Human Gene Therapy
Published in Association with Mary Ann Liebert
The Official Journal of: ESGCT
The Official Journal of: Umbrella Society for British Society for Gene & Cell Therapy
The Official Journal of: SFTCG
The Official Journal of: DG-GT
The Official Journal of: Sociedad Espanola Genica y Celular
The Official Journal of: NVGCT
The Official Journal of: ISGCT
The Official Journal of: Finnish Society of Gene and Cell Therapy
The Official Journal of: The Israeli Society of Gene & Cell Therapy
eISSN:
15577422 | ISSN:
10430342 | Current volume: 36 | Current issue: 15-16
As the premier, multidisciplinary journal covering all aspects of gene therapy, this journal publishes important advances in DNA, RNA, cell, and immune therapies, validating the latest advances in research and new technologies.
Established in 1990, the journal provides a prestigious forum for publishing scientific and clinical research, including ethical, legal, regulatory, social, and commercial issues, which enables the advancement and progress of therapeutic procedures leading to improved patient outcomes, and ultimately, to curing diseases.
Human Gene Therapy (HGT) is the premier, multidisciplinary journal covering all aspects of gene therapy. The Journal publishes important advances in DNA, RNA, cell and immune therapies, validating the latest advances in research and new technologies.
Established in 1990, HGT provides a prestigious forum for publishing scientific and clinical research, including ethical, legal, regulatory, social, and commercial issues, which enables the advancement and progress of therapeutic procedures leading to improved patient outcomes, and ultimately, to curing diseases.
HGT publishes 12 double issues per year, including sections on Methods (product testing and development) and Clinical Development (regulatory review, toxicology and commercial development). The journal also publishes a wide range of reviews, commentaries and editorials.
Complete coverage includes:
Basic and clinical advances in gene therapy
Delivery systems
Cell therapy
Immunotherapy
Clinical genome editing
Small nucleic acid therapeutics, including RNAi
Clinical trials (including confirmatory or negative results)
Improvements in vector developments
Animal models
Pre-clinical animal/in vitro studies to assess safety of gene and cell therapy products
Clinical protocols
Commercial development of gene and cell therapy products
Human Gene Therapy was the first journal devoted to cover the field of gene therapy.
Human Gene Therapy is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Terence R. Flotte, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School and other leading investigators.
Audience: Geneticists, medical geneticists, molecular biologists, virologists, experimental researchers, and experimental medicine specialists, among others.
Editor-in-Chief
| Terence R Flotte, MD, PhD | Univ Of Massachusetts Chan Med School, Worcester, MA, USA |
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
| Guangping Gao, PhD | Univ Of Massachusetts Chan Med School, Worcester, MA, USA |
European Editor
| Hildegard Buning, PhD | Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany |
Asian Editor
| Yu-Quan Wei, MD | West China Hospital, Chengdu Sichuan, China |
Executive Editor
| Kevin Davies, PhD | Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
Deputy Editors
| Seng H. Cheng, PhD | Senior Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer, Rare Disease Pfizer Andover, MA, USA |
| Mark A Kay, MD, PhD | Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA, USA |
| Thierry Vandendriessche, PhD | Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium |
Associate Editors
| Jennifer E Adair, PhD | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Robin R Ali, PhD | King’s College London, London, United Kingdom |
| Claire Alexandria Booth, PhD | Ucl Institute Of Child Health, London, United Kingdom |
| Shannon E Boye, PhD | University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Reed Clark, PhD | Ultragenyx Gene Therapy Research, Somerville, MA, USA |
| Dongsheng Duan, PhD | University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA |
| Maria P Limberis, PhD | Spirovant Sciences Inc, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Shin-Ichi Muramatsu, MD, PhD | Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Japan |
Senior Consulting Editors
| Jean Bennett | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Nathalie Cartier, MD | Inserm U745, Paris, France |
| J Keith Joung, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA |
| Carl H June, MD | Univ Of Pennsylvania School Of Med, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Feng Zhang, PhD, RN | Associate Professor and Vice Dean, School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Nantong University, Jiangsu, China |
