Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Islam is an Associate Professor and a Principal Investigator in the Department of Clinical Sciences and Education at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden's largest center for medical training and research, famous for many reasons including its role in the award of the Nobel Prize. Dr. Islam is also a specialist in internal medicine and is a consultant physician at the University Hospital Uppsala.

Dr. Islam has published approximately 40 peer reviewed publications in the area of islet research and is editor of the book "The Islets of Langerhans". He is currently editing a book on the Transient Receptor Potential Channels. He is a pioneer of the calcium-induced calcium release concept in beta cells and has contributed substantially to the understanding of calcium signalling in β-cells.

Dr. Islam was awarded the prestigious Career Development Award of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, Golden Jubilee award of the Chittagong Medical College and the prestigious Anders Fredrick Regnells prize of the Swedish Medical Society.
Md. Shahidul Islam, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Consultant Physician, Group Leader
Karolinska Institutet
SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Editorial Board

Ernest Adeghate United Arab Emirates University; Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Ulf Ahlgren Umeå University; Umeå, Sweden
Franz Martín Bermudo Universidad Pablo Olavide-CABIMER; Sevilla, Spain
Richard Bertram Florida State University; Tallahassee, Florida USA
Ramesh R. Bhonde National Centre for Cell Science; Pune, India
Trevor J. Biden Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst Australia
Paulo Ivo Homem de Bittencourt Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre, Brazil
Marlon E. Cerf South African Medical Research Council; Tygerberg, Cape Town South Africa
MooYoung Choi Seoul National University; Seoul, Korea
Raphael Clynes Columbia University Medical Center; New York, New York USA
Gisela Drews Institute of Pharmacy, University of Tübingen; Tübingen Germany
Shimon Efrat Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv, Israel
F. Fändrich University of Kiel; Kiel, Germany
Lennart Friis-Hansen University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark
Burkhard Göke University of Munich-Grosshadern; Munich, Germany
Joel F. Habener Massachusetts General Hospital; Boston, Massachusetts USA
Fawaz G. Haj University of California Davis; Davis, California USA
Anandwardhan A. Hardikar National Center for Cell Science; Pune, India
Eba Hassan Hathout Loma Linda University School of Medicine; Loma Linda, California USA
Scott Heller Hagedorn Research Institute; Gentofte, Denmark
Martin Hermann Innsbruck Medical University; Innsbruck, Austria
James Herrington Merck Research Laboratories; Rahway, New Jersey USA
George G. Holz State University of New York, Upstate Medical University; Syracuse, NY USA
Hirohito Ichii University of Miami School of Medicine; Miami, Florida USA
James D. Johnson University of British Columbia; Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Hee-Sook Jun Gachon University of Medicine and Science; Incheon; Korea
Song Cheol Kim University of Ulsan; Seoul, Korea
Uh-Hyun Kim Chonbuk National University Medical School; Jeonju, South Korea
Tatsuya Kin University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta Canada
Anjan Kowluru Wayne State University; Detroit, Michigan USA
Ake Lernmark CRC/Lund University; Malmoe, Sweden
Po Sing Leung Chinese University of Hong Kong; Shatin, Hong Kong
Yuk-Man Leung China Medical University; Taichung, Taiwan
Jing Li Merck & Co.; Rahway, New Jersey USA
Jinning Lou China-Japan Friendship Hospital; Beijing , P.R. CHINA
Piero Marchetti University of Pisa; Pisa, Italy
Anibal Sanchez Moura University of the State of Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Philip Newsholme University College Dublin; Dublin, Ireland
Shanta Persaud King's College London; London, UK
Giuseppe Remuzzi Mario Negri Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche; Milano, Italy
Guy A. Rutter Imperial College; London, UK
C.B. Sanjeevi Karolinska Institutet; Stockholm, Sweden
Pere Santamaria University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta Canada
Mari Cleide Sogayar University of São Paulo (USP); São Paulo, Brazil
Steven Tracy University of Nebraska Medical Center; Omaha, Nebraska USA
Bernardo Léo Wajchenberg São Paulo; Brazil
Xujing Wang University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, Alabama USA
Ruian (Ray) Xu Engineering Research Center of Molecular Medicine; Ministry of Education; Fujian, China
S.P. Yoon Seonam University; Namwon, Republic of Korea
Danny Zipris University of Colorado; Aurora, Colorado USA
Ricardo L. Zollner State University of Campinas; Campinas, Brazil
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