Shazli Azmi

Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Research Interests: diabetes, micro/macrovascular complications, diabetic neuropathy, small fiber neuropathy, neuropathic pain

Enrica Baldelli

Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.

Research Interests: NAFLD, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cirrhosis, metabolism

Andrea Baragetti

Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: lipids, triglycerides, lipoproteins, atherosclerosis, immune-inflammation, innate immunity, bone marrow

Ilaria Barchetta

Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: diabetes, NAFLD, adipose tissue, obesity, gut-liver axis, inflammation, cardiovascular disease

Josh Bilson

Endocrinology & Metabolism, School of Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Research Interests: obesity, adipose tissue, metabolic liver disease, fibrosis

Daniel Cabrera

Department of Gastroenterology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Research Interests: muscle physiology, exercise, NAFLD, NASH, liver biology, sarcopenia, inflammation

Xintian Cai

Department of Graduate School, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China.

Research Interests: hypertension, diabetes, metabolic-associated fatty liver disease, cardiovascular diseases, cardiometabolic risk factors

An-Tian Chen

Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorder, artificial intelligence, machine learning

Stefano Ciardullo

Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan Bicocca & Department of Medicine and Rehabilitation, Policlinico di Monza, Monza (MB), Italy.

Research Interests: MASLD, diabetes, insulin resistance

Angelo Di Vincenzo

Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Research Interests: obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular Risk, inflammatory biomarkers

Luis Antonio Díaz

MASLD Research Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.

Research Interests: liver diseases, cirrhosis, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, alcohol-associated hepatitis, public health

Lian Duan

Cardiology Department，Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Guang'anmen Hospital, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: cardiovascular diseases, coronary heart disease, hypertension, epigenetics, angiogenesis

Zhixing Fan

Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China.

Research Interests: cardiovascular disease, hypertension, coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, evidence-based medicine, clinical research

Alessandra Francica

Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Verona, UOC Cardiochirurgia, Verona, Italy.

Research Interests: surgical treatment of valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, vascular diseases,heart transplantation

Rocío Gallego-Durán

Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

Research Interests: non-invasive biomarkers, epigenetics, NAFLD

Carla Greco

Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.

Research Interests: diabetes mellitus, diabetic polyneuropathy, autonomic neuropathy, obesity

Mengsi Hu

Department of Nephrology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.

Research Interests: podocytopathy, secondary renal disease, diabetic nephropathy, onco-nephrology

Lishan Huang

Department of Endocrinology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.

Research Interests: diabetes, hypoglycemia, cardiovascular disease, glucose and lipid metabolism, mitochondria

Zuotian Huang

First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.

Research Interests: liver metabolism, liver transplant immunity, fatty liver, liver ischemia-reperfusion injury, lipid metabolism remodeling, liver cancer, plastic surgery

Marco Infante

UniCamillus, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: diabetes mellitus, Type 1 diabetes mellitus, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, atypical diabetes mellitus, pancreatic islet transplantation

Guozhi Jiang

School of Public Health(Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: diabetes, chronic kidney disease, epidemiology, multi-omics, machine learning

Inamul Kabir

Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Research Interests: lipid metabolism, obesity, atherosclerosis, diabetes, aging

Xing Kang

Department of Pancreatic and Metabolic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: bariatric metabolic surgery, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), diabetes mellitus, post-bariatric surgery complications, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)

Jimmy Lai

Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hongkong, China.

Research Interests: cirrhosis, portal hypertension and viral hepatitis research

Chen Li

Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Research Interests: adipose biology, cancer metabolism, energy metabolism

Wei Liu

Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: hypertension, coronary heart disease, traditional Chinese medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine

Zheng Liu

Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASH), macrophages, inflammation

Simonetta Lugari

Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.

Research Interests: lysosomal storage disorders, dyslipidemias, metabolic syndrome, NAFLD, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk, obesity

Lianxiang Luo

School of Ocean and Tropical Medicine, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: cell death, metabolism, inflammation, immunity

Guishuai Lv

International Co-operation Laboratory on Signal Transduction, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Naval Medical University (Second Military Medical University), Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: cancer metabolism, NAD+ metabolism, tumor metabolic microenvironment, hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC), tumor initiating cells(TICs)

Ayman M. Mahmoud

Department of Zoology, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt.

Research Interests: cardiovascular diabetology, diabetes and obesity, oxidative stress/inflammation signaling pathways, nuclear receptors, drug development and nanomedicine, drug-induced toxicity

Mei Mei

Department of Nephrology, Shapingba Hospital affiliated to Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.

Research Interests: hepatitis B virus, kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy

Ziyu Meng

NHC Key Laboratory of Hormones and Development, Tianjin Medical University Chu Hsien-I Memorial Hospital; Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.

Research Interests: liver metabolic regulation mechanisms, MASLD, liver cancer, viral hepatitis

Marica Meroni

Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.

Research Interests: NAFLD, NASH, HCC, genetics, preclinical models of NAFLD, CrispR/Cas9

Agostino Milluzzo

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania Medical School, Catania, Italy.

Research Interests: diabetes mellitus, diabetes in pregnancy, type 1 diabetes, diabetes and cancer

Vincenzo Giorgio Mirante

Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Integrated Activity of General Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata di Verona, Verona, Italy.

Research Interests: endoscopic ultrasound, ERCP, pancreas, biliary tract, colonoscopy

Gabriele Mocciaro

Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Research Interests: dietary patterns, lipoprotein metabolism & mass-spectrometry-based lipidomics, metabolomics, NAFLD, cardiovascular diseases

Soheb Anwar Mohammed

Department of Medicine, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Research Interests: cardiovascular pharmacology, cardiac hypertrophy, sonothrombolysis, microvascular obstruction, ultrasound targeted microbubble cavitation, ultrasound mediated drug delivery, myocardial infarction, ischemia-reperfusion, metabolic syndrome

Fabio Nascimbeni

Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.

