FASEB has announced the appointment of Loren E. Wold, PhD, FAHA, FAPS, as the new editor-in-chief of the flagship The FASEB Journal. Wold’s term will begin August 1, 2023.
Wold holds joint appointments at the Ohio State University as associate dean for research operations and compliance in the College of Medicine, professor in the Division of Cardiac Surgery of the Department of Surgery, and as The John G. and Jeanne Bonnet McCoy Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine. His laboratory is currently focused on environmental triggers of cardiac disease, with an emphasis on air pollution exposure and electronic cigarette exposure. The Wold lab is funded by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the American Heart Association.
Wold has a long history of service to scholarly societies in the biological and biomedical sciences space. He is an elected fellow of both the American Physiological Society and the American Heart Association, and an active member of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, International Society for Heart Research, American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Endocrine Society, Society of Toxicology, the American Heart Association, and the American Diabetes Association. He is frequently featured in interviews with major media across a range of specialty topics, including COVID-19, secondhand smoke, vaping, and home air quality.
Wold served as an editorial board member, associate editor, and most recently as editor-in-chief of two prominent life science journals, both flourishing in submissions and impact under his leadership.
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