Advisory Boards - MICROB-PREDICT

Expert panels to ensure excellence in science, trial safety, data quality and impact

Advisory Boards

Scientific and Ethical Advisory Board (SEAB)

The Scientific and Ethical advisory Board (SEAB) is an external consultative body which is formed to ensure and improve the scientific performance and the quality of results of MICROB-PREDICT. The SEAB advises the General Assembly (GA) and the Project Management Office (PMO) upon request, and provides non-binding advice as decision making support. Members of the SEAB are cordially invited to attend the annual GA meetings in order to monitor the progress within each work packages, assess the scientific quality, and to provide critique and feedback, but do not have a right to vote. The SEAB will also consider and mention any ethical issues which may require stronger attention.

View board members

Prof. Dr. med. Bernd Schnabl

UC San Diego Medical School, Hepatologist

Phone: +1 858 822 531 1

Vijay Shah (MD)

Mayo Clinic, Hepatologist

Prof. Dr. med. Tilman Sauerbruch

Director University Clinic Bonn, Gastroenterologist

Dr. Florencia Luna

Director of Bioethics Program FLACSO, Superior researcher at CONICET (Argentina)

Impact Board (IB)

The Impact Board (IB) consists of junior and senior members of MICROB-PREDICT, from academia and industry, as well as patient representatives. The IB is responsible for designing a structured communication plan for dissemination and the exploitation of the project’s results, monitor the steps being taken, and oversee and evaluate the comprehensive internal and external dissemination of the project’s results and knowledge gain (together with the Project Management Office, WP9 and WP10). In addition, the IB has to assign the responsibility for filing and protecting intellectual property rights (IPR).

View board members

Benjamin Lelouvier (PhD)

Chief Scientific Officer

Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Jonel Trebicka

MICROB-PREDICT Coordinator, EF CLIF Research Associate, Head of Department Internal Medicine B (Münster, Germany)

Phone: +49 251 83 59 689

Ivica Letunic (PhD)

Managing Director

Phone: +49 622 167 343 20

Prof. Arben Merkoci (PhD)

ICREA Professor & Group Leader

Phone: +34 618 687 921

Marko Korenjak

President ELPA

Phone: +32 288 043 49

Dr. Robert Schierwagen

Postdoc

Phone: +49 251 83 57 770

Jane Macnaughtan (PhD)

Co-Principal Investigator

Phone: +44 207 433 287 4

Maja Thiele (MD, PhD)

Professor

Prof. Wim Laleman (MD, PhD)

Hepatology Professor & Clinical Hepatologist

Phone: +32 163 416 39

Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC)

All members of the Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) are independent of the trial and of the sponsoring organization. The DSMC will review any issues concerning the safety of the trial participants (e.g. by reviewing serious adverse events), identify strengths and weaknesses of the data hub, and review the integrity of the data and potential statistical issues, such as selection-bias, cross-over, failure-to-diagnose, failure-to-treat or failure-to-follow-up. Following trial completion, the DSMC will assist in interpretation of the final results and approve the main trial publication. Members of the DSMC will be elected in the second year of the project.

View board members

Prof. Alastair O`Brien

Professor of Hepatology at University College London (UCL) and Clinical Director of the Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit at UCL

Prof. Lise Lotte Gluud

Consultant Gastroenterologist and Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Copenhagen University Hospital Copenhagen Hvidovre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof. Juan Gonzalez Abraldes (MD, PhD)

Professor of Medicine, Director, Liver Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Alberta

Clinical Trial Management Committee (CTMC)

The Clinical Trial Management Committee (CTMC) consists of all MICROB-PREDICT scientists that coordinate and supervise clinical trials, and is responsible for setting up and implementing the logistics around all clinical trials. It also provides support to MICROB-PREDICT members concerning the clinical trials, and reviews the results to assess whether any changes to the study protocol are necessary.

View board members

Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Jonel Trebicka

MICROB-PREDICT Coordinator, EF CLIF Research Associate, Head of Department Internal Medicine B (Münster, Germany)

Phone: +49 251 83 59 689

Maria Papp (MD, PhD)

Professor

Phone: +36 304 054 993

Minneke Coenraad (MD, PhD)

Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist

Phone: +31 715 651 662

Prof. Pere Ginès (MD, PhD)

Hepatology Professor