A big thank you to our reviewers in the past year!

Good reviewers are essential to the success of any journal and peer review is a major pillar of science. We are grateful to those mentioned below to have dedicated their time and expertise to help our authors improve and refine their manuscripts and support the Editor(s) in the decision making process in the past year. The following received out Top Reviewer of the Year award: Takao Itoi, Andrea Tringali and Richard Kozareck. We wish all our readers, reviewers, authors and friends a happy and prosperous 2017!

Aabakken, Lars, Oslo, Norway
Abdelrazik, Ahmed, Mansoura, Egypt
Abe, Seiichiro, Tokyo, Japan
Adler, Douglas, Salt Lake City, United States
Adler, Andreas, Berlin, Germany
Akaraviputh, Thawatchai, Bangkok, Thailand
Akimoto, Teppei, Tokyo, Japan
Albert, Joerg G., Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Amit, Bhatt, Cleveland, United States
Amornyotin, Somchai, Bangkok, Thailand
Ang, Tiing Leong, Singapore, Singapore
Ang, Daphne, Singapore, Singapore
Antaki, Fadi, Detroit, United States
Areia, Miguel, Coimbra, Portugal
Arnason, Thomas, Halifax, Canada
Artifon, Everson, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Attam, Rajeev, Minneapolis, United States

Baik, Gwang Ho, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Bapaye, Amol, Pune, India
Baron, Todd, Chapel Hill, United States
Barthet, Marc, Marseille Cedex 20, France
Basford, Peter John, Portsmouth, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Bauerfeind, Peter, Zurich, Switzerland
Bechara, Robert, Koto, Japan
Becheanu, Gabriel
Belle, Sebastian, Mannheim, Germany
Bergstrom, Maria, Boras, Sweden
Bertani, Helga, Italy
Beyer, Georg, Greifswald, Germany
Bhandari, Suryaprakash, Mumbai, India
Bharamana Goudra, Basavana Gouda, Philadelphia, United States
Bhat, Naresh, Bangalore, India
Bhatia, Vikram, New Delhi, India
Bhatia, Vikram
Bibbò, Stefano, Sassari, Italy
Binmoeller, Kenneth F., United States
Blake, Kathryn, Jacksonville, United States
Bojarski, Christian, Berlin, Germany
Bolino, Maria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bonavina, Luigi, San Donato Milanese, Italy
Bourreille, Arnaud, Nantes, France
Brugge, William R., Boston, United States
Buda, Andrea, Feltre, Italy
Buscail, Louis, Toulouse, France
Byeon, Jeong-Sik, Seoul,
Korea, Republic of

Caillol, Fabrice, Marseille, France
Cammarota, Giovanni, Roma, Italy
Canena, Jorge Manuel, Portugal
Carr-Locke, David, New York, United States
Carvalho, Rita, Amadora,
Portugal
Chan, Shannon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chang, Chi-Sen, Taiwan
Chang, Kenneth J, Orange, United States
Changela, Kinesh, Brooklyn, United States
Chaves, Dalton, São Paulo, Brazil
Chemaly, Marwan, Beirut,
Lebanon
Chen, Chien-Huan, St. Louis, United States
Chen, Shiyao, Shanghai,
China
Cheong, Kuan Loong, Australia
Chinnaratha, Asif, Elizabeth Vale, Australia
Cho, Young-Seok, Korea, Republic of
Chuang, Chiao-Hsiung,
Tainan, Taiwan
Chung, Hyunsoo, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Collado, David, Leganes, Spain
Coron, Emmanuel, Nantes, France
Costamagna, Guido, Rome, Italy
Cotter, José, Guimarães,
Portugal
Cremers, Marie Isabelle,
Setúbal, Portugal

