This issue of BBA Molecular Cell Research highlights advances in lysosomal research in recent years. The expanding area of research on lysosomes makes it difficult to cover every aspect with a limited number of reviews. Thus, reviews on lysosome-related organelles and on the role of lysosomes in infectious diseases for example were exempted because they have been covered by various excellent reviews published just recently.
Acknowledgment
We thank all the contributors for their input and support for this project.
Volkmar Gieselmann Professor of Biochemistry, University of Bonn (Germany)
Dr. Volkmar Gieselmann is a professor of biochemistry at the University of Bonn, Germany. He received his M.D. degree 1981 from the University of Münster. Also in Münster, he trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Physiological Chemistry and the Department of Hematology and Oncology at the University Hospital. Thereafter he worked at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston and the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Göttingen. From 1995 to 1999, he was the associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Kiel and since then he is a full professor at the University of Bonn. He has a longstanding interest in research on pathophysiology and therapy of lysosomal storage diseases.
Thomas Braulke Professor of Biochemistry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany)
Dr. Thomas Braulke is a professor of biochemistry at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. He received his doctorate in neurochemistry at the University of Leipzig in 1980, and was trained as a post-doctoral fellow and group leader in the laboratory of Dr. Kurt von Figura at the University in Münster and in Göttingen until 1999 when he moved to Hamburg. His research focuses on the biogenesis of lysosomes and pathogenic mechanisms of lysosomal storage diseases, and the mitochondrial disorder glutaric aciduria type 1.
