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

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, 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

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

Fabrizio De Ponti, MD, PhD, Professor, Pharmacology Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Bologna I-40126, Italy

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

Xing-Shun Qi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Postdoc, Liver Cirrhosis Study Group, Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area, Shenyang 110016, 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

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

Matthias Christian Reichert, MD, Academic Fellow, 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

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, Adjunct Professor, Assistant Professor, Research Associate, Gastroenterology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico 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 C 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

Shailendra Singh, MD, Assistant Professor, Attending Doctor, Staff Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, West Virginia University Charleston, Charleston, WV 25304, United States

Goktug Sirin, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Kocaeli University Medical School, Kocaeli 41100, Turkey

I. Skrypnyk, MD, PhD, Professor, Internal Medicine #1, Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy, Poltava 36011, Ukraine

Jonathan Soldera, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Staff Physician, Clinical Gastroenterology, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Sul 95070-560, RS, Brazil

Aurelio Sonzogni, MD, Associate Specialist, Ospedale Papa Giovanni Bergamo, Pathol Unit, bergamo 24123, Italy

Vanessa Souza-Mello, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20551-030, Brazil

Salvatore Sutti, MSc, PhD, Academic Fellow, Doctor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Departement of Health Sciences, University of East Piedmont "A.Avogadro", Novara 28100, Italy

T TA, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thrissur 680 555, Kerala, India

Ashraf A Tabll, PhD, Professor, Research Scientist, Department of Microbial Biotechnology, National Research Centre, Dokki 12622, Egypt

mohammed Joutei Hassani Tahiri, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Postdoc, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ibn Rochd University Hospital Centre Casablanca, Casablanca 20170, Morocco

Kazuto Tajiri, MD, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Gastroenterology, Toyama University Hospital, Toyama 930-0194, Japan