Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut, and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, interviews Professor Massimo Rugge, Pathologist at Padova University, Italy, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA; and Ms Ludovica Bricca, a student at Padova University, and the youngest researcher involved in the study. They are interviewed on the paper 'Autoimmune gastritis: long-term natural history in naïve Helicobacter pylori-negative patients' published in paper copy in Gut in January 2023.