Editorial Board

Amedeo Lonardo

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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

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

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

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

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

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