these discoveries into potential therapeutics and a better understanding of reproductive pathophysiology.
Editor Flamant Frederic largerFrédéric Flamant, PhD École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Lyon, France Dr. Flamant is the deputy director of the Functional Genomics Institute, a laboratory of École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and works as research director for Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique. For the last 10 years, Dr. Flamant’s work, based on mouse genetics, has been dedicated to the understanding of the neurodevelopmental function of thyroid hormone. He also participates in networks dedicated to endocrine disruption, with a focus on thyroid hormone disruption.
Editor Forrest Douglas largerDouglas Forrest, PhD National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland, USA Dr. Forrest is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. His research interests focus on thyroid hormone, thyroid hormone metabolism, and the developmental and transcriptional roles of the nuclear thyroid hormone receptors. He also investigates neurodevelopmental functions of thyroid hormone receptors and orphan nuclear receptors.
Editor Gaddy Dana largerDana Gaddy, PhD Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA Dr. Gaddy is a tenured professor in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences at Texas A&M University, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biological Sciences. Her long-standing research interests have addressed the signaling of activins and inhibins in bone, the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal-skeletal axis across the menopause transition, and the effects of aging and disuse on bone metabolism, as well as the skeletal metabolism of fracture repair, bone infection, and Down syndrome. Her current work has incorporated the use and development of large animal models of rare bone diseases with an emphasis on hypophosphatasia.
Editor Grattan David largerDavid R. Grattan, PhD University of Otago Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand Dr. Grattan is a professor in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and is director of the Otago Centre for Neuroendocrinology. He is also a management principal investigator of the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, a New Zealand National Centre of Research Excellence. His research interests center around the prolactin and growth hormone family of hormones, particularly the actions of these hormones in the brain and their role in the neuroendocrine adaptation to pregnancy in the maternal brain.
Editor Keri Ruth largerRuth A. Keri, PhD Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio, USA Dr. Keri is a professor of pharmacology, genetics, and genome sciences and of oncology in the Division of General Medical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. She is also the associate director for basic research in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Keri’s research program focuses on identifying transcriptional and signaling mechanisms that control breast development, cancer initiation, and progression, with the goal of discovering new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of aggressive breast cancers. Her work integrates pharmacological approaches, cell biology, genomics, and mouse models. Dr. Keri also has a strong interest in endocrine disruptors, particularly those that impact normal morphogenesis and cancer risk.
Editor Lahlou Najiba largerNajiba Lahlou, MD, PhD Paris Descartes University Paris, France Dr. Lahlou is a professor of hormonology at the Paris Descartes University and head of the Endocrine Department at BPR Clinical Laboratories. She manages a postgraduate degree course in fundamental and clinical hormonology. Her research activities focus on the biology of reproduction. She has a special interest in the physiology and pathology of gonadal peptide production, mainly in pediatrics, from birth to puberty. Concurrently she supervises the development of mass spectrometry for steroid measurement in clinical investigations, and promotes the use of steroid profiling for rapid diagnosis and characterization of genetic disorders and neoplastic diseases. She leads the mass spectrometry working group of the French Endocrine Society.
Editor Levin Ellis largerEllis R. Levin, MD University of California, Irvine Long Beach, California, USA Dr. Levin is Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and vice chairman in medicine, as well as chief of endocrinology at the University of California, Irvine, and Tibor Rubin Veterans Administration Medical Center. His basic science research focuses on estrogen receptors outside the nucleus (cell membrane and mitochondria) and their impact for organ development and modulation of cardiovascular diseases, breast cancer, and adipogenesis. His clinical interests span adults who manifest various endocrine disorders.
Editor Moore David largerDavid D. Moore, PhD Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas, USA Dr. Moore is a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. His research program explores the diverse roles of the members of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily, particularly in the liver. These receptors regulate basic metabolic pathways and other aspects of liver homeostasis, such as bile acid production. They are also linked to dysregulation of metabolic and growth pathways in diseases including diabetes and cancer.
