Research Prize

In 2025, UEG will award € 50,000 for excellence in basic science, translational or clinical research. 

With this prize we support a future scientific research project from early stage to successful conclusion. The prize addresses active, established senior researchers whose science will have a crucial impact on digestive health. 

Application is closed.

• Active, established senior researchers whose science will have a crucial impact on digestive health and whose proposed study will have a significant impact on the advancement of their career.  

• Applicants should be leading a substantial research group and their work, preferably focused on research areas that generally have greater difficulty in obtaining funding, should be conducted predominantly in Europe. 

• The applicant's work should have been supported by substantial peer reviewed grants through internationally recognised research councils, research charities or industrial partners.
• Applicants must have been mentioned at least once as (co-)author of an abstract submitted to UEG Week in the past 3 years (2022, 2023 and/or 2024) OR have been awarded as UEG Rising Stars in the past 5 years (2020-2024). 
• Applicants must commit to deliver the agreed research within the stipulated time frame. 
• Applications from departments that received a Research Prize in the previous 5 years (2020-2024) will not be accepted.  
• The prize will be awarded to the same recipient only once.
• This opportunity is available for all myUEG Associates.  
• We encourage candidates from all digestive health fields to apply.
• For further details, read our application criteria.

Enrique de-Madaria is a Gastroenterologist and Coordinator of the Biliary-Pancreatic Unit at Dr. Balmis Hospital in Alicante, Spain. He is also Scientific Deputy Director of ISABIAL in Alicante, Spain, and Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at the Miguel Hernandez University in Elche, Spain.  

Enrique de-Madaria specializes in the clinical management of pancreatic and biliary diseases. His group promotes multicenter collaborative studies at the national and international levels, focusing mainly on acute and chronic pancreatitis. He has dedicated more than 10 years to studying fluid resuscitation in acute pancreatitis, with studies that have changed clinical practice. The WATERLAND study, which applied for the UEG Research Prize, is the randomized clinical trial in acute pancreatitis with the largest number of participating countries conducted to date (13 countries on 4 continents).  

In 2017, Enrique de-Madaria won the UEG Rising Star Award. He is Co-director of the “Management of Pancreatic Disorders for the Practicing Clinician” Harvard Medical School course and founder of the Race of the Cities Against Pancreatic Cancer, an international sporting event that raises funds for research in pancreatic cancer (more than € 1 million raised for open grants). 

Enrique de-Madaria received his award in the UEG Week Opening Plenary. Watch the recording now!