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Reviewer acknowledgements 2016

The editors and staff of Arthritis Research & Therapy would like to warmly thank the reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts in Volume 18 (2016).

Kalle Aaltonen, Finland

Frédéric Lioté, France

Abhishek Abhishek, UK

Xing Liu, USA

Jacob Ablin, Israel

Ming-Lin Liu, USA

Mahmoud Abu-Shakra, Israel

Ke Liu, USA

Adetola Adesida, Canada

Chuanju Liu, USA

Tom Adriaenssens, Belgium

Ru Liu-Bryan, USA

Salah-Uddin Ahmed, USA

Rik Lories, Belgium

Mari Ainola, Finland

Cynthia Louis, Australia

Sofia Ajeganova, Sweden

Nigel Loveridge, USA

Graciela Alarcon, USA

Audrey Low, UK

Katinka Albrecht, Germany

Qianjin Lu, China

Cristiano Alessandri, Italy

Aiping Lu, Hong Kong

Daniel Aletaha, Austria

Anne Lubbeke-Wolff, Switzerland

Andrey Alexeyenko, Sweden

Erik Lubberts, Netherlands

Mauro Alini, Switzerland

Antonio Lucacchini, Italy

Erkan Alpsoy, Turkey

Michael Luggen, USA

Rieke Alten, Germany

Ingrid Lundberg, Sweden

Flavio Amaral, Brazil

Mark Lunt, UK

Hans-Joachim Anders, Germany

Frank Luyten, Belgium

Marina Anderson, UK

Alex Macgregor, UK

Kristofer Andréasson, Sweden

Pedro Machado, Portugal

Narender Annapureddy, USA

Sarah Mackie, UK

Kazuhiro Aoki, Japan

Pasquale Maffia, UK

Florence Apparailly, France

Walter Maksymowych, Canada

Martin Aringer, Germany

Michel Malaise, Belgium

Hiroshi Asahara, USA

Anne-Marie Malfait, USA

Ebru Asicioglu, Turkey

Vivianne Malmström, Sweden

Shervin Assassi, USA

Arthur Mandelin, USA

Tatsuya Atsumi, Japan

Jose Maneiro, Spain

MUKundan Attur, USA

Mirko Manetti, Italy

Thomas Aune, USA

Antonio Manzo, Italy

Tadej Avcin, Slovenia

Kenneth Marcu, USA

Sang-Cheol Bae, South Korea

Xavier Mariette, France

Alan Baer, USA

Tony Marion, USA

Lisa Baganz, Germany

Hoffmann Markus, Germany

Athan Baillet, France

Javier Martin, Spain

Ghaith Bakdash, Netherlands

Michael Martin, Germany

Joshua Baker, USA

Eric Matteson, USA

Antoine Baldassari, USA

Patrick Matthys, Belgium

So-Young Bang, South Korea

Elena Mattia, Italy

Xenofon Baraliakos, Germany

Marco Matucci Cerinic, Italy

Mary Barbe, USA

Claudia Mauri, UK

Anabela Barcelos, Portugal

Clio Mavragani, Greece

Murray Baron, Canada

Jason Mcdougall, Canada

Francesca Barone, UK

Dennis Mcgonagle, UK

Goncalo Barreto, Finland

Wayne Mcilwraith, USA

Christie Bartels, USA

Eoin Mckinney, UK

Mark Bartold, Australia

Fiona Mcqueen, New Zealand

Elena Bartoloni Bocci, Italy

Aranzazu Mediero-Munoz, USA

Anne Barton, UK

Elizabeth Mellins, USA

Jennifer Barton, USA

Tony Merriman, New Zealand

Neil Basu, UK

Kiyoshi Migita, Japan

Manuela Battaglia, Italy

Ted Mikuls, USA

Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding, Germany

Shigeru Miyaki, Japan

Helen Benham, Australia

Ali Mobasheri, UK

