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NACC Research
Reports
NACC
sometimes commissions research or reviews into particular aspects of
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, both into research and service development
issues. You can read the reports by
following this link. If you wish to
quote from the reports please provide people with a reference to the
full reports here on the NACC website.
NACC
Research Fund
More than
100 projects have been funded by NACC members since the Research Fund
was started in 1984. The research has been mainly into the causes and
treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, but in recent years several
Social and Psychological projects have been funded. The funds for
research have come almost entirely from NACC members own fund-raising
and donations, but support from Charitable Trusts and Companies is
growing. Our aim is to increase the funds we make available to £500,000
per year by the end of 2007.
If you would like to make a donation to the Research
Fund, please
click here; if you would like to discuss fundraising for the NACC
research Fund, please email .
NACC's
policy has been to fund projects at hospitals and universities
throughout the United Kingdom, not just at one centre. Awards are made
using peer-review and the projects funded have covered a wide variety of
possible causes, including genetics, viruses and bacteria, the immune
system and the environment. No single line of research seems to offer a
complete understanding of the disease and NACC aims to help research
progress in all areas. NACC has been awarded a Certificate of Best
Practice in peer-review of research applications by the
Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC).
Summary of Research Awards 1984 to 2006
NACC has produced a summary of NACC research from
2001 to 2006 which can be
downloaded in PDF format
(880kb - this is a large
file which will take about 4 minutes to download on a standard 56k
modem). An earlier review covering NACC research from 1984 to 2001 can
also be
downloaded in PDF format
(1.2mb - this is a large
file which will take about 6 minutes to download on a standard 56k
modem).
List of
Research Awards
Research
Awards since 2005 are listed here in reverse date order (latest year
first) sorted by the size of the grant. The total for each year is shown
at the end of that year's listings; older awards
since 2000 are also available.
Research Awards - Applying to NACC
To apply for a NACC Research
award, please click here.
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2008 |
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Professor Christopher Probert - Clinical Science South Bristol, Bristol Royal Infirmary
Steroid Resistant Lymphocyte Populations in Ulcerative Colitis
£100,000 (2 years)
 Click here for the lay summary
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Dr Barry Campbell - University of Liverpool, Division of Gastroenterology
Identifying the molecular mechanisms of interaction between colonic Crohn's disease mucosa-associated Escherichia coli and the intestinal epithelium
£89,341 (2 years)
Click here for the lay summary
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Professor George MacFarlane - Gut Group, Division of Pathology and Neuroscience
Synbiotic treatment of ulcerative colitis patients
£86,950 (2 years)
Click here for the lay summary
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Dr David Qualtrough - Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol
The role of Notch signalling in restitution, regeneration and remission in inflammatory bowel disease
£7,791 (1 year)
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Research Awards for 2008
totalled: £284,082 |
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2007 |
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Professor David Rampton - Endoscopy Unit, Royal London Hospital
How does Psychological Stress Exacerbate Ulcerative Colitis? Roles of mucosa-associated bacteria, mast cells and catecholamines
£85,000 (2 years)
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Dr Christine Whiting - School of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol
IL-13 promotes inflammation-induced gut fibrosis via a TNF-?-dependent mechanism
£67,106 (1 year)
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Dr Jeremy Sanderson - School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Kings College London
The difficult problem of oral Crohn’s disease: a unique pathological entity in IBD?
£51,975 (1 year)
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Dr Louise Langmead - Department of Gastroenterology UCLH
Clinical trial to evaluate aloe vera gel enemas in mild to moderately active distal ulcerative colitis (UC)
£30,127 (1 year)
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Dr Jeremy Sanderson - School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Kings College London
Optimising thiopurine metabolite monitoring to allow personalised thiopurine treatment
£9,300 (1 year)
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Research Awards for 2007
totalled: £243,508 |
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2006 |
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Prof Subrata Ghosh - Imperial College London
Control of adaptive immune responses via Crohn’s disease-associated NOD2 signalling and bacterial sensing in human dentritic cells
£95,242 (2 years)
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Dr Amanda Williams - University of Bristol
Is selection pressure responsible for chronic refractory IBD? – Does initial steroid therapy ultimately lead to treatment failure by preferential selection of disease-propagating T cells?
£89,987 (2 years)
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Dr Andrew Smith - University College London
Macrophages from Crohn’s disease patients have an impaired response to inflammatory stimuli
£20,000 (1 year)
Click here for the lay summary
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Dr Gordon Dent - Keele University
Eosinophil/epithelium interactions in inflammatory bowel disease: a pilot study
£3,000 (1 year)
Click here for the lay summary
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Research Awards for 2006
totalled: £208,229
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