Philipp Scherer is Professor and Director of the Touchstone Diabetes Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Basel, Switzerland and his post-doctoral training at the Whitehead Institute at MIT in Cambridge. In 1997, he joined the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was a Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine, and moved to Dallas in 2007. Throughout his career, he has maintained an interest in processes related to cellular and systemic energy homeostasis with a particular focus on the role of adipose tissue and its impact on the cardiorenal metabolic syndrome, both in preclinical as well as in clinical settings.