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Journal of Ovarian Research is an open access, peer reviewed, online journal that aims to provide a forum for high-quality basic and clinical research on ovarian function, abnormalities, and cancer. The journal focuses on research that provides new insights into ovarian functions as well as prevention and treatment of diseases afflicting the organ.
Topical areas include, but are not restricted to:
Ovary development, hormone secretion and regulation
Follicle growth and ovulation
Infertility and Polycystic ovarian syndrome
Regulation of pituitary and other biological functions by ovarian hormones
Ovarian cancer, its prevention, diagnosis and treatment
Drug development and screening
Role of stem cells in ovary development and function

Reviews
Case reports
Research articles
Brief communications

Editors-in-Chief
Sham S Kakar, University of Louisville, USA 
Benjamin K Tsang, University of Ottawa, Canada

Founding Editor
Sham S Kakar, University of Louisville, USA 

Associate Editors
Jay Baltz, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada 
Surinder Batra, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Susan Bellis, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Deepa Bhartiya, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, India
Theodore Brown, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Canada
Robert Casper, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Canada
David W Chan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Subhash Chauhan, University of Tennessee, USA
Annie NY Cheung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Indrajit Chowdhury, Morehouse School of Medicine, USA
Warren Foster, McMaster University, Canada
Fabio Ghezzi, University of Insubria, Italy
Jigal Haas,The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel 
HeFeng Huang, Women's Hospital, China
Ciro Isidoro, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy 
Joshua Johnson, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA 
Andrea Jurisicova, University of Toronto, Canada
Hidetaka Katabuchi, University Kumamoto, Japan
Yusuke Kobayashi, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
Julang Li, University of Guelph, Canada
Irma Virant Klun, University Medical Center Ljubjana, Slovenia
Antonio Simone Laganà, University of Insubria, Italy
Arthur Leader, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Makoto Orisaka, University of Fukui, Japan 
Chun Peng, York University, Canada 
John Peluso, University of Connecticut 
Ajay Singh, University of South Alabama, USA
Rajesh Singh, Morehouse School of Medicine, USA
Marc-André Sirard, Chaire de Recherché du Canada en Genomique Animale, Canada
Norihiro Sugino, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Yoshio Yoshida, University of Fukui, Japan 
Guoxiong Xu, Fudan University, China

Editorial Board
Nuzhat Ahmed, Royal Women's Hospital, Australia 
Sharmila Bapat, National Centre for Cell Science, India 
Robert Bast, U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Resham Battacharya, Stephenson Cancer Center, USA
Yihua Cai, University of Louisville, USA
Lijun Di, University of Macau, China 
Alexander Evans, University College Dublin, Ireland 
Andrea R Genazzani, University of Pisa, Italy 
Umesh Goswami, University of Minnesota, USA 
Digant Gupta, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, USA
Jigal Haas, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel 
Alison Holloway, McMaster University, Canada
Karla Hutt, Monash University, Australia
Adam R Karpf, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Selvendiran Karuppaiyah, The Ohio State University, USA
Da Li, China Medical University, China
Erin Medlin, University of Louisville, USA
Karl Miletti-Gonzalez, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, USA
Donald Miller, Brown Cancer Center, USA
Samuel C Mok, University of Texas, USA
Mark Nachtigal, University of Manitoba, Canada
Shesh Rai, University of Louisville, USA
Mariusz Ratajczak, University of Louisville, USA
Rajeev Samant, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Arito Sen, Michigan State University, USA
Andrzej Semczuk, Lublin University, Poland
Sharmila Shankar, University of Kansas Medical Center, USA 
Masayuki Shimada, Hiroshima University, Japan 
Kamaleshwar Singh, The Institute of Environmental and Human Health, USA
Seema Singh, University of South Alabama, USA
Shailesh Singh, Morehouse School of Medicine, USA 
Anil K Sood, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA 
Marc-André Srirard, Chaire de Recherché du Canada en Genomique Animale, Canada
J Christopher States, University of Louisville, USA
Suman Suman, University of Louisville School of Medicine, USA
Pierosandro Tagliaferri, Magna Graecia University, Italy 
Barbara Vanderhyden, University of Ottawa, Canada 
Amerigo Vitagliano, University of Padua, Italy
Salvatore Giovanni Vitale, University of Catania, Italy
Kai Xue, Nanjing Medical University, China
Bulent O Yildiz, Hacettepe University, Turkey