**About the Editors**

**Martin F. Bachmann** (martin.bachmann@dbmr.unibe.ch) conducted his PhD at the Institute for Experimental Immunology at ETH in Zurich (1995). He has served as a postdoc at the Department ¨ of Immunology, Toronto, Canada (1995–1997); member at the Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel (1997–2000), Chief Scientific Officer at Cytos Biotechnology AG, Schlieren-Zurich (2000–2012) ; ¨ Visiting Professor of Immunology at the University of Zurich (2012–present); and Associate Professor ¨ of Immunology at the University of Oxford (2013–present). Since 2015, he has served as Head of Immunology at the Clinic of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergology and Professor of Immunology at the University of Bern.

**Monique Vogel** (monique.vogel@dbmr.unibe.ch) completed her PhD at the Institute of General Microbiology, University of Bern (1989). She has served as Research Assistant and Senior Scientist at the Institute of Immunology, University of Bern (1989–2015); Consulting Immunologist for the transplantation Diagnostic Laboratory at the Institute of Immunology (2004–2015); Head of the Allergy Laboratory, INO, Inselspital, Bern (2011–2015); and, since 2015, as Deputy Head of Immunology at the Clinic of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergology.
