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Prof. Marco Cappa is Professor in Pediatrics at “Scuola di Pediatria” University of Tor vergata, Genetics at Catholic University of Rome, and in Endocrinology at University “La Sapienza” in Rome. In 2013 Licensed as full Professor in Pediatrics. From 2011 to 2013 he served as President of Italian Society For Pediatric Endocrinology. Prof. Cappa’s specialties include endocrinology, pediatrics, and sports medicine. His scientific areas of interests include neuroendocrinology and genetics.

His specialties include: Growth mechanism and Pubertal development (Hypothalamic Pituitary Gonadal axis), Adrenoleukodistrphy, Generalized and partial lypodistrophy, CAH, Genetic obesity comprising Prader Willi syndrome.

He is a widely published author in the most important international journals. His h-index is 39 and he published more than 320 peer reviewer papers.

Prof. Stefano Cianfarani is Full Professor of Paediatrics in the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and Chief of the Diabetology and Growth Disorders Unit at the “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital, in Rome Italy. Former President of the Italian Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (ISPED) 2017-2019, Prof. Cianfarani is President Elect of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) 2020-2021. Since 2012, Prof. Cianfarani is Visiting Professor, at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. From 2004 to 2010, he chaired the Clinical Practice Committee of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) and was member of the Programme Organizing Committee and Council of ESPE. Prof. S. Cianfarani is Editor in Chief of Hormone Research in Paediatrics, official journal of European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE), Pediatric Endocrine Society (PES) and Sociedade Latino-Americana de Endocrinologia Pediatrica (SLEP).

Mehul Dattani is Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology based at the University College London (UCL) Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, and Specialty Lead in Endocrinology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). He has an active clinical practice in paediatric and adolescent Endocrinology at GOSH and University College London Hospitals (UCLH). He completed a 3-year term as Chair of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, followed by a 7 year term as Chair of the Programme Organizing Committee and member of the Council of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE). He is the currently the President of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology. He has also served as co-Chair of the Pituitary Main Thematic Group of the ENDO-ERN initiative until December 2020.

Professor Dattani has established a laboratory group investigating the molecular basis of hypothalamo-pituitary disease at UCL. He has identified novel genes implicated in hypothalamo-pituitary development in patients with congenital hypopituitarism, and has worked on understanding the molecular basis of a paediatric brain tumour called adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma. He has more than 250 publications including original articles and scholarly reviews in a number of high impact journals, as well as numerous book chapters. He sits on numerous advisory boards and editorial boards of journals. He has previously received the ESPE Henning Andersen and RCPCH Donald Paterson awards for his scientific work. He has co-authored 3 textbooks to date, including the 7^th Edition of Brook’s Clinical Paediatric Endocrinology.

Lucia Ghizzoni graduated in medicine from the University of Parma, Italy, where she also received her postgraduate qualification in pediatrics. After completing a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, she returned to Parma where she was director of the Pediatric Endocrine Section and the Molecular Biology Laboratory on Rare Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Parma. She then moved to the University of Turin, Italy, where she was Director of the Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology Section of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Her contributions to the field of endocrinology and metabolism include research on the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in physiologic as well as in pathologic conditions such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia and premature pubarche. Her research also elucidated the interactions of the spontaneous secretion of different pituitary and adrenal hormones by the study of their pulsatile release in physiologic and pathologic conditions.

Professor Maghnie is a professor of Pediatrics and PhD In Pediatric Endocrinology, Head of the Pediatric Clinic, Clinical Service in Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Giannina Gaslini Institute, University of Genoa, Italy. He is currently a Director of the Pediatric Residency Program at the University of Genoa, Italy, former Director of the Pediatric Residency Program at the University of Genoa, Italy (2008–2014), and former President of the Italian Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (ISPED, 2011-2015). He was also Chair of the ESPE website (2004–2008), a co-author of Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology (2004–2009), and a member of the ESPE

Professor Maghnie’s major research interests include growth disorders and their treatment and the management of pediatric pituitary disorders. He was the Co-Chair of the Education & Training Working Group of COST action BM1105 on GnRH Deficiency: Elucidation of the neuroendocrine control of human reproduction. He is the supervisor of several postgraduate research students and postdoctoral fellows working in his research group. He is the supervisor of several postgraduate research students and postdoctoral fellows working in his research group.

Professor Maghnie has authored over 250 original articles, textbook chapters and 216 full papers in peer-reviewed journals/

Full Professor of Endocrinology at the Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Health, University of Milan, Italy.

Chief of the Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano, Italy.

After the bulk of training as Clinical Endocrinologist and PhD in Metabolic Diseases at the Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, and University of Milan, LP was Visiting Scientist in 1998 at the Lab of Reproductive Biology (lead: Prof M. Conti) at Stanford University, USA. LP was appointed Research Consultant at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano in 1999, and Associate Professor of Endocrinology, University of Milan in 2001; Full Professor since 2016 and Director of the Postagraduate School of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases since 2019. LP is a translational researcher whose main interests include the pathogenesis and management of the diseases of thyroid and gonadal axes. LP is member of the Steering Committee and Adult Chair of the main thematic group 7 on rare disorders of Sex Development and Maturation of ENDO-ERN, and is co-leader of the WP3 on Quality Assessment of EuRRECa project. LP is Associate Editor of the European Thyroid Journal and of the Journal of the Endocrine Society, and is co-Author of 309 articles in PubMed (H index, Scopus: 58).