Professor Dieter Häussinger, Editor-in-Chief, is Professor of Internal Medicine at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Director of the Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases and the Hirsch Institute for Tropical Medicine in Asella, Ethiopia. He is internationally recognized for his research on liver function in health and disease as well as disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and the pancreas. Professor Häussinger has received multiple honours, such as the Siegfried Thannhauser prize awarded by the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz prize awarded by the German Research Foundation, and the Robert-Pfleger award for outstanding scientific achievements in the research of basic principles and perspectives of medicine. Professor Häussinger is author of more than 700 scientific articles and editor of ten books, is member of numerous international societies, several research units, foundations and boards. He is member of the National  Academy of Science Leopoldina and vice-president of the Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Science and Arts.  

Professor Johannes Waltenberger, Editor-in-Chief,  is Director of the Department of Cardiology at the University of Münster. Professor Waltenberger received his medical degree from the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg in 1988. In 1990, he received his M.D. (Dr. med.) from the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg. Following internship at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, he started his postdoctoral training at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Uppsala, Sweden. He afterwards completed his residency training at the University of Ulm, Germany, where he received his venia legendi in Internal Medicine (Habilitation, PhD equivalent). From 2003 through 2010, Professor Waltenberger served as Professor of Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology in the Department of Cardiology at the Maastricht University Medical Center, and was Principal Investigator at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), the Netherlands. His research focuses on regenerative cardiology studying the mechanisms of growth factor-mediated and cell-mediated vascular growth, ranging from signal transduction and cellular function to clinical aspects in coronary artery disease. He has obtained 12 scientific awards and published more than 180 scientific publications.