Bram Verstockt

Bram Verstockt, MD, PhD, is a principal investigator at KU Leuven and a staff member of the IBD team in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at University Hospitals Leuven (Belgium) since 2021. He provides comprehensive IBD care, leads the multidisciplinary IBD clinic, and drives the implementation of intestinal ultrasound (IUS) within the Leuven IBD unit. He obtained his medical degree from KU Leuven in 2013, completed a PhD in 2019 after research training that included a period at the University of Cambridge (UK), and finalized an additional IUS fellowship in Lüneburg (Germany) in 2021. His research focuses on non-invasive disease monitoring, especially IUS, optimization of imaging tools, and the development of predictive and prognostic biomarkers to support personalized medicine in IBD. He also studies IBD heterogeneity — including perianal disease, fibrostricturing disease, and fatigue — using multi-omics approaches and organoid models. He has held several internationa