We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Andrew S Day, from University of Otago Christchurch, New Zealand, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. Prof. Day trained in paediatrics in Christchurch, New Zealand, and undertook further subspecialty training in Toronto, Canada. After completing clinical and research training in Canada, he took up a clinical academic position at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He returned to Christchurch in 2009 and was appointed to Head of Department in 2010. His research interests include inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease and Coeliac disease, with projects focusing upon host-pathogen interactions in the gut (and how these relate to chronic gut diseases), intestinal inflammatory biomarkers, and nutritional aspects of gut diseases. We appreciate Prof. Day for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Joanna Jerzyńska, from Medical University of Lodz, Poland, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. From the beginning of her work as a doctor, her clinical and research interests were related to allergology. Working in the Department of Pediatrics and Allergology, she mainly deals with children suffering from bronchial asthma and allergic diseases, and the long-term cooperation (since 1999) with Columbia University in New York has resulted in many joint studies, including a pioneering study on the presence of allergies in cockroaches in Poland. She deals with the diagnosis and treatment of various allergic diseases such as atopic dermatitis, seasonal and chronic allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma, allergic conjunctivitis, food allergy, urticaria and many others. She diagnoses, among others chronic cough, recurrent respiratory infections, adverse drug reactions. In 2018, she became the President of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Society of Allergology. In the years 2001 - 2019 she was the head of the NZOZ Medpuls in Łódź. Since 2005, she has been employed at the Clinical Department of Pediatrics and Allergology at the Pediatric Center. Korczak in Łódź as an assistant professor. We appreciate Dr. Jerzyńska for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Salam A. Ibrahim, from North Carolina A&T State University, USA, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He is a research professor in the Food and Nutritional Science Program at North Carolina A&T State University.  For the past 22 years at North Carolina A&T State University, Dr. Ibrahim's research, teaching, and outreach activities were dedicated to addressing issues related to fermented dairy products and milk quality, with a focus on practical approaches to quality and safety of food products. More recently, his laboratory's work has focused on the viability and functionality of probiotic cultures in dairy products and probiotic supplements. His lab works with the dairy and nutritional supplements industries on practical methods to ensure high viability of probiotics in nutritional supplements. They have also studied the molecular characteristics of Lactobacillus strains grown under different environmental conditions and have developed a new technology that enhances the survival of probiotics during processing, as well as developing a new emulsion system to enhance the viability of probiotics in different food products. Furthermore, they have worked on a new cultivation system that allows for the production of high bacterial cell mass. Dr. Ibrahim's lab also has interest in research that focus on herbs and plants that have high concentrations of functional ingredients, such as essential oils and antioxidants. The Ibrahim laboratory has been working on the bioconversion process of these natural products into very potent functional and biological compounds. Dr. Ibrahim regular reviewer, member of different editorial board and guest editor of several journals of microbiology and food sciences. We appreciate Prof. Ibrahim for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Célia C. G. Silva, from Universidade dos Açores, Portugal, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. She is Assistant Professor with Aggregation in Food Technology and leads the Food Science and Health Group at IITA – a Research Institute of the University of The Azores, Portugal. Her scientific activity is mainly focused on the study of the relationship between dairy foods and health. Her research interests include the study of probiotic bacteria and their bioactive metabolites, including bacteriocins, GABA, CLA and EPS, and their impact on human health. We appreciate Dr. Silva for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Say Chye Joachim Loo, from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. Dr. Joachim Loo is currently Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He holds a joint appointment at the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), and a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, USA. He is also an international member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) for Sustainable Waste Management, and a member of the Coordinated Research Project (CRP) under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), United Nations (UN). His research interest is in designing encapsulation systems for controlled and targeted delivery from agri-food, biomedical, environmental to pharmaceutical applications. He has published more than 200 journal papers (h-index: 53), three book chapters and filed more than 15 patents in this field. He was also awarded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to develop delivery systems for nutraceuticals. More recently, he spun-off two companies; LiberaTx and Dietrics, to formulate an extended-release oral drug delivery system and to valorise cellulose for fat absorption as a food ingredient, respectively. Currently, he is also managing several administrative portfolios, such as Associate Chair (Students) in MSE, and is currently a co-convenor of the ISO/TC 229 Nanotechnology National Working Group (WG3), under the Singapore Chemical Industry Council. We appreciate Prof. Loo for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Tara Perrot, from Dalhousie University, Canada, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. Dr. Perrot uses a range of techniques to better understand the factors that shape stress-related behavioural and neural outcomes in males and females.  