For those wanting to read the full paper it is now back online Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159…

One of those lovely IBD clinic days when almost all patients are keeping well. With time to discuss more than gut symptoms, to think holistically, to discuss behavioural modifications, and hear about people's lives. Most, but not all, are on maintenance therapy with a

🌟When you dream big, the sky's the limit! This month marks 18 months since ibd-eii.com was created, since then: - I have summarized >415 clinical trial & much more - Received >300K+ visits (from 152 countries) - 1290 subscriptions - 34,700 content downloads

Our study at Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology Long-term outcomes & predictors of vedolizumab persistence in #UC ✅ persistence exceeding 80% at 1y and 50% at 5y 🌟 previous exposure to biologics/small molecules, disease distribution & steroid at baseline influenced persistence ✅ no new

Understanding how drugs work, helps us understand their full potential & adverse effects 🌟In today's back to basics, how do the immunosuppressants used in #IBD & other diseases work? Starting from the intriguing function of methotrexate, efficacious in #CD to maintain

Followed by the frequently used thiopurines, both efficacious in #CD and #UC to maintain remission and used to prevent anti-drug antibody formation too These were the first immunosuppressants used in #IBD with over 50 years of experience 🌟

Great summer of training in the local hills.

Our team Carl Anderson’s lab is looking for a Senior Bioinformatician/Data Scientist to support our team, from mentoring our more junior scientists to leading some key analyses sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellcome… What makes the role super attractive to me (guilty of being biased!) are …

Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health Data Science Location: Edinburgh, UK Institute of Genetics and Cancer Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine The University of Edinburgh We’re looking for a passionate Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our dynamic team focused on building predictive models for inflammatory

📢Come and join a great multi-disciplinary team. Apply before Sept 29!

The Lees lab in Edinburgh is hiring a post doc in applied Statistics/data science! The holder of the post will join us in answering pressing questions in IBD by leveraging our wealth of routinely collected longitudinal healthcare data. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Great to have Charlie Lees and Nathan Constantine-Cooke from Institute of Genetics and Cancer The University of Edinburgh visiting PREDICT IBD this week to discuss collaborative studies on differences in trajectories of patients with IBD. Danmarks Grundforskningsfond Aalborg Universitet AAU SUND Aalborg Universitetshospital Tine Jess

An enormous privilege to be visiting the smart, driven, and lovely people at PREDICT this week to collaborate on exciting work characterising heterogeneity in IBD.

Real world data on the effectiveness of #risankizumab in refractory #Crohn's disease. Access the paper here: bit.ly/4eac0Zo Benjamin Zare Beatriz Gros Charlie Lees Mark Samaan and colleagues. BSG BSG Trainees Phil Smith Gio McGinty Vivek Goodoory

It has been great to collaborate in this study and even greater to see how risankizumab could work in patients with Crohns disease who had no other therapeutic options at that time 🤩 Charlie Lees Mark Samaan Benjamin Zare

WE ARE HIRING Come join the research team in Edinburgh, working together to improve outcomes for patients living with IBD: • Post-doctoral data scientist* • Clinical research fellow** * Job advert live - apply now ** 3 years to do a PhD in IBD starting Aug 2025 - informal

I remember exactly the day and time during Christmas in 2020 when you tweeted a clinical fellow offer to work in Edinburgh That day changed my life forever

Real world data on the effectiveness of #risankizumab in refractory #Crohn's disease. Access the paper here: bit.ly/4eac0Zo Benjamin Zare Beatriz Gros Charlie Lees Mark Samaan and colleagues. BSG BSG Trainees Phil Smith Gio McGinty Vivek Goodoory