Research profile

Tine Jess, Professor, MD, DMSc, Director of Center for Molecular Prediction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, PREDICT, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University Copenhagen. l

Professor Tine Jess is an international expert in the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). At age 33, she defended her doctoral thesis on prognosis of IBD from Denmark and the Mayo Clinic, US. Alongside, she was co-responsible for creation of a Department of Epidemiology at Novo Nordisk A/S. At age 35, she received a Female Research Leader Grant from the Danish Council of Independent Research and ran a large and successful research group in Copenhagen during 2010-2016, with numerous important contributions to the field published in Gastroenterology, Gut, BMJ, JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine. At age 39, Tine Jess became professor of Gastroenterology and Epidemiology, and in later years, she has headed Center for Clinical Research and Prevention in the Capital Region of Denmark; Department of Epidemiology Research at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen; and now the National Center of Excellence for Molecular Prediction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, PREDICT, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Tine Jess is a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, she received the UNESCO For Women in Science Award, the UEGW Rising Star Award, and a Danish Medal of Honor, she served as Vice Chair of the Young Academy of the Royal Danish Society of Science and Letters, as Head of the Epidemiological Committee of the European Crohn Colitis Organization, as member of the ministerial Task Force working to increase the number of women in science, as InnoWoman for Innovation Fund Denmark, and as Chair Elect in 'Selskab for Teoretisk og Anvendt Terapi af 1923'. In 2023 appointed by the Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science as member of the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy (DFiR).