We appreciate Prof. Perrot for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Alberto Romero, from University of Seville, Spain, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He is Professor in Chemical Engineering from the “Universidad de Sevilla”, with a Degree in Chemistry and a Master in Industrial Chemistry. In 2005, he was awarded a grant (FPU-grant) by the Spanish Government to develop his PhD thesis, which was presented in 2009 and received the European Doctor degree and an Honourable mention in the Iberian Award to the most Distinguished PhD thesis (2009-2011). He carried out postdoctoral research was at the Leuven University under the supervision of Professor Jan Vermant, at the University of Lorraine and as a visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Department of Chemical Engineering). He leads the Ibero-American network of investigation about the valorization of food by-products and waste (VALORAL) with more than 20 research groups from 11 different countries. He has supervised 2 awarded PhD thesis and more than 20 MSc degree students. Nowadays, he supervises three PhD theses and acts as reviewer for different scientific journals. He has taken part in more than 20 R+D projects, is the author of 2 patents, more than 25 international book chapters and 110 articles in indexed journals. He has been awarded different research prizes in his career, highlighting the "Manuel Losada Villasante" award on circular economy. His main research activities have been focused on the development of products with tailored microstructure and functionality (e.g. complex interfacial fluid-fluid layers, protein-based emulsions, dispersions and gels, protein-polysaccharide matrices, scaffolds for tissue engineering). Particular emphasis has been given to the relationships between material processing, rheology and microstructure and their implications in their potential food applications. We appreciate Prof. Romero for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Frederic J Tessier, from University of Lille, France, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. Prof. Tessier received his Ph.D in analytical chemistry from the Institut National Agronomique de Paris in 1997. His doctoral research was in the area of the Maillard reaction and glycation. Following his Ph.D., Prof. Tessier accepted a postdoctoral position at Case Western Reserve University, and a few years later a position at the California Institute of Technology. In both American institutes, his research focused on the discovery of new glycation products. After holding two other positions in the pharmaceutical industry, Prof. Tessier took up an academic position in 2003 as Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry and Nutrition, at the Institut UniLaSalle (France). In 2015 he was appointed Professor at Lille University where he remains. In 2017 he created the Francophone Maillard Reaction Society (FMaRS) with colleagues from the University of Reims and UniLaSalle. Since 2018 he is the president elect of the International Maillard Reaction Society (IMARS). The main goal of his current research is understanding how dietary glycation products affect the chemical safety and nutritional quality of heat-treated food, and how human health and longevity is affected by chronic exposure to these products.  We appreciate Prof. Tessier for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Mirian Pateiro from Centro Tecnolóxico da Carne de Galicia, Spain, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. She obtained the Ph.D. degree in Food Science and Technology in the University of Vigo in 2010. She has been developing her research activity since nine years ago in the Centro Tecnolóxico da Carne de Galicia. Her scientific production includes one hundred thirty scientific research papers in well-recognized peer-reviewed international journals (SCI) in the Food Science and Technology area, most of them in the first quartile (number of publications in Q1 is higher than 50), and 80 communications to national and international meetings, congresses and symposiums. Her h-index is 30 with a number of cites of 2345 in Scopus. She has participated in more than 25 projects as research collaborator. She is editing three books, and she has contributed with sixteen chapters of books. We appreciate Dr. Pateiro for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Jennifer Keogh from University of South Australia, Australia, to to lead the journal Recent Progress in Nutrition as the Editor-in-Chief. Dr Keogh was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Adelaide Australia for a thesis entitled “Nutrition and Vascular Health”. She holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia for a thesis entitled Bone Mass and Body Composition in Adults: Effects of Liver Transplantation. Dr Keogh is Associate Professor of Dietetics and Nutrition at the University of South Australia (2010). She qualified as a dietitian from the College of Technology Dublin which is now the Technological University Dublin where she holds the title of Adjunct Professor. Dr Keogh was awarded a Fellowship of the South Australian Cardiovascular Research Development Program funded by the Heart Foundation and the Government of South Australia, March 2013 - March 2016. She also received The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s Medal for Research Excellence in 2005. She is a member of the University of South Australia’s Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity Research Centre. Dr Keogh had a career in clinical dietetics and held leadership positions at the Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s Special Health Authority in London, St. James Hospital London, the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, Australia and Ballarat Health Services, Victoria, Australia. She has a substantial scientific output with 150 peer reviewed publications to date, an h-index of 44 and 5934 citations (Scopus 2021). We appreciate Prof. Keogh for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor M. Beatriz P.P. Oliveira from Faculty of Pharmacy of Porto University (FFUP), Portugal, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. Professor Beatriz Oliveira as completed her PhD degree at FFUP in 1995 and until now has been working at the Laboratory of Bromatology, department of Chemical Sciences. She became a Full Professor in 2020 and published more than 430 papers in reputed journals. She has developed her teaching and research career in the area of quality control, authenticity and food safety. Some publications have focused on the valorization of by-products of the agrifood industry and of low-value products for food. She has an extensive experience in the food field, namely collaboration with companies in the sector. She has several award-winning works in the context of the valorization of by-products and her works use environmentally friendly and sustainable methodologies. We appreciate Prof. Oliveira for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Mohsen Mazidi from University of Oxford, UK, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He is working in the CKB to investigate translational applications of human multi-OMICs information to elucidate the aetiology of disease and help guide drug development in areas of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by applying human genetics (e.g. through Mendelian randomisation) together with machine learning and advanced epidemiological techniques (personalised medicine).  
