Wolfgang E. Schmidt is Chair and Professor of Internal medicine at the Ruhr-University of Bochum School of Medicine, and Director of the Department of Medicine I at the university’s St. Josef Hospital. Professor Schmidt’s major clinical areas of expertise include gastroenterology, diabetology, hepatology, gastrointestinal (GI) endocrinology, GI oncology and general internal medicine. His major research areas are enteroinsular axis, incretins, regulatory gut brain peptides, type 2 diabetes (pathophysiology and novel therapeutic strategies) pancreatitis and GI malignancies. Professor Schmidt has been the Editor-in-Chief of Regulatory Peptides for 10 years and has received 17 scientific awards and honours 。