Peter Bang is Professor of Pediatrics and Academic Head of Division of Pediatrics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden. He is senior consultant and is heading the Pediatric Endocrinology team. He has more than 25 years research experience in the GH-IGF-field and has a publication list of more than 50 peer-reviewed papers. He graduated from the Engineering School, Technical University of Copenhagen and the University of Copenhagen Medical School, Denmark and did his PhD with Professor Kerstin Hall at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. After Postdoctoral training with Professor Ron Rosenfeld, Stanford University, CA, USA, he did his Pediatric Endocrine training at the Karolinska University Hospital. Peter has a long-lasting interest in the regulation of IGF-I bioactivity with focus on growth disorders and diabetes