He undertook a BSc and MSc degree in Nutrition Science. During his PhD, Nutrition Epidemiology, He examined large national prospective studies and nutritional records within the context of NCDs and related features at the Academy of Science. Alongside PhD training, He investigated the role of modifiable risk factors on risk of NCD mortality. Dr. Mazidi discovered his passion for the numbers around biology, which lead me to focus on personalised medicine. He then progressed to postdoctoral level and moved to Sweden, where he was trained in applying advanced epidemiological techniques to quantify the role of multi-OMICs and their mediator link between dietary intakes and disease pre-conditions. Before joining Oxford, he was appointed as a researcher at King's College London, Twins group, as well as having the privilege of working with the unique company, which funds large trials with the hope of progressing personalised medicine/nutrition. We appreciate Dr. Mohsen Mazidi for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Peter Ballmer, from Swiss Society for Clinical Nutrition, Switzerland, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition.  He graduated in Medicine in 1979 at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Thereafter he specialised in General Internal Medicine and Intensive Care at the University of Bern and became chairman of the Departement of Medicine at the Kantonsspital Winterthur (Zürich) for 23 years. He got awarded Professor of Medicine in 2002 at the University of Zürich.

During a research fellowship at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen (Scotland) he intensified his scientific interest in clinical nutrition, primarily with a focus on albumin metabolism, where he could introduce a new method for measuring albumin synthetic rates in man using stable isotopes. A personal interest was also high altitude medicine, which he implemented on Capanna Regina Margherita on 4559 m (near Zermatt, Switzerland).

In recent years his main interest was malnutrition, in particular nutritional interventions combined with physical exercise in patients with cancer.

He is the president of the local Society for Clinical Nutrition, Switzerland (GESKES/SSNC). We appreciate Prof. Ballmer for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Martin Grootveld, from De Montfort University, UK, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He completed his PhD degree research programme on bioanalytical chemistry and metallodrugs in 1985 at the same institution and then conducted post-doctoral work on the analysis of ‘markers’ of free radical activity in biofluids at King’s College, University of London for 2 years. He then spent 2.5 years lecturing and conducting research work at the Polytechnic of North London prior to taking up a Lectureship in Clinical Chemistry at St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1989, where he subsequently became Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Chemical Pathology. Later, he transferred to London South Bank University where he was also Reader in Chemical Pathology, and Director of their MSc Forensic Science course. He was then appointed Professor of Chemical Pathology and Biomedical Materials at the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation (IMRI), University of Bolton where he established and directed a Master’s course in Medical and Healthcare Devices which was the first of its kind available in the UK. Recently, he took up the position of Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry at Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, where he is also Head of the Chemistry for Health/Bioanalytical Sciences Research Group. We appreciate Prof. Grootveld for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavite, from University of Verona, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He graduated in Medicine in 1976 at Trieste University. He then specialized in Hematology, got a Master in Biotechnology from Cranfield University (U.K.) and a perfectioning degree in Health Statistics and Epidemiology. Since 1984 he has been professor of General Pathology at Verona university (I), until may 2017, then he's doing research as expert supervisor. He and his group have developed research on the molecular, cellular and pharmacological aspects of inflammation, with special reference to granulocytes and macrophages, free radical formation and toxicity, platelet function and regulation. He also developed studies on epistemology, history of medicine, vaccination, bioethics. He is author of more than 250 scientific papers, over 140 of which are cited in PubMed database. We appreciate Prof. Bellavite for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Song-young Park, from University of Nebraska, USA, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He joined the School of Health& Kinesiology in 2017 after completing his post-doctoral research fellowship in department of cardiology at Boston University