Pier Paolo Piccaluga, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, (E-mail: pierpaolo.piccaluga@unibo.it) Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna 40138, Italy

Edgar Grinstein, PhD, Professor, Senior Scientist, Center for Child and Adolescent Health, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf D-40225, Germany

Mariastefania Antica, PhD, Professor, Senior Scientist, Department of Molecular Biology, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb 10000, Grad Zagreb, Croatia

Raimondo De Cristofaro, MD, Professor, Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Scienze Mediche Specialistiche, Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Roma 00168, Italy

Michael D Diamantidis, N/A, CCST, MD, MSc, PhD, MHSc, Doctor, Occupational Physician, Post Doctor, Research Scientist, Thalassemia Unit, General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa 41221, Greece

Jean-Pierre Droz, MD, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Research Unit Cancer and Environment, Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Léon-Bérard, Lyon 69008, France

Seiji Fukuda, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Shimane University School of Medicine, Shimane 693-8501, Japan

Su-Jun Gao, PhD, Professor, Department of Hematology, The First Hospital, Bethune Medical College, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, Jilin Province, China

Ramazan Gunesacar, PhD, Academic Research, Director, Full Professor, Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Department of Medical Biology, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Kahramanmaras 46050, Turkey

Shinsaku Imashuku, MD, PhD, Doctor, Consultant for Hematology and Pediatrics, Uji-Tokushukai Medical Center, Kyoto 611-0041, Japan

Makram Koubaa, MD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Hedi Chaker University Hospital, Sfax 3029, Tunisia

Anastasios G Kriebardis, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Laboratories, Technological Institute Education of Athens, Athens 12210, Greece

Zhi-Xiong Li, MD, Professor, Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany

Kostas Pantopoulos, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada

Pedro C Redondo, PhD, Academic Fellow, Professor, Department of Physiology, Institute of Molecular Pathology Biomarkers, University of Extremadura, Caceres 10003, Spain

Mirta A Schattner, PhD, Director, Professor, Laboratory of Experimental Thrombosis, Institute of Experimental Medicine, CONICET, National Academy of Medicine, Buenos Aires 1425, Argentina

Ertan Yetkin, MD, Professor, Department of Cardiology Mersin, Private Yenisehir Hospital, Mersin 33100, Turkey

Chen Tian, MD, Associate Professor, Doctor, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin's Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin 300070, China