Rui Tato Marinho, FACG, FEBG, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Chief Doctor, Staff Physician, Liver Unit, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hospital Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Medical School of Lisbon, Lisboa 1649-035, Portugal

Pierluigi Marzuillo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Postdoc, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Woman, Child and of General and Specialized Surgery, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples 80138, Italy

Mehmet refik Mas, MD, MSc, Professor, İnternal medicine, Dokuz Eylül Unıversity, İZMİR 35340, Turkey

Mario Masarone, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Internal Medicine and Hepatology Division, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno 84081, Italy

Omar I Massoud, FAASLD, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35222, United States

Claudia Matteucci, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome 00133, RM, Italy

Mohamed Abdel-Sabour Mekky, MD, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenetrology, Assiut university Hospital, Assiut 71111, Assiut, Egypt

Uyanik Metin, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Corlu State Hospital, Tekirdag 59850, Turkey

Ivana Mikolasevic, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka 51000, Croatia

Ivana Mikolasevic, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Rijeka, Rijeka 51000, Croatia

Tamara Milovanovic, PhD, Full Professor, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade; Clinic for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade 11000, Serbia

Maryam Moini, MD, Associate Professor, Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 71935-1311, Iran

José A Morales-González, MD, PhD, Academic Research, Doctor, Professor, Laboratorio Medicina de Conservación, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México DF 11340, Mexico

Paolo Muratori, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Bologna, Bolgna 40138, Italy

Tadashi Namisaki, MD, PhD, Doctor, Lecturer, Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, Kashihara 6348522, Japan

Janus Ong, FACG, FACP, MD, Associate Professor, Attending Doctor, Department of Internal Medicine, University Of The Philippines - Philippine General Hospital, Manila 1000, Metro Manila, Philippines

Fatih Ozdemir, MD, Associate Professor, Lecturer, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Institute of Inonu University, Malatya 44280, Turkey

Seren Ozenirler, MD, Professor, Gazi University Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Besevler, Ankara 06510, Turkey

amit pal, PhD, Academic Research, Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342005, RAJASTHAN, India

Kumar Pallav, MBBS, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, United States

Kumar Pallav, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Digestive Disease, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, United States

Wen-Sheng Pan, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang university School of Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, Zhejing Province, China

Qing Pang, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233000, Anhui Province, China

Mohammad K Parvez, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 22451, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Matthias Pinter, MD, Doctor, Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology , Medical University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria

Yong Poovorawan, MD, Professor, Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Sule Poturoglu, MD, Associate Professor, Chief Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology, Haseki Training and Res Hospital, Istanbul 34538, Basaksehir, Turkey

C.M Preda, MD, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Clinic Fundeni Institute, Bucharest 22328, Romania

Xingshun Qi, MD, PhD, Associate Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Doctor, Postdoc, Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang 110840, Liaoning Province, China

Jorge Quarleri, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Investigaciones Biomédicas en Retrovirus y Sida, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1121ABG, Argentina

Chiara Raggi, PhD, Research Scientist, Liver Unit and Center for Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano (MI) 20089, Italy

K Rajeshwari, MD, MRCP, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi 110002, New Delhi, India

Falk Rauchfuss, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Surgeon, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Jena, Jena 07740, Germany

Vishnubhotla Venkata Ravi Kanth, MSc, PhD, Research Scientist, Genetics, Asian Healthcare Foundation, Hyderabad 500082, Telangana, India

MC Christian Reichert, MD, Attending Doctor, Doctor, Research Associate, Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg 66421, Germany

Mohammad Saeid Rezaee-Zavareh, MD, Academic Research, Doctor, Research Associate, Middle East Liver Diseases Center, Tehran 98, Iran

Antonio Riva, MSc, PhD, Lecturer, Senior Scientist, Liver Immunology, Institute of Hepatology - Foundation for Liver Research, London SE5 9NT, United Kingdom

M. Rodríguez-Perálvarez, MD, PhD, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Córdoba 14014, Spain

Farzin Roohvand, PhD, Associate Professor, Virology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran 13164, Iran

Astrid Ruiz-Margáin, BSc, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City 14080, Mexico

Abdel-Majeed Safer, BSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Nanoscopy Science Center, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait 13060, Kuwait

Mohamed Labib Salem, MSc, PhD, Professor, Center of Excellence in Cancer Research, Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta , Egypt

Narina Sargsyants, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chief Doctor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Elit-Med Medical Centre, Yerevan 0033, Armenia

Ali SAZCI, BSc, DSc, FRS, MSc, PhD, Full Professor, Professor, Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kocaeli, Kocaeli 41380, Kocaeli, Turkey

Eva Schmelzer, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15203, United States

Julian Schulze zur Wiesch, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg , Germany

Ebubekir Senates, MD, Associate Professor, Chief Doctor, Lecturer, Department of Gastroenterology, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Göztepe Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul , Turkey

Heidar Sharafi, BSc, MA, MPhil, MSc, PhD, Research Associate, Research Scientist, Department of Molecular Hepatology, Middle East Liver Diseases (MELD) Center, Tehran 14155/3651, Iran

Emmanouil Sinakos, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokratio Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece