Science award for Herbert Tilg – tirol.ORF.at
Herbert Tilg is awarded the prize “in recognition of his previous work, which has made a significant contribution to the research and better treatability of intestinal and metabolic diseases”, as Tyrol’s Governor Günther Platter (ÖVP) justified the decision.
Quoted particularly often
His “outstanding work in the research of fatty liver diseases and chronic inflammatory bowel diseases” should be recognized, as the State Councilor for Health Annette Leja (ÖVP) emphasizes. Tilg is one of the “most highly coded researchers 2020” – his research is also cited particularly frequently by other scientists. He was also a mentor for young scientists, it was emphasized.
Tyrolean State Prize for Science
With the award, the Tyrolean provincial government honors “outstanding achievements in the field of science”, as it is called. The prize is awarded as an appreciation of a work as a whole, an exceptional individual achievement by a person or an exceptional achievement by a work group. The award is endowed with 14,000 euros.
Competent in several specialist areas
Herbert Tilg has specialized in the areas of endocrinology, gastroenterology and metabolism during his career. After studying in Innsbruck, he went on to do research in the USA and in 1993 did his habilitation on “Cytokines and Liver Diseases”.
Tilg is an additional specialist in gastroenterology and hepatology, oncology and intensive care medicine and, until 2001, he was executive senior physician and deputy head of the Innsbruck University Clinic for Internal Medicine. From 2002 he headed the Department of Internal Medicine at the Academic Teaching Hospital Hall, and in 2012 he was appointed Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of Internal Medicine I at the Meduni.
Advancement award to Tilg employees
The prizewinner may reward an excellent performance by a younger colleague from the same subject area with a sponsorship award endowed with 4,000 euros. This year this sponsorship award went to the physician Timon Adolph, an employee of Herbert Tilg.
Adolph is a senior physician at the Innsbruck University Clinic for Internal Medicine I. His focus is on research into metabolic inflammation as a cause of gastrointestinal diseases, for example in connection with the chronic inflammatory bowel diseases Morbus Chron and ulcerative colitis. Last year, the state awards went to two geologists – more on this in the science award to geologist Spötl.