Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatment and Research

Our Ongoing Research

A patient and his father meet with our research Nurse Practioner, Tracee Saslowsky

We are currently investigating many areas to try to identify causes and improve diagnosis and treatment of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, including:

• Determining which of our current treatments are most effective in getting these diseases under control
• Discovering new, noninvasive ways of assessing disease activity in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
• Investigating the role of probiotics (bacteria beneficial to human health) in treating these diseases
• Investigating new medications in treatment of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and pouchitis after ulcerative colitis surgery
• Studying bone health and treatment of low bone mineral density in children and teens with IBD.
• Characterizing the differences in gastrointestinal bacteria between individuals with and without IBD
• Working with animal models that will help us identify how the immune system is altered in IBD