Marte Lie Høivik, a leading researcher in IBD, is a professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Oslo and Senior Consultant and head of the IBD unit at the Department of Gastroenterology, Oslo University Hospital. Her research focuses on the role of the microbiome in IBD, as well as the relationship between genetic factors and
Arthur Kaser is chief gastroenterologist at Addenbrooke’s (Cambridge, UK), experienced in IBD and clinical studies and has an excellent track-record in mucosal immunology.
Christine Moissl-Eichinger, a leading researcher in microbiome science, is a professor at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. She focuses on the human microbiome and its interactions with environmental microbiomes, with a particular interest in archaea.
Ng Siew Chien is an Associate Dean (Research) and Professor in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She is also the Director of the Microbiota I-Center (MagIC) and Associate Director of the Centre for Gut Microbiota Research. With expertise in IBD, fecal microbiota transplantation, colorectal cancer, and
Jeroen Raes (VIB/KU Leuven, Belgium) is one of the key microbiome researchers in Europe that has been involved in the EU microbiome initiative MetaHIT and who is currently driving the Flemish Gut Flora Project.
Melanie Schirmer has worked as a computational scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (USA), studying the human microbiome and identifying microbial factors involved in the pathogenesis of IBD. Afterwards, she established her own independent research group at Technical University of Munich (TUM) with an
Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry / Helmholtz Zentrum München
Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, an expert in metabolomics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH and director of the independent research unit “Analytical Biogeochemistry”
Stefan Schreiber, a renowned expert in IBD, one of three directors of the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology and director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine I at Kiel Campus of the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein.
