Professor Jean-Francois Dufour studied mathematics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and received his medical degree from the Geneva Medical School. After training in internal medicine in Switzerland, he joined the laboratory of Professor I. Arias at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied the effects of calcium signalling on bile canaliculus. He returned to the clinic to complete a gastroenterology fellowship with Professor M. Kaplan at the New England Medical Center. Then, Professor Dufour established his own laboratory at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where he was clinic director for 10 years. Professor Dufour is a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (fellow), the American Gastroenterology Association (fellow), the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). He is a founding member of the International Liver Cancer Association. He was twice member of governing board of EASL as scientific committee member and then as educational councillor. He was member of the United European Gastroenterology educational committee. Professor Dufour has a large clinical experience and a broad understanding of basic and translational research, its bottleneck and the challenges in disseminating and exploiting knowledge. Professor Dufour has served as principal investigator on numerous clinical studies, focusing on NASH and hepatocellular carcinoma. He is an associate editor of GUT, and was an associate editor of Hepatology (responsible for the monthly ‘Highlights’ section), Journal of Hepatology and Liver International.

Daniél Vega Møller is Vice President in Clinical Drug Development, Obesity & NASH within Novo Nordisk A/S. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Copenhagen in 2000, where he also obtained his PhD within molecular cardio-genetics and heart failure. He has also been involved in the analysis of different biomarkers and their importance for prediction within the field of hypertension, CVD and obesity. After 10 years in the hospital setting in internal medicine, mainly cardiology, he moved to Novo Nordisk and has been employed for almost 12 years focusing on drug development within the portfolio of insulin, obesity and metabolism leading to approval of new drugs for the benefit of the people with chronic diseases. He is currently overall responsible for the departments driving the clinical development plans within obesity and NASH at the clinical stages of development from phase 1-4, including the exploration of possible diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers.