We congratulate our team member Dr. Hanna Öhlmann (A12) on receiving the DGVS (German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases) Neurogastroenterology Award!

Hanna Öhlmann received the award during the Visceral Medicine 2026 Congress at the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH).

The Neurogastroenterology Award is presented by the Foundation for Neurogastroenterology and comes with a total prize of 5,000 euros. The award recognizes outstanding scientific work in the field of neurogastroenterology and research into motility disorders. This year, Hanna Öhlmann shares the honor with Kerstin Maehder from Hamburg.

Her research provides important insights into the functional gut-brain axis. In particular, she investigates how psychological mechanisms – such as the learned fear of pain – influence the experience of chronic abdominal pain in the brains of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome.