Massimiliano Caprio is Full Professor of Endocrinology and Human Nutrition at the Open University San Raffaele Roma in Rome. Since 2008, he has been head of the Cardiovascular Endocrinology Laboratories at the IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana Research Center and has worked as a consultant diabetologist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata since 2007. He has internationally recognized expertise in exploring the roles of mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) activation in obesity and metabolic syndrome. Prof. Caprio has contributed a great deal of work on the pathophysiology of adipose proliferation and endothelial inflammation. Prof. Caprio has been appointed as a member of the 17 committee to evaluate translational research projects for the French government’s national research agency (ANR), and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Endocrinology and coordinator of the scientific committee.