Francis Berenbaum, France

Chandra Mohan, USA

Jean Marie Berthelot, France

Luis Moita, Portugal

Celine Berthier, USA

Mo Yin Mok, Hong Kong

Jessica Bertrand, Germany

Chi Chiu Mok, Hong Kong

Ramalingam Bethunaickan, USA

Burkhard Möller, Switzerland

Nidhi Bhutani, USA

Eamonn Molloy, Ireland

Nicola Bizzaro, Italy

Anna Molto, France

Stephan Blüml, Austria

Carlomaurizio Montecucco, Italy

SUSAn Boackle, Canada

Sara Monti, Italy

Luigi Boiardi, Italy

Henner Morbach, Germany

Marie-Christophe Boissier, France

Laurence Morel, USA

Maria Bokarewa, Sweden

Jacques Morel, France

Martine Boks, Australia

Herbert Morse, USA

Bernard Bonnotte, France

Rita A. Moura, Portugal

Olivier Bonny, Switzerland

Luc Mouthon, France

Ray Boot-Handford, UK

Ulf Mueller-Ladner, Germany

Echoe Bouta, USA

ShigeyUKi Muraki, Japan

Simon Bowman, UK

SUSAn Murphy, USA

Sharmayne Brady, Australia

Chris Murphy, UK

Maya Breitman, USA

Hiroshi Nakajima, Japan

Rolf Brenner, Germany

Tadashi Nakamura, Japan

Jan Brinchmann, Norway

Tomoki Nakashima, Japan

Cosimo Bruni, Italy

Kutty Selva Nandakumar, Sweden

George Bruyn, Netherlands

Toshihiro Nanki, Japan

Gerd-Rudiger Burmester, Germany

Antonio Naranjo, Spain

Frank Buttgereit, Germany

Sonia Nasi, Switzerland

Vivian Bykerk, USA

Marcio Navalho, Portugal

Joana Caetano-Lopes, USA

Victoria Navarro Compán, Spain

Juan D Cañete, Spain

Hendrik Nel, Australia

Helena Canhao, Portugal

Elena Neumann, Germany

Melissa Cantley, Australia

Claus Henrik Nielsen, Denmark

Beatriz Caramés, Spain

Peter Nigrovic, USA

Roberto Caricchio, USA

Svetlana Nihtyanova, UK

Francesco Carlucci, UK

Elena Nikiphorou, UK

Loreto Carmona, Spain

Yoshinori Nomura, Japan

Anca Catrina, Sweden

Johji Nomura, Japan

Ricard Cervera, Spain

Birgitta Nordgren, Sweden

Anne-Julie Chabot-Dore, Canada

Tamara Nowling, USA

Nadeen Chahine, USA

Michael Nurmohamed, Netherlands

Kuntal Chakravarty, UK

Koichiro Ohmura, Japan

Marion Chan, USA

Seiji Ohtori, Japan

Vinod Chandran, Canada

YUKinori Okada, USA

Christina Charles-Schoeman, USA

Eleonora Olivotto, Italy

Katerina Chatzidionysiou, Sweden

Nancy Olsen, USA

Der-Yuan Chen, Taiwan

Voon Ong, UK

Peter Cheung, Singapore

Carl Orr, Ireland

Grace Chiu, USA

Ben Ostendorf, Germany

Carlo Chizzolini, Switzerland

Mikkel Ostergaard, Denmark

Louisa Chou, Australia

Andrew Östör, UK

Romy Christmann, USA

Miguel Otero, USA

Lisa Christopher-Stine, USA

Cees Oudejans, Netherlands

Francesco Ciccia, Italy

Mohamed Ouzzine, France

Flavia Cicuttini, Australia

Lauren Pachman, USA

Marco Cimmino, Italy

Leonid PadyUKov, Sweden

Andrew Clark, UK

Gaby Palmer, Switzerland

Laura Coates, UK

Wen Pan, USA

Philip Cohen, USA

Vasileios Panoulas, UK

Serena Colafrancesco, Italy

Owen Papuga, USA

Robert Colbert, USA

Agnieszka Paradowska-Gorycka, Poland

