Dr. Georg Semmler and Dr. Rudolf Stauber could not be more different doctors regarding age and career. But both are finalists of the #IMA2020 in gastroenterology this year and both are passionate about research beside the clinical work. Working in Vienna and Graz, Austria, both of them research liver disease.

Dr. Semmler is still a doctor in training, and together with his group and mentor Mattias Mandorfer he researched a non-invasive risk stratification after cure from a hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

Prof. Stauber is an experienced specialist and together with basic scientists he established that the HDL-related biomarkers are robust predictors of disease progression and survival in chronic liver failure.