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Severine Vermeire

Severine Vermeire

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2025
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2025

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Best Female Scientists

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170
Citations
118070
World Ranking
63
National Ranking
1

Best Scientists

D-Index
170
Citations
118070
World Ranking
872
National Ranking
9

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
169
Citations
120193
World Ranking
92
National Ranking
3

Medicine

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176
Citations
125365
World Ranking
417
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2017 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Internal Medicine and Dermatology

Overview

Severine Vermeire is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and focuses primarily on research in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main fields of study include Medicine with 712 publications and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 413 publications. Subfields of interest consist of Genetics, Epidemiology, Surgery, Immunology, and Oncology.

Severine Vermeire's work largely revolves around topics such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Microscopic Colitis, Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies, Gut microbiota and health, Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods, and Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders.

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Bram Verstockt (135 collaborations)
  • Marc Ferrante (117 collaborations)
  • Silvio Danese (110 collaborations)
  • Geert D'Haens (97 collaborations)
  • João Sabino (97 collaborations)

The scientist's frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis (162 publications)
  • Gastroenterology (50 publications)
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (24 publications)
  • The American Journal of Gastroenterology (24 publications)
  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (18 publications)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Severine Vermeire include:

  • Short chain fatty acids and its producing organisms: An overlooked therapy for IBD? (2021, EBioMedicine)
  • JAK-STAT pathway targeting for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (2020, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology)
  • Upadacitinib as induction and maintenance therapy for moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis: results from three phase 3, multicentre, double-blind, randomised trials (2022, The Lancet)
  • Filgotinib as induction and maintenance therapy for ulcerative colitis (SELECTION): a phase 2b/3 double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial (2021, The Lancet)
  • Crohn's disease (2024, The Lancet)

Severine Vermeire was awarded membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2017, recognized in the fields of Internal Medicine and Dermatology.

Best Publications

  • Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    Luke Jostins;Stephan Ripke;Rinse K Weersma;Richard H Duerr

  • Toward an Integrated Clinical, Molecular and Serological Classification of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Report of a Working Party of the 2005 Montreal World Congress of Gastroenterology

    Mark S. Silverberg;Jack Satsangi;Tariq Ahmad;Ian D. R. Arnott

  • The Montreal classification of inflammatory bowel disease: controversies, consensus, and implications

    J Satsangi;M S Silverberg;Severine Vermeire;J-F Colombel

  • Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease

    Jeffrey C. Barrett;Sarah Hansoul;Dan L. Nicolae;Judy H. Cho

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

    Andre Franke;Dermot P B McGovern;Jeffrey C. Barrett;Kai Wang

  • Influence of immunogenicity on the long-term efficacy of infliximab in Crohn's disease.

    Filip Baert;Maja Noman;Severine Vermeire;Gert Van Assche

  • A decrease of the butyrate-producing species Roseburia hominis and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii defines dysbiosis in patients with ulcerative colitis

    Kathleen Machiels;Marie Joossens;João Sabino;Vicky De Preter

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • Tofacitinib as Induction and Maintenance Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis

    William J. Sandborn;Chinyu Su;Bruce E. Sands;Geert R. D’Haens

  • Early combined immunosuppression or conventional management in patients with newly diagnosed Crohn's disease: an open randomised trial

    Geert D'Haens;Filip Baert;Gert van Assche;Philip Caenepeel

  • Second European evidence-based consensus on the diagnosis and management of ulcerative colitis Part 2: Current management

    Axel Dignass;James O. Lindsay;Andreas Sturm;Alastair Windsor

  • Dysbiosis of the faecal microbiota in patients with Crohn's disease and their unaffected relatives

    Marie Joossens;Geert Huys;Margo Cnockaert;Vicky De Preter

  • The second European evidence-based Consensus on the diagnosis and management of Crohn's disease: Special situations

    Gert Van Assche;Axel Dignass;Walter Reinisch;C. Janneke van der Woude

  • Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy after Natalizumab Therapy for Crohn's Disease

    Gert Van Assche;Marc Van Ranst;Raphael Sciot;Bénédicte Dubois

  • Laboratory markers in IBD: useful, magic, or unnecessary toys?

    S Vermeire;G Van Assche;P Rutgeerts

  • Second European Evidence-Based Consensus on the Diagnosis and Management of Ulcerative Colitis Part 1: Definitions and Diagnosis

    Axel Dignass;Rami Eliakim;Fernando Magro;Christian Maaser

  • VEGF is a modifier of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice and humans and protects motoneurons against ischemic death

    Diether Lambrechts;Erik Storkebaum;Masafumi Morimoto;Jurgen Del-Favero

  • The intestinal barrier: a fundamental role in health and disease.

    Maaike Vancamelbeke;Séverine Vermeire

  • Fecal calprotectin is a surrogate marker for endoscopic lesions in inflammatory bowel disease

    Geert D'Haens;Marc Ferrante;Severine Vermeire;Filip Baert

  • Mucosal healing predicts sustained clinical remission in patients with early-stage Crohn's disease.

    Filip Baert;Liesbeth Moortgat;Gert Van Assche;Philip Caenepeel

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Sandborn
William J. Sandborn University of California, San Diego
Geert R. D'Haens
Geert R. D'Haens University of Amsterdam
Brian G. Feagan
Brian G. Feagan University of Western Ontario
Jean-Frederic Colombel
Jean-Frederic Colombel Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stefan Schreiber
Stefan Schreiber Kiel University
Silvio Danese
Silvio Danese Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Walter Reinisch
Walter Reinisch Medical University of Vienna
Julián Panés
Julián Panés University of Barcelona

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