Help us find a way to better care for all inflammatory bowel disease patients

We are looking for people of Black and Asian backgrounds with inflammatory bowel disease to take part in a research study.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes conditions such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. These can affect adults and children alike, but are most common in late teen years through to age 40, producing a variety of debilitating symptoms such as abdominal pain, weight loss, diarrhoea and urgency.

To help advance research in this area, the IBD BioResource, is looking for new volunteers from under-represented groups – particularly young people and ethnic minorities – and also patients with specific health conditions.

With around 500,000 people in the UK diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, the IBD BioResource is aiming to build a national research platform of 55,000 patients who we can call upon, whose genetic and clinical data is available to approved researchers.

This data will allow people working in IBD studies help to develop new, better-targeted and successful treatments.