Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology based at the University CollegeLondon (UCL) Institute of Child Health (ICH), and Head of Clinical Service inEndocrinology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). Hehasan active clinical practice in paediatric and adolescent endocrinology at GOSHand University College London Hospitals. He is Head of the Genetics andEpigenetics in Health and Disease Section within the Genetics and GenomicMedicine Programme at ICH. He recently completed a 3-year term as Chair ofthe British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, and is currentChair of the Programme Organising Committee and member of the Council ofthe European Society forPaediatric Endocrinology (ESPE). He has recently beenelected President of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology in 2020.Professor Dattani has established a research group investigating the molecularbasis of hypothalamo-pituitary disease at UCL. He has identified novelgenes implicated in hypothalamo-pituitary development in patients withcongenital hypopituitarism, and more recently has worked on understandingthe molecular basis of apaediatric brain tumour called adamantinomatouscraniopharyngioma. His work has been recognised nationally andinternationally; he has publications in a number of high impact journals andreceived national and international awards for his work, including theDonaldPaterson prize awarded by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Healthand the Henning Andersen prize awarded by ESPE. He sits on numerousadvisory boards and editorial boards of journals.Professor Dattani’s research group is currently studying pituitary developmentin humans, with a view to identifying novel genes implicated in the aetiology ofcongenital hypopituitarism and related disorders and eventually investigatingpossible genotype-phenotype correlations. He also has an interest in anumber of rare endocrine disorders, usually due to disordered development ofendocrine organs.