We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Dimitrios P. Bogdanos from University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He is the Director of the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Thessaly Medical School. His group is focused on research in three areas: microbial/viral infection as a trigger of autoimmunity, focusing on the role of molecular mimicry; investigation of the diagnostic and clinical significance of autoantibodies; immunopathogenesis of autoimmune diseases and the role played by Th17/T/Bregulatory cells. More recently has extended his research to include the role played by diet constituents as immunosuppressants. We appreciate Prof. Bogdanos for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Jesus Simal-Gandara from University of Vigo, Spain, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He was 1st Spanish Award of Completion of Pharmacy and PhD Prize at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He also was Associate Professor in 1991 at the University of Vigo, where he is Full Professor since 1999. He now leads a research group of excellence at NW Spain, in addition to CIA3 (Environmental, Agricultural and Food Research Center) formed by 10 research groups from different fields (botany, plant physiology, soil science and agricultural chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology, nutrition and food science, biotechnology, food technology, food rheology, chemical engineering, and colloidal chemistry), and also is the Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Science at the University of Vigo. He performed research stays at the Université de Paris-Sud (Paris, France), University of Delaware (Newark, USA), Fraunhofer-Institut für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung (Munich, Germany), Central Science Laboratory (Norwich and York, UK), TNO-Voeding (Zeist, Netherlands), Packaging Industries Research Association (Leatherhead, UK) and The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (Gothenburg, Sweden). He is editor of 4 national books. He published book chapters in 10 national and 14 international books. He directed 15 doctoral theses and participated in lots of competitive research projects, of which he was principal investigator at 20. We appreciate Prof. Simal-Gandara for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Paul J. Arciero from Department of Health and Human Physiological Sciences, Skidmore College, USA, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. Prof. Arciero specializes in Protein pacing, nutrition and fitness interventions, exercise training, neurocognitive training, obesity and disease prevention, focusing on optimal health paradigms of healthy nutrition and exercise interventions. At present, his primary focus is evaluating the effectiveness of his protein pacing and prise protocol, nutrition and fitness lifestyle interventions on body composition, energy metabolism, markers of cardiovascular risk and cognitive function adults of all ages. We are grateful to Prof. Arciero for his participation and support.