Tim Vanuytsel MD, PhD

Prof. Tim Vanuytsel graduated summa cum laude in 2007 from Leuven University Medical School. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in biomedical sciences in 2014 with a thesis on the role and mechanisms of intestinal permeability in functional gastrointestinal disorders. During his Ph.D. training, he worked as a researcher in the lab of Prof. Terez Shea-Donohue at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (USA) in 2011. Prof. Vanuytsel currently holds a position as a consultant gastroenterologist in Leuven University Hospitals with a clinical focus on intestinal failure, clinical nutrition, and functional gastrointestinal disorders. He is the co-founder and medical director of the Leuven Intestinal Failure and Transplantation center (LIFT), which is the largest intestinal failure center and the only small bowel and multi-visceral transplant center in Belgium.

Tim Vanuytsel is an assistant professor at the University of Leuven and his research interests include the pathophysiology and treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders and intestinal failure and transplantation. He has published 105 original research articles and reviews in international peer-reviewed journals on both clinical and basic science aspects of gastroenterology. He is the (co-)supervisor of 15 Ph.D. students and 2 postdoctoral fellows. He is the editor in chief of Acta Gastroenterological Belgica, associate editor of the GI section of Current Opinion in Pharmacology, and member of the editorial board of Neurogastroenterology and Motility.