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Patents on Biotechnology
ISSN: 1872-2083 - Volume 4, 3 Issues, 2010

Editor-in-Chief:
Rongling Wu
Departments of Public Health Sciences and Statistics
Pennsylvania State College of Medicine
Hershey, PA, USA
Editorial Advisory Board:
S.N. Agathos (Catholic University
of Louvain, Louvain-la Neuve, Belguim)
E. Aikawa (Harvard Medical School, Charlestown,
MA, USA)
M. Al-Rubeai (Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham,
UK)
R. Aluko (University of Manitoba, Manitoba,
Canada)
S. Ananthan (University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, AL, USA)
S.G. Anastassiadis (Pythia Inst. of Biotech.,
Thessaloniki, Greece)
A. Amrane (ENSCR, Rennes, France)
R. Bai (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
U.C. Banerjee (National Inst. of Pharm. Education
and Res., Punjab, India)
Z. Baohong (Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX,
USA)
G. Bennett (Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA)
N. Benvenisty (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, Israel)
A. Bernard (Universite Catholique de Louvain,
Brussels, Belgium)
R. Bhatnagar (Jawaharlal Nehru Univ., New
Delhi, India)
F.M. Boyce (Massachusetts General Hospital,
Cambridge, MA, USA)
J.D. Breccia (Universidad Nacional de La
Pampa, La Pampa, Argentina)
J.W.M. Bulte (Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of
Med., Baltimore, MD, USA)
H.K. Chan (Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
L.J. Chang (University of Florida, Gainesville,
FL, USA)
C. P. Chou (University of Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada)
Y. Cui (Michigan State University, East Lansing,
MI, USA)
Z. Cui (Oxford Univ, Oxford, UK)
P.A. Dalby (Univ. College London, London,
UK)
H. Daniell (Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando,
FL, USA)
C. De Carvalho (Instituto Superior Técnico,
Lisbon, Portugal)
E. Dermitzakis (University of Geneva Medical
School, Geneva, Switzerland)
G.M.F. De Valdez (CERELA, Tucuman, Argentina)
T.G. Dewey (Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont,
CA, USA)
D.M. Donovan (ANRI, Baltimore, MD, USA)
P. Ferrer (Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
A. Fusco (CEINGE-Centro di Biotecnologie
Avanzate, Napoli, Italy)
J.M. Fussenegger (ETH Inst. for Chem. and
Bio-Eng, Zurich, Switzerland)
R. Ghosh (McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Canada)
B.R. Glick (University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
Canada)
A.V. Glushakov (University of Florida College
of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA)
S. Gonos (Inst. of Biological Res. and Biotech.,
Athens, Greece)
M. Gopal (Indian Agricultural Research Institute,
New Delhi, India)
J.M. Guisan (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
M.N. Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology,
New Delhi, India)
V. Gurtler (Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia)
D.T. Haynie (Louisiana Tech. Univ., Ruston,
LA, USA)
R.J. Henry (Southern Cross Univ. Sydney,
Australia)
L. Hertz (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
Canada)
C.J. Hong (Taipei Veterans General Hospital,
Taipei, Taiwan)
Y.C. Hu (National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu,
Taiwan)
