INTERCEPT

Verification and validation of a biomarker panel that identifies individuals at high risk to develop Crohn’s disease allowing interception of full-blown disease development

Summary

Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes diarrhoea, stomach pain and weight loss as the immune system attacks the gastrointestinal tissues, leading to ulceration. Crohn’s disease affects people of all ages, but symptoms often start when patients are young, and by the time they are diagnosed, around a third of patients already have substantial damage to their bowels. Crohn’s disease is currently incurable, and although treatments exist, they do not work for everyone and almost half of all patients require surgery within 10 years of diagnosis.

The aim of INTERCEPT is to transform Crohn’s disease from an incurable condition to one that could be managed and even potentially prevented.

Recent research has uncovered candidate biomarkers of Crohn’s disease which could be used to detect the disease in the blood years before symptoms arise. However, these biomarkers have not yet been validated.

INTERCEPT plans to verify and clinically validate a panel of biomarkers and build a blood risk score capable of identifying people with a high risk of developing Crohn’s disease within the following five years. The project will recruit 10 000 healthy first-degree relatives (e.g. children and siblings) of people with Crohn’s disease to validate the biomarkers and blood risk score.

Next, 80 people with the highest risk score will be invited to take part in an innovate trial designed to see if an established and effective medical treatment can prevent the development of full-blown Crohn’s disease.

This approach could make it easier for health care professionals to diagnose the disease early, before symptoms arise and before the digestive tract has been seriously damaged.

Participants

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Universities, research organisations, public bodies, non-profit groups
  • Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg, Denmark
  • Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
  • Centre Hospitalier Regional Et Universitaire De Lille, Lille, France
  • Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli Irccs, Roma, Italy
  • Grupo Espanol De Trabajo En Enfermedad De Crohn Y Colitis Ulcerosa Gettecu, Bilbao, Spain
  • Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, New York, United States
  • Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet - NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
  • Orebro University, Orebro, Sweden
  • Panstwowy Instytut Medyczny Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnetrznych I Administracji, Warszawa, Poland
  • Stichting Amsterdam Umc, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Stichting Vu, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and mid-sized companies (<€500 m turnover)
  • Eurice European Research And Project Office GMBH, St Ingbert, Germany
  • Richard Vesely, Laren, Netherlands
Patient organisations
  • European Federation Of Crohn'S And Ulcerative Colitis Associations, Bruxelles / Brussel, Belgium
Third parties
  • Amc Medical Research BV, Amsterdam Zuidoost, Netherlands
  • Gemelli Digital Medicine & Health SRL, Roma, Italy
  • Hospital Da Luz SA, Lisboa, Portugal
  • Orebro Lans Landsting, Orebro, Sweden
Private companies
  • Glsmed Learning Health SA, Lisboa, Portugal
  • United European Gastroenterology GMBH, Vienna, Austria
IHI industry partners
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG, Glattpark, Switzerland
Contributing partners
  • Celltrion Inc, Incheon, Korea (Republic of)
  • Ludger Limited, Abingdon, United Kingdom
  • Prometheus Laboratories Inc, san diego, United States

Participants
NameEU funding in €
Aalborg Universitet258 500
Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen1 604 835
Centre Hospitalier Regional Et Universitaire De Lille1 345 250
Eurice European Research And Project Office GMBH626 000
European Federation Of Crohn'S And Ulcerative Colitis Associations252 500
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli Irccs833 000
Glsmed Learning Health SA698 400
Grupo Espanol De Trabajo En Enfermedad De Crohn Y Colitis Ulcerosa Gettecu871 750
Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai523 000
Ludger Limited722 920
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet - NTNU147 500
Orebro University1 302 969
Panstwowy Instytut Medyczny Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnetrznych I Administracji819 750
Richard Vesely57 500
Stichting Amsterdam Umc3 058 823
Stichting Vu120 500
United European Gastroenterology GMBH132 500
University of Oxford104 000
 
Third parties
NameFunding in €
Amc Medical Research BV48 343
Gemelli Digital Medicine & Health SRL925 250
Hospital Da Luz SA250 138
Orebro Lans Landsting475 781
 
Total Cost15 179 209