Prof. Amar Abderrahmani is a Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Medicine, Lille University, since 2011. He has a multidisciplinary background with degrees in Molecular Genetics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. From 2005 to 2011, A.A. was a Privat-Docent at Lausanne University and a group leader from the “from Islet beta cells to diabetes” group in the Department of Fundamental Neuroscience in the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at Lausanne University. From 2015 to 2018 he was the deputy director of the lab UMR CNRS 8199 dedicated to investigating the genetic and molecular basis of diabetes and obesity. A.A. has held a Chair of Excellence in beta-cell biology, bioscience and diabetes. He has published book chapters and regular articles in outstanding journals (e.g., Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, JCI, Diabetes, Diabetologia). A.A. has been a member of several scientific committees of the Diabetes Association and is currently editor-in-chief of All Life, an open-access multidisciplinary journal.