Exploration of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases

Editor-in-Chief

Karel Pacak, MD, PhD, DSc, FACE

Professor of Medicine, Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD, NIH*, MD, USA .
*: views in the journal are the employee's and do not represent those of the US Government.

Email: karelpacak@yahoo.com

Founding Editor-in-Chief

Stefan R. Bornstein, PhD, MD, FRCP, MAE

Chair and Director of the Department of Internal Medicine of the University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus Dresden and Chair of endocrinology and diabetes as well as TransCampus Dean at the Kings College London, UK.

Associate Editors

Harold Lebovitz, MD

Interests: diabetes; thyroid ailments; metabolic and nutritional disorders; pituitary diseases

Professor of Medicine in Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, USA.

Geltrude Mingrone, MD, PhD

Interests: insulin resistance; insulin secretion; type 2 diabetes; obesity

Director of Division of Obesity and Related Disorders, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Catholic University, Rome, Italy and Professor of Division of Diabetes & Nutritional Sciences, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.

Nikolaos Perakakis, MD

Interests: metabolism; diabetes; NAFLD; obesity; NASH

Head of Metabolic and Vascular Medicine and Director of University Clinical Study Center for Metabolic Diseases of Department of Internal Medicine III at University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Artemis P. Simopoulos, MD

Interests: endocrine disorders; obesity; Omega-3 Fatty Acids; nutrition and health

President of The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, Washington, DC, USA.

Marijn Speeckaert, PhD, MD

Interests: diabetes mellitus; chronic kidney-disease; glycation; vitamin D; metabolism

Professor of the Department of Nephrology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Ghent, Gent, Belgium.

David Torpy, MBBS, PhD

Interests: adrenal; cortisol; pituitary

Senior Endocrinologist and Deputy Director, Endocrine and Metabolic Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide School of Medicine, Adelaide, Australia.

Editorial Board Members

Gulali Aktas, MD, PhD

Interests: type 2 diabetes mellitus; metabolic syndrome; obesity; frailty; inflammation; nutrition; diabetic complications

Professor and Head of the Internal Medicine Department at Abant Izzet Baysal University Hospital, Bolu, Turkey.

Osborne Almeida, PhD

Interests: brain aging; glucocorticoids; sex hormones; opioids; biological rhythms

Guest Scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany and Professor of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

Tar Choon Aw, MD

Interests: thyroid disease; diabetes; immunoassays; chemical pathology

Senior Consultant with the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Director of Chemical Pathology at Changi General Hospital (CGH) and Clinical Professor (Pathology), Duke-NUS graduate school of Medicine Singapore, Singapore City, Singapore.

Jerzy Beltowski, PhD, MD

Interests: hypertension; atherosclerosis; blood pressure; insulin resistance

Professor of Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.

George P. Chrousos, MD

Interests: stress; obesity; cushing syndrome; congenital adrenal hyperplasia; glucocorticoids; steroids

Professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology Emeritus and Holder of UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care and Director of University Research Institute of Maternal and Child Health and Precision Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.

Stavros Dimopoulos, PhD

Interests: cardiopulmonary rehabilitation; CPET; ECMO; microcirculation

Director Cardiac Surgery ICU, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece.

Marco Falasca, PhD

Interests: lipid metabolism; gastrointestinal diseases; gastrointestinal hormones; pancreatic cancer

Professor in Metabolism, Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Lucia Frittitta, MD, PhD

Interests: Type 2 diabetes; obesity; maturity onset diabetes of the young; type 1 diabetes

Professor of Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

Victor Gault, PhD

Interests: peptide hormones; incretins; insulin; obesity; diabetes

Professor of Experimental Medicine and Associate Dean Research and Innovation-Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, U.K.

