Claudio Ponticelli, Past Director of the Division of Nephrology, Istituto Scientifico Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy,Richard J. Glassock, Emeritus Professor, The David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, California, USA

Claudio Ponticelli is an acknowledged expert in the field of nephrology, particularly in glomerular diseases and kidney transplantation. In glomerular diseases, he devised an original therapeutic schedule in primary membranous nephropathy, and has also co-ordinated randomised clinical trials in minimal change disease, focal glomerular sclerosis, and IgA nephropathy. During his career, Professor Ponticelli has been a member of the Council of the Italian Society of Nephrology, the Italian-American Society of Nephrology, and served as the President of the Italian Society of Nephrology. He has received numerous awards, including the ERA/EDTA Award for outstanding scientific achievements.

Richard J. Glassock is an internationally recognised expert in the field of glomerular diseases and clinical nephrology. Currently Professor Emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, he is the past-president of the American Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation (USA), and past-Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Over his career he has been a visiting professor at over 100 academic institutions, and founded the NephSAP Journal of the American Society of Nephrology as Editor-in-Chief. He has received numerous awards and distinguished lectureships, including the David Hume Memorial Award of the National Kidney Foundation.

Giovanni Banfi
Formerly of Department of Nephrology and Urology, Istituto Scientifico, Ospedale Maggiore di Milano, Milan, Italy

Arthur H. Cohen
Formerly Professor of Pathology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA

Rosanna Coppo
Past Director of Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Regina Margherita Children Hospital, Turin, Italy

Fernando C. Fervenza
Director of the Nephrology Collaborative Group, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Richard Glassock
Emeritus Professor, The David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Lee Hebert
Nephrologist, Wexner Medical Centre, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA

Kar Neng Lai
Emeritus Professor and Honorary Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Gabriella Moroni
Nephrologist, Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore, Milan, Italy

Patrick Nachman
Professor of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA

Patrizia Passerini
Nephrologist, Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore, Milan, Italy

Claudio Ponticelli
Past Director of the Division of Nephrology, Istituto Scientifico Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Francesco Scolari
Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology, Universita di Brescia and Ospedale di Montichiari, Brescia, Italy