Jacques DEVIERE has been the chairman of the Medical-Surgical Departement of Gastroenterology, Hepatopancreatology and Digestive Oncology at Erasme University Hospital, Ordinary Professor of Medicine and Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Gastroenterology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium from 1998 till 2023. He is currently consultant at Erasme University hospital, Professeur de l’Université at ULB and visiting professor at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal He is past president of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (2006-2008) and has been, between 1996 and 2001, general secretary of the Belgian Society of Gastroenterology. He has been a member of the belgian Royal Academy of Medicine (2009-2020). He also was associated editor of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Endoscopy journals. He promoted 25 PhD theses in medical sciences and co-promoted 6 PhD thesis in engineering. He also co founded the Brussels Medical Devices Center (BMDC) and 2 start-up companies from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Endotools Therapeutics and Lys Medical). His major current activity is clinical practice with a special focus on translational and high quality clinical research. Jacques Deviere is honorary member of ESGE and of more than 20 national Gastroenterology and Endoscopic societies. He authored or co-authored more than 600 pubmed referenced publications, 43 international patents, has 48000 citations and a H Index of 112 (Google Scholar, 2024).