Research Prize

UEG awards € 100,000 each year for excellence in basic science, translational or clinical research.

By donating this prize we support a future scientific research project from early stage to successful conclusion. The prize addresses well-established researchers at the height of their active career, whose science has had or will have a crucial impact on digestive health.

Stefan Schreiber is awarded the distinguished UEG Research Prize 2020 for his outstanding project “Therapeutic mechanisms of controlled-ileocolonic-release nicotinamide (CICR-NAM) in IBD”.

His research interests include the molecular genetics and pathophysiology of chronic intestinal inflammation, the clinical development of new therapies for IBD and the discovery of mechanisms that control ageing. He is joint editor of some famous international journals in IBD and genetics and he has to his credit more than 950 original publications in different leading scientific journals.

He is a member of many organizations, such as the American Gastroenterological Association, the European Society of Clinical Investigation, the Scientific Committee of the German Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, the German Society for Internal Medicine and the German Society for Gastrointestinal and Metabolic Disorders. Stefan Schreiber is the director of the Department of Internal Medicine I and head of the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, both at Kiel University. He is also the speaker of the German DFG cluster of excellence “Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation” (PMI).

Stefan Schreiber will receive the award on occasion of UEG Week Virtual 2020

• Active, well-established senior researchers at the height of their active career, whose science has had or will have a crucial impact on digestive health.
• Applicants should be leading a substantial research group and their work should be conducted predominantly in Europe.
• The work should have been supported by substantial peer reviewed grants through internationally recognised research councils, research charities or industrial partners.
• Recipients must have been mentioned at least once as (co-)author of an abstract submitted to UEG Week in the past 3 years.
• There must be at least 5 years between the receipt of the prize and the planned retirement of the awardee.
• Applications from departments that received a grant in the previous 5 years will not be accepted.
• The prize will be awarded to the same recipient only once.