Dasari, Bobby V. M., Birmingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Day, Theodore Eugene,
Philadelphia, United States
de la Serna-Higuera C, Carlos, Valladolid, Spain
de Moura, Eduardo,
São Paulo, Brazil
Dekker, Evelien, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Delhaye, Myriam, Bruxelles, Belgium
Devière, Jacques, Belgium
Dhir, Vinay, Mumbai, India
Didden, Paul, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dietrich, Christoph, Germany
Dolwani, Sunil, Cardiff,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
dos Santos, Carlos Eduardo, Bagé, Brazil
Doyama, Hisashi, Kanazawa, Japan
Draganov, Peter, Gainesville, United States
Dray, Xavier, Paris, France
Dumonceau, Jean-Marc,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dumoulin, Franz Ludwig, Bonn, Germany
Dunbar, Kerry B., United States
Dy, Frederick

Eickhoff, Axel, Hanau,
Germany
El-Asmar, K. M., Egypt
Eloubeidi, Mohamad,
Anniston, United States
Elta, Grace, Ann Arbor, United States
Emami, Mohammad Hassan, Iran (the Islamic Republic of)
Emura, Fabian, Bogota,
Colombia
Etoh, Tsuyoshi, Japan
Ezoe, Yasumasa, Kyoto, Japan

Fabbri, Carlo, Italy
Falt, Premysl, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Familiari, Pietro, Italy
Fatemi, Reza, Iran (the Islamic Republic of)
Fernández-Urién, Ignacio, Pamplona, Spain
Ferreira, Alexandre, Portimão, Portugal
Fracasso, Pierluigi, Roma,
Italy
Fry, Lucia, Magdeburg,
Germany
Fu, Xiangsheng
Fuccio, Lorenzo
Fujii-Lau, Larissa, Honolulu, United States
Fujishiro, Mitsuhiro, Tokyo, Japan
Fujita, Koji, Kita, Japan
Fujiwara, Yasuhiro, Osaka,
Japan
Fusaroli, Pietro, Imola, Italy

Garborg, Kjetil, Kristiansand, Norway
Garg, Pramod
Ghoshal, Uday C.
Gimeno-Garcia, Antonio Z.
Ginés, Angels, Barcelona, Spain
Ginsberg, Gregory G., United States
Goda, Kenichi, Tokyo, Japan
Gomes da Silva, Rodrigo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Gonzalez, Jean-Michel,
Marseille, France
Gonzalez, Jose, Monterrey, Mexico
Gonzalez, Mariano, Chicago, United States
González, Nicolás,
Montevideo, Uruguay
Goto, Osamu, Tokyo, Japan
Gotoda, Takuji, Japan
Green, Neville, Elizabeth Vale, Australia
Greenwald, Bruce, Baltimore, United States
Guaraldi, Simone, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Guilford, Parry ,New Zealand
Gupta, Samir, La Jolla, United States
Gutierrez, Juan, Montevideo, Uruguay

Ha Kim, Gwang, Korea, Republic of
Hahn-Goldberg, S., Canada
Haidry, Rehan, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Han, Jimin, Korea,
Republic of
Harada, Ryo, Okayama, Japan
Harding, Damian, Australia
Hassan, Cesare, Rome, Italy
Hathorn, James, Durham, United States
Hauser, Goran, Rijeka, Croatia
Haycock, Adam, Harrow,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Hikichi, Takuto, Fukushima, Japan
Ho, Shiaw-Hooi, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Hoffmann, Arthur, Germany
Holt, Bronte, Orlando,
United States
Horiuchi, Akira, Japan
Hoteya, Shu, Tokyo, Japan
Hotta, Kinichi, Sunto-gun,
Japan
Hu, Bing, Shanghai, China
Huang, Robert, Stanford, United States
Hüneburg, Robert, Bonn, Germany

