Professor Wolfgang Högler is Chair of Paediatrics at the Johannes Kepler University and Chief of Paediatrics at the Kepler University Hospital in Linz, Austria. His clinical expertise is in paediatric endocrinology and osteology. Professor Högler’s research group focuses on the pathophysiology and management of bone and growth disorders such as osteogenesis imperfecta, hypophosphatasia, rickets, short stature and disorders of vitamin D and growth hormone/IGF-1 metabolism. He has developed a particular bed-to-benchside focus on the mechanism of disease in rare bone disorders.He maintains strong research links including PhD student supervision at the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham.