Kazuya Yamagata is a Professor at the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. He received a Doctor of Medicine at the Osaka University. His research interests include diabetology, internal medicine, biochemistry, and metabolism. His field of study is life sciences/metabolism and endocrinology.

Tomoya Mizumoto is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan from April 2023. He received a Doctor of Medical Science at the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University in March 2023. His research interests include diabetology, biochemistry, and aging.

Tatsuya Yoshizawa Ph. D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University. He graduated from The University of Tokyo (Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences) in 1999. From 1999 to 2007, he performed research at Niigata University as an Assistant professor. In 2007, he joined the Dr. Gerard Karsenty Lab., Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar. He returned to Japan and became an Assistant Professor at Kumamoto University in 2010. His research interest is in the regulatory mechanism of transcription factors in metabolisms, such as bone, glucose, lipid, and energy metabolisms.