Editorial Board
79 Editors in 16 Countries/Regions
Editor-in-Chief & Founding Editor
Amedeo Lonardo 
[email protected] Operating Unit of Metabolic Syndrome, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: MASLD, liver fibrosis in the context of metabolic dysfunction, SLD secondary to endocrine disorders, sex differences in the metabolic syndrome, association of diabetes and cirrhosis
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
Christopher D Byrne
Endocrinology & Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Research Interests: liver lipid metabolism, endocrinology, dyslipidaemias, metabolic liver disease, type 2 diabetes, NAFLD
Giovanni Targher
Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Research Interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease
Associate Editors
Luigi Elio Adinolfi
Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Piazza Miraglia, Naples, Italy.
Research Interests: intrahepatic cholestasis, HCV cryoglobulinemia, chronic viral hepatitis, NAFLD, HCC
Pietro Andreone
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Research Interests: chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver immunology, liver transplantation, liver stem cells
Luigi Angrisani
Department of Public Health, School of Medicine and Surgery - “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy.
Research Interests: metabolic and Bariatric surgery - hiatal hernia, GERD and obesity - revisional surgery for weight regain and diabetes recurrence
Juan Pablo Arab
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Western University, Ontario, Canada.
Research Interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, MAFLD, NAFLD, steatosis, fatty liver, alcohol, alcohol-associated liver disease
Gyorgy Baffy
Department of Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease, steatohepatitis, portal hypertension, cirrhosis
Stefano Ballestri
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Pavullo, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: NAFLD, metabolic syndrome, association between NAFLD and cardiovascular diseases, ultrasonography
Stefano Bellentani
Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Italian Liver Foundation, Basovizza, Italy.
Research Interests: NAFLD, NASH, epidemiology, chronic viral hepatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, metabolic disease
Helena Cortez-Pinto
Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal.
Research Interests: NASH trials, metabolism, nutrition
Leonardo M. Fabbri
Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, Section of Respiratory Diseases, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
Research Interests: respiratory diseases, metabolic medicine, endocrinology geriatrics, metabolism
Silvia R. Fargion
Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation Ca' Granda IRCCS Foundation, Policlinico Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Research Interests: metabolic and virus liver diseases (MAFLD, NAFLD, HCV and HBV chronic hepatitis), vascular disorders in metabolic liver diseases, iron and copper induced liver diseases (hemochromatosis, Wilson disease)
Giampiero Francica
Interventional Ultrasound Unit, Pineta Grande Hospital, Castel Volturno, Italy.
Research Interests: ultrasound, diagnostic, biopsy and ablation of liver tumors
Fulvio Lonardo
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
Research Interests: morphological, molecular, epidemiological, thoracic malignancies
Sonia Najjar
Diabetes Institute, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.
Research Interests: the role of insulin clearance in insulin action, insulin signaling, lipid metabolism, pathogenesis of cardiometabolic diseases, obesity, MASLD/MASH, atherosclerosis and hypertension, hepatic fibrosis
Luca Roncucci
Department of Maternal, Child and Adult Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: colorectal carcinogenesis, hereditary colorectal cancer, inflammation, chemoprevention of tumors
Ayako Suzuki
Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Research Interests: NAFLD, NASH, biological disparities, sex differences, gender differences, drug-induced liver injury, hepatotoxicity
Claudio Tiribelli
Fondazione Italiana Fegato-ONLUS, Trieste, Italy.
Research Interests: fatty liver and associated diseases, liver damage, stem cells in HCC, personalized treatment, NAFLD
Ralf Weiskirchen
Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry (IFMPEGKC), RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Research Interests: TGF-beta, PDGF, liver, fibrosis, extracellular matrix
Wah Yang
Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: metabolic and bariatric surgery, obesity, metabolic disorders
Editorial Board Members
Matias A Avila
Hepatology Laboratory, Solid Tumors Program, CIMA, CCUN, IdiSNA, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Research Interests: liver regeneration, fibrogenesis, tumorigenesis
Ramon Bataller
Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic-Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, IMDIM, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Research Interests: alcohol-associated liver disease, steatotic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, liver fibrosis
Annalisa Berzigotti
Swiss Liver Center, Visceral Surgery and Medicine Clinic (UVCM), Inselspital, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland.
