Editorial Board Member - JCS
Andrey Budanov
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Human and Molecular Genetics
Massey Cancer Center
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Andrey Budanov is an assistant professor of the molecular biology of cancer and aging in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his PhD in 2002 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Michael Karin at the University of California, San Diego until 2011. He was a recipient of several fellowships and awards, such as postdoctoral fellowship from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, K99/R00 NCI NIH career development grant, W.E. Lower prize for the best publication at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Oxygen Club California BASF Young Investigator Award. He established his own laboratory in 2011.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Andrey Budanov main contributions were:
(1) Identification of the Sestrin2 gene as a stress-responsive and p53-regulated gene, involved in regulation of cell viability and cell growth.
(2) Characterization of antioxidant function of Sestrins.
(3) Discovery of the role of Sestrins in the regulation of the AMPK-mTOR pathway.
(4) Characterization of Sestrins as suppressors of aging and age-related diseases.
(5) Elucidation of the role of Sestrins as regulators of glucose and lipid metabolism and protectors from insulin resistance and diabetes.
Other Editorial Board Members - JCS
Michael Gibson
Department of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
United States
Kam C. Yeung
Department of Biochemistry & Cancer Biology
University of Toledo College of Medicine
United States
Markus Müschen
Department of Laboratory Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
United States
XIAOYANG QI
Division of Hematology-Oncology
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Cincinnati
United States
Nagendra K. Prasad
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Indiana University School of Medicine
United States
