ERS | monograph Guest Editors Anne-Marie C. Dingemans Anne-Marie C. Dingemans has been associate professor of pulmonology at the Maastricht University Medical Center (Maastricht, the Netherlands) since 2004, where she currently she coordinates clinical lung cancer trials and is involved in translational research on lung cancer. Anne-Marie Dingemans received her medical degree at Maastricht University (Maastricht) in 1994 and subsequently her PhD at VU Medical Center (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) in 2000 for laboratory research on resistance to chemotherapy in lung cancer. She performed her training as a pulmonologist at VU Medical Center and at Leiden University Medical Center (Leiden, the Netherlands). Anne-Marie is a board member of the Netherlands Respiratory Society (NRS) and the secretary of the NVALT studies foundation. She is also a member of the Lung and Other Thoracic Tumours faculty of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), and of the Harmonised Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists (HERMES) Thoracic Oncology task force. Anne-Marie is a member of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and the European Thoracic Oncology Platform (ETOP). She has (co)-authored more than 80 publications and book chapters. Martin Reck Martin Reck is head of the Department of Thoracic Oncology and head of the Clinical Trial Department in the Department of Thoracic Oncology at the Lung Clinic Grosshansdorf (Grosshansdorf, Germany). He is also Principal Investigator at the Airway Research Center North (ARCN) (Lung Clinic Grosshansdorf), which is a member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL). Copyright ©ERS 2015. Print ISBN: 978-1-84984-061-3. Online ISBN: 978-1-84984-062-0. Print ISSN: 2312-508X. Online ISSN: 2312-5098. ERS Monogr 2015 68: ix–xi. DOI: 10.1183/2312508X.10004115 ix