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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- 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 | |
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Name | EU funding in € |
Aalborg Universitet | 258 500 |
Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen | 1 604 835 |
Centre Hospitalier Regional Et Universitaire De Lille | 1 345 250 |
Eurice European Research And Project Office GMBH | 626 000 |
European Federation Of Crohn'S And Ulcerative Colitis Associations | 252 500 |
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli Irccs | 833 000 |
Glsmed Learning Health SA | 698 400 |
Grupo Espanol De Trabajo En Enfermedad De Crohn Y Colitis Ulcerosa Gettecu | 871 750 |
Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai | 523 000 |
Ludger Limited | 722 920 |
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet - NTNU | 147 500 |
Orebro University | 1 302 969 |
Panstwowy Instytut Medyczny Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnetrznych I Administracji | 819 750 |
Richard Vesely | 57 500 |
Stichting Amsterdam Umc | 3 058 823 |
Stichting Vu | 120 500 |
United European Gastroenterology GMBH | 132 500 |
University of Oxford | 104 000 |
Third parties | |
Name | Funding in € |
Amc Medical Research BV | 48 343 |
Gemelli Digital Medicine & Health SRL | 925 250 |
Hospital Da Luz SA | 250 138 |
Orebro Lans Landsting | 475 781 |
Total Cost | 15 179 209 |