Andrew Cook, Australia

Nicola Partridge, USA

Dane Cook, USA

Eliseo Pascual, Spain

Matthew Cook, Australia

Levin Pavon, Spain

Roxanne Cooksey, UK

Robert Perera, USA

Divi Cornec, France

Harris Perlman, USA

Mariput Corr, USA

Frank Pessler, Germany

Elisa Corsiero, UK

Allison Pettit, Australia

Mary-Ellen Costello, Australia

Christine Pham, USA

Gabriel Criado, Spain

Shiv Pillai, USA

Jose Crispin, USA

Fernando Pimentel, Portugal

Stefania Croci, Italy

Larissa Pinto, Brazil

Adam Croft, UK

Nicolo Pipitone, Italy

Bruce Cronstein, USA

David Pisetsky, USA

Cynthia Crowson, USA

Sara Piva, USA

Kirsty Culley, USA

Denis Poddubnyy, Germany

Maurizio Cutolo, Italy

Georg Pongratz, Germany

Rafael Da Silva Chakra, Brazil

Janet Pope, Canada

Chitra Dahia, USA

Richard Pope, USA

Thomas Daikeler, Switzerland

Diana Patricia Portales-Perez, Mexico

Berno Dankbar, Germany

Blandine Poulet, UK

Laurie Davis, USA

Arthur Pratt, UK

John Davis, USA

Nathalie Presle, France

Fabrizio De Benedetti, Italy

Roberta Priori, Italy

Filip Dekeyser, Belgium

Steven Proulx, Switzerland

Francesco Del Galdo, UK

Xavier Puechal, France

Ellen Delanghe, Belgium

Chaim Putterman, USA

Emanuel Della-Torre, Italy

Celso Queiroz-Junior, Brazil

Christopher Denton, UK

Homaira Rahimi, USA

Atul Deodhar, USA

Anisur Rahman, UK

Rishi Desai, USA

Eva Rakoczi, Hungary

Patrick Dessein, South Africa

Julio Ramírez, Spain

Valerie Devauchelle, France

Sofia Ramiro, Netherlands

Francesco Di Virgilio, Italy

Filipa Ramos, Portugal

Changhai Ding, Australia

Manuel Ramos-Casals, Spain

Haner Direskereli, Turkey

Sangita Rastogi, India

Robyn Domsic, USA

Alan Rathbun, USA

Andrea Doria, Italy

Juergen Rech, Germany

Maxime Dougados, France

Kris Reedquist, Netherlands

Eleni Douni, Greece

Pam Richards, UK

Anne Dudeck, Germany

Pascal Richette, France

Jean Dudler, Switzerland

Adrian Richter, Germany

Aisling Dunne, Ireland

William Rigby, USA

Chantal Duurland, UK

Makarand Risbud, USA

Mona Dvir-Ginzberg, Israel

Jamie Robertson, UK

Hang-Korng Ea, France

Jim Robinson, UK

Andrea Ebersberger, Germany

Francisco Rocha, Brazil

KosUKe Ebina, Japan

Edward Roddy, UK

Robert Eisenberg, USA

Scott Rodeo, USA

Anna-Karin Ekwall, Sweden

Ana Rodrigues, Portugal

Dirk Elewaut, Belgium

Carlos Rodríguez-Lozano, Spain

Hani El-Gabalawy, Canada

Luis Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Spain

Paul Emery, UK

Blake Roessler, USA

Giacomo Emmi, Italy

Vasco Romão, Portugal

Robby Engelmann, Germany

Derry Roopenian, USA

Juan Esplugues, Spain

Stephanie Rouanet, France

Hassan Fahmi, Canada

Robert Roubey, USA

David Fairlie, Australia

Jean Roudier, France

Marta Favero, Italy

Pascale Roux-Lombard, Switzerland

Ursula Fearon, Ireland

Brad Rovin, USA

Eugen Feist, Germany

Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand, France

Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Italy

Je-Hwang Ryu, South Korea

Iván Ferraz-Amaro, Spain

Saedis Saevarsdottir, Sweden

Juliano Ferreira, Brazil

Taku Saito, Japan

Alexandrina Ferreira Mendes, Portugal

Garifallia Sakellariou, Italy

Elizabeth Ferucci, USA

Percival Sampaio-Barros, Brazil

Emilio Filippucci, Italy

Raimon Sanmarti, Spain

Eleanor Fish, Canada

Maria Santos, Portugal

Benjamin Fisher, UK

Eric Sasso, USA

Roy Fleischmann, USA

Kojiro Sato, Japan

Shaun Flint, UK

Minoru Satoh, Japan

Dirk Foell, Germany

Sebastian Sattui, USA

João Eurico Fonseca, Portugal

Amr Sawalha, USA

FraUKe Förger, Switzerland

David Saxby, Australia

David Fox, USA

Carla Scanzello, USA

Tracy Frech, USA

Maria Ec. Schelin, Sweden

Julien Freitag, Australia

Gabby SchmajUK, USA

Anthony French, USA

Andrew Schrepf, USA

Keishi Fujio, Japan

Ian Scott, UK

Naoshi FUKui, Japan

Anthony Sebba, USA

Bridgette Furman, USA

Mireille Sebbag, France

Hiroshi FurUKawa, Japan

Matthias Seidel, Germany

Cem Gabay, Switzerland

Ichiro Sekiya, Japan

Ricciarda Galandrini, Italy

Carlo Selmi, USA

Henrik Galbo, Denmark

Alexandre Sepriano, Portugal

Rajiv Gandhi, USA

Raphaele Seror, France

Frederique Gandjbakhch, France

Guy Serre, France

Benjamin Gantenbein, Switzerland

Petros P Sfikakis, Greece

Marco Gattorno, Italy

Ami Shah, USA

Philippe Georgel, France

Najia Shakoor, USA

Laura Geraldino-Pardilla, USA

Wenhai Shao, USA

Velia Gerl, Germany

Leena Sharma, USA

Roberto Gerli, Italy

Klementy Shchetynsky, Sweden

Evelien Gielen, Belgium

SUSAn Shenoi, USA

Shawn Gilbert, USA

Kelly Shields, USA

Jon Giles, USA

Kotake Shigeru, Japan

Vincent Goeb, France

Masaki Shimizu, Japan

Don Goldenberg, USA

Hirofumi Shoda, Japan

Mary Goldring, USA

Yehuda Shoenfeld, Israel

Juan Gomez-Reino, Spain

Anne Sofie Siebuhr, Denmark

Joao Goncalves, Portugal

Jakob Sieker, USA

Antonio Gonzalez, Spain

Gregg Silverman, USA

Isidoro Gonzalez-Alvaro, Spain

Earl Silverman, Canada

Miguel A. Gonzalez-Gay, Spain

Peter Simkin, USA

Robert Good, UK

Steven Simoens, Belgium

Alan Goodman, USA

Lee Simon, USA

Laure Gossec, France

Jasvinder Singh, USA

Rebecca Grainger, New Zealand

Christopher Sjöwall, Sweden

SUSAnne Grässel, Germany

Judith A Smith, USA

Jamie Griffith, USA

Vanessa Smith, Belgium

Bridget Griffiths, UK

Margaret Smith, Australia

Brunella Grigolo, Italy

Alexander So, Switzerland

Ahmet Gul, Turkey

Vincent Sobanski, France

Monica Guma, USA

Tuulikki Sokka, Finland

Espen Haavardsholm, Norway

Tuulikki Sokka-Isler, Finland

Michelle Hall, Australia

Jeremy Sokolove, USA

Deepa Hammaker, USA

Daniel Solomon, USA

Hilde Berner Hammer, Norway

Veerle Somers, Belgium

John Hanly, Canada

Yeong-Wook Song, South Korea

Boulos Haraoui, Canada

Louis Soslowsky, USA