Iacopini, Federico, Albano Laziale, Rome, Italy
Ianiro, Gianluca, Italy
Iglesias Garcia, Julio, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Iglesias-Garcia, Julio,
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Iizuka, Toshiro, Minato-ku,
Japan
Ikehara, Hisatomo,
Nishinomiya, Japan
Ikematsu, Hiroaki, Kashiwa, Japan
Imaeda, Hiroyuki, Saitama, Japan
Imagawa, Atsushi, Kan-onji, Japan
Imbe, Koh, Fukushima, Japan
Inamori, Masahiko,
Yokohama, Japan
Irani, Shayan, Seattle, United States
Irwin, James, Brisbane,
Australia
Isayama, Hiroyuki, Tokyo,
Japan
Isayama, Hiroyuki, Tokyo,
Japan
Ishida, Tsukasa, Kobe, Japan
Ishihara, Ryu, Osaka, Japan
Itoi, Takao, Tokyo, Japan
Iwatate, Mineo, Hyogo, Japan

Jacques, Jérémie, Limoges, France
Jaime, Francisca, Santiago, Chile
James, Paul, Ottawa, Canada
Jayanna, Mahesh, Caboolture, Australia
Judd, Stephanie, Detroit,
United States

Kaehler, Georg, Mannheim, Germany
Kahaleh, Michel, New York, United States
Kakushima, Naomi, Shizuoka, Japan
Kalaitzakis, Evangelos
Kanai, Nobuo, Tokyo, Japan
Kanesaka, Takashi, Osaka,
Japan
Kashida, Hiroshi
Japan
Kato, K., Japan
Kawachi, Hiroshi, Tokyo,
Japan
Kawakami, Hiroshi, Miyazaki, Japan
Kawamura, Takuji, Kyoto,
Japan
Kawamura, Masashi, Sendai, Japan
Kaye, Philip, United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Kentaro, Yamashita, Japan
Khomvilai , Supakij, Bangkok, Thailand
Kim, Byung Chang, Korea, Republic of
Kim, Byung-Wook, Korea, Republic of
Kim, Tae Hyeon, Korea, Republic of
Kishino, Maiko, Tokyo, Japan
Kitano, Masayuki, Osaka-Sayama, Japan
Klapman, Jason, Tampa,
United States
Koay, Doreen, Elizabeth Vale, Australia
Kobara, Hideki, Miki-cho,
Japan
Kobayashi, Masaaki, Minami-Uonuma, Japan
Kobayashi, Nozomu,
Utsunomiya, Japan
Koch, Arjun, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Kodashima, Shinya, Tokyo, Japan
Kogure, Hirofumi, Tokyo, Japan
Komanduri, Srinadh, Chicago, United States
Kongkam, Pradermchai, Suan-Luang, Thailand
Koulaouzidis , Anastasios, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Kozarek, Richard, Seattle, United States
Krishna, Murali,
Visakhapatnam, India
Krokidis, Miltiadis
Kusano, Chika, Tokyo, Japan

Lachaux, Alain, France
Ladas, Spiros, Athens, Greece
Laquiere, Arthur, Marseille, France
Larghi, Alberto, Italy
Laugier, Rene, Marseille, France
Lee, T. J. W., United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Lee, John
Lee, Jeong Hoon, Seoul,
Korea, Republic of
Lee, Linda
Lee, Eun-Jung
Leggett, Cadman, Rochester, United States
Lei, Xin, Shanghai, China
Leighton, Jonathan
United States
Lemmers, Arnaud, Bruxelles, Belgium
Lenz, Philipp, Germany
Levy, Michael, United States
Li, Yan-Qing, China
Liggi, Mauro, Iglesias, Italy
Linares Segovia, Benigno
Lino-Silva, L. S.
Liu, Deliang, Changsha, China
Lorenzo, Michele
Louie, Brian E.
Lui, Ka Luen, HK, Hong Kong
Luigiano, Carmelo, Milano, Italy

