Martin Reck underwent medical training at the University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) from 1986–1993. He completed his doctorate at the General Hospital Wandsbek, Hamburg, in 1995, and received post-graduate training at the Hospital Grosshansdorf. He was appointed as a specialist in internal medicine in 2001 and as a specialist in pulmonology in 2002. In 2008, he was awarded a post-doctoral lecturing qualification by the University of Schleswig-Holstein (Kiel, Germany). Martin Reck has acted as a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator in various clinical trials since 1993. His main interests are new medical treatments for thoracic malignancies and translational research related to predictive markers. A particular focus of his work is the clinical development of antiangiogenic compounds, such as bevacizumab, nintedanib and other compounds. Recently, he also has been deeply involved in several key trials with immunotherapies, including ipilimumab, programmed cell death protein-1 and programmed cell death ligand-1 antibodies and other agents. In addition to the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), Martin Reck is also a member of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the German Working Group for Lung Cancer, the German Cancer Society (DKG) and the German Respiratory Society (DGP). He has published papers in numerous peer-reviewed journals and is member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Annals of Oncology and Lung Cancer. Virginie Westeel Virginie Westeel is professor of pulmonology at the University of Franche-Comté (Besançon, France) and head of the Thoracic Oncology unit at the University Hospital of Besançon (Besançon). She is a graduate of the University of Franche-Comté. Her clinical and research activities are exclusively dedicated to lung cancer and her research interests include lung cancer therapeutics, follow-up and evidence-based medicine. Virginie Westeel is currently the Principal Investigator of the only large multicentre randomised trial that has been conducted to date on follow-up after lung cancer surgery. Her 93 publications mostly include the results of clinical trials in both early stage and advanced lung cancer. Virginie Westeel took on the role of Joint Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Lung Cancer Review Group in 2013. She led the x