Acknowledgements 2016

We wish to thank to all referees listed below, who have reviewed the manuscripts submited. Their time and effort is particularly appreciated.

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Guillermina Almazan
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Toshiyuki Araki
Department of Peripheral Nervous System Research, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan

Tamas Aranyi
Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Katarzyna Augoff
Department of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

Edward Avezov
University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Biomedical Campus, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Grzegorz Bartosz
Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

Rafał Bartoszewski
Department of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland

Janet E. Baulch
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Irvine, USA

Elizaveta V. Benevolenskaya
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

Faustino Bisaccia
Department of Sciences, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

Marco Bisaglia
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Unit, Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Prakash S. Bisen
School of Studies in Biotechnology, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India

Janusz Błasiak
Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland

Ewa Borsuk
Department of Embryology, Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland

Andrew Braun
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

David T. Brown
Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA

Hudson Sousa Buck
Department of Physiological Sciences, Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil

Raffaella Cancello
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, IRCCS, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Cusano Milanino, Milano, Italy

Daniel Carneiro Carrettiero
Center of Natural and Human Sciences, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil

Kishore Challagundla
Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California-Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, USA

Martha Chekenya
Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Pei-Yu Chen
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

Shanshuang Chen
Oregon Health & Science University, Vollum Institute, Portland, Oregon, USA

Barbara W. Chwirot
Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environment Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

Réjean Couture
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Miguel Cuadros
Departamento de Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Lijun Cui
Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospitalof Medical School of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Indrani Datta
Department of Biophysics, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Michael De Lisio
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Reinhard Depping
Institut für Physiologie, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Danny N. Dhanasekaran
Stephenson Cancer Center, Department of Cell Biology, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA

Emmanuel Dias-Neto
Laboratório de Genômica Médica, Centro Internacional de Pesquisas, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Solvig Diederichs
Zentrum für Orthopädie, Unfallchirurgie und Paraplegiologie,Heidelberg, Germany

Jolanta Dorszewska
Laboratory of Neurobiology, Department of Neurology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Min Du
Laboratory of Nutrigenomics and Growth Biology, Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

Sercan Ergun
Ulubey Vocational Higher School, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey

Francesco Esposito
Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale del CNR c/o Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Scuola di Medicina e Chirurgia di Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

Meixia Fang
Institute of Laboratory Animals, Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR China

Sandro Feriozzi
Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Belcolle Hospital, Viterbo, Italy

Sigal Fleisher-Berkovich
Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Amilcar Flores-Morales
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Lars Forsberg
Department of Immunology, Genetics, and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Rodrigo Franco
School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

Alan D. Friedman
Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Jian Ge
State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Key Lab of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Steven R. Goodman
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, USA

Elvira V. Grigorieva
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics SD RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Fabio Grizzi
Department of Inflammation and Immunology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan, Italy

Wei Guo
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Lei Han
Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Hetty Helsmoortel
Ghent University, Department of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics, Gent, Belgium

Carsten Herskind
Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Satoshi Hirohata
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Jörg Höhfeld
Institut für Zellbiologie and Bonner Forum Biomedizin, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Tetsuya Imura
Department of Pathology and Applied Neurobiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Teresa Janas
Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, University of Opole, Opole, Poland

venkateswarlu Kanamarlapudi
Institute of Life Science 1, College of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK

Charanjit Kaur
Department of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Paul Kemp
Molecular Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK

Kazuhiro Kikuchi
Division of Animal Sciences, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan

Włodzimierz Korohoda
Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland

Klara Kosova
Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology and Biotechnology, Division of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

Kazimierz Kuliczkowski
Department and Clinic of Haematology, Blood Neoplasms and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

Anna Kulma
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Poland

Ritu Kulshreshtha
Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Toshiaki Kume
Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

R. Krishnan Kutty
National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

Sujata Law
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India

Kwang Youl Lee
College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Drug Development, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Olivier LeSaux
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Jeong Mook Lim
Departament of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Dong Li
Department of Nephrology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China

Michael Lipscomb
Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA

Anja Lode
Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and Faculty of Medicine of Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Yan-Ni Lv
Pharmacy Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, People's Republic of China

Helle Lysdahl
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus N, Denmark

Xiaohua Ma
Affiliated Eye Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China

Felix Machin
Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

François Marceau
Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec (CHUL), Quebec City, Canada

Udo Markert
Department of Obstetrics, University Hospital Jena, Germany

Wojciech Marlicz
Department of Gastroenterology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Isabel Martínez-Lacaci
Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche (Alicante), Spain

Alessandra Cadete Martini
Departmento de Farmacologia, Centro de Ciˆencias Biol´ogicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Trindade, Florian´opolis, SC, Brazil

Joao Matos
Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Switzerland

Nobuaki Matsui
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Yamashiro-cho, Tokushima, Japan

Takeshi Nakamura
Division of Biosignaling, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

Tomar Namrata
University of Erlangen, Germany

Elizabeth J. New
School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney , Sydney, Australia

Baitang Ning
National Center for Toxicological Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, USA

Richard Nuccitelli
BioElectroMed Corp., Burlingame, USA

Mustafa Ozen
Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

Anne-Maria Pajari
Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology (Nutrition), University of Helsinki, Finland

Yelena V. Parfyonova
Russian Cardiology Research and Production Complex, Moscow, Russia

Lucio Pastore
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Napoli, Italy

Roberto Perris
COMT - Centre for Molecular Translational Oncology & Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Zhu Ping
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, USA

Frances Plane
Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AlbertaT6G 2H7, Canada

Ulrich Rass
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

William Rebeck
Georgetown University, United States

Alicia Roque
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Biociencias, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Tamás Rőszer
Institute for Comparative Molecular Endocrinology, Center of Biomedical Research, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Horea Rus
Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

Antonio Salgado
Cardiovascular Research Unit, Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), Luxembourg

Paola Scaffidi
The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London UK

Marcin Serocki
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

Maitri Yogen Shah
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Houston, USA

Jennifer Sims-Mourtada
Center for Translational Cancer Research, Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, Christiana Care Health Services, Inc., Newark, USA

Stefano Stifani
Montreal Neurological Institute, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

P. Suprasanna
Functional Plant Biology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division,Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India

Irena Szumiel
Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Ikuko Takahashi
Department of Neurology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Runhua Tian
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Hitoshi Tonomura
Department of Orthopaedics, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Anetta Undas
Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Anton Jan van Zonneveld
Department of Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jan Vrbsky
Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

Bing Wang
Radiation Risk Reduction Research Program, Research Center for Radiation Protection, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

Małgorzata Witkowska-Zimny
Department of Biophysics and Human Physiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

Jichun Yang
MOE Key Lab of Molecular Cardiovascular Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

Kailin Yang
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

Mitsuaki Yoshida
Department of Radiation Biology,Institute of Radiation Emergency Medicine (IREM), Hirosaki University, Japan

Silvio M. Zanata
Department of Basic Pathology, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Jie Zheng
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, USA

Magdalena Żuk
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Poland