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.