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

SABIRA KHATUN
Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University Malaysia Pahang
Malaysia

Rajkumar Vajpeyi
Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
University of Toronto
Canada

Gary Lee Francis
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Medical College of Virginia
United States

Qifeng Yang
Department of Breast Surgery
Director, Pathology Tissue Bank
Qilu Hospital, Shandong University
China

Jeffrey Michael Venstrom
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
United States

Sanjay D. Deshmukh
Department of Pathology
Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital
India

Peter Lobie
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
National University of Singapore
Singapore