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
Dagmara McGuinness
College of Medical
Veterinary & Life Sciences
Institute of Cancer Sciences
Western Infirmary Glasgow
Scotland
Michael Gibson
Department of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
United States
Ken-ichi Mukaisho
Department of Pathology
Division of Molecular Diagnostic Pathology
Shiga University of Medical Science
Japan
Kam C. Yeung
Department of Biochemistry & Cancer Biology
University of Toledo College of Medicine
United States
Chunying Li
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
United States
Wei Zhang
School of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering
Dalian University of Technology
China
Nagendra K. Prasad
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Indiana University School of Medicine
United States
Gary Lee Francis
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Medical College of Virginia
United States
XIAOYANG QI
Division of Hematology-Oncology
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Cincinnati
United States
