Future challenges in gastroenterology and hepatology, between innovations and unmet needs: A SIGE Young Editorial Board's perspective

Gastroenterology, Digestive Endoscopy and Hepatology have faced significant improvements in terms of diagnosis and therapy in the last decades. However, many fields still remain poorly explored, and many questions unanswered. Moreover, basic-science, as well as translational and clinical discoveries, together with technology advancement will determine further steps toward a better, refined care for many gas-troenterological disorders in the future. Therefore, the Young Investigators of the Italian Society of Gas-troenterology (SIGE) joined together, offering a perspective on major future innovations in some hot clin-ical topics in Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, and Hepatology, as well as the current pitfalls and the grey zones. (c) 2021 Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana S.r.l. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.