Editors-in-Chief:

Danik M. Martirosyan, PhD, Founder of Functional Food Center Inc., Associate Clinical Professor at Nutrition and Food Science Department, TWU (United States)

Garth L. Nicolson, PhD, Professor, President, Chief Scientific Officer and Research Professor of Molecular Pathology, The Institute for Molecular Medicine, S. Laguna Beach, CA (United States)

Undurti N. Das, MD, President and CEO, UND Life Sciences, Shaker Heights, Ohio (United States)  

Field Editors:

Field Editors provide direction for the journal and build a strong management team. They have a responsibility to ensure an efficient and timely review process of manuscripts submitted for publication and to establish and maintain high standards of professional quality. Field Editors should be alert to possible cases of plagiarism, duplication of previous published work, misappropriation of intellectual property, and inappropriate attribution.Working with the FFHD Editor-in-Chief, with Editorial Board, each field editor selects content to be reviewed and reviews manuscripts for publication. Field Editors should publish at list 2 manuscript per year in our journal  and  serve as a guest editor for FFHD. 

1. Hiroshi Yoshida, MD, PhD, Councilor, Japanese Society for Medical Use of Functional Foods, Deputy Director of Jikei University Kashiwa Hospital, Chiba, Japan. Expertise: Medical Use of Functional Foods
2. Jin-Rong Zhou, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, Nutrition and Metabolism Laboratory, Boston, MA, USA. Expertise: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Chronic Diseases
3. Essam Abdel-Sattar, PhD, Professor, Department  of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Expertise: Bioactive Natural Compounds and Alternative Medicine
4. Kenneth Blum, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Mcnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Expertise: Nutrigenomics, Obesity, and Reward Deficiency Syndrome
5. Ahmed Maslat, PhD, Professor, University of Hail, Department of Biology, Saudi Arabia. Expertise: Mutagenicity, Food Additives, and Molecular Genetics
6. Kristi Michele Crowe, PhD, Registered Dietitian, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Expertise: Functional Foods, Nutrition, and Food Analysis
7. Valter R.M. Lombardi, PhD, Director, Molecular Immunology Department, Euroespes Biotechnology, Biomedical Research Center, La Coruña, Spain. Expertise: Proteomics, Novel Bioactive Compounds, and Immunology
8. Robert K. McNamara, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Expertise: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Disease Prevention 

Editorial Board:

Eligibility Criteria and Responsibilities for FFHD Editorial Board Membership

Eligibility for editorial board member appointments is based on the following criteria:

1. Editorial Board member has served as a guest reviewer for FFHD and completed an adequate number of high quality reviews.
2. Editorial Board member has obtained a doctoral degree specializing in nutrition, functional foods, chronic diseases or related fields at least five years before serving on the FFHD Editorial Board.
3. Editorial Board member has published 1 manuscript per year (preferably the first 6 months of becoming an Editorial Board member), initial membership requirements: 2 publications in FFHD.
4. Editorial Board member has demonstrated expertise in areas needed on the board of FFHD. 
5. Editorial Board member is committed to attending the annual FFHD Editorial Board meetings when possible.

The FFHD Editorial Board members’ responsibilities include the following:

1. Complete a minimum of 5 reviews per year in a timely manner.
2. Provide respectful and constructive reviews for authors that avoid hurtful language and contribute high quality papers. 
3. Demonstrate confidentiality and objectivity regarding the manuscripts and the review process.
4. Publish at list 1 manuscript per year in the journal of FFHD.

Editorial Board Members:

1. Jing X. Kang, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Laboratory for Lipid Medicine and Technology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA (United States)
2. Tzi Bun Ng, PhD, Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese Univerisity of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
3. Francesco Marotta, MD, PhD, Professor, Hepato-Gastroenterology Unit, S Giuseppe Hospital via S Vittore, Milano (Italy)
4. Mona Boaz, PhD, Professor, Director, Epidemiology Unit, E. Wolfson Medical Center, Holon (Israel)
5. Mingruo Guo, PhD, Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (United States)
6. Malay Chatterjee, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India)
7. Po-Shiuan Hsieh, MD, PhD, Professor and Head of Physiology Department, Physiology Institute, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei (Taiwan)
8. Aihua Liang, PhD, Professor, Head of Center for Safety Evaluation for Chinese Materia Medica, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing (China)
9. Vaishali Vilas Agte, PhD, Professor, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune (India)
10. Stepan Svacina, MD, PhD, Professor, Chief of Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
11. Oh Yoen KIM, PhD, Professor, Division of Clinical Research, Research Institute of Science for Aging, Yonsei University, Seoul (Soth Korea)
12. Yamini B Tripathi, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (India)
13. Shahidul Islam, PhD, Professor, Department of Agriculture, University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR (United States)
14. Alan C. Tsai, PhD, Professor, Department of Healthcare Administration, Asia University, Taichung (Taiwan)
15. Akbar Masood, PhD, Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry, the University of Kashmir, Srinagar (India) 
16. Weibin Shi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and  Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
17. Satya Vati Rana, PhD, Professor, Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (India)
18. Haseeb A. Khan, PhD, Professor, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
19. Hidekatsu Yanai, MD, PhD, Head Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (Japan)
20. Tianfu Wu, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (United States)
21. Wen-Jun Shen, PhD, Senior Research Scientist,  Department of Medicine, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA (United States)
22. Vincenza Frisardi, MD, Geriatrician and Gerontologist at the Department of Geriatrics, Center for Aging Brain, Memory Unit, University of Bari, Bari (Italy)
23. Hamid Tayebi Khosroshahi, MD, Nephrologist and Associated Professor at the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz (Iran)  
24. Evan Paul Cherniack, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine; Director, Geriatrics Clinic, Miami, VA Medical Center (United States)
25. Ajith TA, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Amala Nagar, Thrissur (India)
26. Min Hu, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, William Bolthouse Farms, Inc. Bakersfield, CA (United States)
27. Mian-Ying Wang, MD, Research associate Professor, Director of Morinda Citrifolia (Noni) Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, Rockford, IL (United States)
28. Nelson Wood, DMD., DSc. Private Practitioner, Weymouth, MA (United States)
29. Ramashwar Sarma, MD, Associate Professor, St. James School of Medicine, Bonaire (Dutch Caribbean) 
30. Xianli Wu, PhD,  Research Assistant Professor, USDA Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR (United States)
31. James Kwasi Kumi-Diaka, PhD, Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL (United States)
32. Muhammad Tauseef Sultan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Sciences, B.Z. University, Multan, Pakistan
33. Ioannis Vlachos, PhD, Laboratory for Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research “N.S. Christeas”, Medical School of Athens, University of Athens, Athens (Greece)
34. Appu Rathinavelu, PhD, Associate Dean for Institutional Planning and Development, College of Pharmacy, Executive Director, Rumbaugh Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research, Nova Southeastern University (United States)
35. Fatemeh Malekian, PhD, Associate Professor, Food Science and Nutrition, Southern University Agricultural Researchand Extension Center, Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
36. Maximilien Goris Gbenou, MD, Department of Urology, Valence Hospital, Valence (France).