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IBD Biomarker Discovery and Validation Platform
Sponsor: Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary
The goal of this observational study is to establish a multicenter prospective clinical and biospecimen platform for biomarker discovery and validation in inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Researchers want to learn whether candidate biomarkers or combined biomarker models can help assess intestinal inflammation, monitor response to routine clinical treatment, predict treatment outcomes, and identify participants who may be at higher risk of disease progression. The study may enroll participants with inflammatory bowel disease, unaffected first-degree relatives of participants with inflammatory bowel disease, unrelated healthy controls, and non-IBD disease controls when appropriate. Clinical information and biological samples, including blood, stool, and intestinal tissue, may be collected. Biomarkers measured in blood, stool, intestinal tissue, genetic data, immune profiles, microbiome data, and other multi-omics data may be evaluated. The main questions this study aims to answer are: Can candidate biomarkers or combined biomarker models identify endoscopic disease activity when compared with endoscopic assessment? Can these biomarkers monitor or predict clinical response, clinical remission, endoscopic response, endoscopic remission, imaging response, or biomarker response during routine clinical care? Can these biomarkers help predict treatment failure, disease progression, hospitalization, surgery, treatment escalation, or complex Crohn's disease phenotypes? Participants will not be assigned to any treatment by the study. All treatments and clinical management decisions will be chosen by treating physicians as part of routine medical care.
Official title: Biomarker Discovery, Validation, and Multi-Omics Profiling for Disease Activity Assessment, Treatment Monitoring, and Risk Stratification in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Multicenter Prospective Biospecimen-Based Observational Cohort Study
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
14 Years - Any
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
6000
Start Date
2022-01-01
Completion Date
2028-12-31
Last Updated
2026-07-07
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Locations (2)
The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China