Honorable Editors

Michael J Gonzalez

University of Puerto Rico
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
Lipid Peroxidation; Vitamin C and Cancer; Metabolic Correction; Orthomolecular Medicine; Non Toxic Cancer Therapies.

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Michael J Gonzalez is Professor at the Nutrition Program, School of Public Health in the Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico and Adjunct faculty at the University of Western States. He earned a Bachelor Degree in Biology and Chemistry (Catholic University), a Masters in Cellular Biology and Biophysics (Nova University), and another Masters in Nutrition and Public Health (University of PR Med Sciences Campus). He has a Doctorate in Nutritional Medicine (John F. Kennedy University). He also has a Doctorate in Health Sciences (Lafayette University), and another Doctorate in Nutritional Biochemistry and Cancer Biology (Michigan State University). He completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Geriatrics at the School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico. He is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and has authored over 150 scientific publications. He has serve as a member on more than 15 scientific journal Editorial Boards, such as Biomedicina, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, and Alternative Medicine Reviews. He has served as consultant for several companies, he has been responsible for designing formulations of nutritional supplements and pharmaceutical products. He has also been a consultant for The Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning (now Riordan Clinic), in Wichita, Kansas. He has obtained several research awards for his work on Nutrition and Cancer. He is currently Co- Director of RECNAC II project, and Research Director of the InBioMed Project Initiative. He also serves as a nutrition consultant to the Puerto Rican Basketball National Team and is part of the Medical Commission of the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation. He is in a part time clinical practice with Dr. Miguel J Berdiel in Ponce, PR. In December 2013, he was exalted as Distinguished Ponceno in Medicine. In November 2014 he was selected as a member as the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico and to the Iberoamerican Academy of Sciences and Culture. Doctor Gonzalez and Dr. Jorge Miranda-Massari, founders of InBioMed, are leaders in the development of non-toxic chemotherapy treatments for cancer. The findings of their work with Intravenous Vitamin C as an anti-cancer agent, published in 2002, were confirmed by the NIH in 2005. They published the first Phase-I clinical study utilizing Intravenous Vitamin C for treatment of terminal cancer patients in 2005, and also published in 2005 the most comprehensive review on Vitamin C and Cancer, as a follow-up on the work of two times Nobel Laureate, Dr. Linus C. Pauling. They have brought many new concepts into the scientific field, such as the Bioenergetic theory of carcinogenesis, the systemic saturation phenomenon of intravenous vitamin C, the metabolic correction concept for disease treatment and prevention.
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Darryn S Willoughby

Baylor University
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
Effects of Resistance Training and/or Nutritional Intervention on the Physiological, Biochemical and Molcular Mechanisms Regulating Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy; Effects of Resistance Training and/or Nutritional Intervention on Blunting the Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress-Induced Muscle Proteolysis with the Intent of Reducing Muscle Atrophy.

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Darryn S Willoughby holds BS and MS degrees in Exercise Science from Tarleton State University and a PhD in Neuromuscular Physiology and Biochemistry with sub-emphases in Nutritional Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Texas A&M University. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation at Baylor University and is also the director of the Exercise and Biochemical Nutrition Lab. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, American Society of Exercise Physiologists, American College of Nutrition and International Society of Sport Nutrition (ISSN). He is also a Past-President of the ISSN and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist from the National Strength and Conditioning Association and a certified exercise and sport nutritionist from the ISSN. He is an internationally recognized scholar and one of the top leaders in the field where his primary research focuses on the molecular mechanisms regulating muscle hypertrophy and atrophy and the effectiveness and efficacy of nutritional supplements in helping to support muscle hypertrophy, attenuate atrophy, and improve exercise and sport performance. He is well published in scientific research journals such as the Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Nutrition Research, Amino Acids, and the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. He gives invited presentations at numerous professional conferences regarding sport performance and muscle adaptation to training and nutritional supplementation.
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Julia Matzenbacher dos Santos

Detroit R&D
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
Diabetes; Metabolic Disease; Obesity; Physical Exercise; Epigenetic Modification; Nutrition

