JTD is very grateful to everyone who reviewed for the journal.

Respiratory Medicine

Ritesh Agarwal

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and

Research, Chandigarh, India

Sung-Ja Ahn

Department of Radiation Oncology, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital,

Chonnam National University Medical School, Hwasun-gun, Korea

Rodolpho M. Albano

Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil

Shailesh Bihari

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Flinders University, Bedford

Park, South

Australia, Australia

Andras Bikov

Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Dios arok 1/C, Budapest,

H-1125, Hungary

Viboon Boonsarngsuk

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of

Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Charles Butts

Cross Cancer Institute, 11560 University Avenue, Edmonton, AB, T6G 1Z2, Canada

Philippe Camus

Dept of Pulmonary Medicine and Intensive Care, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Le

Bocage, Dijon, France Faculté de Médecine, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Fu-Tsai Chung

Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung

University, College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Jérémy B. Coquart

Faculty of Sport Sciences, EA 3832, CETAPS, University of Rouen, Mont Saint

Aignan, France

Vincent Cottin

Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Louis Pradel, Service de Pneumologie - Centre de

Référence National des Maladies Pulmonaires Rares, Lyon, France

Roberto W. Dal Negro

Lung Dept., Orlandi General Hospital, Bussolengo, Verona, Italy

Aline Gehlen Dall Bello

Mycology Laboratory, Santa Casa Sisters of Mercy Hospital of Porto Alegre, Porto

Alegre, Brazil

Kaid Darwiche

Department of Interventional Pneumology, Ruhrlandklinik, University Hospital Essen,

University of Essen, Essen, Germany

Frank Detterbeck

Yale Thoracic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, PO Box 208062,

New Haven, USA

Samjot Dhillon

Department of Medicine-Pulmonary Medicine/Thoracic Oncology, Roswell Park

Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA

George Eapen

Univ Texas MD Anderson Canc Ctr, Dept Pulm Med, Houston, Texas, USA

Keisaku Fujimoto

Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Shinshu University School of Health

Sciences, Nagano, Japan

Masaki Fujita

Research Institute for Diseases of the Chest, Graduate School of Medical Sciences,

Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Yoshinosuke Fukuchi

Director of CRD Research Laboratory, Visiting Professor of Juntendo University,

Japan

Pieter Christian Goeminne

Laboratory of Pneumology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Pierre Goussard

Univ Stellenbosch, Fac Hlth Sci, Dept Paediat & Child Hlth, POB 19063, ZA-7505

Tygerberg, South Africa

Roger S Goldstein

West Pk Healthcare Ctr, Toronto, Canada

Larry Grouse

Int COPD Coalit, Gig Harbor, WA, USA

Anne Hsu

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital,

Singapore

Robert L. Hunter

Univ Texas Houston Med Sch, Dept Pathol & Lab Med, Houston, USA

Ki-Suck Jung

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,

Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, 896 Pyeongchon-dong, Dongan-gu, Anyang

431-070, Korea

Cheol-Hong Kim

Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul,

Korea

Masahiro Kitada

Department of Respiratory Center, Asahikawa Medical University,

Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

Martin C. J. Kneyber

Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto,

Ontario, Canada

Yoshihiro Kobashi

Kawasaki Med Univ, Div Resp Dis, Dept Med, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Stavros Konstantinides

Democritus Univ Thrace, Univ Gen Hosp, Dept Cardiol, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Kathleen Kreiss

Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and

Health, Morgantown WV, U.S

Michael Kreuter

University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Armelle Lavolé

Service de Pneumologie et Réanimation, Hôpital Tenon, APHP and

Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris VI, Paris, France

Chih-Chuan Lin

Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and

Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan

Jose Luis Lopez-Campos

Unidad Medico-Quirurgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias. Hospital

Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain

Patrick C Ma

Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer

Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Edson Marchiori

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis, University of Sergipe, Teresópolis,

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Shoko Matsui

Health Administration Center, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

Shin Matsuoka

Department of Radiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa,

Japan

Norbert Meyer

Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich,

Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Davos,

Switzerland

Giovanni Battista Migliori

World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases

Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Tradate, Italy

Neal Navani

Department of Thoracic Medicine, University College London

Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Norio Okamoto

Department of Bronchology Osaka, Prefectural Medical Center for Respiratory and

Allergic Diseases，Japan

Masahide Oki

Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan

Yusuke Okuma

Department of Thoracic Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan

Cancer and Infectious diseases Center Komagome Hospital, Japan

Tanmay Panchabhai

Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY,

USA

Spyros A Papiris

2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, Attikon University Hospital, Athens Medical