Research Interests: inborn errors of metabolism, inherited lysosomal storage disorders, dyslipidemias, atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, obesity, metabolic syndrome, chronic liver diseases

Xuqiang Nie

College of Pharmacy, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China.

Research Interests: diabetes, diabetic foot, diabetic skin complications

Dimitrios Patoulias

Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital “Hippokration”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Research Interests: cardiometabolic medicine, diabetes, obesity, MASLD

Francesco Perone

Villa delle Magnolie Clinic Rehabilitation, Castel Morrone, Caserta, Italy.

Research Interests: cardiac rehabilitation, advanced echocardiography, heart failure, chronic ischemic heart disease

Xinghua Qin

School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: cardioprotection, metabolic homeostasis, electrophysiology

Bruno Ramos-Molina

Institute of Biomedical Research in Malaga (IBIMA), Virgen de la Victoria University Hospital, Malaga, Spain.

Research Interests: obesity, diabetes, NAFLD, adipose tissue, gut-liver axis, metabolism

Shannon Reilly

Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Research Interests: obesity, adipocytes, catecholamine signaling, metabolism, fatty acids, thermogenesis

Rui Ribeiro

Multidisciplinary Center for Obesity Treatment at Hospital Lusíadas Amadora, Lisbon, Portugal.

Research Interests: metabolic and bariatric surgery, GE reflux surgery, hernia surgery, GI surgery

Natalia Rosso

The Italian Liver Foundation and Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.

Research Interests: NAFLD, NASH, obesity, noninvasive biomarkers, preclinical models

Eleonora Scorletti

Department of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Research Interests: lipid metabolism, insulin resistance, metabolic diseases, NAFLD, gut microbiota dysbiosis

Jiajia Shen

Department of General Surgery, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: the pathogenesis of NAFLD, interventions of NASH, the frontier of bariatric surgery

Jinfang Song

Department of Clinical Pharmacy, The Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: type 2 diabetes, diabetic nephropathy, pharmacogenomics, personalized medication, clinical pharmacy in endocrinology

Xiudao Song

Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: diabetes, bioinformatic analysis, molecular mechanism, TCM

Danqin Sun

Department of nephrology, Jiangnan University Medical Center, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: MAFLD, CKD, lipid dysfunction, bile acid

Shinji Takamatsu

Department of Biomedical Informatics, Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

Research Interests: glycobiology, tumor microenvironment, tumor markers, pancreatic cancer, hepatitis B

Zhaohui Tang

Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: CCA, ICC, molecular mechanism, metabolism

Jun Wang

Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, LA, USA.

Research Interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, population-based studies, molecular and genetic epidemiology, translational research

Qian Wang

The Biomedical Translational Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Research Interests: Obesity, NAFLD, cytokine, adipose tissue , inflammation

Xuejian Wang

Department of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital 2 of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: neurosurgery, pituitary tumor, endoscopy, molecular mechanism, prolactin adenoma, somatotroph adenoma

Yang Wang

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: hypertension, obesity, salt-sensitive hypertension, target organ damage, cohort study

Cunen Wu

Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: oncology, immunity, cancer metabolism, cancer metastasis, Chinese medicine

Wenjun Xiong

Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.

Research Interests: diabetic cardiomyopathy, sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (sglt2) inhibitors, cardiac remodeling, energy metabolism, mitochondrial control system, atherosclerosis

Chaojun Yang

Department of Cardiology, The First College of Clinical Medical Science, China Three Gorges University & amp; Yichang Central People’s Hospital, Yichang, Hubei, China.

Research Interests: metabolic diseases, aging-related diseases, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, metabolic syndrome, epidemiology and health statistics

Meng Yang

Inflammation & Allergic Diseases Research Unit, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China.

Research Interests: ovarian lipid metabolism, metabolic interference of environmental endocrine disruptors, lipid metabolism and steroid hormone synthesis, ovarian iron homeostasis

Yang Yang

Key Laboratory of Exercise and Health Sciences of Ministry of Education, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: exercise, active health, skeletal muscle, glucose and lipid metabolism, muscle metabolism

Yoon Mee Yang

Department of Pharmacy, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea.

Research Interests: NASH, liver fibrosis, HCC, liver metastasis, insulin resistance, lipid metabolism, GPCR

Junzhao Ye

Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: obesity, diabetes, hyperuricemia, metabolically associated fatty liver disease

Li Yu

Department of Laboratory Medicine, Longgang Central Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: asthma airway inflammation and remodeling, tumor targeted therapy, adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell

Ling-Feng Zeng

Bone and Joint Research Team of Degeneration and Injury, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: metabolomics and ethnopharmacology in the development of traditional Chinese medicine, evidence-based potential of medicinal plants and phytochemicals, bone and cartilage diseases, guideline standard formulation and scale development, bioactive natural products for health

Nanwen Zhang

The School of Pharmacy, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China; Fujian Key Laboratory of Natural Medicine Pharmacology, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.

Research Interests: acute lung injury, rheumatoid arthritis-related interstitial lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, diabetic nephropathy, renal fibrosis

Wenfeng Zhang

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.

Research Interests: kupffer cells, endotoxin tolerance, sepsis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, immune tolerance in liver transplantation

Xing Zhang

School of Aerospace Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: exercise, metabolism, cardiovascular protection, mitochondria

Zixiong Zhou

Department of Pathology and Institute of Oncology, The School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.

Research Interests: MASH, liver pathology, lipid metabolism

shenglong Zhu

Department of Basic Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: NAFLD, diabetes, target screening and drug discovery including recombinant protein drugs and siRNA drugs