Editors-in-Chief

Volker Ellenrieder – Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Takuji Gotoda – Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Managing Editors

Silke Cameron – Klinik für Gastroenterologie und Endokrinologie, Göttingen, Germany
Ute König – Klinik für Gastroenterologie II, Göttingen, Germany

Associate Editors

Seiichiro Abe – National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Tiing Leong Ang – Changi General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Pradeep Bhandari – Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, UK
Ali Canbay – Universitätsklinikum Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum GmbH, Bochum, Germany
Mitsuru Esaki – Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Motohiro Esaki – Saga University, Saga, Japan
Yasuhiro Fujiwara – Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
Shinya Fukunishi – Osaka Medical University, Osaka, Japan
Yoshihiro Furuichi – Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Kenich Goda – Dokkyo Medical University Hospital/em>, Mibu, Japan
Waku Hatta – Tohoku University, Aobaku, Japan
Yoichi Hiasa – Ehime University, Ehime, Japan
Lawrence Ho – National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Atsushi Irisawa – Dokkyo Medical University, Mibu, Japan
Fumiaki Ishibashi – International University of Health and Welfare Ichikawa Hospital, Ichikawa, Japan
Ryu Ishihara – Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan
Ralf Jakobs – Klinikum Ludwigshafen GmbH, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Motohiko Kato – Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Shiko Kuribayashi – Gunma University, Gunma, Japan
Chika Kusano – Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan
Hyuk-Joon Lee – Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Yeong-Yeh Lee – University Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Malaysia
Takahisa Matsuda – Toho University, Tokyo, Japan
Katsuyoshi Matsuoka – Toho University, Sakura, Japan
Yasuaki Nagami – Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
Yuji Naito – Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Shiro Oka – Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Toshikatsu Okumura – Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
Tadayuki Oshima – Hyogo Medical University, Nishinomiya, Japan
Duc Quach – University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Hochiminh City, Hochiminh City, Vietnam
Bashar Qumseya – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Krish Ragunath – Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Gerhard Rogler – Universitätsspital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Yutaka Saito – National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshiki Sakaguchi – University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Tomohisa Takagi – Kyoto Prefectural University of Medecine, Kyoto, Japan
Yutaka Tomizawa – University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Arndt Vogel – Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Takashi Yao – Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
Naohisa Yoshida – Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Editorial Board

Ahmad Amanzada – University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Wolfgang Fischbach – Klinik Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Jochen Gaedcke – Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Gerald Holtmann – University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia
Fumio Itoh – St Marianna University, Kawasaki, Japan
Alexander Otto König – Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Frank Thomas Kolligs – Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany
Florian Lordick – Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Manfred P. Lutz – CaritasKlinikum Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
Nisar Malek – Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Hisahiro Matsubara – Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Daniela Müller – Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Masahiko Nakamura – Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
Albrecht Neesse – Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Marianne Pavel – Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Aurel Perren – University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Ruben R. Plentz – Medizinische Universitätsklinik, Tübingen, Germany
Jonas Rosendahl – University Clinic Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Thomas Seufferlein – Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Tamotsu Sugai – Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan
Andreas Weber – Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany