**About the Editors**

**Jos´e I. L ´opez** is head of Department of Pathology at the Hospital Universitario Cruces and principal investigator of the Biomarker in Cancer Unit at the Biocruces-Bizkaia Health Research Institute. He graduated at the Faculty of Medicine, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain, and trained in Pathology at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain. He received his PhD degree at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. Dr. Lopez has served as pathologist ´ for more than 30 years in several hospitals in Spain, and is subspecialized in Uropathology, where he has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles and reviews. Dr. Lopez is interested in ´ translational uropathology in general and in renal cancer in particular, and collaborates with several international research groups unveiling the genomic landscape of urological cancer. Intratumor heterogeneity, tumor sampling, tumor microenvironment, tumor ecology, immunotherapy, and basic mechanisms of carcinogenesis are his main topics of interest.

**Claudia Manini** is head of the Department of Pathology at San Giovanni Bosco Hospital in Turin, Italy. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and post-graduated in Surgical Pathology at the University of Turin, Turin, Italy. Dr. Manini has served as pathologist for more than 25 years in several hospitals in Italy developing an expertise in diagnostic uropathology, neuropathology and gynecopathology. Her main interest is translational pathology.
