Editor
Guangde Tu, BMC, Shanghai
Assistant Editor
Rachelle Todd, BMC, UK
Editor
Guangde Tu, BMC, Shanghai
Assistant Editor
Rachelle Todd, BMC, UK
Senior Editorial Board Members
Steven Gray, St James's Hospital, Ireland
Craig P. Hersh, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Fabrizio Luppi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Michele Mondoni, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Italy
Ernest Nadal, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Spain
Giovanni Sotgiu, University of Sassari, Italy
Giulia Stella, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo, Italy
Editorial Board Members
Ramsy Abdelghani, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA
Simone Accordini, University of Verona, Italy
Stefano Aliberti, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Andre Amaral, Imperial College London, UK
Mahesh Padukudru Anand, JSS Medical College, India
Sabina Antoniu, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Grigore T Popa Iasi, Romania
Micheál Mac Aogáin, St. James's Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Anna Maria Azzini, University of Verona, Italy
Stefano Baglioni, S.M. della Misericordia Hospital, Italy
Bruno Guedes Baldi, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sandra Baldacci, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Italy
Elisabetta Balestro, Università di Padova, Italy
Paolo Banfi, Don Gnocchi Foundation, Italy
Nektarios Barabutis, University of Louisiana Monroe, USA
Denise Battaglini, Policlinico San Martino Hospital IRCCS for Oncology and Neuroscience, Genoa, Italy, Italy
David Bennett, University Hospital of Siena, Italy
Guoshu Bi, Fudan University, China
Andras Bikov, University of Manchester, UK
Davide Biondini, University of Padova, Italy
Abhishek Biswas, Parkview regional medical center, USA
Tamara Blake, Child Health Research Centre, Australia
Marialuisa Bocchino, University of Naples, Italy
Jessica Bon, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Francesco Bonella, Ruhrlandklinik University Hospital, University of Essen, Germany
Felix Bongomin, Gulu University, Uganda
Malcolm Brodlie, Newcastle University, UK
Stephan Budweiser, Donaustauf Hospital, Germany
Luigino Calzetta, University of Parma, Italy
Pat Camp, University of British Columbia, Canada
Yunshan Cao, Gansu Provincial Hospital, China, China
Gaetano Caramori, University of Messina, Italy
Giovanna Carpagnano, University of Foggia, Italy
Roberto Casal, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Lidia Casas, KULeuven, Belgium
Adrian Ceccato, Idibaps, Spain
Alessandro Celi, University of Pisa, Italy
Udit Chaddha, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Louisa Lok Yung Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhencong Chen, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, China
Yeong Shiong Chiew, Monash University, Malaysia
Fu-Tsai Chung, Chang Gung Memoria Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Colin Church, University of Glasgow, UK
Adam Collison, University of Newcastle, Australia
Alejandro Comellas, University of Iowa, USA
Angelo Coppola, Ospedale Regina Apostolorum, Italy
Hai-Long Dai, Yan'an Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, China, China
Jingbo Dai, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, USA
Zhiyu Dai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Vinicio de Jesus Perez, Stanford University, USA
Qihong Deng, Central South University, China
Navneet Dhillon, University of Kansas Medical Center, USA
Fabiano di Marco, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Antonio Esquinas, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Spain
Alexandre Fabro, Ribeirão Preto Medical School - University of São Paulo, Italy
Ashraf Fawzy, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Paola Faverio, University of Milano Bicocca – San Gerardo Hospital – ASST Monza, Italy
Isis E Fernandez, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany
Giovanni Ferrara, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Andreas Flouris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Paolo Formenti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Panfeng Fu, Medical School of Ningbo University, China
Ignasi Garcia-Olive, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Spain
Ruowen Ge, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Donna Goodridge, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Tamera Corte, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and University of Sydney, Australia
Clara Green, University of Birmingham, UK
Rune Grønseth, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway
Mingzhou Guo, Chinese PLA General Hospital, China
Denis Hadjiliadis, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Tidi Hassan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Malaysia
Courtney Heffernan, University of Alberta, Canada
Yiwei Huang, Fudan University, China
Marco Idzko, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany
Imran Iftikhar, Emory University, USA
Takuma Isshiki, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Toho University, Japan
Francisco-Javier Gonzalez-Barcala, Hospital Clinico Universitario of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Xin Jiang, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy Medical Sciences, China, China
Zhiqiang Jiang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Hiroyuki Kaneda, Kansai Medical University, Japan
Woo Jin Kim, Kangwon National University, South Korea
Djuro Kosanovic, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Moscow, Russia
Stefanie Krick, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Sachin Kumar, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Stefania La Grutta, National Research Council, Italy
Wassim Labaki, University of Michigan, USA
Franco Laghi, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, USA
Grace Lam, University of Alberta, Canada
Fatima Laraba-Djebari, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria
Ming Li, Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, China
Yongwen Li, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, China
Michael Loebinger, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
