Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, MD, PhD, is Full Professor of Medicine and Head of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Unit (Inserm U954) at Nancy University Hospital in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France. On receiving his MD and PhD, Prof Peyrin-Biroulet undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the IBD Centre in Lille, France in 2007, before taking a research position at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, from 2008 to 2009.

Prof Peyrin-Biroulet received a Rising Star award in 2008 from the United European Gastroenterology Federation and was a member of the federation’s Scientific Committee from 2011 to 2014. He is Vice President of Groupe d’Etude Thérapeutique des Affections Inflammatoires Digestives and President of the Scientific Committee of the Association Francois Aupetit. Prof Peyrin-Biroulet is Chair of both the IBD Committee of Société Française d’Endoscopie Digestive and the Clinical Trials Task Force of the International Organization for the Study of IBD, and is General Secretary of the European Crohn´s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO). He also contributed to the ECCO workshops on mucosal healing and malignancies, and participated in development of the ECCO guidelines on imaging and CD consensus. Prof Peyrin-Biroulet was Coordinator for the development of the first IBD Disability Index, and proposed the first definitions of early CD and disease severity for IBD.

Prof Peyrin-Biroulet is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed and more than 200 non-peer-reviewed articles over the past 10 years. He is an Associate Editor of Digestive and Liver Disease, and a member of the editorial boards of Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, and Gut. Prof Peyrin-Biroulet also serves as a reviewer for several international journals and is a staff contributor of the Selected Summaries section of Gastroenterology. He joined the editorial team of the Cochrane IBD and Functional Bowel Disorders Review Group in 2014, and serves as Councillor to the Immunology, Microbiology & IBD Section of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute Council.