About the authors

Alessandro Lugli

Alessandro Lugli is an attending physician at the Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. His primary interests include the carcinognesis of gastrointestinal and liver tumors with emphasis on diagnostic, prognostic and predictive molecular markers.

Inti Zlobec

Inti Zlobec holds a Master's degree from McGill University, Canada, and is a PhD candidate in the Department of Pathology at the same institution. Her primary research interests involve the application of statistical models to prognostic and predictive molecular tumor markers in colorectal cancer.

Gad Singer

Gad Singer is an Associate Professor and an Attending Physician at the Institute of Pathology, University of Basel, Switzerland, where he is responsible for the Diagnosis and Research activities of the Division of Gynaecologic and Breast Pathology and is a Co-Director of the multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Centre at the University Hospital of Basel.

Andrea Kopp Lugli

Andrea Kopp Lugli is a resident in anesthesia at the Kantonsspital Aarau, Switzerland. She is working currently on peri-operative nutrition as a research fellow at the Department of Anesthesia, McGill University Health Centre, while enrolled in a Master of Science in Dietetics and Human Nutrition at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Luigi M Terracciano

Luigi M Terracciano is a Professor of Pathology and Head of the Molecular Pathology Division at the Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. His primary interests include gastrointestinal and liver neoplasia with emphasis on diagnostic, prognostic and predictive molecular markers.

Robert M Genta

Robert M Genta is a Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Gastroenterology) at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Chief of the Department of Pathology at the Dallas Veterans Affairs Hospital. He is interested in the relationship between gastritis and cancer.