Britta Siegmund

Britta Siegmund has received her MD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and continued her training as Postdoc in the lab of Charles Dinarello in Denver, USA and completed her training for gastroenterology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. In 2012 she was appointed as Heisenbergprofessor for "Translational Gastroenterology – IBD" and since 2013 she is professor and chair of the Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology) at the Campus Benjamin Franklin of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. She is one of the founders of the German IBD Study Group, and is a former member of the scientific committee and the current President-Elect of ECCO. Her research interest lies in the better understanding of the basic mechanisms leading to the dysregulation of the mucosal immune system and the resulting clinical consequences.