Research Interests: portal hypertension, non-invasive assessment of liver disease, obesity and liver disease
Stefano Bonapace
Section of Cardiology, IRCCS Ospedale Sacro Cuore Don Calabria, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy.
Research Interests: heart failure, atrial fibrillation, atherosclerosis, diabetes, diastolic function
Fernando Bril
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Research Interests: insulin resistance, NAFLD, NASH, liver steatosis, fatty liver disease, lipotoxicity
Norberto Chavez-Tapia
Gastroenterology & Traslational Research Deparment, Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico.
Research Interests: MASLD, liver cirrhosis, evidence based medicine
Chen Chen
School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Research Interests: endocrinology, neuroendocrine hormones, type 2 diabetes
Enzo Emanuele
2E Science, Robbio, Italy.
Research Interests: Alzheimer’s disease, fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease
Mohammed Eslam
Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Research Interests: MAFLD, hepatitis C, liver cancer, hepatic fibrosis
Jiangao Fan
Department of Gastroenterology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: fatty liver, MASLD, metabolic syndrome, obesity, type 2 diabetes
Weiyi Fang
Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: tumor pharmacology, tumor pathogenesis, nanomaterial drug
Maite G. Fernández‐barrena
Hepatology Laboratory, Solid Tumors Program, CIMA, CCUN, IdiSNA, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Research Interests: metabolic reprogramming, liver regeneration, fibrogenesis, hepatic tumorigenesis
Xianghui Fu
Department of Biotherapy, Laboratory of Diabetes and Metabolism Research, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Research Interests: diabetes, MASLD, cancer, liver diseases, pancreatic diseases
Guangbo Ge
Shanghai Frontiers Science Centre of TCM Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, natural product pharmacology
Francesco Giorgino
Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area, Section of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Andrology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
Research Interests: type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, adipose tissue dysfunction, beta-cell dysfunction
Águeda González-Rodríguez
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols" (IIBM), Madrid, Spain.
Research Interests: liver, metabolism, NAFLD, fibrosis, insulin resistance, hepatocytes
Giovanni Guaraldi
Modena HIV Metabolic Clinic, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: HIV, immune-metabolism, NAFLF/MAFLD, lipodystrophy, aging, solid organ transplant, COVID-19
Linda Henry
The Global NASH Council, Washington, DC, USA.
Research Interests: MASLD, liver cirrhosis, hepatitis C virus
Qiuhe Ji
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Northwest University Affiliated Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, Shaanxi Province, Xi'an, China.
Research Interests: endocrine and metabolic diseases, thyroid disorders, diabetes, diabetic foot disease
Youngmi Jung
Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea.
Research Interests: liver fibrosis, liver regeneration, stem cell therapy, cellular reprogramming, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Takhar Kasumov
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, USA.
Research Interests: lipid metabolism, metabolomics, obesity-related metabolic diseases
Shelley Keating
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Research Interests: MASLD, obesity, diabetes, exercise physiology
Kusum K. Kharbanda
Department of Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States.
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States.
Research Interests: alcohol-associated liver disease, lipid metabolism, methionine metabolism, metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease
Donghee Kim
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Research Interests: MASLD, chronic liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma
Tatiana Y Kostrominova
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine Northwest, Indianapolis, USA.
Research Interests: skeletal muscle, tendon, aging, denervation, obesity, myokines
Panagiotis Lainas
Department of Minimally Invasive Digestive & Bariatric Surgery, Metropolitan Hospital, HEAL Academy, Athens, Greece.
Research Interests: bariatric surgery, metabolic surgery, obesity, minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopy, microlaparoscopy, robotic surgery, oncological surgery, fluorescence guided surgery, colorectal surgery, HPB surgery, liver regeneration strategies
Annunziata Lapolla
Department of Medicine – DIMED, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Research Interests: diabetes, gestational diabetes, cardiovascular disease
George Lau
Department of Medicine, Humanity, and Health Medical Group, Hong Kong, China.