Macy Mei-Sze Lui, Queen Mary Hospital, the University of Hong Kong, China, China
Karan Madan, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Mario Malerba, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Patrick Mallia, Imperial College London, UK
Andreina Manfredi, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico di Modena, Italy
Alessandro Marcon, University of Verona, Italy
Maria Gabriella Matera, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Juan Mayordomo-Colunga, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, USA
Michael McGeachie, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Ravindra Mehta, Apollo Hospitals, India
Andrea Melani, Pneumologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Italy
Federica Meloni, University of Pavia, Italy
Terumi Midoro-Horiuti, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Mehdi Mirsaeidi, University of Miami, USA
Akihiko Miyanaga, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical Shool, Japan
Yousser Mohammad, Tishreen University, SY
Phil Molyneaux, Imperial College London, UK
Nicola Murgia, University of Perugia, Italy
Viswam Nair, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Atsushi Nambu, Teikyo University School of medicine University Hospital, Japan
Jacek Nasilowski, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
Amarjit Singh Naura, Panjab University, India
Masaji Nishimura, Tokushima Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan
Tsukasa Okamoto, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Mario Olivieri, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrate, Italy
Josuel Ora, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Italy
David O'Dwyer, University of Michigan, USA
Mahesh Padukudru Anand, JSS Medical College, India
Tanmay Panchabhai, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, USA
Jin Kyun Park, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Republic of Korea
Shane Patman, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia, Australia
Pietro Pirina, University of Sassari, Italy
Lara Pisani, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Italy
Nirupama Putcha, Johns Hopkins, USA
Jiuxin Qu, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, China
S. Vamsee Raju, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Claudia Ravaglia, GB Morgagni Hospital, Italy
Luis Felipe Reyes, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia
Chin Kook Rhee, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea, Republic of
Paola Rogliani, University of Rome, Italy
Luca Roz, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Italy
Laura Saderi, University of Sassari, Italy
Gianluca Sambataro, University of Catania, Italy
Alessandro Sanduzzi Zamparelli, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
Pierachille Santus, University of Milan, Italy
José Sanz-Santos, Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa, Spain
Aaron Scott, University of Birmingham, UK
Takeshi Shimamamura, University of Chicago, USA
Jodie Simpson, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Aran Singanayagam, Imperial College London, UK
Deborah Snijders, University of Padova, Italy
Rogerio Souza, Instituto do Coracao do Hospital das Clinicas, Brazil
Savino Spadaro, University of Ferrara, Italy
Haruhiko Sugimura, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan
Qihai Sui, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, China
Giorgia Sulis, McGill University, Canada
Christina Tischer, Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany
Sara Tomassetti, Careggi University Hospital, Italy
Sebastiano Emanuele Torrisi, University of Catania, Italy
Alice Turner, University of Birmingham, UK
Argyrios Tzouvelekis, University of Patras, Greece
Michele Umbrello, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Italy, Italy
Marieke van der Zalm, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Andrea Vianello, University of Padua, Italy
Carlo Alberto Volta, University Hospital S.Anna, Italy
Maoshui Wang, Shandong Provincial Chest Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, China
Saibin Wang, Affiliated Jinhua Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Peter Wark, HMRI, Australia
João Carlos Winck, The Northern Rehabilitation Centre Cardio-Pulmonary Group, Portugal
Jian Wu, The First Affiliated Hospital, Colleague of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China
Zhijie Xu, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China
Yuanliang Yan, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China
Chih-Jen Yang, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Xiaodong Yang, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, China
Qiao Ye, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, China
Panayiotis Yiallouros, Medical School, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Dong Keon Yon, CHA University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea
Resti Yudhawati, Dr. Soetomo Hospital, Indonesia
Cheng Zhan, Fudan University, China
Xiang-Rong Zheng, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China
Xiaobo Zhou, Harvard Medical School, USA
Editorial Advisors
Richard Albert, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA
Judith L Black, University of Sydney, Australia
Demosthenes Bouros, University of Thrace, Greece
Emanuela Bruscia, Yale University, USA
Edwin R Chilvers, University of Cambridge, UK
Rodolfo Dennis, Fundación Cardioinfantil, Colombia
Helen Galley, University of Aberdeen, UK
Robert Gray, Edinburgh University, UK
Rik Gosselink, KU Leuven, Belgium
Huib Kerstjens, University Hospital Groningen, Netherlands
Peter N Le Souef, University of Western Australia, Australia
Jay A Nadel, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Michael Niederman, Winthrop University Hospital, USA
Ioannis Pneumatikos, University Hospital of Alecxandroupolis, Greece
Michael B Reid, Pulmonary Section, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Scott Weiss, Brigham and Womens Hospital, USA
Sally Wenzel, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Statistical Advisors
Ioannis Bakolis, King's College London, UK
Cavan Reilly, University of Minnesota, USA