Woznicki, Jerzy A.
Saini, Nisha
Flood, Peter
Rajaram, Subhasree
Lee, Ciaran M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0789-9149
Stamou, Panagiota
Skowyra, Agnieszka
Bustamante-Garrido, Milan
Regazzoni, Karine
Crawford, Nyree
McDade, Simon S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3024-4773
Longley, Daniel B. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2495-2033
Aza-Blanc, Pedro
Shanahan, Fergus http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-0936
Zulquernain, Syed A.
McCarthy, Jane
Melgar, Silvia
McRae, Bradford L.
Nally, Ken http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9833-170X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI-13/CDA/2171, SFI-12/RC/2273, SFI-14/SP/2710)
Article History
Received: 8 February 2021
Revised: 16 August 2021
Accepted: 8 September 2021
First Online: 23 September 2021
Ethics approval
: The collection and use of colonic pinch biopsies was ethically approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Cork Teaching Hospitals (CREC). All patients provided an informed consent in agreement with the Declaration of Helsinki. The biopsies were collected from adult non-IBD patients or from patients with CD at Cork University Hospital or Mercy University Hospital.
: K.N. and F.S. are in receipt of research funding from AbbVie Inc. in the context of a research centre spoke award (SFI-14/SP/2710) to APC Microbiome Ireland. B.L.M. is an employee and shareholder of AbbVie Inc.