Tadej Battelino completed his medical degree at the University of Ljubljana in 1990. He completed a Masters degree, and later a PhD focusing on glucose metabolism in neonatal endotoxic shock in 1996. He completed his clinical fellowship at Loyola University of Chicago, and his postdoctoral fellowship at INSERM, Paris. Tadej Battelino is currently Consultant and Head of Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, UMC Ljubljana, Head, Chair of Paediatrics, and Professor of Paediatrics at Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana. He is PI on several research projects in the field of paediatric endocrinology and metabolism and was awarded the Slovene national award for research in 2014, and Gold medal for research at the University of Ljubljana in 2017. Professor Battelino is on the editorial boards for the journals Paediatric Diabetes,Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolismand was Editor for the European Journal of Endocrinologyfrom 2009 to 2015. He has authored or co-authored over 200 manuscripts in international peer-reviewed journals and participated chapters to several books. Tadej Battelino is a member of numerous professional associations including the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, for which he served as President for the 35thAnnual Congress. He served on the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) council and is co-organizer of eleven annual meetings of the ATTD (Advanced Technologies and Treatment of Diabetes). Professor Battelino is a regular member of the Slovene Medical Academy and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Dr Vincent Poitout received his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the École Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort and his PhD degree from the Université Paris 6. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota. He was an INSERM scientist at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris, France and then Principal Scientist at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, before joining the University of Montreal in 2005. Dr Poitout is currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Montréal and Director of Research at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM). Dr Poitout is the former Chair of the National Research Council of Diabetes Canada and of the American Diabetes Association’s Grant Review Panel, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association. He has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Diabetes and The Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Associate Editor for Diabetologia. Dr Poitout’s research is funded by the US National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Diabetes Canada. Dr Poitout received several awards including the Albert Renold Fellowship from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the 2003 Thomas R. Lee Career Development Award from the American Diabetes Association, and the 2009 Young Scientist Award from the Canadian Diabetes Association. He held the Canada Research Chair in Diabetes and Pancreatic Beta-cell Function from 2006 to 2020. Dr Poitout is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.