Research update for articles published in EJCI in 2015.

Pasquale Abete, Christopher Adlbrecht, Stelios F. Assimakopoulos, Nancy Côté, Robin P.F. Dullaart, Helen V. Evsyukova, Te-Chao Fang, Nandu Goswami, Helmut Hinghofer-Szalkay, Yi-Lwun Ho, Clemens Hoebaus, Martin Hülsmann, Olafur S. Indridason, Ivana Kholová, Yen-Hung Lin, Mauro Maniscalco, Patrick Mathieu, Hiroki Mizukami, Gjin Ndrepepa, Andreas Roessler, Silvia Sánchez-Ramón, Francesca Santamaria, Gerit-Holger Schernthaner, Chrisoula D. Scopa, Keith M. Sharp, Gudrun V. Skuladottir, Olivier Steichen, Peter Stenvinkel, Marta Tejera-Alhambra, Gianluca Testa, Frank L.J. Visseren, Jan Westerink, Anna Witasp, Soroku Yagihashi and Seppo Ylä-Herttuala Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Traslazionali, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece, Department of Surgery, Laboratoire d’Études Moléculaires des Valvulopathies (LEMV), Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec/Research Center, Laval University, Québec, Canada, Department of Endocrinology, University of Groningen and University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Department of Hospital Therapy, Medical Faculty, St Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, Institute of Physiology, Medical University of Graz, Austria, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine II, Angiology, Medical University and General Hospital of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Internal Medicine Services, Landspitali – The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Pathology, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland, Section of Respiratory Diseases, Hospital “S. Maria della Pietà”, Casoria, Naples, Italy, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Herzund Kreislauferkrankungen, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany, Department of Clinical Immunology, Hospital Clı́nico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy, Diabetes Research Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA, Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Internal Medicine Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Tenon Hospital, Paris, France, Faculty of Medicine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France, Divisions of Renal Medicine and Baxter Novum, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology,Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Dipartimento di Medicina e Scienze della Salute, Università del Molise, Campobasso, Italy, Department of Vascular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland