Dr. Rafael Simó is the Chair of the Division of Endocrinology and Nutrition at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Director of Diabetes and Metabolism Research Unit at Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Deputy Director of Clinical Research at VHIR. His group belongs to CIBERDEM (the Spanish network for the research of diabetes and associated metabolic diseases) Prof. Simó (Hirsch index: 50) has authored over 400 articles, most of them published in high-profile, peer-reviewed journals. Prof. Simó received the Spanish Society of Diabetes Award (Rodríguez Miñón Award, 2008) for a career in the field of Clinical Research in Diabetes, the “Dr. Josep Trueta” Award of the Academy of Medical Sciences from Catalonia (2011) for his innovative contributions in Biomedicine and the Award of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology (2015) for the development and consolidation of a high-quality research group.