Liver Diseases & Transplant Centre, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: liver transplantation, liver failure, hepatocellular carcinoma
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Carl J. Lavie
John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Research Interests: physical activity , exercise , cardiorespiratory fitness, cardiac rehabilitation, phychological risk factors, CVD, Omega 3
Yong-ho Lee
Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Research Interests: MASLD, MASH, liver cirrhosis, diabetes
Ting Lei
Department of Neurosurgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: hypothalamic-pituitary disorders, brain tumor, molecular mechanism
Mingqing Li
Department of Reproductive Immunology, The International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: glucose and lipid metabolism, the immune mechanisms of endometriosis, maternal-fetal immunity, and the immunology of gynecological tumors
Qiang Li
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: diabetes, obesity, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), thyroid diseases, osteoporosis, hyperuricemia
Mariana Machado
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hospital de Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon, Portugal.
Research Interests: non-alcoholic/metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, alcohol-associated liver disease, liver cirrhosis, end-stage liver disease, pathophysiology of liver disease
Alessandro Mantovani
Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Research Interests: NAFLD, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, ceramides, gender disparity in science
MariaLuz Martinez-Chantar
Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Bizkaia, Spain.
Research Interests: liver disease, mechanism, metabolism, post-translational modifications, translational science
Chiara Mussi
Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Civil Hospital, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: lipid-lowering drugs, osteoporotic, cardiology, atrial fibrillation, dementia, older patients
Laura Nagy
Department of Molecular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Research Interests: alcohol-associated liver disease, macrophage biology, inflammation, cell death mechanisms, NAFLD/NASH
Natalia A Osna
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA.
Research Interests: alcohol-associated liver disease, hepatotropic viral infections, liver damage
Sjaak Pouwels
Department of Surgery, Marien Hospital Herne, University Hospital of Ruhr University Bochum, Herne, NRW, Germany.
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital Tilburg, Netherlands.
Research Interests: intensive care medicine, gastrointestinal surgery, bariatric and metabolic surgery, cardiovascular physiology, obesity treatment
Zheng Ruan
State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Research Interests: metabolism, nutrition, intestinal inflammation, fatty liver disease, anemia
Daniele Santi
Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: reproductive, osteoporosis, cardiovascular risk, spermatogenesis, bone metabolism, hormonal analysis, andrology
Dave Sinacore
Department of Physical Therapy, Congdon School of Health Sciences at High Point University, High Point, NC, USA.
Research Interests: obesity, diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy, physical frailty, sarcopenia, osteoporosis and chronic kidney disease
Ashwani Singal
Department of Medicine, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA.
Research Interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, liver transplantation, alcoholic hepatitis
Norbert Stefan
Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of the Helmholtz Center Munich, Tubingen, Germany.
Research Interests: pathophysiology of obesity and type 2 diabetes, pathophysiology and consequences of NAFLD, metabolically healthy obesity, hepatokines
Wolfgang Stremmel
Medical Center Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany.
Research Interests: metabolic liver diseases, liver inflammation, inflammatory bowel diseases, food intolerance
Gang Wei
Beijing Key Laboratory of Diabetes Research and Care, Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Diabetes Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: metabolic disorders, obesity, diabetes
Robert J Wong
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Research Interests: viral hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma, MASLD/MASH, alcohol-related liver disease, healthcare disparities in liver disease
Vincent Wai Sun Wong
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Research Interests: MASLD, viral hepatitis, liver fibrosis
Wei Wu
School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Research Interests: toxicology, reproduction, transgenerational effects, spermatogenesis, fetal growth
Xingjiang Xiong
Department of Cardiology, Guang′anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: hypertension, cardiovascular disease, critical care medicine, traditional chinese medicine, classic herbal formula
Haoyong Yu
Clinical Research Center, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: diabetes, obesity, metabolic surgery
Ming-Lung Yu
Hepatitis Research Center and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Hepatobiliary Section, Department of Internal Medicine, and Hepatitis Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Center of Excellence for Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Sun Yet-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Research Interests: metabolic associated fatty liver diseases, viral hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma
Kezhong Zhang
Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
Research Interests: organelle stress response, cell metabolism, inflammation
Lemin Zheng
The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: glucose and lipid metabolism, cardiovascular metabolism, metabolomics
Minghua Zheng
MAFLD Research Center, Department of Hepatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Research Interests: MASH, liver cirrhosis, liver fibrosis
Huiping Zhou
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Research Interests: bile acids, sphingolipids, metabolic and liver diseases, liver cancer
Jinrong Zhou
Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: nutrition, diet, metabolic disorders, cancer prevention
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