Editorial Board Member - JERS
Akira Sugawara
Department of Molecular EndocrinologyTohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Japan
BIOGRAPHY:
Professor Akira Sugawara belongs to the Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan. He graduated from Tohoku University School of Medicine on 1987 (M.D.), and got Ph.D. on 1991 from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. He performed Postdoctoral Fellowship in William Chin’s laboratory at the Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston from 1991 to 1994. His major is general internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolism and hypertension and nephrology. He is also an editorial board member of different scientific journals.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Molecular Biology of Nuclear Hormone Receptors.
Etiology of High Blood Pressure.
Pathophysiology of Diabetic Nephropathy.
Gene Regulation of Aldosterone Synthesis.
Epigenetics of Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus.
Other Editorial Board Members - JERS
Athanasia Papazafiropoulou
General Hospital of Piraeus “Tzaneio”
Department of Internal Medicine
Greece
Mohamed Eddouoks
Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Errachidia
Moulay Ismail University
Morocco
Erich Cosmi
Department of Woman and Child Health
University of Padua
Italy
Seyyed Shamsadin Athari
Faculty of Medicine
Zanjan University of Medical Sciences
Iran
Pierre Deviche
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
USA
Chong-Chi Chiu
Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Taiwan
