Biomarkers in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

The editors are currently reviewers of major international journals. They are experts in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) each with an interest in developing biomarkers for research development and improving patient care. The editors have also developed strong reputations within the international IBD community and have connections with each of the nominated chapter contributors. Nik Sheng Ding is a committee member for the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) and a clinical lecturer at Imperial College, London. He has supervised students and is a member of the Computational Medicine division of the department of medicine. He is completing a PhD entitled "Clinical and metabolic predictors of response to anti-TNF therapy in Crohn's disease". He has authored and co-authored manuscripts, book chapters and has a major grant from ECCO to conduct his research. He is currently the principal investigator of an international study into access to IBD investigations (biomarkers) by health professionals, particularly investigating rates of usage according to health expenditure and quality of care for patients (Access to IBD investigations - ACCID). Nik has an interest in translational research with investigating the function of the microbiome through metabonomics and it's relation to outcomes in IBD.

Part I: Introduction.- nflammatory bowel disease - more than meets the eye - Clinical risk factors - lessons from epidemiology.- Clinical trial design for biomarker discovery.- Database/ big data meets real world.- Patient reported outcomes.- Part II: Biomarkers - Prognostic vs Predictive.- Biomarkers for remote monitoring.- Disease modification.- Part IIV: Crohn's disease.- Luminal Crohn's disease-. Perianal CD.- Fibrosis/ strictures in CD.- Post-op Crohn's disease.- Part IV: Ulcerative colitis.- UC surveillance.- Acute severe UC.- Chronic active UC.- Pouchitis.- Refractory proctitis.- Feacal microbiota transplantation.- Primary sclerosing cholangitis.- Extraintestinal manifestations of IBD.- Part V: Specialised scenarios.- Pregnancy.- Nutrition.- TDM.- Biomarkers to quantify immune response.- Drug toxicity.- Part VI:Scientific.- Exposome and diet.- Microbiota .- Metabonomics.- Immunology.- Genomics.- Systems Biology in Biomarker research.- Part VII: Ideal tools for investigation in the future.