Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Lucia Altucci, MD, PhD, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
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Lucia Altucci studied Medicine & Surgery at Federico II University of Naples, Italy. After obtaining a Specialization degree in Medical Oncology and a PhD degree in molecular and cellular Pathology, she worked as Assistant and later as Associate Professor at the Second University of Naples, Italy. She has been Post-Doc scientist both at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London, UK and at the ‘Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire’ (IGBMC) in Strasbourg, France. She is currently Professor of General Pathology and Rector’s delegate for Research & Innovation at University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’ in Naples, Italy.
Lucia’s research interests are in: translational medicine (particularly on genome and epigenome deregulation in cancer), stemness, differentiation, cell death processes, and the application of epigenome-based drug discovery approaches in human diseases. 
Specialisms: Epigenetics, Cancer, Programmed cell death, Signal transduction, Innovative therapies

Marianne Rots, PhD, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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Marianne Rots studied Medical Biology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After obtaining a PhD degree in Medical Oncology in 2000 at the VU Medical Center Amsterdam, she has been a postdoctoral scientist at the Gene Therapy Center of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, AL, USA. In 2001, she was recruited as an Assistant Professor to co-establish the Department of Therapeutic Gene Modulation, School of Pharmacy at the University of Groningen, NL. Appointed as an Associate Professor in 2007, she joined the Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands where she currently is Full Professor of Molecular Epigenetics.
Marianne also serves as a vice-chair of the EU H2020 COST Action CM1406 (www.EpiChemBio.eu) which inspired the founding of the International Society of Molecular and Clinical Epigenetics (www.isMOCLEP.org). Her laboratory pioneered epigenetic editing to rewrite epigenetic marks at a given genomic location, allowing to functionally validate epigenetic mutations and to translate these into precision therapeutic targets: “towards the curable epigenome”. As Editor-in-Chief, she is committed to maintain the high standards of Clinical Epigenetics and to further expand on the impact of this platform. Her aim is to continue to inform the scientific community on the clinical relevance of epigenetic dysregulations through publishing state of the art research manuscripts. Through the commissioning of reviews or letters to the editors, the communication between clinicians and biologists/chemists is encouraged, while exciting hypotheses can be put forward to stimulate scientific innovation. The Springer Nature journal Epigenetics Communications was recently founded by the two editors-in-chief, as a companion journal to provide a platform for sharing more basic research, including non-hypothesis confirming epigenetic data.
Specialisms: Molecular Epigenetics, Epigenetic editing, Mitochondrial DNA methylation


Managing Editor

Federica Sarno, PhD, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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Associate Editors

Molecular Epigenetics - Histone Modifications

Rosaria Benedetti, PhD, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy







Molecular Epigenetics - DNA Methylation

Miguel Branco, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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Twitter: @BrancoLab
Specialisms: Epigenetics, Transposable elements, Mammals, Development



Nuclear Organization

Dr. Maria Cristina Cardoso, PhD, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany







Mitotic & Meiotic Heritability; (Model) Organisms - Plants

Frank Johannes, PhD, Technical University of Munich, Germany








Epigenetic Drugs

Angel De Lera, PhD, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
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Specialisms: Medicinal chemistry, Organic synthesis, Natural products




Frank Dekker, PhD, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Specialisms: Medicinal chemistry, Epigenetics, Enzyme activity




Epigenetic Technologies

Miguel Esteban, MD, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China








Epigenetic Bioengineering

Nate Hathaway, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America








Network Epigenetics - Computational Epigenomics

Kimberly Glass, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States of America and Harvard University, United States of America
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Specialisms: Computational biology, Network science, Multi-omics, Data integration




Single Cell Epigenetics

Pernette J. Verschure, PhD, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands








Epigenetic Toxicology

Andy Tao Yin Lau, PhD, Shantou University Medical College, China 
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Specialisms: Cancer proteomics, Epigenetic toxicology, Epimodifications, Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity




Epigenetics and Society

Luca Chiapperino, PhD, University of Lausanne, Switzerland   
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Specialisms: Science and technology studies, Applied philosophy, ELSA




(Model) Organisms - Vertebrates

Torsten Plösch, PhD, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
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Twitter: @fetalprogram
Specialisms: Developmental origins of health and Disease, fetal programming, DNA methylation



(Model) Organisms - Invertebrates - Plants

Frank Johannes, PhD, Technical University of Munich, Germany








(Model) Organisms - Unicellular systems

Karl Ekwall, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
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Specialisms: Chromosome biology, Epigenetics, Yeast genetics





Editorial Board
Eline Bunnik, PhD, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Gerard Van den Berg, PhD, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Hengmi Cui, PhD, Institute of epigenetics and epigenomics, Yangzhou University, China
A. Ganesan, PhD, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Kristien Hens, PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Renata Jurkowska, PhD, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Pradyumna Kumar Mishra, PhD, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Environmental Health (NIREH), India
Melita Vidakovic, PhD, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Chi-Ming  Wong, PhD, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Amy Yan-Ming Xu, PhD, Shantou University Medical College, China