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Julia Matzenbacher dos Santos holds BS in Exercise Science from Methodist University (Brazil) and a PhD in Sport Biochemistry with sub-emphases in Diabetes and Skeletal muscle Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from University of Porto (Portugal). Also she did a 3 year Post-Doc training in Anatomy and Cell Biology with emphases in Diabetic retinopathy at Wayne State University (Detroit-MI). She is a Senior Scientist at Detroit R&D Inc. in the department of metabolic disease and research development and is also visiting professor and investigator at Federal University of Goias (Brazil). She is an internationally recognized scientist in the field of metabolic disease, epigenetic modifications and exercise and she received grants from several international organizations, at the moment she work in a project as a principal investigator founded by Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and two projects as a coinvestigator founded National Institute of Health (NIH) and Goias Foundation (FAPEG). She is well published in scientific research journals such as Diabetes, Diabetology, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Diabetes Research and Reviews, Metabolism and International Journal of Sport Medicine. She gives invited presentations at numerous professional conferences regarding diabetes, retinopathy exercise and nutritional supplementation and she also review articles for important international journals.
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Wing Tak Jack Wong

Houston Methodist Research Institute
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
Identification of novel determinants governing endothelial specification from pluripotent stem cells.

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Wong earned his Ph.D. in Physiology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009. He received postdoctoral training at Stanford University before becoming a member of Houston Methodist Research Institute in 2013. He has published over 40 research papers and review articles in the area of vascular medicine and biology in such journals as Circulation Research, Cell Metabolism, Hypertension, Diabetes, Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Cardiovascular Research, Journal of Hypertension, and Radiology. He has attended a number of international and regional conferences, and received 10 awards and prizes at these meetings. He was awarded the Young Investigator Award Finalist in American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. He is frequently invited to review manuscripts for 25 international scientific journals, including American Journal of Physiology, Kidney International, Biochemical Pharmacology, and PLoS One. Furthermore, he is currently an editorial board member for Food and Nutritional Sciences, Dataset Papers in Medicine, Vascular Medicine, and World Journal of Pharmacology. He has also received funding support, including an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship (12POST8830020), an American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant (13SDG15800004), and a National Institute of Health Jump Start Award (NHLBI PCBC Jump Start Award).
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Jimenez Flores Rafael

The Ohio State University
USA View Profile

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Jason Deng

University of Florida
USA View Profile

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Dr. Deng received his Master’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. degree in pharmacometrics and systems pharmacology from Univ. of Florida. Dr. Deng has worked on projects solving clinically relevant questions in drug development and has published multiple papers in high-impact journals including Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. Dr. Deng was selected to present two posters on his research on physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling of gefitinib disposition at the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) 2014 Annual Meeting and was selected as the 2015 American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) Annual Meeting Student/Trainee Award Winner for his work investigating DDI-GDI (Drug-Drug Interaction and Gene-Drug Interaction) convergence using PBPK modeling and simulation. The work that Dr. Deng co-authored in warfarin dose optimization has also received recognition at the ASCPT 2017 meeting as the recipient of the Presidential Trainee Award and also the Jason Morrow Trainee Award for the top scoring trainee abstract.
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Shabnam Pooya

California State university
USA View Profile

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Amir Alakaam

University of North Dakota
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
Health and nutrition needs of immigrants and international students; Breastfeeding support in U.S. Hospitals with respect to Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative; Community Based Participatory Research specifically related to health issues among medically underserved population;Socio-Ecological Model approaches to weight management and food practices change

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Dr. Amir Alakaam joined the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at University of North Dakota as an Assistant Professor in Summer 2016. He holds a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Food Systems from the University of Southern Mississippi, an M.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics from Marywood University in Pennsylvania, and an M.B.Ch.B in Medicine and General Surgery from the University of Baghdad in Iraq. He is also a Fulbright Scholar (2010). Dr. Alakaam has over five years of clinical experience as a physician in family medicine and general surgery, and six years of teaching and research experience in the area of nutrition and public health at university level. Prior to coming to University of North Dakota, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Southern Mississippi working on a Community Based Project funded by National Institutes of Health, aimed to develop effective strategies for weight management in a primary care setting serving predominantly medically underserved populations in Southern Mississippi. Dr. Alakaam has served as a book reviewer, invited journal reviewer for numerous peer reviewed journals, a member of Fulbright Evaluation Committee in Marywood University, and a professional member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Public Health Association, American Diabetes Association, and other national and states associations. His research interests focus on using the concepts of the Socio-Ecological Model to address health and nutrition needs of marginal populations. He is also interested in the research related to breastfeeding’s policies and practices in the U.S. hospitals, and eating habits of international students and immigrants in the U.S. His publication appeared in several journals such as Journal of International Students and AIMS Public Health, he recently authored a chapter related to international students’ food practices in colleges and universities, in the book “Campus support services, programs, and policies for international students” published by IGI Global.
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Shaik O Rahaman

