**About the Editor**

**Giuliano Ciarimboli** (Prof. Dr.) was born in Italy. He studied Biology at Pisa University (Italy) and was a scholarship holder at the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the Italian Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR) in Pisa. During this time, he was involved in the study of endogenous digitalis-like factors and pulmonary metabolism of basic amines. After this, he worked in the Hannover Medical School (Germany) and investigated the role of charge, dimension, and conformation of proteins in glomerular filtration. In 1999, the University of Hannover (Germany) awarded him a Ph.D. degree in natural sciences. He then joined the group of Experimental Nephrology at the Munster University Hospital, Germany), where Dr. Ciarimboli currently holds ¨ the position of Professor. His research interests include the regulation of organic cation transporters and their interaction with drugs. The research activity of Dr. Ciarimboli is supported by grants from the German Research Foundation. He has published 74 original refereed research papers, 12 peer-reviewed review articles, and 6 book chapters. Dr. Ciarimboli is lecturing Pharmacy students in Physiology at Munster University (Germany). ¨
