BIRD GRANT

Kathleen Machiels and Clara Caenepeel (KU Leuven)

Predictive potential and role of microbiota in the efficacy of biological treatment and development of paradoxical adverse events in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Ho-Su Lee (KU Leuven)

Familial aggregation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a next-generation sequencing study

Marie Truyens (U Gent)

The etiopathogenesis of persistent fatigue in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Kaline Arnauts  (KU Leuven)

The effect of microbiota on intestinal epithelial cells in ulcerative colitis

Simon Bos (U Gent)

Early detection and longitudinal monitoring of intestinal fibrosis in patients with crohn’s disease

Lucas Wauters (KU Leuven)

Unravelling the small bowel microbiome in Crohn’s disease

Joao Sabino (Leuven)
Food influence on the Intestinal microbioTa trial (FIT trial)
 
Claire Liefferinckx (Bruxelles)
Identification of Genetic variants regulating gEne hubs in the cOntrol of specific and genericmodules across context-dependent activation of Immune Cells in healthy subjects: Understandingthe genetic architecture Of Disease sEverity in IBD (GEOCODE IBD project)
 
Bram Verstockt (Leuven)
Predicting outcome of inflammatory bowel diseases: creating opportunities for personalized medicine

Hindryckx Pieter  (UGent)
The contribution of hypoxia to the pathogenesis and the course of inflammatory bowel disease: defining the window for therapeutic intervention
 
Vancamelbeke Maaike (KU Leuven)
The Role of the Intestinal Epithelial Barrier in the Pathophysiology of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Ingrid Arijs (Leuven)
Study of the effect of vedolizumab therapy on colonic mucosal gene expression in patients with ulcerative colitis

Manuel Nobel (Leuven)
Intestinal stem cells - microbiota interactions in inflammatory bowel diseases

Debby Laukens (Gent)
The therapeutic use of anti-metallothionein antibodies in IBD: bench-to-bedside

Dominiek Staelens and Kris Nys (Leuven)
Crohn's susceptibility genes in innate immunity, ER stress and autophagy: from genetics to personalized medicine