Portrait Michael Scharl

Michael Scharl
Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Specialties

  • Immunotherapy-associated colitis
  • Colorectal carcinoma
  • Microbiome

Other competencies

  • Gastroscopy
  • Colonoscopy
  • Sonography
  • Liver biopsy

Career

Since 08/2022 Associate Professor ad personam of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, focus on Translational Microbiome Research.
Since 09/2020 Senior Attending Physician, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital Zurich
Since 10/2019 Head of Translational Microbiome Research Center, University Hospital Zurich
09/2019-08/2020 Attending Physician with extended responsibilities, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital Zurich
Since 08/2017 – 07/2022 Holder of the Peter Hans Hofschneider Endowed Chair in Molecular Medicine, Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich.
Since 08/2017 Head of Research, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital Zurich
09/2016-08/2019 Attending Physician, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital Zurich
06/2016-08/2016 Fellow, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital Zurich
05/2009-05/2016 Residency at the University Hospital Zurich
06/2007-04/2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, California, USA

Most important memberships

  • American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
  • European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO)
  • American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)
  • Swiss Society of Gastroenterology (SGG)
  • Associate Editor by Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, Section Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Editorial Board of the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis
  • Scientific Committee of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization
  • President of the Hartmann Müller Foundation for Medical Research, Zurich
  • Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Scientific Research of the University of Zurich

Research focus

  • Intestinal microbiome
  • Gastrointestinal pathophysiology
  • Gastrointestinal Immunology
  • Chronic inflammatory bowel disease
  • Colorectal carcinoma
Website ScharlLab

Publications

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Further

2019 Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Medical Leadership, University of Zurich
2018 Georg Friedrich Götz Prize of the University of Zurich
Since 2018 Right to confer a doctorate at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MNF) of the University of Zurich
Since 08/2017 Member of the Medical Faculty (MeF) of the University of Zurich
2016 FMH Gastroenterology
2015 FMH General Internal Medicine
2012 Habilitation and Venia legendi for Experimental Oncology at the University of Zurich