We welcome Dr. Maricar Malinis from Yale School of Medicine, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Malinis is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery (Transplant), Medical Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. She has extensive experience in aging, CMV, fungal infections, immunocompromised host and transplant infectious diseases. We are grateful to Dr. Malinis for her participation and support.

We welcome Professor Paolo Muiesan from Queen Elizabeth & Birmingham Children's Hospitals, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Professor Muiesan is the Professor of HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation, Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth & Birmingham Children's Hospitals, Mindelsonway, Birmingham B15 2TH, United Kingdom. He has extensive experience in adult and paediatric liver transplantation, hepatobiliary surgery, liver tumors, general surgery, vascular surgery, laparoscopic liver surgery, liver resections for cholangiocarcinoma, parenchymal sparing central resections, ALPPS and ex-vivo resections. We are grateful to Prof. Muiesan for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Mohammed Moghadasian from University of Manitoba, Canada, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Professor Moghadasian is the Professor of Nutrition, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He has extensive experience in diet, lipoprotein metabolism, coronary artery disease, diet-drug interaction, and diets and transplantation. We are grateful to Prof. Moghadasian for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Esma S. Yolcu to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Yolcu is an Associate Professor at Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, USA. Her main research interests are immunotherapy, ProtEx™ technology, gene therapy, immunomodulation, tolerance, host-versus-graft (HVG) and graft-versus-host (GVH). We are grateful to Dr. Yolcu for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Haval Shirwan from University of Louisville, USA, to lead the journal OBM Transplantation as the Editor-in-Chief. Professor Shirwan is an internationally renowned immunologist recognized for his pioneering approach to generate novel immunological ligands and their transient and positional display on biologic and nonbiologic surfaces for localized immunomodulation with applications to transplantation, autoimmunity, and cancer immunoprevention and immunotherapy. We appreciate Professor Haval Shirwan for his participation and support. 

We welcome Professor Mureo Kasahara from National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Prof. Kasahara is the Director, Organ Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan. He has extensive clinical experience in the kidney transplantation, liver transplantation, liver surgery, pediatric organ transplantation, liver diseases and immunology, transplant immunology, transplant medicine and transplant surgery. We are grateful to Prof. Kasahara for his participation and support. 

We welcome Associate Professor Chirag S. Desai to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Desai is an Associate Professor at Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. His main research interests are liver transplantation, intestinal and multivisceral transplantation, liver and pancreatobiliary disorders, chronic pancreatitis and autologous islet cell transplantation. We are grateful to Dr. Desai for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Sherif Beniameen Mossad to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Mossad is a staff physician in the Department of Infectious Disease, Respiratory Institute, and Transplantation Center, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA. His main research interests are transplant infectious disease, influenza and common cold. We are grateful to Dr. Mossad for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor René Adam to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Adam is a Professor and Head Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Cancer and Transplantation, Centre Hepato-Biliaire, Hopital Paul-Brousse, 94804 Villejuif, France. His main research interests are surgery of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas, hepatic transplantation, liver diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatobiliary surgery, and liver transplantation. We are grateful to Dr. Adam for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Yasuhiko Sugawara to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Sugawara is a Professor at Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan. His main research interests are hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation. We are grateful to Dr. Sugawara for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Taizo Hibi to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Hibi is a Professor and Chairman at the Department of Transplantation and Pediatric Surgery, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan. His main research interests are surgical oncology, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, living donor liver transplantation, intestinal/multivisceral transplantation, and transplant/tumor immunology. We are grateful to Dr. Hibi for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Kåre I. Birkeland to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Birkeland is a Professor at the Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. His main research interests are diabetes, clinical and mechanistic studies; insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome; laboratory endocrinology; and islet and pancreas transplantation. We are grateful to Dr. Birkeland for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Waldo Concepcion from Stanford University, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Professor Concepcion is the Chief of Clinical Transplantation, Stanford University Medical Center and the Chief of Pediatric Kidney Transplantation, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. He has extensive clinical and research experience in liver and kidney transplantation and has published over 104 peer reviewed articles. We are grateful to Professor Concepcion for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Pål Dag Line, from Oslo University, Norway, to lead the journal OBM Transplantation as the founding Editor-in-Chief. Professor Line is also the Head of Department of Organ Transplantation at Oslo University Hospital. He is an internationally recognized expert specializing in transplant surgery, vascular surgery, and HPB surgery, etc. He has published over 118 peer reviewed articles in international professional journals. We are very grateful to Professor Line for his participation and great support.

