**About the Editors**

## **Jos´e I. L´opez**

Jose I. L ´ opez is head of Department of Pathology at the Cruces University Hospital 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 190 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**

Claudia Manini is head of the Department of Pathology at the 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. She is also affiliated to the Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences at the University of Turin. Her main interest is translational pathology.
