Gut Reaction

If you live with IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) and visit your doctor, access treatment through the NHS or support research through participation in the NIHR BioResource or IBD Registry, you create health data. Multiply that by thousands of people and it becomes an invaluable resource for research. This data helps researchers understand the causes of IBD. From this understanding, better treatments can be developed. However, data is not always easy to find or use, slowing important research.

Gut Reaction was funded for an initial 3-year period by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), through the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), to facilitate research into IBD by bringing together datasets from different sources.

If you live with IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) and visit your doctor, access treatment through the NHS or support research through participation in the NIHR BioResource, you create health data. Multiply that by thousands of people and it becomes an invaluable resource for research. This data helps researchers understand the causes of IBD. From this understanding, better treatments can be developed. However, data is not always easy to find or use, slowing important research.

Gut Reaction was funded for an initial 3-year period by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), through the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), to facilitate research into IBD by bringing together datasets from different sources.

From September 2022, Gut Reaction will continue as part of the NIHR Bioresource. Working with our partners, collaborators and the IBD community, we will continue to support research that makes a difference to those living with IBD. 

Gut Reaction is a research project that aims to make it easier for researchers to use the valuable real-world data held in the NIHR IBD BioResource and participating NHS Trusts. By uniting them in a single, secure research environment, we will create the world’s largest single repository of data from people with IBD.

One of 9 Health Data Research Hubs developed by HDRUK, Gut Reaction is a collaboration between NIHR BioResource, IBD BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Cambridge, Crohn’s & Colitis UK, AIMES, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Privitar.

Public involvement is central to Gut Reaction and people with Crohn’s and Colitis will be involved in every step of the way. 

You can explore the data sets available through Gut Reaction using the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway, and apply for access through the NIHR BioResource data access process.

You can also visit the Gut Reaction website.