Editor-in-Chief
Nigishi Hotta, Japan Labour Health and Welfare Organization Chubu Rosai Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
Co-Editor
Graeme I. Bell, Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Editorial Board
Eiichi Araki, Kumamoto, Japan
Lee-Ming Chuang, Taipei, Taiwan
Masakazu Haneda, Asahikawa, Japan
Larry Low-Tone Ho, Taipei, Taiwan
Nobuya Inagaki, Kyoto, Japan
Linong Ji, Beijing, China
Weiping Jia, Shanghai, China
Yi-Der Jiang, Taipei, Taiwan
Takashi Kadowaki, Tokyo, Japan
Kohei Kaku, Kurashiki, Japan
Atsunori Kashiwagi, Otsu, Japan
Masato Kasuga, Tokyo, Japan
Doo-Man Kim, Seoul, Korea
Karen Lam, Hong Kong, China
Hong Kyu Lee, Seoul, Korea
In-Kyu Lee, Daegu, Korea
Juming Lu, Beijing, China
Jiro Nakamura, Nagoya, Japan
Kishio Nanjo, Wakayama, Japan
Sung Woo Park, Seoul, Korea
Tae Sun Park, Jeon Ju, Korea
Yasushi Saito, Chiba, Japan
Susumu Seino, Kobe, Japan
Yutaka Seino, Osaka, Japan
Wayne H.-H. Sheu, Taichung, Taiwan
Shyi-Jang Shin, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Ho Young Son, Seoul, Korea
Hyun Shik Son, Uijeongbu-si, Korea
Naoko Tajima, Tokyo, Japan
Kathryn Tan, Hong Kong, China
Yukio Tanizawa, Ube, Japan
Jianping Weng, Guangzhou, China
Soroku Yagihashi, Hirosaki, Japan
Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kanazawa, Japan
Wenying Yang, Beijing, China
International Editorial Board
KGMM Alberti, London, UK
Michael A. Brownlee, New York, USA
Subrata Chakrabarti, Ontario, Canada
Mark E. Cooper, Prahran, Australia
Philippe Froguel, London, UK
Wilfred Fujimoto, Hawaii, USA
Michael S. German, San Francisco, USA
Andrew Hattersley, Exeter, UK
Jean-Claude Henquin, Brussels, Belgium
Jens Juul Holst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Frank B. Hu, Boston, USA
C. Ronald Kahn, Boston, USA
George L. King, Boston, USA
Rayaz A. Malik, Manchester, UK
Michael Mauer, Minneapolis, USA
Carl Erik Mogensen, Aarhus, Denmark
Emmanuel Van Obberghen, Nice, France
Irina G. Obrosova, Baton Rouge, USA
Kenneth S. Polonsky, Chicago, USA
Philip Raskin, Dallas, USA
Christopher J. Rhodes, Chicago, USA
Steven E. Shoelson, Boston, USA
Anders A.F. Sima, Detroit, USA
Jay S. Skyler, Miami, USA
Martin J. Stevens, Birmingham, UK
Bernard Th orens, Lausanne, Switzerland
Paul Zimmet, Melbourne, Australia
Assistant Editorial Board
Xiaoping Chen, Beijing, China
Young Min Cho, Seoul, Korea
Norio Harada, Kyoto, Japan
Yi-Jen Hung, Taipei, Taiwan
Akihisa Imagawa, Osaka, Japan
Dae Jung Kim, Suwon, Korea
Ronald Ma, Hong Kong, China
Takashi Matsuzaka, Tsukuba, Japan
Eitaro Nakashima, Nagoya, Japan
Keiko Naruse, Nagoya, Japan
Takeshi Nishikawa, Kumamoto, Japan
Wataru Ogawa, Kobe, Japan
Takashi Sasaki, Tokyo, Japan
Hirotaka Watada, Tokyo, Japan
Daisuke Yabe, Osaka, Japan
Toshimasa Yamauchi, Tokyo, Japan
Kazuki Yasuda, Tokyo, Japan
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Journal of Diabetes Investigation is your core diabetes journal from Asia; the offi cial journal of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD). Th e journal publishes original research, country reports, commentaries, reviews, mini-reviews, case reports, letters, as well as editorials and news. Th e journal embraces clinical and experimental research in diabetes and related areas. Th is includes aspects of prevention, treatment, as well as molecular aspects and pathophysiology. Translational research focused on the exchange of ideas between clinicians and researchers is also welcome.
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