Editor-in-Chief:

Kurt S. Zaenker
Institute of Immunology and Experimental Oncology
University Witten/Herdecke
Stockumerstraße 10
58448 Witten, Germany

Deputy Editor-in-Chief:

A. Y. Gasparyan
Member of The World Association of Medical Editors and The European Association of Science Editors
Russell's Hall Hospital
Dudley
UK

Regional Editors:

S. Ferrone (University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
S. Holgate (Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK)
K. Izuhara (Saga Medical School, Nabeshima, Saga, Japan)
C.R. MacKay (Garvan Inst. of Med. Res., Darlinghurst, Australia)
W.M. Selig (Magen BioSciences, Waltham, USA)

Editorial Advisory Board:

M. Abdollahi (Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)
G.C. Actis (Ospedale Gradenigo, Torino, Italy)
K. Asadullah (Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany)
A. August (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA)
M.F. Bachmann (Cytos Biotechnology AG, Zurich, Switzerland)
S.J. Baek (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)
H. Becker (Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany)
G. Berton (University of Verona, Verona, Italy)
M. Bhatia (University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand)
C. Buchler (Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)
G. Camussi (University of Torino, Torino, Italy)
G. Caramori (Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy)
C.-C. Chan (WuXi AppTec, Shanghai, China)
K.C. Chang (Institute of Health Sciences Jinju, Jinju, South Korea)
Y. Chen (The University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
J.F. Chmiel (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA)
A.J. Chu (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA)
F. Cipollone (G. d'Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy)
Y. Cong (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA)
B.J. Day (University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, USA)
P. Draber (Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic)
C.E. Egwuagu (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA)
P.C. Evans (Imperial College London, London, UK)
R. Fernandez-Botran (University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA)
N.G. Frangogiannis (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
A. Gilchrist (Serpentine Consulting, Chicago, IL, USA)
D. Hartl (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA)
P. Hjelmström (Biovitrum AB, Stockholm, Sweden)
G.S. Howarth (The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia)
S. Hsu (Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA)
J. Hu (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada)
J.A. Johnston (Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK)
W.J. de Jonge (Academic Medical Center Meibergdreef, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
C. Joukhadar (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
W.G. Junger (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
K. Kabashima (Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan)
S. Kim (Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)
R. Kobayashi (Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan)
R.K. Kumar (The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
M.G. Lebwohl (Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA)
T.-J. Lin (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)
A.F. Lopez (Hanson Institute, Adelaide, Australia)
R. Lucas (Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA)
M. Luconi (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
R.I. Mahato (University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA)
M. Mizuno (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan)
P. Montuschi (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy)
H. Muhl (University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
T.D. Muller (University Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany)
J.F. Navarro-Gonzalez (University Hospital Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain)
K. Nordlind (Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden)
G. Novelli (Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy)
M. Ollero (Universite Rene Descartes, Paris, France)
K. Onoe (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
J.E. Pease (Imperial College London, London, UK)
D. Pérez-Sala (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, C.S.I.C., Madrid, Spain)
A. Petersen (Center of Medicine and Life Sciences, Borstel, Germany)
C. Pilette (Unite de Medecine Experimentale, Brussels, Belgium)
L. Racioppi (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
I. Rahman (University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA)
K.V. Ramana (University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA)
M.R. Raspollini (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
A.M. Reimold (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA)
N. Rezaei (The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
M.E. Rothenberg (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
S.K. Sahni (University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA)
J. Sahuquillo (Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain)
P. Santamaria (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)
J. Sastre (University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain)
B.L. Slomiany (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA)
S.T. Sonis (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA)
Y. St-Pierre (INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Quebec, Canada)
H.H. Sudhoff (Academic Teaching Hospital of Münster University, Bielefeld, Germany)
L. Touqui (Unité de Défense Innée et Inflammation, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
E.A. Toussirot (University Hospital Jean Minjoz, Besancon, France)
J.B. Travers (Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA)
J.P. Tuckermann (Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Jena, Germany)
L. Ulloa (University of Medicine of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA)
M. Vazquez-Carrera (Unidad de Farmacologia, Barcelona, Spain)
R. Vlahos (The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia)
K. Wada (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
H. Wang (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA)
K.J. Woollard (Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia)
M.A. Yenari (University of California, San Francisco, MA, USA)