Prof. Juozas Kupčinskas
Prof Juozas Kupcinskas currently heads the gastroenterology department in the Lithuanian University of health Sciences in Kaunas, Lithuania, where he’s also the Dean of Postgraduate Study Center and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Digestive Research. His research focuses on molecular biomarkers, H. pylori, IBD, microscopic colitis, microbiome profiling of inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases, fecal microbiome transplantation.
- United European Gastroenterology: Member of Scientific Committee
- European Association for Gastroenterology, Endoscopy and Nutrition: Council Member
- European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group: Member
- European Fecal Microbiome Consensus group: Member
- European Crohn‘s and Colitis organization: Member
Prof Juozas Kupcinskas currently heads the gastroenterology department in the Lithuanian University of health Sciences in Kaunas, Lithuania, where he’s also the Dean of Postgraduate Study Center and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Digestive Research. His research focuses on molecular biomarkers, H. pylori, IBD, microscopic colitis, microbiome profiling of inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases, fecal microbiome transplantation.
- United European Gastroenterology: Member of Scientific Committee
- European Association for Gastroenterology, Endoscopy and Nutrition: Council Member
- European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group: Member
- European Fecal Microbiome Consensus group: Member
- European Crohn‘s and Colitis organization: Member
Juozas Kupcinskas is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences in Kaunas, Lithuania. Currently, he is also the Dean of Postgraduate Study Center at the same university.
He received his MD from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences in Lithuania in 2009. He has completed his Ph.D. at Otto Von Guericke University (Magdeburg, Germany) in 2012 and gained subsequent medical experience at University of Kiel (Germany) and Rambam hospital (Haifa, Israel). Since 2018, he is Secretary General of Lithuanian Society of Gastroenterology. He is a member of many international research consortia including PANcreatic Disease ReseArch (Pandora), European Microscopic Colitis Study Group (EMCG), Gastric Cancer Research (staR), and European Network for the Study of Cholangiocarcinoma and others. His main research interests are premalignant and malignant GI cancers, H. pylori, microRNAs, microbiome and fecal transplantation.
Wiesmann, Crispin, et al.
Primers matter: Influence of the primer selection on human fungal detection using high throughput sequencing.
Gut Microbes 14.1 (2022): 2110638.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35993401/
Gedgaudas, Rolandas, et al.
Circulating microbiome in patients with portal hypertension.
Gut microbes 14.1 (2022): 2029674.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35130114/
Vilchez-Vargas, Ramiro, et al.
Gut microbial similarity in twins is driven by shared environment and aging.
EBioMedicine 79 (2022): 104011.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35490553/
Rajilic‐Stojanovic, Mirjana, et al.
Systematic review: gastric microbiota in health and disease.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 51.6 (2020): 582-602.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32056247/
Chmiela, Magdalena, and Juozas Kupcinskas.
Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori infection.
Helicobacter 24 (2019): e12638.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31486234/
Cammarota, Giovanni, et al.
International consensus conference on stool banking for faecal microbiota transplantation in clinical practice.
Gut 68.12 (2019): 2111-2121.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31563878/
Prof. Juozas Kupčinskas’s Microbiota Events
Take-home messages on microbiota and probiotics from UEGW 2022 congress.
