GENES AND DISEASES AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Impact Factor p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.1 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.6 ISSN: 2352-3042 DESCRIPTION . About the Journal Genes & Diseases is an international journal for molecular and translational medicine. The journal primarily focuses on publishing investigations on the molecular bases and experimental therapeutics of human diseases. Publication formats include full length research article, review article, short communication, correspondence, perspectives, commentary, views on news, and research watch. Aims and Scopes Genes & Diseases publishes rigorously peer-reviewed and high quality original articles and authoritative reviews that focus on the molecular bases of human diseases. Emphasis will be placed on hypothesis-driven, mechanistic studies relevant to pathogenesis and/or experimental therapeutics of human diseases. The journal has worldwide authorship, and a broad scope in basic and translational biomedical research of molecular biology, molecular genetics, and cell biology, including but not limited to cell proliferation and apoptosis, signal transduction, stem cell biology, developmental biology, gene regulation and epigenetics, cancer biology, immunity and infection, neuroscience, disease-specific animal models, gene and cell-based therapies, and regenerative medicine. IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 7.103 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . PubMed Central Scopus Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Science Citation Index Expanded AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 30 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/GENDIS 1 EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief Tong-Chuan He, The University of Chicago Medical Center Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Chicago, United States of America Ailong Huang, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Deputy Editor-in-Chief John Wang, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, United States of America Xiaodong Zhao, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Executive Managing Editor Ping Luo, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Assistant Managing Editors Qiushan Tang, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Huijie Zhang, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Senior Associate Editors Ronald A. Conlon, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, United States of America Fei Li, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, China Zhenkun Lou, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, United States of America Gloria H. Su, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, United States of America Ni Tang, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Lin Zhang, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Shadyside, Pittsburgh, United States of America Peter B. Zhou, Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, United States of America Associate Editors Andreas Bikfalvi, Angiogenesis and Cancer Microenvironment Laboratory, Talence, France Youquan Bu, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Tao-sheng Chen, St Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, Memphis, United States of America Gerald W Dorn II, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, United States of America Hicham Drissi, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, United States of America Nancy Du, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, United States of America Nickolai Dulin, University of Chicago Department of Medicine, Chicago, United States of America Richard Finnell, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States of America Haian Fu, Emory University, Atlanta, United States of America Jim Hu, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada Aishun Jin, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Xi Li, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Yong Li, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, United States of America Yong Liao, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Jun Liu, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, United States of America Hua Lu, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, United States of America Adam Marcus, Emory University, Atlanta, United States of America Sergey Orlov, Department of Medical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskva, Russian Federation Xiongzhong Ruan, University College London Department of Renal Medicine, London, United Kingdom Jun Sun, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America Man-Sun Sy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States of America Gopal Thinakaran, University of South Florida, Tampa, United States of America Ronald JA Wanders, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Da-Zhi Wang, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America Andre van Wijnen, Mayo Clinic Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rochester, United States of America Geng-Sheng Wu, Wayne State University, Detroit, United States of America Yaguang Xi, LSU Health New Orleans, New Orleans, United States of America Tingxiu Xiang, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Jingwu Xie, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America Qingbo Xu, King's College London James Black Centre, London, United Kingdom Jian Yu, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Shadyside, Pittsburgh, United States of America Xingxing Zang, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States of America Wei Zhou, Emory University, Atlanta, United States of America Editorial Board Members Giuseppe Altavilla, University of Messina Gaetano Barresi Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood, Messina, Italy AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 30 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/GENDIS 2 Sergey Anisimov, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Sankt Peterburg, Russian Federation Jesus Avila, Autonomous University of Madrid Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Centre, Madrid, Spain Anita Bellail, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, United States of America Marcelo Bonini, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States of America Vittorio Calabrese, University of Catania Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Catania, Italy Timothy Chan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States of America Guojun Chen, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Jianjun Chen, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Duarte, Duarte, United States of America Shiyuan Cheng, Northwestern University - Chicago, Chicago, United States of America Fabrizio Chiti, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy Hueng-Sik Choi, Chonnam National University Hormone Research Center, Gwangju, South Korea Junho Chung, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea Cristian Coarfa, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States of America Mushui Dai, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, United States of America Aiko P.J De Vries, Leiden University Medical Center Department of Nephrology, Leiden, Netherlands Danny N. Dhanasekaran, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, United States of America Zhifang Dong, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Mingqing Du, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom Y. Murat ELÇİN, Ankara University and Turkish Academy of Sciences, Ankara, Turkey Matthias Eckhardt, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Guo-Chang Fan, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, United States of America Rong Fan, Yale University, New Haven, United States of America Zhaohui Feng, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, United States of America Jiliang Gao, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, United States of America Leonard Girnita, Karolinska Institute Cancer Research KI, Stockholm, Sweden Nicholas D.E. Greene, University College London, London, United Kingdom Deliang Guo, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States of America Vsevolod V Gurevich, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States of America Chunhai Charlie Hao, Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis, United States of America Vasif Hasirci, Acibadem University, İstanbul, Turkey Ming-Liang He, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Xin He, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America Yu-Ying He, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, United States of America Wenwei Hu, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, United States of America George Huang, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Center for Cancer Research, Memphis, TN, United States of America Esmaiel Jabbari, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States of America Hyeong-Reh Choi Kim, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, United States of America Lucia Languino, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States of America Irena Levitan, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, United States of America Min Li, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, United States of America Wan-Ju Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States of America Wei Li, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, United States of America Jie Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Bioengineering, Chicago, United States of America Chuanju Liu, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, United States of America Pentao Liu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Xiaoqi Liu, Purdue University Center for Cancer Research,