Macedo, Guilherme, Porto, Portugal
Machida, Hirohisa, Osaka,
Japan
Machiels, Melanie,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Maehata, Tadateru, Tokyo, Japan
Manes, Gianpiero, Garbagnate Milanese (Milano), Italy
Man-i, Mariko, Aichi, Japan
Matuguma, Sergio, Sao
Paulo, Brazil
Mauriño, Eduardo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mavrogenis, Georgios,
Bruxelles, Belgium
Mayerle, Julia, Greifswald, Germany
McGrath, Kevin, Pittsburgh, United States
Meisner, Soren, Copenhagen, Denmark
Meister, Tobias
Michida, Tomoki, Osaka,
Japan
Min, Byung-Hoon, Seoul,
Korea, Republic of
Misra, Sri, Allahabad, India
Moenkemueller, Klaus, Braunlage, Germany
Moon, Jong Ho, Bucheon, Korea, Republic of
Moroi, Rintaro, Oshu, Japan
Moss, Alan, Melbourne,
Australia
Mukai, Shuntaro, Japan
Mulder, Chris, Netherlands
Muller, Andrew, Canterbury, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Muthusamy, Raman, Los
Angeles, United States

Naitoh, Itaru, Nagoya, Japan
Nakai, Yousuke, Tokyo, Japan
Nakajima, Atsushi,
Yokohama, Japan
Nakajima, Takeshi, Tokyo,
Japan
Nakanishi, Hiroyoshi,
Kanazawa, Japan
Napoleon, Bertrand, Lyon, France
Navaneethan, Udayakumar, Cleveland, United States
Neumann, Helmut, Erlangen, Germany
Nimura, Satoshi, Japan
Nonaka, Satoru, Tokyo, Japan
Nonaka, Kouichi, Tokyo,
Japan

Ohnita, Ken, Nagasaki, Japan
Oka, Shiro, Hiroshima, Japan
Okolo, Patrick, baltimore, United States
Omae, Masami, Tokyo, Japan
O'Mahony, Seamus, Omuta, Shigefumi, Tokyo,
Japan

Palazzo, Laurent, Paris, France
Pan, Jun, Shanghai, China
Panackel, Charles
Pant, Chaitanya
Park, Do Hyun, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
Parra-Blanco, Adolfo,
Santiago, Chile
Paula, Helga, Austria
Pauli, Eric, Hershey, United States
Pennazio, Marco, Turin, Italy
Perez-Cuadrado Robles,
Enrique, Murcia, Spain
Perez-Miranda, Manuel,
Valladolid, Spain
Peter, Shajan, Birmingham, United States
Ping-Hong, Zhou, Shanghai, China
Pinto-Pais, Teresa, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Pioche, Mathieu, Lyon, France
Poley, Jan-Werner, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Prat, Frédéric, Germany
Probst, Andreas, Germany
Puri, Rajesh, Gurgaon, India

Racz, Istvan, Gyor, Hungary
Rafeey, Mandana
Ragunath, Krish, Nottingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Rai, Praveer
Rana, Surinder Singh,
Chandigarh, India
Ranstam, Jonas, Lund,
Sweden
Rath, Timo, Germany
Reddy, Nageshwar, India
Rerknimitr, Rungsun,
Bangkok, Thailand
Riccioni, Maria Elena, Roma, Italy
Rios Castellanos, Eddy, Chile
Roman, Sabine, France
Rufino Gomes, Claudio
Antonio, Santo Andre, Brazil