A. Inui (Kagoshima Univ. Grad. Sch. of Med.
and Dent. Sci., Kagoshima, Japan)
R.K. Jain (Inst. of Microbial Technol., Chandigarh,
India)
E. Jirillo (University of Bari, Bari, Italy)
J. Jordan (University of Castilla-La Mancha,
Albacete, Spain)
M. Kataoka (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
A.M. Klibanov (Massachusetts Inst. of Technol.,
Cambridge, MA, USA)
J. Kossmann (Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch,
South Africa)
G.J. Kotwal (University of Cape Town, Cape
Town, South Africa)
H.-B. Kraatz (University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, Canada)
O.P. Kuipers (University of Groningen, Haren,
The Netherlands)
N. Labrou (Lab. of Enzyme Technol., Athens,
Greece)
J. Lange (Solvay Pharmaceuticals Research
Laboratories, Weesp, The Netherlands)
M.S. Lee (Korea University College of Medicine,
Seoul, Korea)
S.Y. Lee (KAIST, Daejeon, Korea)
M. Lema (National University of Quilmes,
Bernal, Argentina)
N.G. Lewis (Washington State Univ., Washington,
WA, USA)
C. Liu (Institute of Process Engineering,
Beijing, China)
J.M. Luengo (Univ. of Leon, León,
Spain)
J.H. Luong (Biotech. Res. Inst., Quebec,
Canada)
L.A. Lyznik (Pioneer Hi-Bred International,
Inc., Johnston, IA, USA)
J.F. Mano (University of Minho, Taipas Guimarães,
Portugal)
I. Marison (Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland)
D. Mattanovich (Univ. of App. Sci. Campus
Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
B. Mattiasson (Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden)
M. Medina (Neuropharma SA, Madrid,
Spain)
J. Messing (Rutgers University, Piscataway,
NJ, USA)
P. Michaud (Université Blaise Pascal,
Aubière, France)
J.B. Miller (Boston Biomedical Res. Inst.,
Watertown, MA, USA)
D.-D.D. Mitsikostas (Athens Naval Hospital,
Athens, Greece)
R. Morishita (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
G.A. Moviglia (Instituto Regina Mater, Beunos
Aires, Argentina)
A. Muir (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
Saskatoon, Canada)
A. Mulchandani (Univ. of California, Riverside,
CA, USA)
F.J. Munoz (Hospital de Mollet, Barcelona,
Spain)
J. Nickelsen (Molecular Plant Sciences, Munich,
Germany)
M.D. Nicola (Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan,
Italy)
D.W. Oliver (North-West University, Potchefstroom,
South Africa)
A.C. Papageorgiou (Turku Centre for Biotechnology,
Turku, Finland)
O. Paredes-Lopez (Centro de Investigación
y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Irapuato, Mexico)
A. Periasamy (University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
VA, USA)
F. Peri (Univ. of Milano-Bicocca, Milano,
Italy)
V.O. Popov (A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry,
Moscow, Russia)
G. Poppy (Univ. of Southampton, Southampton,
UK)
D. Porro (Univ. of Milano-Bicocca, Milano,
Italy)
M.L. Rabinovich (Russian Academy of Sci.,
Moscow, Russia)
S.K. Rakshit (Asian Institute of Technology,
Pathumthani,Thailand)
R. Rangel-Aldao (Simon Bolivar Univ., Caracas,
Venezuela)
P. Ratanadecho (Thammasat University, Pathum
Thani, Thailand)
U. Rau (Technical Univ. Braunschweig, Braunschweig,
Germany)
U. Rinas (GBF-Natl. Res. Ctr. for Biotechnol.,
Braunschweig, Germany)
G. Sannia (Univ. of Naplesi, Naples, Italy)
M.K. Sanz (Universidad Nacional de San Luis,
San Luis, Argentina)
S. Schillberg (IME, Aachen, Germany)
A.M. Seifalian (Univ. College London, London,
UK)
C.L. Smith (Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA)
T. Stevenson (RMIT University, Bundoora,
Australia)
A.B. dos Santos (Federal Univ. of Ceara,
Brazil)
F-S Sheu (National University of Singapore,
Singapore)
Y. Sun (Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China)
O. Taboga (Institute of Biotechnology, Buenos
Aires, Argentina)
T. Tan (Beijing Univ. of Chem. Technol.,
Beijing, China)
T. Tatlisumak (Helsinki University Central
Hospital, Helsinki, Finland)
A.R. Valdivia (CINVESTAV-IPN, Zacatenco,
Mexico)
G. Viniegra (Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico)
G. Volker (Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia)
G.H. Wong (Genentech Inc., San Francisco,
CA, USA)
S.T. Yang (The Ohio State Univ., Columbus,
OH, USA)
F. Yao (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,
USA)
S.H. Yoon (Korea Res. Inst. of Biosci. and
Biotechnol., Daejeon, Korea)
L. Yu (Nanyang Technol. Univ., Nanyang, Singapore)
H. Yukawa (RITE, Kyoto, Japan)
K.-Q. Zhang (Yunnan University, Yunnan, China)
J. Zhao (Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation,
Ardmore, OK, USA)
J.J. Zhong (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai,
China)
J. Zueco (Univ. of Valencia, Valencia, Spain)
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