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.

Application is closed.

• 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.

Silvio Danese is awarded the distinguished UEG Research Prize 2019 for his outstanding project “The gut virome as a trigger for IBD: from metagenomics to pathogenesis”.

His main research area of interest is the investigation of the fundamental mechanisms underlying IBD pathogenesis, while his daily clinical activity is related to IBD service. He is actively involved in many international clinical trials in IBD and has published more than 400 papers in several journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Gastroenterology, Gut, Journal of Clinical Investigation. 

He is a member of many organizations related to the IBD field, including the European Crohn´s and Colitis Organization (ECCO), of which he has been President since February 2018.

Silvio Danese is a Gastroenterologist at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, and Professor in Gastroenterology at Humanitas University, Italy. He is Head of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center in the Division of Gastroenterology. Silvio Danese trained in Gastroenterology at Policlinico Gemelli, Rome and graduated as a PhD, working from 2001 to 2004 in Dr. Claudio Fiocchi’s laboratory at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

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