Meet Our Editorial Board Member Dr. Gerhard Meissner University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA The laboratory’s research focuses on defining the molecular basis of Ca release channel (RyR) function in cardiac and skeletal muscle. RyRs are 2,200 kDa ion channels that release Ca ions in response to an action potential from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), an intracellular Ca-storing compa...

Dr. Braunwald received his medical training at New York University and completed his Medical Residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He served as the first Chief of the Cardiology Branch and as Clinical Director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, founding Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. From 1972 to 1996 he was Chairman of the De...

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,...

His research area includes the mechanism by which prostanoids, small molecules generated by enzymes called cyclooxygenases, are involved in pathological processes. Dr. Boutaud demonstrated for the first time that γ-ketoaldehydes are generated by the cyclooxy-genases during their normal catalytic cycle [1, 2]. Dr. Boutaud further led the effort in characterizing the structure of DNA adducts [3] ...

Aspect-Oriented Software is a broad term, encompassing several different views on the nature of the aspects and the relationships between aspects and objects. Attaching aspects to objects is one way of forming a group. While there are many useful patterns of interaction, e.g. strategies[2], decorators, and the like, we focus on groups in which the group delegates to members to obtain behavior a...

Mycoplasmas recovered from tissue cultures and previously shown to belong to the sterol-nonrequiring group of mycoplasmas have been further characterized. The biological and serological properties of these strains show them to be clearly distinct from Acholeplasma laidlawii and A. granularum, two species of sterol-nonrequiring mycoplasmas recently reclassified. It is proposed that the newly des...

Until today there is a research gap considering the question, what motivates a member to enter or leave a co-op, resp. what are the reasons to stay in a co-operative. The majority of studies about this topic mainly focus on economic factors and the rational behavior of the member. However, co-ops also have other purposes not associated with financial goals. The presented paper is proposing a ne...

Professor Dr. Cordian Beyer was born in 1960 in Germany. He is currently the director of the Institute of Neuroanatomy at the UKA, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, since 2005. Before, his scientific stations were the University of Ulm, Germany, where he studied Biology and the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Ulm, Germany, where he obtained in 1991 his PhD and in 1996 his ha...

Stefan D. Anker is Professor of Innovative Clinical Trials (W3) at University Medical Center Göttingen (from September 2014). Dr. Anker studied medicine at Charité Berlin and then started his clinical training in Germany completing it in the UK. He obtained his M.D. from Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany (1993). He went on to earn a Ph.D. (1998) at the National Heart & Lung Institute of I...

Pradeep is trained as a pharmacologist and cognitive neuroscientist with research interests in the neuropharmacology and neural substrates of cognition and emotion and psychiatric and neurological endophenotypes. His expertise lies in the use of cognitive, functional and molecular neuroimaging techniques (i.e. fMRI, Electrophysiology, PET) to understand where and how neuropharmacological agents...