We would like to thank the members of the ESMO Translational Research and Personalised Medicine Working Group, the ESMO Publishing Working Group, and also the ESMO Educational Steering Committee for their encouragement and support of this initiative.
We would also like to thank Dr Keith McGregor, Claire Bramley, Svetlana Jezdic, Laure-Emmanuelle Peyret, and Jennifer Lamarre of ESMO for their support and assistance with the preparation of this publication.
Above all, we would like to thank all the authors, who provided important contributions and enabled us to make the update of this ESMO Handbook of Translational Research a reality.
Giampaolo Tortora, Cristiana Sessa, Aldo Scarpa, Susana Banerjee
