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Article History

Accepted: 17 April 2023

First Online: 2 June 2023

Declarations

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: SKV is an employee of Alimentiv Inc. LMS has received consulting fees from Alimentiv Inc. JH has received speaker’s fees from Abbvie, Janssen, and Takeda, and consulting fees from Alimentiv Inc. CM has received consulting fees from AbbVie, Alimentiv, Amgen, AVIR Pharma Inc, BioJAMP, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celltrion, Ferring, Fresenius Kabi, Janssen, McKesson, Mylan, Pendopharm, Pfizer, Prometheus Biosciences Inc., Roche, Sanofi, Takeda, Tillotts Pharma; speaker's fees from AbbVie, Amgen, AVIR Pharma Inc, Alimentiv, Bristol Myers Squibb, Ferring, Fresenius Kabi, Janssen, Organon, Pendopharm, Pfizer, Takeda; royalties from Springer Publishing; research support from Ferring, Pfizer. VJ has received consulting/advisory board fees from AbbVie, Alimentiv Inc (formerly Robarts Clinical Trials), Arena pharmaceuticals, Asieris, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celltrion, Eli Lilly, Ferring, Fresenius Kabi, Galapagos, GlaxoSmithKline, Genetech, Gilead, Janssen, Merck, Mylan, Pandion, Pendopharm, Pfizer, Reistone Biopharma, Roche, Sandoz, Takeda, Topivert; and speaker’s fees from Abbvie, Ferring, Janssen Pfizer Shire, and Takeda. BGF has received grant/research support from Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Tillotts Pharma AG, AbbVie, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Centocor Inc., Elan/Biogen, UCB Pharma, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genentech, ActoGenix, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc.; consulting fees from Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Centocor Inc., Elan/Biogen, Janssen-Ortho, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, UCB Pharma, AbbVie, Astra Zeneca, Serono, Genentech, Tillotts Pharma AG, Unity Pharmaceuticals, Albireo Pharma, Given Imaging Inc., Salix Pharmaceuticals, Novonordisk, GSK, Actogenix, Prometheus Therapeutics and Diagnostics, Athersys, Axcan, Gilead, Pfizer, Shire, Wyeth, Zealand Pharma, Zyngenia, GiCare Pharma Inc., and Sigmoid Pharma; and speakers bureaux fees from UCB, AbbVie, and J&J/Janssen. Alimentiv Inc. is an academic gastrointestinal contract research organization (CRO), operating under the Alimentiv Health Trust. Alimentiv Inc. provides comprehensive clinical trial services, precision medicine offerings, and centralized imaging solutions for endoscopy, histopathology, and other imaging modalities. The beneficiaries of the Alimentiv Health Trust are the employees of the enterprises it holds. LMS, JH, CM, VJ, and BGF are consultants to Alimentiv Inc.; they do not hold equity positions or shares in Alimentiv Inc. JH, CM, VJ, and BGF have a primary academic appointment.

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: VJ and BGF supervised the work. All authors drafted and critically advised the manuscript for important intellectual content, and approved the final submitted version of the work.