The aim of this journal is to bring clinicians and pathologists up-to-date on developments in the field of immunopathology. For this purpose topical issues will be organized usually with the help of a guest editor. Recent developments are summarized in review articles by authors who have personally contributed to the specific topic. The pertinent literature is given at the end of each paper, not in an exhaustive way but so that the interested reader can easily orient himself by studying the key references.

Editor-in-Chief
Jürg Schifferli 
Department of Medicine
University Hospital Basel
4031 Basel, Switzerland
e-mail: j.schifferli@unibas.ch

Editors
Petra Arck
Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
20246 Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: p.arck@uke.de
Keith B. Elkon
Department of Medicine
Devision of Rheumatology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98109, USA
e-mail: KElkon@medicine.washington.edu
Paul Hasler
Department of Rheumatology
Kantonsspital Aarau
5001 Aarau, Switzerland
e-mail: paul.hasler@ksa.ch

Toru Miyazaki
Faculty of Medicine
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
e-mail: tm@m.u-tokyo,ac.jp 

Founding Editors
Hans J. Müller-Eberhard
Peter A. Miescher
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Shozo Izui, Geneva, Switzerland
Advisory Board
Mads Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Anna di Nardo, San Diego, CA, USA
Cem Gabay, Geneva, Switzerland
Georg Gasteiger, Würzburg, Germany
Joerg Heeren, Hamburg, Germany
Mark H. Kaplan, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Tobias Kollmann, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Arnaud Marchant, Brussels, Belgium
B. Paul Morgan, Cardiff, UK
Markus F. Neurath, Erlangen, Germany
Ester Nolte-'t Hoen, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Francisco J. Quintana, Boston, MA, USA
Ludger Scheja, Hamburg, Germany
John Teijaro, La Jolla, CA, USA
Jan Eric Turner, Hamburg, Germany
Tony Yaksh, San Diego, CA, USA