Longitudinal multi-omics inception study of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis #IBD | microbiome 🦠 | sc transcriptome 🧬 | informatics 🖥️ | @OpenTargets

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📢 New paper out! ✨ Research‑active hospitals deliver better patient‑reported IBD care ✨ Thanks to @BMJOpen_Gastro for publishing our paper of national data linking research‑active IBD services with higher patient‑reported quality of care. bmjopengastro.bmj.com/conten… 🧵 1/6
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🚨 Milestone alert: @IBDResponse hits 900 participants! The UK’s largest multi-omic precision medicine study in IBD aims to predict who responds to advanced therapies in Crohn’s & UC. Huge thanks to all the patients taking part & study teams! More info: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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🚨 New publication alert in @FrontGastro_BMJ! We’ve launched an innovative IBD-dermatology service @NewcastleHosps & @UniofNewcastle 😀 Dual-specialty care leads to high patient satisfaction! 📄 Read FREE our experience and top tips for management: fg.bmj.com/content/early/202…
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One last push to £10k for @CrohnsColitisUK ! —please support our #GreatNorthRun fundraiser here: ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enth…
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The @IBDResponse team ran the #GreatNorthRun yesterday to raise funds for @CrohnsColitisUK! Thanks to the incredible spirit and generosity of all the supporters on the route for every cheer, high-five and all the sweets! 👏👏 Please donate if you can at ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enth…
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🏃🏻🎽👟 The @IBDResponse team is taking on the #GreatNorthRun next week to support @CrohnsColitisUK! We're running to support the care & research this charity provides - every penny makes a difference. Donate & learn more 👉 ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enth… #Crohns #Colitis #TeamIBD
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📢 Join us for IBD Newcastle 2025! Superb speakers covering medical and nutritional therapy, state of the art surgery, colorectal cancer risk and surveillance, psychology, fatigue, frailty, peer support, genetics and precision medicine! Register here👉forms.office.com/e/81ZCjYDUb…
IBD Newcastle: The Emma Stuart Memorial Symposium is a free to attend, clinical and scientific educational meeting hosted this year at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, located on the Newcastle. For more information, including registration, visit ow.ly/7Eta50Wxb91
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IBD Newcastle: The Emma Stuart Memorial Symposium is a free to attend, clinical and scientific educational meeting hosted this year at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, located on the Newcastle. For more information, including registration, visit ow.ly/7Eta50Wxb91
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. @GSTTnhs joining the @OpenIBD party... 1st patient recruited! 🥳 Great work by the gastro medicine and surgery research team to get this up and running and CDDU @KCLImmunoMicro for being on board and processing the samples!
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GREAT work @rjcdart @GSTTnhs! So pleased to have you part of the team!!
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📢 We are looking for people with lived experience of Crohn’s and colitis to join a focus group to help design our research looking at lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. If you are an IBD patient with or without experience of lymphoma please consider signing up at the link below - Thank you! @DrBob_Lees @CrohnsColitisUK @NIHRNewcBRC @NCL_medscience @UniofNewcastle
Would you like to Shape Research? Researchers at Newcastle University are looking for people diagnosed with IBD to take part in online focus groups. Find out more here: crohnsandcolitis.org.uk/get-…
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We are looking for volunteers to help shape research into lymphoma in IBD
Would you like to Shape Research? Researchers at Newcastle University are looking for people diagnosed with IBD to take part in online focus groups. Find out more here: crohnsandcolitis.org.uk/get-…
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@IBDResponse is our best chance of developing precision medicine for IBD Can we get the right drug to the right patient with IBD? Tremendous leadership by @ProfChrisLamb - these studies are hard but so important
We have recruited over 800 participants to IBD-RESPONSE! 🎉 Thank you to all of our hardworking sites 👏 A special shoutout to Wolverhampton @RWT_NHS @Phil_Harvey1 for recruiting our 800th participant! 🙌
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Thanks for your support throughout @charlie_lees! The team @NHS_Lothian have been outstanding - consistently one of the best recruiters month on month. Huge thanks to you all! @JonnyBlackwell @debz_kerr @ShahidaDin1 @PlevrisN
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Brilliant work from all the @IBDResponse teams and participants hitting this next milestone! Special thanks to @Phil_Harvey1 @dr_aditi_kumar @GastroMJB and the @RWT_NHS team for recruiting participant 800!
We have recruited over 800 participants to IBD-RESPONSE! 🎉 Thank you to all of our hardworking sites 👏 A special shoutout to Wolverhampton @RWT_NHS @Phil_Harvey1 for recruiting our 800th participant! 🙌
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We have recruited over 800 participants to IBD-RESPONSE! 🎉 Thank you to all of our hardworking sites 👏 A special shoutout to Wolverhampton @RWT_NHS @Phil_Harvey1 for recruiting our 800th participant! 🙌
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Thanks @charlie_lees! So pleased to have recruitment underway in @OpenIBD, a groundbreaking multi-omics inception study funded by @OpenTargets! More information on Open-IBD here 👉 open-ibd.org/ Lots to celebrate reaching this milestone. As always huge thanks to the participants and massive collaborative effort from the very BEST of teams! @anderson_carl @DavidHulcoop @MartinCotobal @mellchie @Dean_Allerton @CJStewart7 @mashedbanana @_LaurenBeck @ShahidaDin1 @DrNickKennedy @tariqahmadIBD @IBD_MB @brezinabiljana @rjcdart @ACMasi10 @wyatt_nic @NickPowellLab and many more! Exciting times ahead! @sangerinstitute @NewcastleHosps @NCL_medscience @NIHRNewcBRC @UniofNewcastle
What a moment! Congratulations to @ProfChrisLamb and the whole team. A lot of work has led to this point. Open-IBD is a hugely ambitious state of the art inception cohort. Opening to recruitment inn Edinburgh very soon.
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Read more about the aims of @OpenIBD to follow 1000 IBD patients long term with serial multi-omics to study disease heterogeneity, long term outcomes and precision medicine Thanks to our funders @OpenTargets and @sangerinstitute 🙏 opentargets.org/news/open-ib…
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This week members of the public and patients came to meet the healthcare professionals and researchers @NIHRNewcBRC. We talked about our research and the vital importance of working in partnership with those who have lived experience in order to design the best studies, communicate results and make the most impactful changes to patient care. Rob and Katherine from the team used simulation models to break down barriers and promote inclusivity regarding colonoscopy in research and healthcare. Thank you to all who contributed and came to visit us! @UniofNewcastle @NewcastleHosps
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