Oreste Gualillo is the Laboratory Head of the NEIRID (Neuroendocrine Interactions in Rheumatic and Inflammatory Diseases) LAB at Instituto de Investigacion Sanitarian de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago University Clinical Hospital, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He completed his PharmD in Experimental Pharmacology at the University of Naples Federico II. Before his current role, he had training at INSERM U344 of Molecular Endocrinology in Paris (France). He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela and a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Medicine, unit of Molecular Endocrinology, University of Santiago de Compostela. His primary research focuses on the molecular signals triggered by adipokines and on the pathways through which adipokines are involved in rheumatic diseases and the inflammatory response, in particular in osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and intervertebral disc degeneration.