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Editorial Board


Associate Editor

Caitlyn Cardetti, PhD, Springer Nature, US
Headshot of Caitlyn CardettiCaitlyn serves as an Associate Editor for both BMC Immunology and BMC Biology. Before joining BMC, Caitlyn completed her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at Stony Brook University where she studied the role of a novel protein in mitochondrial RNA processing and mitoribosomal assembly. She next had a short postdoctoral fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University where she examined the connection between calcium flux in the heart and mitochondrial genome regulation. Caitlyn is a proponent for science education and literacy. She advocates for lifelong learning, staying informed, and engaging with scientific information in a critical and thoughtful manner.






Senior Editorial Board Members

Dawei Cui, Dr. med., The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Dawei CuiDr. Dawei Cui, M.D., is a Specialist of Medicine at the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Cui joined the Editorial Board of BMC Immunology as an editor since 2019, and became a Senior Editorial Board Member for BMC Immunology in 2023. He has about 20 years’ experience working in academic and clinical research, predominantly in the field of T cell immunity. His research focuses on the mechanisms of T cell function and differentiation in autoimmune diseases, cancers and viral diseases, and is supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He also serves in the editorial board and reviewer of many scientific journals



Kamla Prasad Mishra, PhD, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, India
Kamla Prasad MishraDr. KP Mishra is presently working as a senior scientist at DRDO-Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), Delhi. His areas of research are Immunophysiology, Viral immunology and Neuroinflammation. His special interest is environmental hypoxia induced immune alterations and therapeutics development. Dr. Mishra has more than 20 years of research experience in the field of Immunology. He has participated in XXVIII Indian Antarctic expedition to study the effect of stressful environment of Antarctica on human immune system. He is also a member of various committees of Ph. D programmes and serves as ad-hoc reviewer for international peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, India and the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India. Dr. Mishra has also received several national and international awards in the field of Immunology.

Baojun Zhang, PhD, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Baojun ZhangDr. Baojun Zhang is a professor in the Department of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, and the Dean of Basic Medical School and Director of the Institute of Translational Medicine at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He obtained his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences and completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Immunology at Duke University. His group focuses on investigating the regulation of T cell development in thymus, as well as T cell differentiation and function in the healthy condition and disease conditions including infection, tumor and autoimmune diseases. The primary goal of his research is to identify new mechanisms controlling T cell fate and function, and potential targets for immunotherapies.


Assistant Editors
Sharda Gaikwad, MSc, BSc Springer Nature, India

Manuscript Editors
Nikhil Ghate, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Raunaq Singh Nagi, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Pranitha Pandit, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Priya Sharma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, M.Tech, B.Tech, Springer Nature, India
Pratibha Verma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India

Editorial Board Members
Javeed Ahmad, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) , United States
Vira Bitko, PhD, Meridian Life Science, USA
Todd Bradley, PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City, USA
Siddappa Byrareddy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Canhui Cao, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Min Chen, MD, PhD, Peking University First Hospital, China
Karen Cortés-Sarabia, PhD, Autonomous University of Guerrero, Mexico
Sandeep Dhanda, PhD, Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
Elvira Favoino, PhD, University of Bari Medical School, Italy
Dechao Feng, PhD, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Chris Hauton, PhD, University of Southampton, UK
Matthias von Herrath, Dr. med., La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA
Changwan Hong, PhD, Pusan National University School of Medicine, South Korea
Jue Hou, PhD, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, USA
Michael Hughes, PhD, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Eddie James, PhD, Benaroya Research Institute, USA
Shoichiro Kurata, PhD,Tohoku University, Japan
Chen Liu, Dr, Peking University People’s Hospital, China
Vinicius Nunes Cordeiro Leal, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ian Lewkowich, PhD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
Andrew Martin, D.Phil., University College London, UK
Fabrizio Mattei, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
Alessio Mazzoni, PhD, University of Florence, Italy
KP Mishra, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India
Prasenjit Mitra, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), India
Giuseppe Murdaca, University of Genova, Italy
Joshua Ooi, PhD, Monash University, Australia
Rajan Kumar Pandey, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Francesco Pappalardo, PhD, University of Catania, Italy
Jay Reddy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Elias Said, PhD, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Maria Sato, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Oded Shamriz, MD, Hadassah Medical Centre, Israel
Esaki Shankar, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India
Raki Sudan, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Amol Suryawanshi, DVM, MS, PhD, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, USA
Zhenwei Tang, MD, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, China
Ichiro TaniuchiMD, PhD, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Japan
Dennis Taub, National Institutes of Health, USA
Takeshi Tsubata, MD, PhD, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Raivo Uibo, Dr. med., MD, PhD, University of Tartu, Estonia
Navin Kumar Verma, PhD, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore
Donald Vinh, McGill University Health Centre, Canada
Bin Wang, PhD, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Danli Xie, PhD, Wenzhou Medical University, China
Guan-Jun Yang, PhD, Ningbo University, China


Editorial Advisors
Shizuo Akira, Osaka University, Japan
James Allison, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Frederick Alt, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, USA
Michael J Bevan, University of Washington, USA
Jean Bousquet, University of Montpellier/INSERM, France
Frank Brombacher, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Colin Brooks, Newcastle University, UK
John Cambier, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, USA
Jason Cyster, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Ricardo Gazzinelli, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Hans Georg, Rammensee University of Tuebingen, Germany
Sankar Ghosh, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Chris Goodnow, Australian National University, Australia
Douglas Green, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Ulrich Hammerling, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Adrian C Hayday, King's College London, UK
Cory Hogaboam, University of Michigan, USA
Tasuku Honjo, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Gioacchin Iannolo, PhD, IRCCS Ismett, Italy
Stefan H Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany
Garnett Kelsoe, Duke University, USA
Tomohiro Kurosaki, Osaka University, Japan
Antonio Lanzavecchia, Instituto di Ricerca in Biomedicina, Switzerland
Klaus Ley, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, USA
Tim Manser, Jefferson Medical College, USA
Ruslan Medzhitov, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Seppo Meri, University of Helsinki, Finland
John G Monroe, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Laurence Morel, University of Florida, USA
Michel Nussenzweig, The Rockefeller University, USA
Eleanor Riley, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Takashi Saito, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Japan
William E Seaman, University of California, USA
Andrey Shaw, Washington University St Louis, USA
Wayne Thomas, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Arthur Weiss, University of California, USA
Maurizio Zanetti, University of California, USA
Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker, University of Toronto, Canada

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 2.9
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 3.3
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.775
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.815

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 14
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 188

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