Saenz, Roque, Chile
Safatle-Ribeiro, Adriana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Saito, Yutaka, Tokyo, Japan
Sano, Yasushi, Chiba, Japan
Sarkar, Sanchoy, Liverpool, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Satake, Hironaga, Kobe, Japan
Sato, Hiroki, Niigata, Japan
Saurin, Jean-Christophe, Lyon, France
Sawatzki, Mikael, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Schoefl, Rainer, Linz, Austria
Schurr, Marc O., Germany
Seicean, Andrada, Cluj-
Napoca, Romania
Sekiguchi, Masau, Tokyo,
Japan
Selvaggi, Francesco
Seo, Dong Wan, Korea, Republic of
Shah, Raj, Aurora, United States
Shami, Vanessa, Charlottesville, United States
Shehab, Hany M., Egypt
Sheu, Bor-Shyang, Tainan, Taiwan
Shibata, Chikashi, Japan
Shimizu, Yuichi, Japan
Shimoda, Ryo, Saga, Japan
Singhal, Shashideep,
Brooklyn, United States
Sivandzadeh, Gholam Reza, Iran (the Islamic Republic of)
Sofi, Aijaz Ahmed, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Solonitsyn, Evgeniy, Saint-
Petersburg, Russian
Federation
Spada, Cristiano, Rome, Italy
Spychalski, Michal
Stavropoulos, Stavros, New York, United States
Strand, Daniel, Charlottesville, United States
Sulz, Michael Christian,
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Surawicz, Christina, United States
Suzuki, Haruhisa, Tokyo,
Japan
Suzuki, Noriko, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Swahn, Fredrik, Sweden
Swanstroem, L. L., Portland, United States

Takao, Toshitatsu, Kobe,
Japan
Takeuchi, Yoji, Osaka, Japan
Takizawa, Kohei,
Nagaizumi-cho, Japan
Tan, Damien, Singapore,
Singapore
Tanabe, Satoshi, Sagamihara, Japan
Tanaka, Shinji, Hiroshima,
Japan
Tarantino, Ilaria, Palermo, Italy
Tarnasky, Paul, Dallas, United States
Taullard, Daniel, Montevideo, Uruguay
Teoh, Anthony, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Thandassery, Ragesh Babu
Thompson, Sarah, Adelaide, Australia
Thomson, Andrew, Canberra, Australia
Thoufeeq, Mo, Sheffield, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Tontini, Gian Eugenio, Italy
Topazian, Mark, Rochester, United States
Tounou, Shigetaka, Ichihara, Japan
Trindade, Arvind, New Hyde Park, United States
Tringali, Andrea, Roma , Italy
Tse, Edmund, Australia
Tsiamoulos, Zacharias, Harrow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Tsuchida, Kouhei, Japan
Tsuji, Yosuke, Tokyo, Japan
Tsuji, Kunihiro, Kanazawa,
Japan
Tyberg, Amy, New York,
United States
Uchita, Kunihisa, Kochi, Japan
Uedo, Noriya, Osaka, Japan
Ulm, Kurt, Munich, Germany
Uno, Kaname, Japan
Uraoka, Toshio, Tokyo, Japan

Vaessen, Hermanus, Utrecht, Netherlands
Vanbiervliet, Geoffroy, Nice, France
Varadarajulu, Shyam,
Orlando, United States
Vazquez-Sequeiros, Enrique, Madrid, Spain
Vega, Kenneth J, Denver,
United States
Vieth, Michael, Bayreuth, Germany
Vilmann, Peter, Herlev,
Denmark
von Delius, Stefan, Munich, Germany

Wadhwa, Rajkumar
Walsh, Catharine M., Canada
Wang, Hsiu-Po, Taipei,
Taiwan
Wang, Andrew, Charlottesville, United States
Wang, Kaixuan, Shanghai, China
Wani, Sachin, Aurora, United States
Warners, Marijn J., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Watanabe, Masayuki, Japan
Watanabe, Kenji, Osaka,
Japan
Watson, Rabindra, Los
Angeles, United States
Wilcox, Charles, Birmingham, United States
Wu, Qi, Beijing, China

Yamada, Atsushi, Japan
Yamada, Masayoshi, Tokyo, Japan
Yamamoto, Yorimasa, Tokyo, Japan
Yano, Tomonori, Kashiwa,
Japan
Yokoi, Chizu, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshida, Naohisa, Kyoto,
Japan
Yoshinaga, Shigetaka, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshio, Toshiyuki, Tokyo,
Japan

Zepeda-Gomez, Sergio, Edmonton, Canada
Zorrón Pu, Leonardo, Sao Paulo, Brazil