Michael RODEN

Chair/Professor, Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Heinrich-Heine University/University Hospital Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany

Michael RODEN is Chair/Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases and Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology at Heinrich-Heine University/University Hospital Düsseldorf as well as Chief Scientific Officer of the German Diabetes Center (DDZ). He was trained at Univ. Vienna and Yale Univ..

His translational research addresses insulin resistance, energy metabolism, diabetes endotypes and related comorbidities. He has published 750+ peer-reviewed papers and is a Highly Cited Researcher 2022/2023. He received several awards (e. g. Oskar-Minkowski Prize by EASD, G. B. Morgagni Gold Medal by Univ. Pisa, Paul-Langerhans Medal by the German Diabetes Association, DDG), holds honorary doctorates of the Universities of Athens and Belgrade, honorary membership of the Hungarian Diabetes Association and is Collaborative Professor of Kanasawa Universtiy in Japan. Roden was Chairman of EFSD, Honorary Treasurer of EASD/EFSD, President of the Central European Diabetes Association, Austrian Diabetes Association and Congress President of DDG. From 2016-2021, he served as Head of the Committee Medicine-German Council of Science and Humanities, appointed by the President of Germany.

He is member of the Academia Europea and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. As to MASLD, he is responsible for the Liver Academy of the German Centers of Diabetes Research, DDG practice guidelines and serves on the steering committee of the EASL-EASD-EASO guidelines.