Junior Editorial Board
Junior Editorial Board Members
Research Interests: diabetes, micro/macrovascular complications, diabetic neuropathy, small fiber neuropathy, neuropathic pain
Research Interests: NAFLD, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cirrhosis, metabolism
Research Interests: lipids, triglycerides, lipoproteins, atherosclerosis, immune-inflammation, innate immunity, bone marrow
Research Interests: diabetes, NAFLD, adipose tissue, obesity, gut-liver axis, inflammation, cardiovascular disease
Research Interests: thyroid, hormones, gonadotropins, thyroid cancer, levothyroxine
Research Interests: muscle physiology, exercise, NAFLD, NASH, liver biology, sarcopenia, inflammation
Research Interests: MASLD, diabetes, insulin resistance
Research Interests: obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular Risk, inflammatory biomarkers
Luis Antonio Diaz
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
Research Interests: non-invasive biomarkers, epigenetics, NAFLD
Research Interests: diabetes mellitus, diabetic polyneuropathy, autonomic neuropathy, obesity
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, China.
Research Interests: diabetes, chronic kidney disease, epidemiology, multi-omics, machine learning
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, 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
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, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: cell death, metabolism, inflammation, immunity
Research Interests: cardiovascular diabetology, diabetes and obesity, oxidative stress/inflammation signaling pathways, nuclear receptors, drug development and nanomedicine, drug-induced toxicity
Research Interests: adrenal, ovary, reproduction, infertility, insulin resistance, premature ovarian insufficiency, cushing's syndrome, cortisol
Research Interests: NAFLD, NASH, HCC, genetics, preclinical models of NAFLD, CrispR/Cas9
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
Research Interests: dietary patterns, lipoprotein metabolism & mass-spectrometry-based lipidomics, metabolomics, NAFLD, cardiovascular diseases
Research Interests: cardiovascular pharmacology, cardiac hypertrophy, sonothrombolysis, microvascular obstruction, ultrasound targeted microbubble cavitation, ultrasound mediated drug delivery, myocardial infarction, ischemia-reperfusion, metabolic syndrome
Research Interests: inborn errors of metabolism, inherited lysosomal storage disorders, dyslipidemias, atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, obesity, metabolic syndrome, chronic liver diseases
Dimitrios Patoulias
Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital “Hippokration”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Research Interests: cardiometabolic medicine, diabetes, obesity, MASLD
Research Interests: cardiac rehabilitation, advanced echocardiography, heart failure, chronic ischemic heart disease
Research Interests: obesity, diabetes, NAFLD, adipose tissue, gut-liver axis, metabolism
Research Interests: obesity, adipocytes, catecholamine signaling, metabolism, fatty acids, thermogenesis
Research Interests: metabolic and bariatric surgery, GE reflux surgery, hernia surgery, GI surgery
Research Interests: NAFLD, NASH, obesity, noninvasive biomarkers, preclinical models
Research Interests: reproductive, osteoporosis, cardiovascular risk, spermatogenesis, bone metabolism, hormonal analysis, andrology
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
Research Interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, population-based studies, molecular and genetic epidemiology, translational research
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, China.
Research Interests: obesity, diabetes, hyperuricemia, metabolically associated fatty liver disease
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, China; Fujian Key Laboratory of Natural Medicine Pharmacology, Fuzhou, China.
Research Interests: acute lung injury, rheumatoid arthritis-related interstitial lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, diabetic nephropathy, renal fibrosis
Xing Zhang
School of Aerospace Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China.
Research Interests: exercise, metabolism, cardiovascular protection, mitochondria