Vijayasaradhi Setaluri
Editor-in-Chief
Vijayasaradhi Setaluri is the Cripps-Ratcliff Professor in the Department of Dermatology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Vijay received his BSc from Sri Venkateswara University and MSc degree from G. B. Pant University, India. After receiving a PhD in Biochemistry from the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, Vijay joined Dr. Alan Houghton’s laboratory at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Houghton lab, he characterized the immune response to melanosomal proteins tyrosinase and TYRP1 in melanoma and identified the sorting signals in melanosomal proteins.
Vijay has served as faculty at the Rockefeller University and the Wake Forest University. He is also a founding member of the Society for Melanoma Research and served on the council of International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies. He has served as an Associate Editor and a Section Editor and is currently an Editorial Consultant for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. He received the Young Scientist award at the XV International Pigment Cell Conference, London, UK and The Pigment Cell Research Award at the III International Congress for Melanoma Research, Netherlands. His current research is focused on signaling mechanisms involved in melanocyte transformation and melanoma tumor progression.
Caroline Le Poole
Associate Editor
Caroline Le Poole is a Professor of Dermatology and Microbiology & Immunology at Northwestern University in Chicago (IL), USA. Caroline trained in the Netherlands and obtained a Masters degree in the Natural Sciences from Utrecht University, and a PhD in Medicine from Amsterdam University. The Le Poole Lab is currently located in the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feinberg School of Medicine. With respect to pigmentation-associated research, work in the Le Poole lab is focused on the etiology and treatment of vitiligo and melanoma. Caroline is particularly interested in the development of immunotherapeutic treatment strategies and in immune monitoring.
Elizabeth Patton
Associate Editor
Liz Patton is an MRC Programme Leader at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK. Liz received a BSc Honours degree from King’s College at Dalhousie University, and a PhD from the University of Toronto, working with Mike Tyers to discover how E3 ubiquitin ligases control cell division. Following this, Liz received a Human Frontier Science Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Len Zon at Harvard Medical School, where she developed a zebrafish model for melanoma. Her lab uses chemical genetic approaches in zebrafish to investigate gene-drug interactions in melanocyte development and in melanoma. Liz is a Handling Editor at Disease Models and Mechanisms (Company of Biologists, Cambridge UK), and an Associate Editor for Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research. Liz was the founding President of the Zebrafish Disease Models Society (2013-2015) and currently serves as Treasurer and Board member, and is an elected member of the Young Academy of Scotland at the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Society for Melanoma Research Steering Committee. Liz’s research is funded by the Medical Research Council, the European Research Council, and a L’Oréal Paris USA–MRA Team Science Award for Women in Scientific Research.
Ashani Weeraratna Reviews Editor
Ashani Weeraratna is the Ira Brind Professor and Co-Program Leader for Immunology in the Microenvironment & Metastasis Program at the Wistar Institute. Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Southern Africa, Ashani first came to the United States in 1988 to study biology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She earned a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Oncology at the Department of Pharmacology of George Washington University Medical Center. From 1998 to 2000, she was a post-doctoral fellow at The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, before joining the National Human Genome Research Institute as a staff scientist. In 2003, she moved to the National Institute on Aging, where she started her own research program. Ashani joined The Wistar Institute in 2011.
Her primary research focus is on melanoma and how changes in the tumor cell’s microenvironment, which include changes in normal cells, blood vessels, and secreted molecules, might initiate the disease’s spread to other parts of the body and also make it resistant to treatment. She is specifically interested in how age-related changes drive the progression of cancer.
Through speaking engagements and social media, Ashani diligently promotes skin safety, from urging proper sunscreen use to regular mole checks, as well as the dangers of indoor tanning. She is also a fierce champion and mentor for women in science and girls pursuing a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
Editorial Board: Heinz Arnheiter, Maryland, USA (Former Editor in Chief) Menashe Bar-Eli, Houston, USA Greg Barsh, Stanford, USA Boris Bastian, San Francisco, USA Dorothy Bennett, London, UK Corine Bertolotto, Nice, France Marianne Berwick, Albuquerque, USA Stanca Birlea, Aurora, USA Marcus Bosenberg, New Haven, USA Anja K. Bosserhoff, Regensburg, Germany Paul Chapmann, New York, USA Cedric Delevoye, Paris, France David E. Fisher, Boston, USA Keith Flaherty, Boston, USA Jose-Carlos Garcia-Borron, Murcia, Spain Colin R. Goding, Oxford, UK Nick Hayward, Herston, Australia Meenhard Herlyn, Philadelphia, USA Peter Hersey, Newcastle, Australia Shosuke Ito, Aichi, Japan Yutaka Kawakami, Tokyo, Japan Robert Kelsh, University of Bath, UK Harriet Kluger, New Haven, USA Lidia Kos, Miami, USA Lionel Larue, Orsay, France Carmit Levy, Tel Aviv, Israel Georgina Long, Sydney, Australia Richard Marais, Manchester, UK Mickey Marks, Philadelphia, USA Martin McMahon, Utah, USA Glenn Merlino, NIH, USA Lluis Montoliu, Madrid, Spain Emi Nishimura, Tokyo, Japan David Parichy, Virginia, USA William Pavan, Bethesda, USA Daniel Peeper, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mauro Picardo, Rome, Italy Graca Raposo, Paris, France Ann W. Richmond, Nashville, USA Helen Rizos, Sydney, Australia Gavin Robertson, Hershey, USA Ze'ev Ronai, La Jolla, USA Dennis Roop, Aurora, USA Neil Rosen, New York, USA Yardena Samuels, Rehovat, Israel Mark Shackleton, Melbourne, Australia Norman E. Sharpless, Chapel Hill, USA Marisol Soengas, Madrid, Spain Eirikur Steingrimsson, Reykjavik, Iceland Lukas Sommer, Zurich, Switzerland Alain Taieb, Bordeaux, France Nancy Thomas, Chapel Hill, USA Thomas Tüting, Bonn, Germany Founding Editor: Joseph T. Bagnara, Tucson, USA (1987-1994)
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