Human Antibodies

CiteScore
2023
2.3

Volume

31, 4 issues

Latest issue

31:4 online 19 January 2024

Next issue

32:1 scheduled for April 2024

Back volumes

From volume 1, 1990

ISSN print

1093-2607

ISSN online

1875-869X

Aims & Scope

Human Antibodies is an international journal designed to bring together all aspects of human hybridomas and antibody technology, along with factors that modulate host antibody repertoire and effectiveness, such as vaccines, infectious agents, and microbiome. This includes fundamental research, applied science and clinical applications. Emphasis in the published articles is on antisera, monoclonal antibodies, fusion partners, EBV transformation, transfections, in vitro immunization, defined antigens, tissue reactivity, scale-up production, chimeric antibodies, autoimmunity, natural antibodies/immune response, anti-idiotypes, and hybridomas secreting interesting growth factors. Immunoregulatory molecules, including T cell hybridomas, will also be featured.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Mark C. Glassy, PhD
UC San Diego
Moores Cancer Center
Translational Neuro-Oncology Laboratory

La Jolla, CA
USA
Tel.: +1 858 566 9490
Email: markglassy@aol.com 

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Email: hab@iospress.com

Social Media Associate Editor

Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, MBA, MD, PhD
University of Thessaly, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Thessaly
Greece
Email: dimitrios.bogdanos@yahoo.com

Editorial Board

Robert M. Anthony, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases, Boston
USA

Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, MBA, MD, PhD
University of Thessaly, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Thessaly
Greece

Dennis R. Burton, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Immunology & Microbial Science - IMM2, La Jolla
USA

Paul J. Carter, PhD
Genentech, Inc., Department of Antibody Engineering, San Francisco
USA

Ricard Cervera, MD, PhD, FRCP 
University of Barcelona
Department of Autoimmune Diseases at Hospital Clínic
Barcelona, Catalonia
Spain

Stefan Dübel, PhD
Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Germany

Gilad Halpert, PhD
Sheba Medical Center, Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Tel-Hashomer
Israel

Michael Hust, PhD
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Biochemie, Biotechnologie und Bioinformatik, Braunschweig
Germany

Angray S. Kang, BSc (Hons), PhD
Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Oral Immunobiology and Regenerative Medicine, Bart's and London Medical and Dental School, London
United Kingdom

Renate Kunert, PhD
Universität für Bodenkultur, Department of Biotechnology, Vienna
Austria

Alois B. Lang, PhD
GeNeuro SA, Geneva
Switzerland

James W Larrick, MD, PhD
Regenerative Sciences Institute, Sunnyvale
USA

Julian Ma, FDS RCS(Ed), PhD
Institute for Infection and Immunity, St. Georges University of London, London
United Kingdom

James D. Marks, MD, PhD
San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, San Francisco
USA

Sherie L. Morrison, PhD
UCLA, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, Los Angeles
USA

David Naor, PhD
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, The Lautenberg Center of Immunology and Cancer Research, Jerusalem
Israel

Paul W. H. I. Parren, PhD
Lava Therapeutics ,Utrecht
the Netherlands

Carlo Perricone, MD, PhD
University of Perugia, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Perugia
Italy

Andreas A. Plückthun, PhD
University of Zurich, Department of Biochemistry, Zurich
Switzerland

Matthew D. Scharff, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, Bronx, USA

Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD., FRCP, MaACR
Sheba Medical Center, Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Tel-Hashomer
Israel

Sachdev Sidhu, PhD
University of Waterloo, School of Pharmacy, Kitchener
Canada

Lim Theam Soon, PhD
Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
Malaysia

Jamie B. Spangler, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Departments of Biomedical and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Baltimore
USA

Leonidas Stamatatos, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Seattle
USA

Michael Steinitz, PhD
The Hebrew University, Department of Pathology, Jerusalem, Israel

Mohammad Taheri, PhD Student
Institute of Human Genetics, Jena University Hospital, Jena
Germany

Jean-Luc Teillaud, PhD
French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris
France

Louis M. Weiner, MD
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Washington
USA

Gregory Winter, PhD
Trinity College, Cambridge
United Kingdom

K. Dane Wittrup, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering, Cambridge
USA

Susan Zolla-Pazner, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Departments of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology, New York
USA

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