We welcome Professor Milagros D. Samaniego-Picota from University of Michigan, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Professor Samaniego-Picota's clinical and research interests focus on experimental and clinical antibody-mediated rejection, desensitization protocols, and the care of highly sensitized patients. We are grateful to Professor Samaniego-Picota for her participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Haley Hoy from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Hoy has extensive clinical and research experience in Pulmonary, Nursing and Transplantation, Quality of life, Web-based Mobile Technology, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Hoy for her participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Kamyar Afshar from UCSD Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Afshar is a board-certified pulmonologist who specializes in complex lung diseases and lung transplantation. He is also a member of numerous professional organizations, including the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant, the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Afshar for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Muhammad Mujtaba from the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Mujtaba has extensive clinical and research experience in kidney and pancreas transplantation including high risk transplant, immunomodulation/desensitization protocols, early steroid withdrawal, antibody mediated rejection, post-transplant antibody monitoring, and BK virus management post-transplant, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Mujtaba for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Wasim A. Dar from the University of Texas at Houston, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Dar specializes in abdominal solid organ transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy for living donor kidney transplantation, and hepatobiliary surgery for benign and malignant disease. His research interests include basic-science and clinical research in the study of organ transplant immunology and clinical outcomes related to organ transplant. We are grateful to Dr. Dar for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Jeffrey B. Halldorson from the University of California at San Diego, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Halldorson is an Associate Professor of Surgery specializing in all aspects of Liver, Kidney and Pancreas transplantation as well as Liver and Hepatobiliary surgery and general surgery as applied to the transplant patient. Dr. Halldorson has authored numerous manuscripts in peer reviewed journals regarding his research in improving outcomes of donor organs and recipients by optimizing the matching process. We are grateful to Dr. Halldorson for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Malek G. Massad from University of Illinois, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Professor Massad is the Chief of the University of Illinois Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery team. His team provides an innovative approach to cardiac and thoracic diseases. We are grateful to Professor Massad for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Simon C. Robson to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Professor Robson is a physician scientist in the Liver Center and Transplant Institute at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University in Boston, where he served as Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, as well as Director of Liver Research. We are grateful to Professor Robson for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Raman Venkataramanan from University of Pittsburgh, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Professor Venkataramanan is the Director of the Clinical Pharmacokinetics Laboratory at University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the functional capacity of transplanted organs and optimization of immunosuppressive drug therapy in organ transplant patients. Professor Venkataramanan has presented more than 175 lectures/seminars at national/international meetings and published over 350 research articles. We are grateful to Professor Venkataramanan for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Gian Luigi Adani from the University Hospital of Udine, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Adani is an expert specializes in liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver surgery, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Adani for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Ignatius Tang, an Associate Professor from the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Tang is the Medical Director of Kidney, Pancreas, and Islet Transplant Programs as well as the Director of Living Donor Kidney Transplant Programs, specializing in transplant medicine, kidney donor evaluation, and critical care nephrology, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Tang for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Giovanni Ambrosino, the Chief of General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Gruppo Malzoni NEUROMED IRCCS, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Ambrosino was liver transplant staff at Thomas Starzl Transplantation Service, UPMC Pittsburgh, PA, USA and General Surgery and Liver Transplant Staff at the Univerity of Padova – Hospital, Padova, Italy. He was Chief of Surgery and Liver - Pancreatic Surgery at San Bortolo Hospital and Liver Stereotactic Radio Surgery, Vicenza, Italy. Dr. Ambrosino is an internationally renowned surgeon, who is the first in the world to use transplanted liver cells in a child with a serious genetic disease, and the first in Italy to use a bio-artificial liver in a young woman in a coma. We are very grateful to Dr. Ambrosino for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Jared A. White from the UAB Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. White is an Assistant Professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), specializing in liver transplantation. We are grateful to Dr. White for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Nandini Nair from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Nair has 8 years experience as Medical Director of Heart Failure / Mechanical Circulatory Support / Cardiac transplantation, including starting and establishing a new mechanical circulatory support / cardiac transplantation program leading to Joint Commission and CMS certifications. We are grateful to Dr. Nair for her participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Hwai-Ding Lam from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), the Netherlands, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Lam is a Transplant Surgeon, specializing in the research field of liver, pancreas, kidney abdominal organ procurement, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Lam for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Wayel Jassem from the King's College Hospital, UK, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Jassem is a Consultant Transplant Surgeon, specializing in living donor liver transplantation, liver and hepatobiliary surgery. We are grateful to Dr. Jassem for his participation and support.