Amedeo Lonardo

a.lonardo@libero.it

Operating Unit of Metabolic Syndrome, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, Modena, Italy.

Research Interests: MAFLD, NAFLD, endocrine disorders, sex differences in NAFLD, metabolic syndrome, liver, hypobetalipoproteinemia, dysmetabolism in HCV infection, diabetes in cirrhosis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weiyi Fang

Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: tumor pharmacology, tumor pathogenesis, nanomaterial drug

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

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

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

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

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

Sonia Najjar

Diabetes Institute, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.

Research Interests: insulin clearance, insulin metabolism, lipid metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, fibrosis, metabolic diseases, abdominal obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis

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

Saula Vigili de Kreutzenberg

Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolic Diseases, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Research Interests: cardiovascular, NAFLD, type 2 diebetes, endocrinology, metabolic diseases

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

Jinrong Zhou

Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Research Interests: nutrition, diet, metabolic disorders, cancer prevention