Séverine Vermeire

Dr. Séverine Vermeire is Head of the Department of Chronic Diseases & Metabolism (CHROMETA) at the KU Leuven. Since 2003, Dr. Vermeire has been a staff member at the Gastroenterology Department of the University Hospitals Leuven and was appointed Full Professor of Medicine at the KU Leuven. Dr. Vermeire obtained her MD degree and then her Ph.D. at the KU Leuven. She further trained at the Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Paraguay, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK, and at the Montreal General Hospital (McGill University) in Canada. She is actively involved as principal investigator in randomized clinical trials with new therapeutic compounds and has been the lead investigator on several of these programs. Her scientific work resulted in more than 500 peer-reviewed articles and focuses on the role of the microbiome and genetic susceptibility in IBD and on identifying predictive signatures of treatment response. Dr. Vermeire participated in the International iCHOM consortium on the development of Patient-Centered Outcomes for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. She was awarded several grants including an Advanced H2020-European Research Council (ERC) Grant (2016-2021). She served as president of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization (ECCO) from 2014-2016 and as president of the Belgian IBD Research & Development (BIRD) Group from 2011-2013.