Welcome to the
Symposia and Workshops
of the Falk Foundation

Scientific dialogue

The Falk Foundation has been organizing internationally recognized scientific symposia and workshops in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology since 1967. So far, the foundation has arranged over 270 events, which have drawn in some 130,000 participants from over 110 countries.
Falk Foundation’s events provide scientific and medical information of an outstanding quality, and attract some of the most renowned speakers in the field.

Liver-Bowel-Microbiome Interactions
On the road to personalized nutritional therapy

Workshop, Hamburg (Germany), January 2018

Hamburg. Diseases of liver and bowel are more closely connected than it has long been supposed. The connector is apparently the microbiome, although the interactions are complex and also include reactions of the immune system and a genetic susceptibility. More...

A phase of change in IBD – with regard to understanding the disease and therapeutic options

Symposium 209, Berlin (Germany), October 2017

Berlin. Relevant advances are currently available with regard to understanding the disease as well as the therapeutic options for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). More...

Eosinophilic esophagitis: identify, treat specifically and alleviate suffering

Symposium 208, Berlin (Germany), October 2017

Berlin. Berlin. If bread and meat get stuck in the esophagus, the patient has to drink an extreme amount of liquid after consumption of solid foods or entirely avoids these foods, the diagnosis of “eosinophilic esophagitis” (EoE) seems likely.  More...
  

50 years of international Falk Symposia

HALF A CENTURY OF PROMOTING MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGE

Freiburg. This year, Falk can look back on 50 years of success. Since the first event in 1967, the international Symposia have built up a superb reputation; today they are considered to be among the best gastroenterology and hepatology training events worldwide. More...