University of Maryland
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
Inflammatory diseases including diet-induced atherosclerosis; fibrosis

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Shaik O Rahaman has completed his BSC in Department of Human Physiology (honors) and his MS in Department of Biophysics and Molecular Biology from Calcutta University and PhD in Department of Molecular Biology from Jadavpur University.
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Ahmed Bettaieb

University of Tennessee,
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
The molecular basis of metabolic diseases with a focus on diabetes and its complications. Specifically, we are investigating the metabolic functions of Pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) and soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH).

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Since the beginning of his research career, He has been devoted to building a thorough and comprehensive research portfolio in translational biological research. His research program focuses on understanding the molecular and genetic mechanisms contributing to the development of metabolic diseases including: obesity, diabetes, chronic inflammation and cardiovascular diseases. His goal is to develop translational research plans to improve the treatment and/or prevention of these diseases. Over the past five years I have been very productive as He published in prominent peer-reviewed scientific journals (33 publications) including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Endocrinology, the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Gastroenterology. Additionally, during my tenure at UC Davis, He has been able to establish several strong collaborative relationships. These collaborations were deeply gratifying and fascinating as they allowed him to learn novel experimental techniques and expand my knowledge base in the pathophysiology of chronic metabolic disorders. Also, they exposed me to the research endeavors of other investigators in the Division of Endocrinology, Immunology, Oncology, Clinical Nutrition and Vascular Medicine at the UCD-medical center (UCDMC), Cornell University, McGill University, and Harvard Medical School. University of Tennessee-Knoxville has strong research efforts in the field of metabolic regulation with a number of very active groups spread among campus that perform exciting research. One element that was helpful in choosing University of Tennessee was the strong collaborative nature of research between laboratories and the free sharing of ideas and tools among laboratories. In addition, my interest in modulation of metabolic disorders and cardiovascular disease using dietary interventions, alongside other approaches, were the major factors that contributed to my choice of performing my research in the Nutrition Department. Furthermore, I enjoy teaching and mentoring students and pursuing a career in academia will give me the opportunity to engage students and fulfill my passion for teaching. He believe that he will possess the tools that will enable me to forge a path towards a productive career in the field of metabolic diseases within the Department of Nutrition at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville
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Keitiline R. Viacava

Georgetown University
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
consumer behavior (psychology), consumer neuroscience, implicit cognition, advertising exposure

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Ph.D.investigatesconsumer health behaviors and managerial cognition. She uses a variety of tools from cognitive neuroscience and psychology, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and computerized tasks to assess cognitive performance. She has beenan invited researcher at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA) in the field of organizational cognitive neuroscience. Before that, she was a postdoctoral fellowat the Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging (CFMI), Department of Neurology at Georgetown University (Washington, DC, USA). She earned her PhD in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 2015.Dr. Viacava’s primary research areas are consumer health, attentional bias, emotion regulation, mere-exposure effect, advertising, addiction, sustainability, and managerial cognition.
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Afrooz Afghani

George Washington University
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
Kinesiology; Epidemiology

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Professor Afghanis education, research and teaching experience in the last two decades integrate the disciplines of clinical and preventive medicine, kinesiology, nutrition, human physiology, and epidemiology. Dr. Afghani earned her PhD from a highly competitive five-year program at the University of Southern California with a dual focus in Kinesiology and Epidemiology. Since then, she has collaborated with world renowned researchers and clinicians at USC and UC, San Diego on several NIH-funded research projects with interest in the factors that influence bone acquisition, maintenance, and loss in healthy or diseased children, adults and the elderly of multi-ethnicities. Dr. Afghani has published extensively in the fields of preventive medicine, sports medicine and endocrinology in reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals and has been the editor of two books and the author of several book chapters. She also serves on the honorary editorial board of Clinical Medicine: Pediatrics and the Open Obesity Journal. Professor Afghanis teaching experience has been extensive as well both in the classroom setting (USC and UCLA) and online (TUI) where she has taught and mentored students at the undergraduate and graduate levels since 2000.
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Roopa Gowda