School of Medicine. He earned his PhD in integrative physiology from the University of Utah in 2015. Utilizing an integrative approach that combines both in-vivo and in-vitro techniques, Dr. Song-young Park's research examines the impact of age and disease on vascular function and blood pressure regulation. He is specifically focused on the complex interactions of endothelial function, oxidative stress, and vascular function in terms of blood pressure regulation in diseased populations including peripheral artery disease (PAD), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure, and hypertension. He is also interested in the impacts of age and cardiovascular disease on blood flow in the brain. We appreciate Dr. Park for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Richard Mackenzie, from University of Roehampton, UK, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He completed his PhD: Acute Hypoxia & Exercise Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetes (University of Brighton) in 2009. Following an RAE funded research position at Brighton, Dr Mackenzie took up a lectureship at the University of Westminster in 2008 before his moved to University of Roehampton to take up a Readership in Insulin Resistance and Metabolism. He is the recipient of the The Endocrine Society 93^rd Annual Eugenia Rosemberg Award  and is also Research Director for the Sport & Exercise Science Research Group at Roehampton University. Dr Mackenzie's research interests are to understand the role of fat, glucose and protein metabolism in both health & disease physiology. We appreciate Dr. Mackenzie for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Tassos Koidis, from Queen's University Belfast, UK, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He is the author of more than 50 peer review papers 10 book chapters and several technical reports in the fields of food quality and processing focusing of vegetables, fruits and the properties of vegetable oils such as olive and palm oil. Apart from his interest in bioactive components, their recovery and their activity, his recent research interests expand in the use of vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics in the detection of food authenticity. We appreciate Dr. Koidis for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Arrigo F. G. Cicero, from University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He is the author of more than 400 full-papers published on international peer-reviewed medical journals, mainly in the fields of cardiovascular disease prevention (epidemiology, prognosis, management) and nutraceutical research. We appreciate Prof. Cicero for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Daniel Rico Bargues, from Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León, Spain, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He is a Doctor in Food Science and Technology from the Dublin Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid. His research experience has been developed in the field of food processing mainly, both as a graduate researcher, doctor and senior doctor at the Dublin Institute of Technology, and as a doctoral researcher at the Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León, where he currently works. in the Innovation and Process Optimization Area.

In his current position at the Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León, he works in contact with the business sector, given the role that the institute plays in advising and transferring knowledge to the agri-food sector. In addition to the work of maintaining lines of research in food processing, he is currently coordinator of two competitive projects, one of collaboration between different universities (INIA funding) on ​​the development of healthy foods and the other (the technical part) led by a company in the cereal transformation sector for the development of innovative and healthy products (CDTI). His teaching work has been previously developed at the Dublin Institute of Technology, at the Public University of Navarra and at the University of Burgos. We appreciate Dr. Rico for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Anibh Martin Das, from Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. After undergraduate studies of medicine at Göttingen University he was a scholar of the ‘Max-Planck Society’ in Göttingen (Germany) where he worked in respiratory physiology, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford (UK) where his focus of research was the regulation of cardiac energy metabolism. Prof. Das trained in Paediatrics at Hannover Medical School and University Clinics Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany).

His special interest is in Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Neuropaediatrics with a research focus on energy metabolism, amino acid metabolism and lysosomal storage diseases. He has also obtained experience in Newborn screening at the ‘Screening Laboratory Hannover’.

