We welcome Professor Sherif Beniameen Mossad to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Mossad is a staff physician in the Department of Infectious Disease, Respiratory Institute, and Transplantation Center, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA. His main research interests are transplant infectious disease, influenza and common cold. We are grateful to Dr. Mossad for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor René Adam to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Adam is a Professor and Head Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Cancer and Transplantation, Centre Hepato-Biliaire, Hopital Paul-Brousse, 94804 Villejuif, France. His main research interests are surgery of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas, hepatic transplantation, liver diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatobiliary surgery, and liver transplantation. We are grateful to Dr. Adam for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Yasuhiko Sugawara to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Sugawara is a Professor at Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan. His main research interests are hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation. We are grateful to Dr. Sugawara for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Taizo Hibi to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Hibi is a Professor and Chairman at the Department of Transplantation and Pediatric Surgery, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan. His main research interests are surgical oncology, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, living donor liver transplantation, intestinal/multivisceral transplantation, and transplant/tumor immunology. We are grateful to Dr. Hibi for his participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Kåre I. Birkeland to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Birkeland is a Professor at the Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. His main research interests are diabetes, clinical and mechanistic studies; insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome; laboratory endocrinology; and islet and pancreas transplantation. We are grateful to Dr. Birkeland for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Waldo Concepcion from Stanford University, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Professor Concepcion is the Chief of Clinical Transplantation, Stanford University Medical Center and the Chief of Pediatric Kidney Transplantation, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. He has extensive clinical and research experience in liver and kidney transplantation and has published over 104 peer reviewed articles. We are grateful to Professor Concepcion for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Pål Dag Line, from Oslo University, Norway, to lead the journal OBM Transplantation as the founding Editor-in-Chief. Professor Line is also the Head of Department of Organ Transplantation at Oslo University Hospital. He is an internationally recognized expert specializing in transplant surgery, vascular surgery, and HPB surgery, etc. He has published over 118 peer reviewed articles in international professional journals. We are very grateful to Professor Line for his participation and great support.

We welcome Professor Milagros D. Samaniego-Picota from University of Michigan, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Professor Samaniego-Picota's clinical and research interests focus on experimental and clinical antibody-mediated rejection, desensitization protocols, and the care of highly sensitized patients. We are grateful to Professor Samaniego-Picota for her participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Haley Hoy from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Hoy has extensive clinical and research experience in Pulmonary, Nursing and Transplantation, Quality of life, Web-based Mobile Technology, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Hoy for her participation and support.

We welcome Dr. Kamyar Afshar from UCSD Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Transplantation. Dr. Afshar is a board-certified pulmonologist who specializes in complex lung diseases and lung transplantation. He is also a member of numerous professional organizations, including the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant, the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Afshar for his participation and support.