Editorial Board

Inaugural Editor-in-Chief

Patrick Gallagher, MD received his medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Medical University, followed by pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and fellowships in neonatal-perinatal medicine and molecular hematology at Yale University School of Medicine. He is currently a Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology and Cell Biology at the Ohio State University and Director of the Center for Perinatal Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital following a long career at Yale University. He has served on many editorial boards including Blood, Journal of Biological Chemistry and American Journal of Hematology. He has studied a wide range of basic, translational, and clinical aspect of erythropoiesis and its disorders.

Deputy Editor

Laura Silvestri, PhD, holds a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology and earned her PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Milan, Italy. She is currently a Senior Scientist at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biology at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. Dr. Silvestri has been a member of the Board of Directors of the “International Society for the Study of Iron in Biology and Medicine” (BioIron), and a member of the Scientific Program Committee–Advisory Board for “Red Cells and Iron” of the European Hematology Association (EHA). She has also served as both a member and chair of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Scientific Committee on Iron and Heme. Her primary research interests focus on the mechanisms regulating iron metabolism under both physiological and pathological conditions.