Timothy Hardingham, UK

Martin Soubrier, France

Masayoshi Harigai, Japan

Alexandre Souza, Brazil

Lorraine Harper, UK

Jeffrey Sparks, USA

Richard Harris, USA

Ulrich Specks, USA

Robert Harris, Sweden

Francesca Spinelli, Italy

James Harris, Australia

Raymond Steptoe, Australia

Wolfgang Hartung, Germany

Edward Stern, UK

Judith Haschka, Austria

James Stone, USA

Afton Hassett, USA

Vibeke Strand, USA

Kenji Hata, Japan

Anja Strangfeld, Germany

Christian Hedrich, Germany

Rainer Straub, Germany

Marius Henriksen, Denmark

André Struglics, Sweden

Yves Henrotin, Belgium

Johannes Strunk, Germany

Elizabeth Hensor, UK

Georg Stummvoll, Austria

Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont, Spain

Laura Su, USA

Ariane Herrick, UK

Lingyun Sun, China

Martin Herrmann, Germany

Bjorn Sundstrom, Sweden

Roger Hesselstrand, Sweden

Andreas Surdacki, Poland

Monique Hinchcliff, USA

Gaurav Swarnkar, USA

Timothy Hinks, USA

Deborah Symmons, UK

Joseph Holoshitz, USA

Zoltan Szekanecz, Hungary

Dirk Holzinger, Germany

Agnes Szentpetery, Ireland

Gerd Horneff, Germany

Marcin Szkudlarek, Denmark

Gunnar Houen, Denmark

Leonie Taams, UK

Marie Hudson, Canada

NaoyUKi Takahashi, Japan

Kim Huffman, USA

Masahiko Takahata, Japan

Jan Hughes-Austin, USA

Kaoru Takase, Japan

Marc Humbert, France

Tsutomu Takeuchi, Japan

Clark Hung, USA

Meghna Talekar, Australia

Doerte Huscher, Germany

Jose Tamez Pena, Mexico

Sultana Monira Hussain, Australia

Naoto Tamura, Japan

Kei Ikeda, Japan

Sakae Tanaka, Japan

Masahiko Ikeuchi, Japan

YUKi Taniguchi, Japan

Gun-Il Im, South Korea

Bozena Targonska-Stepniak, Poland

Robert Inman, Canada

Sander Tas, Netherlands

Andreea Ioan, Netherlands

Peter Taylor, UK

John Isaacs, UK

Andrew Teichtahl, Australia

David Isenberg, UK

Samantha Terry, UK

Masaru Ishii, Japan

Ender Terzioglu, Turkey

Muneaki Ishijima, Japan

Philippe Tessier, Canada

Hiromu Ito, Japan

Simon Tew, UK

Peggy Jacques, Belgium

Stefan Toegel, Austria

Holger Jahr, Germany

Rene Toes, Netherlands

Per-Johan Jakobsson, Sweden

Hans-Peter Tony, Germany

Diahann Jansen, Australia

Zahi Touma, Canada

Tim L Jansen, Netherlands

Anne Tournadre, France

Iustina Janta, Spain

Maria Trojanowska, USA

Ok Jensen, Denmark

Leendert Trouw, Netherlands

Juan Miguel Jimenez-Andrade, Mexico

Tsen-Fang Tsai, Taiwan

Ã…sa Johansson, Sweden

Aspasia Tsezou, Greece

James Johnston, Canada

NaoyUKi Tsuchiya, Japan

Kim Jones, USA

Shinichiro Tsunoda, Japan

Elena Jones, UK

Tamir Tuller, Israel

Gareth Jones, UK

Carl Turesson, Sweden

Antonio Julià, Spain

Athanasios Tzioufas, Greece

Jae-Bum Jun, South Korea

Y Urata, Japan

Yuho Kadono, Japan

Vilma Urbonaviciute, Sweden

Bashar Kahaleh, USA

Gianluca Vadala, Italy

George Kalliolias, USA

Augusto Vaglio, Italy

Hideto Kameda, Japan

Lisa Van Baarsen, Netherlands

