Previous Awardees

Five awards were made of €50.000 each to the following;

Birgitta Strandvik with 4 collaborating centres: Double-blind randomized controlled study of fatty acid supplementation for 1 year in patients with cystic fibrosis – Influence on clinical status and metabolism.
Marina Aloi with 21 collaborating centres: The Porto IBD Group Biobank and database for clinical and basic research in pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases.
Michiel Paul van Wijk with 14 collaborating centres: An online database and analysis platform to study pediatric esophageal motility disorders - Building a network to facilitate international multi-center research” accept and agree to abide by the above conditions.
Valerie Mc Lin, with 23 collaborating centres: International Registry of Congenital Porto-systemic Shunts (IRCPSS).
Caterina Strisciuglio with 6 collaborating centres: Diet and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in children and adolescents in the Mediterranean countries.

Three awards were made of €50.000 each to the following;

Frederic Gottrand with 1 collaborator: Eosinophilic esophagitis in Esophageaeal Atresia Study.
Luisa Mearin with with 16 collaborators: Early feeding and the risk of Coeliac Disease and Autoimmunity in children from high risk families: Prevent CD study.
Merrit Tabbers with 6 collaborators: Development of a core outcome set for infant Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.

Three awards were made of €25.000 each to the following;

Carla Colombo with 7 collaborators: Evaluation of Ursodeoxycholic Acid Treatment in Liver Disease Associated With Cystic Fibrosis: A Multicentre Cohort Study
Nikhil Thapar with with 15 collaborators: Establishing a European Database for Paediatric Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction
Anders Paerregaard with 5 collaborators: The Incidence of Cancer and Mortality in Paediatric Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease During a 25 Year Period (1990-2015) - A Population Based Multicentre Study from Denmark and Finland.

Three awards were made of €25,000 each to the following;

Deirdre Kelly with 21 collaborators: Graft Injury Group Observing Long-term Outcomes (GIGOLO) - an ESPGHAN Clinical Research Network
Luisa Mearin with 18 collaborators: Early feeding and the risk of coeliac disease and autoimmunity in children from high risk families: The European PREVENTCD study
Noam Zevit with 30 collaborators: Paediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis: The European Experience

Three awards were made of €25,000 each to the following;

Uhlig Holm with 14 collaborators: The COLORS in IBD project: the genetic basis of very early onset IBD
Sibylle Koletzko with 35 collaborators: Evaluation of predictive and informative symptoms to guide decision making in newly diagnosed coeliac patients, and to predict resolution: implications for the ESPGHAN guidelines
Florence Lacaille with 10 collaborators: The microbiota in intestinal transplantation. A study of the Network for Intestinal Failure and Transplantation in Europe

One grant was awarded of €25,000 to:

Luisa Mearin for PreventCD (there are 17 participating centres): Influence of the dietary history on the prevention of CD: possibilities of induction of tolerance for gluten predisposed children

Three awards were made of €25,000 each to the following;

Ulrich Baumann with 6 collaborating centres: Immunomonitoring after paediatric liver transplantation – optimization of immunosuppression and minimisation of side effects
Lorenzo D’Antiga with 13 collaborators: Network for intestinal failure and transplantation in Europe (NITE)
Frank Ruemmele with 39 collaborators: GENIUS Network – Diagnosis and characterisation of very early onset IBD

One award of €30,000:

Annamaria Staiano and the Working Group for GERD: Implementation and Applicability of 2009 NASPGHAN-ESPGHAN Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux in Children