University of Arizona
USA View Profile

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Stavros Lalas

Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly
Greece View Profile

Research Interest:
Extraction using various methods and total characterization of vegetable oils;Extraction and identification of natural antioxidants from plant extracts; Determination of stabilityduring frying/heating of various vegetable oils; Detection of adulteration of vegetable oils; New methods of analysis of fats and oils; Humic and fulvic acids; Cloud point extraction of food industry wastes.

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He was graduated BSc in Agricultural Technology on 1991 and Food Technology on 1995, PhD in Food Technology on 1998. He is Full Professor at the Department of Food Technology of Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly. He has extensive experience in isolation, separation and identification of natural extracts and determination of their antioxidant activity. He also has experience on analytical techniques. He participated in 42 research (in 6 as scientific coordinator) and educational programs. He has published 49 articles in international scientific journals (with more than 1100 citations), 2 chapters in books, more than 38 works in national and international conferences. He is also a member of the Committee of 5 PhD thesis and 4 MSc projects, member of the editorial board of 12 and reviewer in 86 international scientific journals. He is a member of the American Chemical Society.
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Dalia El Khoury

University of Guelph
Canada View Profile

Research Interest:
Food Intake; Appetite Hormones; Metabolic Syndrome; Dairy Products; Dietary Proteins; Infant Nutrition.

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Dr. Dalia El Khoury is an Assistant Professor in Applied Human Nutrition at the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph, Canada. She has earned her BSc. in Nutrition and Dietetics and her MSc. in Nutrition at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. In 2008, Dr. El Khoury completed her PhD in Physiology and Physiopathology at the University Pierre et Marie Curie, France, after which she completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. El Khoury’s research interests have focused on the role of dietary proteins and functional ingredients/foods in the regulation of appetite, food intake, glycemia and metabolism in healthy individuals and individuals at risk for or with nutrition-related disorders including obesity, hyperinsulinemia and the metabolic syndrome. Dr. El Khoury has also worked in the fields of sports nutrition and infant nutrition through experiences in both academia and private industry.
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George Amponsah Annor

University of Guelph
Canada View Profile

Research Interest:
Non-thermal modifications of cereals and cereal products; Cereal grain quality and functionality; Ingredient interactions in cereals (starch-protein-lipid interactions); Starch structure and digestibility; Gluten/Proteins; β-glucan functionality; Phenolics/Antioxidants.

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Lingjun Li

Harvad Pilgrim Health Care Institute
USA View Profile

Research Interest:
Epidemiology and clinical research on retinal imaging which is linked to systemic diseases in pregnant women and children, and retinal imaging in auto-immune disease and infectious diseases in general population

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She is an clinical research fellow currently working on clinical and epidemiological projects at Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) and also am collaborating relevant research at National University of Singapore, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She was trained and involved in basic research, clinical practice and together with epidemiological studies as a whole. The eye is a “window” to the human circulation and inflammation. Her current research links retinal imaging data, using advanced and state-of-the-art computer-based image analysis, to monitor maternal health (e.g. maternal gestational diabetes and gestational hypertension) and children’s health (e.g. fetal growth restriction, Kawasaki disease), and even to predict drug effect (e.g. HIV/AIDS patients undergoing anti-viral therapy).
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Yoshihiro Moriwaki

Yokohama City University
Japan View Profile

Research Interest:
Nutritional support for severe stress; General Surgery, General Surgery; Gastroenterological surgery; Trauma surgery; Acute care surgery, Gastroenterology; Emergency Medicine; Critical Care.

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Dr. Yoshihiro Moriwaki, MD, PhD, Previous Associate Professor of Yokohama City University Medical Center
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Cristian Dima

Dunarea de Jos
Romania View Profile

Research Interest:
Advances in Food Process Engineering; Engineering of Novel Food Process; Food Product Engineering and Functional Foods; Nano and microencapsulation in Food; Extraction and characterization of essential oils.

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He was graduated at Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Faculty of Food Science and Engineering in 2007 in the field of industrial engineering. In 2014 I obtained a PhD at Dunărea de Jos University of Galati, Facultyof FoodScienceand Engineering and in the same year I receivedthe diploma (eminent scholars) for exceptional results in research awarded by the university rector.
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Guilherme Malafaia

Federal Goiano Institute
Brazil View Profile

Research Interest:
Environmental and Agricultural Sciences; Animal Biodiversity; Animal Behavior; neurobehavioral Physiology; Health Sciences and Education

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Guilherme Pinto Malafaia Graduated in Biological Sciences / Bachelor and Masters degree from Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP-MG) and Doctorate and Post-Doctorate from the Federal University of Goias (UFG-GO). Currently is effective teaching of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Goiano - Campus Urutai, packed in the Department of Biological Sciences. He is a member of the Board and Core Structuring Teaching the course of Biological Sciences Degree. He is subproject coordinator of Biological Sciences of the Institutional Program Initiation Grant to Teaching. He is a researcher in Research Center of Environmental and Biological Sciences He is Coordinator of the Laboratory of Campus Urutaí, Biological Research and General Coordinator of Undergraduate courses in Urutaí campus. He is the magazines Editor- in -Chief Multi-Science Journal, magazine Associate Editor Vitamins & Trace Elements and ABCS Health Science magazine editor, as well as ad hoc reviewer of national and international periods. Currently serves as a tenured professor Collaborator of the Graduate Program in Animal Biodiversity UFG / Goiânia and as Permanent Professor of the Post-Graduate Conservation of Natural Resources of the Cerrado.
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Neelesh Kumar

G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology
India View Profile

Research Interest:
Aquaculture, Fish Nutrition, Fish Biology, Fish Health Management

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Associate Editors

Ioannis Delimaris

College Educators Register, Athens
Greece

Lauren OConnor

California State University,L
USA

Aaron Edward Katz

New York Medical College
USA

Mesfin Yimam

University of Washington
USA

Isabel Cristina Bento

USA

Huicui Meng

Tufts University, USA

Carlos Hernan Herrera Mendez

Institution INRA-Blaise Pascal University
France

Charalampos Proestos

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (AUA), Greece

Sara Elkheir Mustafa Fadul

Omdurman Islamic University
Sudan

Domenico Cautela

Experimental Station for the Essences and Derivatives Industries Citrus fruit (SSEA)
Italy

Miroslava Kačániová

Slovak University of Agriculture
Slovakia

MUREŞAN VLAD

University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
Romania

Kishor Hadkhale

University of Tampere, Finland

KOUAKOU Egnon

University Felix Houphouet Boigny
Côte d’Ivoire

Akbar Nikkhah

The University of Zanjan
Iran

Magdy Mohamed

Animal Production Research Institute
Egypt

Sara Ebrahimi

Ahvaz Jondishapur University
Iran

Motahar Heidari

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Iran

Shafeeque Ahmad

Aligarh Muslim University
India

Viswanatha Angadi

University of Agricultural Sciences
India

Geetha Sharof

University of Delhi
India

P.L.N.Lakshman

University of Ruhuna
Sri Lanka

Monoarul Haque

Bangladesh University of Health Sciences
Bangladesh

Vijith S Jayamanne

University of Ruhuna, Kamburupitiya
Sri Lanka

Prakash Kumar Nayak

Central Institute of Technology
Assam

Mustafa Younis

Jackson State University, USA

Muhammad Zainuddin Lubis

Batam Polytechnic Indonesia

Kholoud S Ramadan

Ahlam Badreldin Ibrahim Mukhtar El Shikieri

Egypt

Sadegh Jafarnejad

Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Iran

Masood Sepehrimanesh

Shiraz University of Medical Sciences,Iran

Jai Ghosh

Shivaji University, India

Sangita Sood

Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, India

Sucharitha Kumaram Venkata

Sri Venkateshwara university
India

Shakila Shajahan

Avinashilingam Institute for Home science and Higher Education for women University, India

Vijay Kothari

Nirma University
India

Tasneem Ravat

University of Mumbai
India

Amit Ranjan

Central Institute of Fisheries Education
India

Sajid Akash

Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF)
Pakistan

Sarfaraz Ahmed Mahesar

University of Sindh
Pakistan

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