Reference Module in Life Sciences
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2016
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Francesca Pentimalli, Antonio Giordano, Sharman O'Neill, Shoba Ranganathan, Susan Sharfstein, Deborah Yelon, Brian Dixon, Paul D. Cotter, Oscar Zaragoza Hernandez, Huan-Xiang Zhou, Bernard Roitberg, Ilio Vitale
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 9 6 3 3 - 8
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Antonio Giordano
Dr. Antonio Giordano is an Italian-American pathologist and geneticist, best known for his discovery of Rb2/p130, a tumor suppressor gene. Dr. Giordano is the president, founder and chairman of the board of the Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO), a nonprofit organization committed to funding excellence in basic genetic research to cure and diagnose cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and other chronic illnesses, and to foster the training of young doctors in a spirit of professionalism and humanism.
Dr. Giordano is also the founder and director of the SHRO supported Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, as well as the Center for Biotechnology, which are both located in Temple University's College of Science and Technology. Dr. Giordano is also a 'Chiara fama' professor of pathology in the Department of Medicine, Surgery, and Neuroscience at the University of Siena, Italy where the Temple Summer in Siena Biomedical Research program is based.
Dr. Giordano earned his MD from the University of Naples in 1986, and he specialized in Pathology at the University of Trieste, earning his Ph.D in Pathology, summa cum laude.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Director, Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USASR
Shoba Ranganathan
Shoba Ranganathan is an Honorary Professor of Bioinformatics in Applied Biosciences, Macquarie University. She was the first Chair of Bioinformatics in Australia (2004-22). She has held research and academic positions in India, USA, Singapore and Australia as well as a consultancy in industry. Shoba's research addresses several key areas of bioinformatics to understand biological systems using computational approaches. Her group has achieved both experience and expertise in different aspects of computational biology, ranging from metabolites and small molecules to biochemical networks, pathway analysis and computational systems biology. She has authored as well as edited several books and contributed several articles to the 1st edition of this Encyclopedia. She was awarded the 2023 Outstanding Contributions to the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Award. She is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Australian Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology since 2018 and an ISCB Fellow since 2023.
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Macquarie University, Australia.PC
Paul D. Cotter
Prof Paul Cotter is a Senior Principal Research Officer and Head of Food Biosciences at Teagasc Food Research Centre at Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Ireland. He is also the CTO/co-founder of SeqBiome, a microbiome sequencing and bioinformatics service provider. Prof Cotter is a molecular microbiologist, with a particular focus on the microbiology of foods (especially fermented foods), the food chain and of humans, as well as probiotics, postbiotics and bacteriocins. This research has been funded through Irish funding agencies, the European Union and a wide range of industry collaborations. Prof Cotter is the author of >400 peer-reviewed in highly impacting journals such as Cell, Nature, Nature Foods, Nature Aging, Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews Microbiology, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, was included in the Clarivate list of highly cited researchers for 2018-2023, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp in 2024 and is the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology.
Affiliations and expertise
Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Ireland, VistaMilk and Food Health Ireland Research Centres; SeqBiome Ltd.IV
Ilio Vitale
Dr Ilio Vitale is an esteemed oncologist. He is a member of the University of Rome and associated to the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute based in Italy.
Affiliations and expertise
Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome and Department of Biology, University of Rome, ItalyRead Reference Module in Life Sciences on ScienceDirect