Education & Carreer: Prof dr Benedicte De Winter graduated as an MD (Medical School) at the University of Antwerp in 1994 with great distinction (ranked 3/120 students) and obtained a PhD degree in Medical Sciences as an FWO fellow in 1998 at the University of Antwerp. Her research career already started as a medical student with the study of the role of nitric oxide in gastrointestinal motility in normal conditions and evolved to motility studies in pathophysiological conditions (ileus) during her PhD. Her first first author paper published in the British Journal of Pharmacology became a landmark paper in ileus (1). Her research topics further evolved to the domain of inflammation (2-3), visceral pain (4) and intestinal barrier (5) addressing the two most common diseases in the domain of gastroenterology inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Since October 2008, she is the director of the Laboratory of Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP) at the University of Antwerp encompassing the fundamental, clinical and translational research of 7 different disciplines (gastroenterology & hepatology; metabolic diseases, endocrinology and diabetology; pneumology; intensive care; nephrology; pediatrics and neonatology) united around the topic of inflammation and currently grown to guide over 30 PhDs. The topic of inflammation was recognized by the University of Antwerp as a center of Excellence ‘Infla-Med’ of which Benedicte De Winter is co-PI. Since October 2018 she is appointed as vice-dean research in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Antwerp and since Oct 2021 as co-chair of the research Council of the University of Antwerp. Bibliography: Benedicte De Winter has 154 WoS-cited A1 publications in high-ranked peer-reviewed scientific journals resulting in an H-index of 35 (WoS, 2021; see also Researcher ID:G-2616- 2011 or ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0327-6304). Benedicte De Winter is first author of 18 of them and last author of 35 of them. She is (co-)promoter of 15 defended PhDs and 9 ongoing PhD’s currently focusing on the visceral pain, inflammation and immune responses in IBS, IBD and septic ileus next to a translation of the acquired expertise to the domains of non-alcoholic liver diseases, obesity, bronchopulmonary disease, kidney transplantation, covid-19 and medical education.