Journal of Neuroinfectious Diseases
Open Access

Editor-in-Chief
Herbert B Tanowitz
Professor
Departments of Pathology and Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University
USA

Biography

Herbert B. Tanowitz completed his graduation in 1967 from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Later he completed his internship in Bellevue Hospital Center and his fellowship in Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His professional interest are laboratory investigates the pathogenesis of chagasic heart disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Chagas’ disease is also an opportunistic infection in HIV/AIDS. We are examining signaling pathways involved in cardiac remodeling as a consequence of the T. cruzi infection. This laboratory is examining the consequences of this infection on cell cycle regulatory proteins (i.e., cyclins) in vitro.

Research Interest

Parasitology
Chagas disease
Cerebral malaria

Relationship between obesity and infectious diseases has become an important issue.
The adipocyte-derived factor adiponectin has been widely implicated in the pathogenesis of heart disease.  

Editor-in-Chief
David C. Spray
Professor
Departments of Neuroscience and Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University
USA

Biography

Dr.David C. Spray is Research Assistant from Jan 1973 - Jan 1977,Assistant Professor-Jan 1977 - Jan 1981,Associate Professor-Jan 1981 - Jan 1986 & Professor-Jan 1986 - Current in Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM)

Research Interest

Neuroscience, Gap junctions, FRAP, optical monitoring of intracellular ionic activities (especially Ca2+ and propagated Ca2+ waves), patch clamp recording of single channels and whole cell currents and standard molecular biological and immunological methods such as Northern and Western blot analyses, immunostaining and RT-PCR and expression profiling using microarrays.

Editor-in-Chief
Joseph Ndung u
Professor
Head of Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
Switzerland

Biography

Professor Joseph Ndung’u is the Head of FIND’s Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) programme. He has a degree in veterinary medicine and surgery (BVM) from the University of Nairobi, and a PhD on the immunopathology of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT or sleeping sickness) from the University of Glasgow’s Veterinary School in Scotland. He became a Visiting Professor of the University in 2001, and has held a similar position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. In 2013, he became a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (CorrFRSE).

Professor Ndung’u started his professional career in 1985 at the Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute (KETRI). In 1992 he became Deputy Director in charge of research, and in 1995, Director of KETRI. After 9 years in this position, he was transferred to KARI as Chief Research Officer. He moved to FIND in 2006 to establish the HAT diagnostics programme, which has since been expanded and re-named the NTD programme. In addition to HAT, the other diseases in the NTD portfolio include Leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, Buruli ulcer, Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases (STH) and Dengue. The programme also strategically addresses unmet diagnostic needs of NTD in the London Declaration of 2012.

Research Interest

African trypanosomiasis

Co-Editor-in-Chief
Liu Yawu
Professor
University of Eastern Finland
Finland

Biography

Liu Yawu working as Senior researcher, Adjunct professor in Experimental Neuroradiology, Departments of Neurology and Clinical Radiology in University of Eastern Finland, Finland.

Professional biography: He got his PhD degree in Medicine in the year 2003. Adjunct professor in Experimental Neuroradiology, 2008. 1990-Oct.1998: Resident, attending doctor and teaching secretary in Department of Radiology, Tianjin First Central Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China. 1997- Jan. 1998: Visiting doctor in Department of Clinical Radiology, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland. Nov.-Dec., 1995: MRI Fellowship Training Program. Saint Joseph Central Hospital, Burbank, California, USA. 1994-1997: Postgraduate School, Tianjin Medical University. Master of Diagnostic Radiology 1997. 1990-1994: Resident in Radiology Department, Tianjin First Central Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China. 1985-1990: Department of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China. Licentiate doctor 1990.

Research Interest

Neuroimaging in dementia and stroke.