**Meet the editors**

Prof. Gerhard Kostner was born in 1940 in Vienna, Austria. He studied Chemistry, Biology and Physics at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz and graduated in February, 1966. After spending year and a half as a post-doctor in the laboratory of Pierre Alaupovic in Oklahoma, USA, he returned to Graz and became Assistant Professor in 1970, and full professor for Molecular

Biology and Biochemistry in 1991. His current status is Emeritus University Professor. He became Doctor honoris causa in 2013 at the Semmelweiss University in Budapest. Prof. Kostner published more than 350 original articles in peer reviewed journals. His work has more than 5300 citations and he has 1250 impact points.

Dr. Indumathi Chennamsetty is a post doctoral fellow in cardiovascular medicine studying insulin resistance, validating candidate genes identified in a genome-wide association study of insulin resistance. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology studying transcriptional regulation of Lipoprotein(a) from the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Medical University of Graz,

Austria. Dr. Chennamsetty research interests are insulin resistance, lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, nuclear receptors and cell signaling.
