Gian Paolo Fadini is a full professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Padova and the associate medical director at the Division of Metabolic Diseases of the University Hospital of Padova. Dr. Fadini is the PI of the Laboratory of Experimental Diabetology at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine. Dr. Fadini's research activities are devoted to the study of chronic vascular diabetic complications, stem cells in diabetes, angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, vascular calcification, vascular regeneration, wound healing, metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance, oxidative stress, acute diabetic complications, and longevity gene pathways in metabolic diseases. With a series of clinical translational studies on endothelial progenitor cells, Dr. Fadini's research has contributed to the understanding of how diabetes induces vascular damage and compromised endothelial repair. Professor Fadini is the editor-in-chief of Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, and Obesity, and was a past AE for Atherosclerosis, the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, and Nutrition Metabolism & Cardiovascular Disease. He is a current board member of the European Heart Journal, Cardiovascular Diabetology, Diabetes Therapy, and Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, and is a former board member of Diabetes and Clinical Science. Dr. Fadini has published more than 330 articles in peer-reviewed journals.