School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Young Sik Park

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine

and Lung Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Federico Raveglia

Univ Milan, Antonio di Rudini St 8, I-20142 Milan, Italy

Chin Kook Rhee

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,

College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, Seocho-Gu, Seoul 137-701, Korea

Marcello Riggi

Department of Oncology, Institut de Recherche Pierre Fabre, Paris, France

Jesse Roman

Univ Louisville, Dept Med, Div Pulm Crit Care & Sleep Disorders Med, Louisville,

KY, USA

Antonio Rossi

Division of Medical Oncology, 'S.G. Moscati' Hospital, Avellino, Italy

James A. Rowley

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine,

Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA

Makoto Sakugawa

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Okayama Red Cross Hospital, Japan

Hiroaki Satoh

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Mito Medical Center, University of Tsukuba,

Miya-machi 3-2-7, Mito, Ibaraki 310-0015, Japan

Keith Sigel

Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York,

NY, USA

Konstantinos N Syrigos

Ierapetra General Hospital, Crete, Greece

Kengo Takeuchi

Pathology Project for Molecular Targets, Division of Pathology, Thoracic

Center, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo,

Japan

Claudio Tantucci

Clinica di Medicina Interna I, Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Visanu Thamlikitkul

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University,

Bangkok, Thailand

Robert Thurnheer

Kantonsspital, Div Pulm, Zentrum Schlafmed & Heimventilat,

Munsterlingen, Switzerland

Motoi Ugajin

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ichinomiya-Nishi Hospital, Ichinomiya City,

Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Victoria Villena Garrido

Servicio de Neumología, Fundación Investigación, Hospital Universitario

12 de

Octubre, CIBERES, Madrid, España

Anton Vonk-Noordegraaf

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam,

Netherlands

Jann-Yuan Wang

Natl Taiwan Univ Hosp, Dept Internal Med, 7 Chung Shan S Rd, Taipei 100, Taiwan

Douglas West

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust,

Bristol, UK

Thomas Wibmer

Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Chih-Jen Yang

Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung

Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Thoracic Surgery

Marcello Carlo Ambrogi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical, Medical,

Molecular, and Critical Area Pathology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Claudio Andreetti

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Sant'Andrea

Hospital, Rome, Italy

Pascal Berna

Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Amiens South Hospital, University of

Picardie, Place Victor Pauchet, Amiens, France

Mark F Berry

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center,

Durham, USA

Luca Bertolaccini

S Croce City Hosp, Thorac Surg Unit, Cuneo, Italy

Alessandro Brunelli

Section Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedali

Riuniti Ancona, Ancona, Italy

Ayesha S Bryant

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at

Birmingham, Birmingham, USA

Fiorella Calabrese

Univ Padua, Dept Diagnost Med Sci & Special Therapies, Sch Med, Padua, Italy

Laurens J. Ceulemans

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jin-Shing Chen

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shah-Hwa Chou

Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan ;

Department of Respiratory Therapy, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical

University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Aman S. Coonar

Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, UK

Thomas A. D’Amico

Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3496, Durham, NC, USA

Duilio Divisi

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of L'Aquila, «G. Mazzini» Hospital,

Teramo, Italy

Angela De Palma

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Anthony De Soyza

Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

Frank Detterbeck

Yale university, USA

Toshinari Ema

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Itabashi Central Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan

Tahir Sevval Eren

Medeniyet University, Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey

Christophoros N. Foroulis

Aristotle University Medical School, AHEPA University Hospital, Department of

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Thessaloniki, Greece

Domenico Galetta

Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Dominique Gossot

Thoracic Department, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France

Tomasz Grodzki

Pomeranian Medical University, Thoracic Surgery Department of the

Regional Hospital for Lung Diseases, Szczecin Zdunowo, Poland

Chundong Gu

The first affiliated hospital of Da Lian medical university, China

Takahiro Haga

Pneumothorax Research Center and Division of Thoracic Surgery, Nissan Tamagawa

Hospital, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Semih Halezeroğlu

Professor of Thoracic Surgery. Acıbadem Maslak Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Yoshinobu Hata

Department of Chest Surgery, Toho University Omori Medical Center，Japan

Chris Hensman

LapSurgery Australia, Melbourne, Australia

Kyoji Hirai

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Chiba

Hokusou Hospital, Inzai, Chiba, Japan

G. Chad Hughes

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Mohsen Ibrahim

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sant'Andrea

Hospital, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Francesco Inzirillo

Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy Department, Morelli Hospital

AOVV, Sondalo (Sondrio), Sondalo (SO), Italy

Meletios A. Kanakis

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Hasan V. Kara

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Duke University

Medical

Center, Durham, USA

Kenneth A. Kesler

Indiana Univ, Dept Surg, Cardiothorac Div, Barnhill Dr EM 212, Indianapolis, IN

46202 USA

Anthony W. Kim

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut,

USA

Teruya Komatsu

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Nagara Medical Center, Gifu, Gifu, Japan

Chia-Chuan Liu

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen

Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Su-Ying Low

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital,

Singapore, Singapore

Antonio E. Martin-Ucar

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottin

gham, UK

Giuseppe Marulli

Padova Univ Hosp, Dept Cardiothorac & Vasc Sci, Div Thorac Surg, Padua, Italy

Franca M.A. Melfi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery,

University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Shari L. Meyerson

Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Joseph I. Miller

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, USA

Takahiro Nakajima

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of

Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Chukwumere Nwogu

Department of Surgery, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Buffalo,

New York 14263, USA

Hideki Ota

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Akita Red Cross Hospital, Akita 010-1495, Japan

Berkant Ozpolat

Kirikkale University, Medical School, Kirikkale, Turkey

Panagiotis Paliogiannis

Department of Surgery, Microsurgery and Medical, Surgical Specialties, Institute of

Surgical Pathology, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Eugenio Pompeo

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Policlinico Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

Florencio Quero-Valenzuela

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain

Gaetano Rocco

Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples,

Italy

Enrico Ruffini

Department of Thoracic Surgery，Univesity of Turin, Italy

Milton Saute

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus,

Petah Tiqva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Pamela Schuler

Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville,

Florida，USA

Amir H. Sepehripour

Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial

College London, London, UK

Naofumi Shinagawa

First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of

Medicine, and

Department of Surgical Pathology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Alan D. L. Sihoe

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Li Ka Sing Faculty of

Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong

Lorenzo Spaggiari

Univ Milan, Via G Ripamonti 435, I-20141 Milan, Italy

Lonny Yarmus

Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Bedrettin Yildizeli

Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery and Heart-Lung

Transplantation, Hôpital Marie-Lannelongue, Paris-Sud University, Le Plessis

Robinson, France

Marcin Zieliński

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

Alper Toker

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul

University, Istanbul, Turkey

Bart M. Vanaudenaerde

Lung Transplant Unit, Laboratory of Pneumology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,

University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

Hee Chul Yang

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang

Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 166 Gumi-ro, Bundang-gu,

Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 463-707, Seoul, Korea

Cardiology

Goo-Yeong Cho

Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine,

Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea

Marco Matteo Ciccone

Cardiovascular Diseases Section, Department of Emergency and Organ

Transplantation (DETO), University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Adam D. DeVore

Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina;

Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA

Jianfeng Du

Department of Surgery, Roger Williams Medical Center, Boston

University, Providence, RI, USA

Giuseppe Gatti

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Trieste, Italy

Whady Hueb

Heart Institute (InCor) University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Grigorios Korosoglou

Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Robert Naeije

Department of Cardiology, Erasme University Hospital, 808, Lennik road, 1070,

Brussels, Belgium

Roberto Pedrinelli

Dipartimento Cardio Toracico e Vascolare, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Pierpaolo Pellicori

Department of Cardiology, Castle Hill Hospital, Hull York Medical

School (at

University of Hull), Kingston Upon Hull HU16 5JQ, UK

Muhammad Rizwan Sardar

Department of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Lankenau Medical Center,

Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, USA

Sagartirtha Sarkar

Genetics and Molecular Cardiology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University

of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Madhu Singh

Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa,

Iowa City, Iowa

Chun Pong Wong

Department of Cardiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

Cardiovascular surgery

Hsiao-Huang Chang

Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan

Konstantinos A. Filis

Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Hippokrateion Hospital, Athens Medical School,

University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Kojiro Furukawa

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of

Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan

Yasunori Iida

Department of Vascular Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Helmut Mair

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Grosshadern,

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Charles N. McCollum

Academic Surgery Unit, Education and Research Centre, University of Manchester,

Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University Hospital of South

Manchester, Manchester, UK

Minoru Ono

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University

of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Nestoras Papadopoulos

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Johann

Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Naritatsu Saito

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine,

Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

John G. Webb

Departments of Cardiology and Radiology, St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British

Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Esophageal disease

Hideo Baba

Kumamoto Univ, Grad Sch Med Sci, Dept Surg Gastroenterol, Kumamoto, Japan

Miguel A. Cuesta

Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Med Ctr, Dept Surg, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jonathan D'Cunha

Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic

Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Ewen A. Griffiths

Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, University Hospitals

Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Christian A. Gutschow

Univ Cologne, Dept Gen Visceral & Canc Surg, Cologne, Germany

Yoichi Hamai

Department of Surgical Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and

Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Hyun Koo Kim

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University Guro Hospital,

Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jules Lin

Section of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor, MI, USA

Yusuke Sato

Department of Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of

Medicine, Akita, 010-8543, Japan

Breast Disease

Fernando Hernanz

Univ Cantabria, Univ Hosp Marques de Valdecilla, Dept Surg, Santander, Spain

Katsumasa Kuroi

Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center

Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Other

Annie Angers

Départment de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec

Alessandra Bearz

Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, CRO-IRCCS, Aviano,

Italy

Richard A. Bowen

Department of Biomedical Sciences,Colorado State University, Fort Collins,USA

Fiorella Calabrese

Univ Padua, Dept Diagnost Med Sci & Special Therapies, Sch Med, Padua, Italy

Ming-Tsung Chuang

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cheng Kung University

Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Roberto Copetti

Department of Emergency, S. Antonio Abate Hospital, Tolmezzo, Italy

Paolo De Vito

Department of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy

Lizette Vila Duckworth

Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine University of Florid

a College of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, USA

Lúcia H. Faccioli

Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Faculdade de

Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo,

Brazil

Shivanand Gamanagatti

Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi,

India

Yolanda I Garces

Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA

Luna Gargani

Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124

Pisa, Italy

Tomas Gudbjartsson

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Landspitali - The National University Hospital

of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Ali Guner

Trabzon Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Gen Surg, Trabzon, Turkey

Chul-Seung Kay

Department of Radiation Oncology, Incheon St, Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine,

The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Korea

Chien Ho

Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Adrian Hobbs

William Harvey Research Institute, Barts & The London School of

Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Shiu-Feng Huang

Natl Hlth Res Inst, Inst Mol & Genom Med, Miaoli, Taiwan

Yuta Ibuki

Department of Surgical Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation

Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Ashish Khandelwal

Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School,

Boston, MA, USA

Mark A Klein

Minneapolis VA Health Care System , 1 Veterans' Drive, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

United States, and Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation,

Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, USA

Martin C. J. Kneyber

Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto,

Ontario, Canada

Naoshi Kubo

Department of Surgical Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine,

Osaka City

University, Osaka, Japan

Cord Langner

Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

In Jae Lee

Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Gangwon, Korea

Ying Liang

Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (SYSUCC),

Guang Zhou, P.R. China

Chia-Chin Lin

School of Nursing, College of Nursing, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Hsien Lu

Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Fabien Maldonado

Mayo Clinic , 200 First Street SW , Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Giorgio Malpeli

Department of Pathology and Diagnostics, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

David S. McKinsey

Infectious Disease Associates of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Emiliano Medei

Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil

Russell Moule

University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Elisabeth Nagy

Institute of Clinical Microbiology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Toshinori Nakayama

Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1

Inohana Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; CREST, Japan Science and Technology

Agency, 1-8-1 Inohana Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan

Fabiola Olivieri

Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences (DISCLIMO), Università Politecnica

delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Gokhan Ozyigit

Hacettepe Univ, Fac Med, Dept Radiat Oncol, Ankara, Turkey

Poungrat Pakdeechote

Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen,

Thailand

Christopher D. Pfeiffer

Department of Hospital and Specialty Medicine, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical

Center, Portland, USA

Reginald Quansah

Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Birmingham,

Birmingham, UK

Laurent Ramont

Laboratoire Central de Biochimie, CHU de Reims, France

Eugene W. Rice

US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Giulio Rossi

Section of Pathologic Anatomy, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena,

Italy

Sam Schulman

Department of Medicine, McMaster University and Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis

Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Christina I Selinger

Department of Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred

Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Sashko Spassov

Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Yuichi Takiguchi

Chiba Univ, Dept Chemotherapy, Grad Sch Med, Chuo Ku, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chiba

2608670, Japan

Loukas Thanos

Department of Medical Imaging and Interventional Radiology, General Hospital of

Chest Diseases "Sotiria", Athens, Greece

Luis I. Terrazas

Unidad de Biomedicina, Facultad de Estudios Superiores-Iztacala,

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Estado de México, México

Konstantinos Tsalis

D’ Surgical Department “G Papanikolaou” Hospital, Aristotle

University of

Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Giovanni Volpicelli

Department of Emergency Medicine, San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital,

Orbassano, Turin, Italy

Aaron H Wolfson

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine,

Miami, FL, USA

Tomohiko Yamane

Division of Molecular Imaging, Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation,

Kobe, Japan

Hiromichi Yamane

Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, 2-1-80

Nakasange, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8505, Japan

Ilhan Yaylim

Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Experimental Medicine,

Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Marya D. Zilberberg

Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA