Professor Max Nieuwdorp (1977) studied Medicine at Utrecht University and received his Ph.D. in diabetes at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA; under supervision of Professor John Kastelein).  After a residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology at the AMC-UvA he performed a postdoctoral fellowship on glycobiology at University of California, San Diego in the department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine under Professor Jeff Esko. Professor Nieuwdorp is currently chair of the AmsterdamUMC Diabetes Center as well as chair of (Experimental) Vascular Medicine department;  36 Ph.D. students have already defended their thesis under his stewardship, currently he has 30 Ph.D. students, 6 postdoctoral fellows as well as 4 bioinformaticians in his group. His research supported by several prestigious personal grants (NWO Veni/Vidi/VICI as well as ERC Advanced grant) as well several EU and NovoNordiskFoundation consortiumgrants focuses on translational research aimed at dissecting the causal role of (small) intestinal bacterial strains in development of type 1/type 2 diabetes mellitus, NAFLD-NASH and cardiometabolic disease with a special interest in the gut-brain axis. Prof Nieuwdorp has published > 370 peer reviewed articles including papers in Nature Medicine, Science, Cell Host Microbes, NEJM, Cell Metabolism, Gut and Gastroenterology. He also recently published his book for the laypublic entitled “ We are our hormones”, which is currently translated in 10 languages including an English version at Simon and Schuster publishers in May 2024.