Prof. Das is member of the scientific advisory board of the ‘German Society for Muscle Diseases’, the ‘Centre for Systems Neurosciences’ in Hannover and the ’Centre for Rare Diseases’ as well as the ‘Ethical Review Board’ at Hannover Medical School. He is visiting professor at the University of Manipal (India). We appreciate Prof. Das for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Tiziana Bacchetti, from Polytechnic Department of Life and Environmental Sciences (DiSVA) of University of Marche, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. Her scientific activity is mainly focused on the study of the relationship between health and nutrition and on the evaluation of food nutritional and functional properties. Moreover, her research interests include the study of molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of chronic and metabolic diseases and the study of plasma lipoprotein structure and functions in normal and pathological conditions. We appreciate Prof. Bacchetti for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Yung-Po Liaw, from Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He graduated from National Taiwan University with a master's degree in biostatistics and a doctorate in epidemiology. Prof. Liaw currently works at the department of public health and institute of public health, Chung Shan Medical University. Research interests include spatio-temporal mapping of cancer in Taiwan, big data analysis of epidemiology, and precision public health research. The big data used include Taiwan Biobank Database, National Health Insurance Research Database, National Cancer Registry and National Death Database. Their research team constructed a 40-year spatio-temporal cancer map (http://Taiwancancermap.csmu-liawyp.tw/ ) in Taiwan, and also focused on precision public health research related to GWAS, SNP, HLA, and methylation. Currently, they are cooperating with Stanford University in the United States and the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their team are looking forward to cooperating with researchers from all over the world. Work together to explore interesting scientific topics. We appreciate Prof. Liaw for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Costantino Paciolla, from Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. His recent work focuses on bioactive compounds in vegetables and fruits, antioxidant systems in plants and on shelf-life in horticultural crops in pre- and post-harvest. His research is also carried out in the study of physiological and biochemical changes in agri-foods plants under biotic and abiotic stress. Prof. Paciolla has over 80 scientific articles on prestigious journals and books and is peer-reviewer for international journals ISI indexed. We appreciate Prof. Paciolla for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Blanca Hernandez-Ledesma, from Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. She is an expert on bioactive peptides derived from different food sources with demonstrated antihypertensive, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic activities. She is author of 85 papers published in journals included in the Science Citation Index. Moreover, she is co-inventor of three patents, and author of 33 book chapters. Her results have been presented in 88 national and international conferences. She is also editor of four books and nine journals and reviewer for more than 90 journals, many of them mainly focused on foods. We appreciate Dr. Hernandez-Ledesma for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Franck Carbonero, from Washington State University-Spokane, USA, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. His research program is focused on nutrition and its impact on the human and animal gut microbiome, with focus on dietary bioactives. Dr. Carbonero has published 40 scientific articles and has delivered over 15 presentations at scientific meetings. He is an Academic Editor for Plos One and Editorial board member for 4 other journals. We appreciate Dr. Carbonero for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. María Jose Esteve, from University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. Her research focuses on the study of of non-thermal technologies for the preservation and extraction of bioactive compounds in fruits and vegetables. Currently he focuses his research on the recovery of wastes/by-products of the agri-food industry, mainly obtaining bioactive compounds that can be used as natural ingredients in food and meet consumer demands. For this, green extraction methodologies are studied, with the use of environmentally friendly solvents and non-conventional techniques such as ultrasound. Her research is also carried out in the field of dietetics and nutrition with the assessment of the nutritional status and diet of different population niches, establishing the necessary guidelines to establish sustainable and healthy diets. We appreciate Prof. Esteve for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Francisca Serra, from Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. She is part of the group promoter of the UIB technology-based spin-off Alimentómica SL and holds the position of Director of R&D. Her research focuses on the study of the molecular basis of obesity, body weight regulation by nutrients, gene-nutrients interaction (nutrigenomics) and the impact of perinatal diet (Epigenetics) on susceptibility to adulthood obesity. She is working on the study of gene variants that affect the risk of obesity and its modulation by bioactives (Nutrigenetics). It is of her interest the characterization of functional foods, rich in ingredients that could help to counteract obesity and, in particular, optimized for specific genotypes. We appreciate Prof. Serra for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Rafat A. Siddiqui from Virginia State University, USA, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. His research interests are in the area of cancer, inflammation, and cardiovascular diseases. His recent work focuses on the health benefits of fish oil, grape pomace, green papaya, pomegranate, Plums, Ginger, and Turmeric extracts. His research emphasis is on the synergistic modulation of chronic diseases by combination of nutrients and drugs. We are grateful to Prof. Siddiqui for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Dimitrios P. Bogdanos from University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Nutrition. He is the Director of the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Thessaly Medical School. His group is focused on research in three areas: microbial/viral infection as a trigger of autoimmunity, focusing on the role of molecular mimicry; investigation of the diagnostic and clinical significance of autoantibodies; immunopathogenesis of autoimmune diseases and the role played by Th17/T/Bregulatory cells. More recently has extended his research to include the role played by diet constituents as immunosuppressants. We appreciate Prof. Bogdanos for his participation and support.