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Anastasia Widyadari, Editor

New Content ItemAnastasia joined BMC in May 2022. She holds a PhD in Medicine from University of Leeds where she studied the role of DOCK4 in glioblastoma, and the pathological effects of radiotherapy on the vasculature of recurrent glioblastoma. Previously, she earned her BSc (Hons) degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Brighton. In 2016, Anastasia worked at the Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology in Jakarta, Indonesia, studying the genetics of obesity. She is committed to championing open access and reproducible research in science. 

Anastasia is based in the London office and is the editor of BMC Medical Ethics, BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, and BMC Proceedings.



Senior Editorial Board Members
Catherine MT Sherwin, Wright State University, USA
Peter E Penson, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Simone Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy

Editorial Board Members
Haseeb Ahsan, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), India
Hesham Al-Sallami, University of Otago, New Zealand
Nemat Ali, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Nurshad Ali, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
Guzman Alvarez, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Marcelo Arbo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – Faculdade de Farmácia, Brazil
Alfred Balch, University of Utah School of Medicine, USA
Douglas Ball, Independent Pharmaceutical Consultancy, Philippines
Erin Barreto, Mayo Clinic, USA
Alexander Bazhin, Medical Center of the University of Munich, Germany
Natalia Brucker, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
Richard Bryce, University of Manchester, UK
Michal Brylinski, Louisiana State University, USA
Sarah Campbell, Nelson Laboratories, USA
Brent A Carter, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, USA
Kumarappan Chidambaram, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
Marcello Ciaccio, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
Emanuela Corsini, University of Milan, Italy
Margarita Curras-Collazo, University of California, USA
Gautam Damera, TEVA Pharmaceuticals, USA
Nissar Darmani, Western University of Health Sciences, USA
Fabrizio De Ponti, University of Bologna, Italy
Elena Y Enioutina, University of Utah, USA
Emanuela Esposito, University of Messina, Italy
Wissam Faour, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Melanie Felmlee, University of the Pacific, USA
QiPing Feng, Vanderbilt University, USA
Hamadi Fetoui, Faculty of Sciences. Sfax University, Tunisia
Anil Gaikwad, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India
Babu Gajendran, Guizhou Medical University, China
Robert Gaspar, University of Szeged, Hungary
Alessandra Gianoncelli, University of Brescia, Italy
Mukaddes Gümüştekin, Dokuz Eylul Universitesi, Turkey
Shilei Hao, Chongqing University, China
Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Zhengwei Huang,  Jinan University, China
Zhenquan Jia, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Reem Kayyali, Kingstong University, UK
Amer Khan, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Gábor Kökény, Semmelweis University, Hungary
Pawel Kozielewicz, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Qing Ma, University at Buffalo, USA
Omid Mehrpour, Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety, USA
Todd Miano, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Maria Miteva, University Paris Diderot, France
Kathryn Momary, Mercer University, USA
Stefania Nobili, University of Florence, Italy
Sergei Noskov, University of Calgary, Canada
Fatemeh Nouri, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Yadollah Omidi, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Vidya Perera, Bristol Myers Squibb, USA
Konstantinos Poulas, Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras, Greece
Jeffrey Pradeep Raj, Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, India
Muhammad Raza, Hamdard University, Pakistan
Fernando Rodrigues, Lima University Paris Diderot, France
Patrick T. Ronaldson, University of Arizona, USA
Joseph Rower, University of Utah, USA
Evans Sagwa, Management Sciences for Health, Namibia
Ahmad Salimi, University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran
Longquan Shao, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, China
Graeme J Sills, University of Liverpool, UK
Fuyong Song, Shangdong University, China
Mohammad Taheri, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Giovanni Tarantino, Federico II University Medical School of Naples, Italy
Guru Valicherla, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Richard Wainford, Boston University, USA
Suowen Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Josef Yayan, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Shuxing Zhang, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, USA
Ya-Qun Zhou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Editorial Advisors
Martin Duerden, Conwy Local Health Board, UK
David H Farb, Boston University, USA