Each year at UEG Week we present a range of prizes, travel grants and scholarships created to foster basic and clinical research. Some of these enable young gastroenterologists to come to UEG Week, while others acknowledge exceptional scientific work. The United European Gastroenterology Journal (UEG) congratulates this year’s award winners and wishes them a prosperous future and a successful career.
Research Prize—Ernst J Kuipers
Ernst J Kuipers was awarded the UEG Research Prize 2016 for his outstanding project titled “Hidden in plain sight: The opportunities for targeted surveillance and intervention for early gastric neoplasia.” The prize money will support him and his team in future research in the field of prevention and detection of early gastrointestinal cancer.
Lifetime Achievement Award—Günter J Krejs
Günter J Krejs has worked in gastroenterology for 44 years in Switzerland, the United States and Austria and has shown outstanding leadership as department chairman for 19 years and as Division Chief GI and Hepatology for 27 years.
Journal Best Paper awardee—Tara Raftery
Tara Raftery was awarded as the first author on the article titled “Effects of vitamin D supplementation on intestinal permeability, cathelicidin and disease markers in Crohn’s disease: Results from a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study.”
Top abstract awardees
Sean Bennet, Sweden – OP003
Joline de Groof, The Netherlands – OP001
Julien Kirchgesner, France – OP063
Conor McCann, United Kingdom – OP002
Sandra van Brunschot, The Netherlands – OP004
Rising stars
Imke Atreya, Germany – IP219
Jakub Fichna, Poland – IP530
Omid Sadr-Azodi, Sweden – IP453
Edoardo Savarino, Italy – IP352
Andreas Stengel, Germany – IP151
Pavel Strnad, Germany – IP210
Hjalmar van Santvoort, The Netherlands – IP452
Mira M Wouters, Belgium – IP386
Poster champs
Patrick Roger Aepli, Switzerland – P0696
Neeraj Bhala, United Kingdom – P0427
Anthony Buisson, France – P0789
Julio Iglesias Garcia, Spain – P1193
Vincent Janmaat, The Netherlands – P1549
Nik Sheng Ning, United Kingdom – P1395
David Tate, Australia – P0150
Irena Valantiene, Lithuania – P0564
Annieke van Baar, The Netherlands – P214
Louisa van Dijk, The Netherlands – P1090
Shigetaka Yoshinaga, Japan – P0104
National scholars
Azmi Alhakam, Yemen – OP319
Lukas Bajer, Czech Republic – P0595
Sahare El Mahjoubi, Morocco – P0282
Anna Fabian, Hungary – OP343
Raquel Forcén García, Spain – OP354
Maroua Hafi, Tunisia – P0266
Fatih Karakaya, Turkey – P1640
Carl Kilander, Sweden – OP131
Shivashini Kirthi, Ireland – P0316
Zuzana Leskova, Slovakia – P0815
Diogo Libânio, Portugal – OP086
Avinash Lomash, India – OP230
Andrea Martini, Italy – OP377
Vera Matovic, Serbia – P0579
Anne Christin Meyer-Gerspach, Switzerland – OP092
Ivana Mikolasevic, Croatia – P0550
Calixte Monast, United States – OP166
Radislav Nakov, Bulgaria – OP302
Tonje Nesvik Hustoft, Norway – OP254
Sudarshan Paramsothy, Australia – OP071
Julie Perinel, France – OP233
Lieven Pouillon, Belgium – OP141
Dilyara Safina, Russian Federation – P0491
Philipp Schwabl, Austria – OP209
Daniel Schwerdel, Germany – OP261
Sacha Sidani, Canada – OP235
Vita Skuja, Latvia – OP069
Marguerite Stam, The Netherlands – OP396
Alba Themeli, Albania – P1592
Sze Yeap, United Kingdom – OP265
Jingying Zhou, China – OP350
Oral free paper awardees
Armand Abergel, France – OP378
Marta Bento Afonso, Portugal – OP349
Heinz Albrecht, Germany – P1639
Eunate Arana-Arri, Spain – P0700
Fatih Aslan, Turkey – OP301
Anita Balint, Hungary – OP142
Roel MM Bogie, The Netherlands – OP212
Elena Bonora, Italy – OP262
Erwan Bories, France – OP027
Jan Bornschein, United Kingdom – OP389
Maxime Bronzwaer, The Netherlands – P0914
Emma Carrington, United States – OP340
Fortunata Civitelli, Italy – OP249
Egbert Clevers, Belgium – OP081
Charlotte Cordonnier, France – OP184
Lauranne Derikx, The Netherlands – OP194
Pietro Familiari, Italy – OP155
Shunji Fujimori, Japan – OP151
Kazutoshi Fukase, Japan – OP128
Matteo Garcovich, Italy – OP274
Carla Jerusalen Gargallo Puyuelo, Spain – OP269
Valerie Gausman, United States – OP332
Osamu Goto, Japan – P0121
Ivica Grgurević, Croatia – P0603
Elisabeth Jacomina Grobbee, The Netherlands – OP173, OP198
Luke Grundy, Australia – OP293
Gerald Holtmann, Australia – P0243
Tonje Nesvik Hustoft, Norway – OP254
Kazuo Inui, Japan – P0644
Hirotaka Ito, Japan – OP088
Julie Iven, Belgium – OP117
Neerav Mukesh Joshi, United Kingdom – P1450
Ralf Kiesslich, Germany – OP374
Bruno Lamas, France – OP070
Miriam Mañosa Ciria, Spain – OP062
Pedro Marques Da Costa, Portugal – CC74
Takeshi Mizushima, Japan – OP345
Javier Molina Infante, Spain – OP323
Madunil Anuk Niriella, Sri Lanka – P1102
Mária Papp, Hungary – OP033
Chang-Hwan Park, Republic of Korea – OP320
Kenneth Peuker, Germany – OP038
Sarah Raevens, Belgium – OP133
Martin Raithel, Germany – P1217
Carlos Robles-Medranda, Ecuador – OP113
Dietrich Ruess, Germany – OP100
Pedro Antonio Ruiz-Castro, Switzerland – OP295
Paulina Salminen, Finland – OP395
Philipp Schwabl, Austria – OP138, OP209
Michael Sigal, Germany – OP045
Jenny Sjödahl, Sweden – P0381
Marianne Spalinger, Switzerland – OP353
Adrian Stanley, United Kingdom – OP364
Johanna Sundin, Sweden – OP238
Takuya Suzuki, Japan – OP231
AnneFré Swager, The Netherlands – OP217, OP224
Florian Tran, Germany – OP306
Bella Ungar, Israel – OP007
Mathieu Uzzan, France – OP178
Bram Verstockt, Belgium – OP189
Sudha Visvanathan, United States – OP103
Philip Woodland, United Kingdom – OP049
Takeshi Yamashina, Japan – OP016
Sebastian Zundler, Germany – OP384
Alba Zúñiga, Spain – P0459