Ryutaro Kamijo, Japan

Désirée Van Der Heijde, Netherlands

Rita Kandel, Canada

Annette Van Der Helm- Van Mil, Netherlands

Mohit Kapoor, Canada

Peter Van Lent, Netherlands

Dimitris Kardasis, Greece

Annemarie Van Nieuwenhuijze, Belgium

Morten Karsdal, Denmark

Piet Van Riel, Netherlands

Atsushi Kawakami, Japan

Joel Van Roon, Netherlands

Aniket Kawatkar, USA

Dirkjan Van Schaardenburg, Netherlands

Tony Kenna, Australia

Arie Jan Van Winkelhoff, Netherlands

Wietske Kievit, Netherlands

Vincent Vander Poorten, Belgium

Hyoun-Ah Kim, South Korea

Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Greece

Thorsten Kirsch, USA

Jiri Vencovsky, Czech Republic

Richard Kitching, Australia

Patrick Verschueren, Belgium

Nicolai Kittan, Germany

Suzanne Verstappen, UK

Kerstin Klein, Switzerland

Vibeke Videm, Norway

Jason S. Knight, USA

Elsa Vieira-SoUSA, Portugal

Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Japan

Edward Vital, UK

Shigeto Kobayashi, Japan

Olivier Vittecoq, France

Marije Koenders, Netherlands

Stephan Vongunten, USA

Toshihisa Kojima, Japan

Ulf Wagner, Germany

Jason Kolfenbach, USA

Brian Walitt, USA

Noriko Komatsu, Japan

Yuanyuan Wang, Australia

Isabelle Kone-Paut, France

Fiona Watt, UK

Adelheid Korb-Pap, Germany

Michael Weisman, USA

Shigeru Kotake, Japan

Pamela Weiss, USA

Roman Krawetz, Canada

James Wells, Australia

Joel Kremer, USA

Daniel Wendling, France

Féline Kroon, Netherlands

Mark Wener, USA

Kristine Kuhn, USA

Jennifer Westendorf, USA

Chang-Fu Kuo, UK

Jonas Wetterö, Sweden

Hirokazu Kurata, Japan

Ian Wicks, Australia

Kei Kuroki, USA

Richard Wilson, Australia

Fina Kurreeman, Netherlands

Joan Wither, Canada

Jason Kutch, USA

Timothy Wright, USA

Masataka Kuwana, Japan

Tianfu Wu, USA

Vasileios Kyttaris, USA

Chao Xie, USA

José Lamas, Spain

Ryo Yamada, Japan

Cécile Lambert, Belgium

Kunihiro Yamaoka, Japan

Robert Landewe, Netherlands

Raghunatha Yammani, USA

Nancy Lane, USA

Peizeng Yang, China

Raquel Largo, Spain

Hisataka Yasuda, Japan

Christian Lattermann, USA

Yusuf Yazici, USA

Chak-Sing Lau, Hong Kong

Nataliya Yeremenko, Netherlands

Matthias Laudes, Germany

KazUKi Yoshida, USA

Bernard R. Lauwerys, Belgium

Jeehee Youn, USA

Sheila Laverty, Canada

Di Yu, Australia

Kim-Anh Le Cao, Australia

Xinhua Yu, Germany

Maria Leandro, UK

Huifeng Yun, USA

Iris Lee, USA

Dimitrios Zeugolis, Ireland

Yvonne Lee, USA

Ming Hao Zheng, Australia

Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo, Finland

Suzie Zick, USA

Willem Lems, Netherlands

Annalinda Zignego, Italy

Quan-Zhen Li, USA

Angela Zink, Germany

Dawei Li, USA

Devy Zisman, Israel

Katherine Liao, USA

Moncef Zouali, France

Scott Lieberman, USA

Pascal Zufferey, Switzerland

Sophia Lionaki, Greece

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