Scientific Editorial Board
| Yoshikazu Yonemitsu, MD, PhD | Kyushu Univ, Higashi Ku Fujuoka, Japan |
| Seppo Yla-Herttuala, MD, PhD | University Of Eastern Finland, Kuoppio, Finland |
| Yiping Yang, MD, PhD | Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA |
| Rafael J Yanez-Munoz | Royal Holloway-Univ Of London, Egham Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Wen Xue | Univ Of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Xiao Xiao, PhD | Unc Eshelman School Of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
| Weidong Xiao, PhD | Indiana University, Indianapoli, IN, USA |
| Joseph Wu | Stanford University School of Medicine, USA |
| J Fraser Wright, PhD | Childrens Hospital Of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| John H Wolfe, VMD, PhD | Univ Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Qiang Wang, PhD | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Qi Wang, MD, PhD | Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China |
| Gerard Wagemaker, PhD | La Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Sam Wadsworth, PhD | Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Christof Von Kalle, MD, PhD | Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| Els Verhoeyen, PhD | University Of Lyon, Lyon, France |
| Luk H Vandenberghe, PhD | Mass Eye And Ear Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
| Victor W Van Beusechem, PhD | Vu Univ Medical Ctr, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Mark Tangney | University College Cork, Cork, Ireland |
| Ryota Tamura, MD, PhD | Keio University School of Medicine, Japan |
| Renata Stripecke, PhD | Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany |
| Alexis Stamatikos, PhD, RD | Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA |
| Arun Srivastava, PhD | Univ Of Florida College Of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Erik J Sontheimer, PhD | UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Sihong Song, PhD | University Of Florida, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
| Christian K Schneider, MD | National Institute For Biological Standards And Control (Nibsc), Hertfordshire, United Kingdom |
| Manfred Schmidt, PhD | National Center For Tumor Diseases And German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Martin Schleef, PhD | Plasmidfactory Gmbh & Co Kg, Bielefeld, Germany |
| Axel Schambach, MD, PhD | Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany |
| David V Schaffer | University Of California At Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Paula Salmikangas, PhD | Nda Group Ab, Upplands Vasby, Sweden |
| Michel Sadelain | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr, New York, NY, USA |
| Stephen J Russell, MD, PhD | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA |
| David W Russell, MD, PhD | Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Paul D Robbins, PhD | Univ Of Pittsburgh Sch Of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| John Rasko, MD, PhD | Univ Of Sydney, Newtown Nsw, Australia |
| Zhiyong Qian, MD, PhD | Sichuan Univ, Chengdu, China |
| Felipe Prosper, MD | University Of Navarra, Navarra, Spain |
| Kathy Ponder | Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Nicole Paulk, PhD | University Of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Timothy Obrien | Natl University Of Ireland, Galway, Ireland |
| Richard O Snyder, PhD | Thermo Fisher Scientific, Alachua, FL, USA |
| Stuart A Nicklin, PhD | University Of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| Gopalan Narayanan, MD | Voisin Consulting Life Sciences, Camberley Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Hiroyuki Nakai, MD, PhD | Oregon Health & Science Univ School Of Medicine, Portland, OR, USA |
| Nicholas Muzyczka, PhD | Univ Of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Eugenio Montini, PhD | San Raffaele Telethon Institute For Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy |
| Hiroaki Mizukami | Jichi Medical University, Tochigi-ken, Japan |
| Federico Mingozzi | Genthon, Evry, France |
| Otto-Wilhelm Merten, PhD | Miltenyi Biotec, Paris, France |
| R Scott Mcivor | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Maritza Mcintyre, PhD | Regenx Biosciences, Washington, DC, USA |
| Fulvio Mavilio, PhD | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy |
| Morgan L Maeder, PhD | Editas Medicine, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Shan Lu, MD, PhD | Univ Of Massachusetts Chan Med School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Chen Ling, PhD | Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| Francois M Lemoine, MD, PhD | Univ Pierre And Marie Curie, Paris, France |