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Editorial Board Anil K. Agarwal, PhD UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA
Younes Anini, PhD Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Andy V. Babwah, PhD Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Leon A. Bach, MD, PhD The Alfred Melbourne, Australia
Rachel Batterham, MD, PhD University College London London, United Kingdom
Sheri A. Berenbaum, PhD The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi, MD University of Miami Miami, Florida, USA
Stefan R. Bornstein, MD, PhD University of Dresden and King's College London Dresden, Germany, and London, United Kingdom
Gregory A. Brent, MD University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, USA
Kristy A. Brown, PhD Weill Cornell Medical Center New York, New York, USA
Serdar E. Bulun, MD Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bruce R. Carr, MD UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA
Partha Chakrabarti, MD, PhD Indian Institute of Chemical Biology Kolkata, India
Wenhan Chang, PhD University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California, USA
Gwen V. Childs, PhD University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Julie A. Chowen, PhD Hospital Niño Jesús Madrid, Spain
Frank A. Claessens, PhD KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium
Colin D. Clyne, PhD Hudson Institute of Medical Research Clayton, Australia
Roberto Coppari, PhD Université de Genève Geneva, Switzerland
Daniela Cota, MD Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Bordeaux, France
Martine G. Culty, PhD University of Southern California Los Angeles, California, USA
Rebecca L. Cunningham, PhD University of North Texas Health Science Center Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Savita Dhanvantari, PhD Lawson Health Research Institute London, Ontario, Canada
Sabrina Diano, PhD Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Jennifer L. Estall, PhD Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) Montréal, Québec, Canada
Carmella Evans-Molina, MD, PhD Indiana University Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Heng-Yu Fan, PhD Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China
Jodi A. Flaws, PhD University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois, USA
Robin S. L. Fuchs-Young, PhD Texas A&M Health Science Center College Station, Texas, USA
Sara Galac, DVM, PhD Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands
Adria Giacca, MD University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kevin L. Grove, PhD Novo Nordisk Seattle, Washington, USA
Martin Hewison, PhD The University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom
Hefeng Huang, MD Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China
Jamie W. Joseph, PhD University of Waterloo Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Ilia N. Karatsoreos, PhD Washington State University Pullman, Washington, USA
Susan Kasper, PhD University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Alexander S. Kauffman, PhD University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California, USA
Rhonda D. Kineman, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago Jesse Brown VA Medical Center Chicago, Illinois, USA
Peter J. King, PhD Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry London, England
Josef Koehrle, PhD Institut für Experimentelle Endokrinologie Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin, Germany
William J. Kovacs, MD Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Richard S. Legro, MD Pennsylvania State University Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Chien Li, PhD Novo Nordisk Research Center Seattle, Washington, USA
Lydia Lynch, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Patrick E. MacDonald, PhD University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Chantal Mathieu, MD, PhD Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven, Belgium
Toshio Matsumoto, MD, PhD University of Tokushima Tokushima, Japan
Takashi Minegishi, MD, PhD Gunma University Maebashi, Japan
Howard A. Morris, PhD University of South Australia Adelaide, Australia
Patricia L. Morris, MS, PhD Population Council New York, New York, USA
Genevieve S. Neal-Perry, MD, PhD University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA
Masaki Noda, MD, PhD Yokohama City Minato Red Cross Hospital Yokohama, Japan
Yoshitaka Oka, PhD The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
Sabire Özcan, PhD University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Vasantha Padmanabhan, MS, PhD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Heather B. Patisaul, PhD North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Carmen C. Pazos de Moura, PhD Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kevin D. Pfleger, MA, PhD Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research Nedlands, Australia
Stephen R. Plymate, MD University of Washington/Seattle VAMC Seattle, Washington, USA
Vincent E. Prevot, PhD Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Lille, France
Matthew D. Ringel, MD The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA
Sarah A. Robertson, PhD University of Adelaide Adelaide, Australia
Evan D. Rosen, MD, PhD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Yasuo Sakuma, MD, PhD University of Tokyo Health Sciences Tokyo, Japan
Leslie S. Satin, BS, MS, PhD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Jonathan Schertzer, PhD McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ernestina Schipani, MD, PhD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Kristina Schoonjans, PhD École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland
Gary J. Schwartz, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York, USA
Aritro Sen, PhD Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Nina Stachenfeld, PhD Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Carlos O. Stocco, PhD University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA
Martha Susiarjo, PhD University of Rochester Rochester, New York, USA
Steven M. Swanson, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Varykina G. Thackray, PhD University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California, USA
Jorma Toppari, MD, PhD University of Turku Turku, Finland
Kazuyoshi Tsutsui, PhD Waseda University Tokyo, Japan
Mehmet Uzumcu, DVM, PhD Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
C. Bruce Verchere, PhD University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Francesc Villarroya, PhD University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
Jenny A. Visser, PhD Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rennian Wang, MD, PhD Children’s Health Research Institute The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada
Zhou Wang, PhD University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Paul Webb, PhD California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Oakland, California, USA
JoEllen Welsh, PhD University at Albany, State University of New York Rensselaer, New York, USA
Haim Werner, PhD Sakler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel
John J. Wysolmerski, MD Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Wen Xie, MD, PhD University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Publisher Richard T. O’Grady, PhD
Executive Editor Timothy M. Beardsley, DPhil
Acquisitions Editor Caitlin R. Ondracek, PhD
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