Ulrike G Strauch works in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Regensburg, covering gastroenterology/hepatology, haematology/oncology, endocrinology/metabolic diseases, infectious diseases, rheumatology/immunology and intensive care medicine. She was previously a Research Fellow at the Center for Blood Research at Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Cellular Immunology at the Brigham’s and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where she received a research fellowship award from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. Dr Strauch obtained her MD from the Technical University of Munich and received board certification in internal medicine in 2005.