Hans K. Ghayee, DO

Interests: pheochromocytoma; paraganglioma; adrenal incidentaloma

Professor of Medicine, University of Florida; Chief, Endocrinology & Metabolism at North Florida/South Georgia VA Health System, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Per-Olof Hasselgren, MD, PhD

Interests: endocrine surgery; thyroid cancer; hyperparathyroidism; hormonal regulation of muscle metabolism

George H.A. Clowes Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Seung-Soon Im, PhD

Interests: transcriptomics; gene regulation; signaling pathways; glucokinase; lipid metabolism; gene expression; biochemistry; molecular biology; liver; chromatin

Professor of Department of Physiology, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea.

Esma R Isenovic, PhD

Interests: cardiometabolic diseases; molecular biology; diabetes; obesity; signaling

Professor of Biochemistry for Science at Faculty of Stomatology, Pancevo, Yugoslavia; Head of Laboratory for Endocrinology, Hypertension and Metabolic Diseases in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Radiobiology at Institute Vinca, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Hendrik Lehnert, MD

Interests: endocrinology; insulin; insulin resistance; diabetes

President of Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, The Republic of Austria.

Jacques Lenders, MD, PhD

Interests: adrenal gland adenoma; pheochromocytoma; adrenal cancer; multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2; normetanephrine

Professor of The Department of Internal Medicine III, University Medical Center Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany and Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Longjian Liu, MD, PhD

Interests: Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome; CVD outcomes; CKM associated neurological disorders

Associate Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA.

Barbara Ludwig, MD

Interests: islet transplantation diabetes; diabetes mellitus type 1; metabolism

Senior physician at the Medical Clinic III, Dept. of Endocrinology and Diabetes, TU Dresden, Germany.

Giuseppe Migliaretti, PhD

Interests: somatotropic hormone; SLA; GH deficiency

Professor of Dep Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Italy.

Viswanathan Mohan, MD, PhD

Interests: epidemiology of diabetes; monogenic diabetes; precision diabetes

Director & Chief of Diabetes Research of Madras Diabetes Research Foundation ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes and Chairman & Chief Diabetologist, Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, India.

Peter Nawroth, MD

Interests: diabetic complications; posttranslational modification; dicarbonyls; DNA-damage and repair

Professor at the Institute of Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany and Department of Medicine, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Nikolaos Papanas, PhD

Interests: diabetic complications; diabetic foot; vascular disease; metabolic syndrome in OSAS and obesity

Professor of Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece.

Peter Schwarz, MD, PhD

Interests: type 2 diabetes; prevention and digitalization in diabetes; metabolic syndrome

Head of Department of Bereich Diabetologie & Versorgung and professor at the Dept. of Medicine III, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Germany.

Charlotte Steenblock, PhD

Interests: diabetes mellitus type 1; metabolism; adrenal; endocrine stem cells

Research group leader at the Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Germany.

Constantine A. Stratakis, MD, PhD

Interests: inherited endocrine tumors syndrome carney complex; pediatric endocrinology; endocrine glands; endocrine tumors

Director, Human Genetics & Precision Medicine, IMBB, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece & ELPEN Research Institute, Athens, Greece. Professor, Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Genetics, European University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. Senior Associate, NIH Clinical Center & NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Anli Tong, MD

Interests: adrenal disease; pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma; primary aldosteronism; pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor

Professor in Department of Endocrinology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Haim Werner, PhD

Interests: insulin-like growth factors (IGF1); IGF receptor; gene regulation; hormones and cancer

Professor Emeritus at the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Sunil J. Wimalawansa, MD, PhD, MBA, DSc

Interests: general endocrinology; metabolism; nutrition; osteoporosis; calcium disorders; parathyroid diseases; obesity; diabetes; CKDu

Director of Cardio-Metabolic & Endocrine Institute, New Jersey, USA.

Aimin Xu, MSc, PhD

Interests: obesity; diabetes; adipose tissue; inflammation; pro-inflammatory adipokines; FGF21-adipionectin axis

Chair professor at Department of Medicine and Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacy and the director of State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Paul Zarogoulidis, MD, PhD

Interests: thyroid gland disease and treatment; lung cancer; oncology

Professor of University General Hospital of Thessaloniki "AHEPA", Greece.