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Meet Our Associate Editor

Dr. Gaetano Santulli is a physician scientist (cardiologist) working at Columbia University Medical Center in New York (NY). He earned his MD and PhD from the University of Naples “Federico II”, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. He has expertise in both clinical and basic research. His research interests include heart failure [1-3], diabetes mellitus [4, 5], adrenerg...

Meet Our Associate Editor

Do Hardware Cache Flushing Operations Actually Meet Our Expectations?

We investigate how different categories of microarchitectural state on recent ARM and x86 processors can be used for covert timing channels and how effective architecture-provided mechanisms are in closing them. We find that in recent Intel processors there is no effective way for sanitising the state of the branch prediction unit and that, contrary to often held belief, flushing the translatio...

Traditional Dietary Recommendations for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Do They Meet the Needs of Our Patients?

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH CVD HAVE CHANGED: whereas smoking prevalence declines, obesity and metabolic syndrome are on the rise. Unfortunately, the traditional low-fat diet for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) still seems to be the "mainstream knowledge" despite contradicting evidence. But lowering LDL-cholesterol by the wrong diet even may be counterproductive, if sd-L...

Meet Our Editorial Board Member

Her work has been recognized by various honors including the Scientific Prize of Excellence (PES) INSERM. Actually, she drives a team that works for the study of the implication of Parkinson’s disease associated proteins in the origin of cell death in neurodegenerative disorders and tumor suppression. Her research interests include Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease molecular and cell biology,...