Severine Vermeire#
| Membership Number: | 5997 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ibd-leuven.com/medical-staff-detail/sverine-vermeire-md-phd?rq=Vermeire |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9942-3019 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Research coordinator of the Group for Biomedical Sciences at KU Leuven
- 2016 - 2021 Chair of the Department of Chronic Diseases & Metabolism (CHROMETA) at KU Leuven
- 2016 - present Full Professor of Medicine University Leuven, Belgium
- 2013 - present Head of IBD Leuven clinical & research unit
- 2009 - 2016 Associate Professor of Medicine University Leuven, Belgium
- 2005 - 2009 Assistant Professor of Medicine University Leuven, Belgium
- 2003 - present Full-time staff position Gastroenterology, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
- 2004 - 2020 Senior Clinical Investigator FWO Flanders, Belgium
- 2001 - 2002 Clinical & Research Fellow Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1997 - 1998 Research Fellow at the Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Crohn's disease
- Microbiome
- Ulcerative colitis
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Crohn's disease
- Multi-omics for better understanding pathogenesis of IBD
- Novel drugs and Clinical Trials
- Prognostic and predictive biomarkers
Honours and Awards
- 2020 - 2023 Francqui Research Professor
- 2017 - present Membership of Leopoldina Academy of Sciences in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements
- 2014 - present Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher (ranking among top 1% most cited of subject field)
- 2016 Astra Zeneca/Royal Academy for Medicine Prize
- 2014 Prize for best article in internal medicine
- 2012 Prize Academy of Immunology for Clinicians
- 2004 Laureate European Rising Star in Gastroenterology UEG
- 2001 Laureate Belgian AstraZeneca/FWO scientific scholarship
- 2001 Laureate Inflammatory Bowel Disease Prize at the Belgian Gastroenterology Meeting
- 2001 Gold medal best presentation Bowel disease Prize at the Belgian Gastroenterology Meeting
- 1995 and 2001 Laureate Research Award: Flemish Association for Gastroenterology