| Robert M Kotin, PhD | University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Stefan Kochanek | University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany |
| David Klatzmann, MD, PhD | Hospitalier Groupe Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris Cedex 13, France |
| Hans-Peter Kiem, MD | University Of Washington Sch Of Med, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Allison Keeler-Klunk, PhD | Univ Of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Noriyuki Kasahara, MD, PhD | University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Chang-Yuil Kang, PhD | Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
| Stephen M Kaminsky, PhD | Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA |
| Giridhara R Jayandharan, PhD | Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Roland W Herzog, PhD | University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Ulrich R Hengge, MD | Skin Center Dusseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany |
| Akseli Hemminki | University Of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
| Renzhi Han, PhD | Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Kirk H Hammond, MD | University of California San Diego and VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA |
| Alisha M Gruntman, DVM, PhD | Univ Of Massachusetts Chan Med School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Dirk Grimm, PhD | Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Uta Griesenbach | Imperial College, London, United Kingdom |
| Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza, PhD | Fima, Pamplona, Spain |
| Charlie Gersbach, PhD | Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
| Anne Galy, PhD | Inserm-Genethon, Evry, France |
| Marie Cristina Galli, PhD | Istituto Superiore Di Sanita, Rome, Italy |
| Keith Foster, PhD | University Of Reading, Reading Berks, United Kingdom |
| Boris Fehse, PhD | University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany |
| Erik Falck-Pedersen, PhD | Weill Med Coll Of Cornell Univ, New York, NY, USA |
| John Engelhardt | University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
| Anja Ehrhardt, PhD | Max Von Pettenkofer-Institut, Munich, Germany |
| Boro Dropulic, PhD | Lentigen Corporation, Gaithersburg, MD, USA |
| Martin Donnelley, PhD | The University Of Adelaide, North Adelaide Sa, Australia |
| Ronald G Crystal, MD | Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA |
| Pedro Cruz, PhD, MBA | Cso / Ecbio - R&D In Biotechnology Sa, Amadora, Portugal |
| Gay M Crooks, MBBS | Univ Of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Larry A Couture, PhD | Beckman Research Institute Of City Of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA |
| Ken Cornetta, MD, PhD | Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Thomas J Conlon, PhD | Michelson Found Animals Foundation Llc, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Nathalie Clement, PhD | Unicorn Consultations Llc, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Saswati Chatterjee, PhD | Beckman Resh Inst Of City Of Hope Nmc, Duarte, CA, USA |
| Joy A Cavagnaro, PhD | Access Bio, Boyce, VA, USA |
| Toni Cathomen, PhD | Medical Center – University Of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany |
| Roberto Calcedo, PhD | Affinia Therapeutics, Waltham, MA, USA |
| Barry J Byrne, MD, PhD | University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| David Bumcrot, PhD | Editas Medicine Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Juan A Bueren | Ciemat, Madrid, Spain |
| Xandra Breakefield | Mass General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA |
| Alessandra Biffi, MD | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
| Michael Betts, PhD | Univ Of Pa Medical Ctr, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Janet Benson, PhD | Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
| Christopher Baum, MD | Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany |
| Ana Rita Batista, PhD | Univ Of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
| Takis Athanasopoulos, PhD | Glaxosmithkline, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom |
| Aravind Asokan, PhD | Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
| Daniel G Anderson, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Ian Edward Alexander | Sydney Childrens Hospitals At Network, Westmead Nsw, Australia |
| Ramon Alemany, PhD | Lhospitalet De Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain |
| Kari Airenne | Kuopio Ctr For Gene & Cell Therapy (Kct), Kuopio, Finland |
Managing Editors
| Thomas Gallagher, PhD | Univ Of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
Founding Editor