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We connect cutting-edge science and clinical care to tranform children's gut health.

A place for young people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, their families and the professionals & researchers that care for them.

04/06/2026

This Volunteers Week we would like to thank the amazing volunteers who support our work behind the scenes &

From sharing their experiences and ideas, to helping us communicate with families and improve what we do, their contribution is woven through so much of our work.

The most valuable thing they give us is their perspective. It helps us understand what life is really like for children, young people and families, and reminds us why this work matters. Here’s just a few photos and videos of Jen & Seb from our family days over the years and from when they spend time in clinic.

Thank you both for your generosity, your trust and the time you give so freely. We couldn’t do it without you.

| Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Ulcerative Colitis | Crohn’s disease | Expert by Experience

03/06/2026

Welcome to Part Two of our ‘Behind the Scenes’ series featuring June! We explore what his PhD is investigating, with a familiar face asking the questions…

June investigates and develops AI models to help process the huge amount of data that we collect as part of the TRIPP study. These models help us to make links between a patients clinical information, their genes and their disease severity.

One day our hope is that we can personalise treatments to each individual based on their own specific genetics and symptoms.

We’re currently planning our next interviews, who would you like us to talk to in the team and what would you like to know?

Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease | IBD research | Personalised Medicine | Clinical Research | |

[ video description: June is a PhD student sitting on a swivel chair and holding a mini microphone that’s attached to a blue children’s wand. He is in the lab surrounded by shelves of equipment and racks of tubes. The camera briefly pans round to show Claire, a research nurse, and Woojin, a fellow PhD student. Kelly, another research nurse, is off camera and starts off the questioning ]

20/05/2026

Today is Clinical Trials Day!

Here at the Cambridge Centre for Children’s Gut Health we offer lots of different research opportunities for young people, and their families, to take part in.

Unfortunately Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) diagnosis is increasing, with a big increase seen in young people under 16 years of age. Our Paediatric clinical and research teams work closely to deliver a wide range of studies, including access to clinical trial drugs, so that we can learn and provide better care.

Every medication we use for IBD is available because of clinical trials. Everyone that has taken part in one has helped to shape future care for us all… and we can’t thank you enough!

Let us know if you have any questions about taking part in clinical trials or want to know more information about what might be available to take part in.

| | Paediatric Clinical Research | Ulcerative Colitis | Crohn’s Disease

19/05/2026

Today is World IBD Day and to honour this we are sharing our mini-documentary “Understanding IBD: A researcher’s journey”. It was premiered at our PIBD family day back in March.

The short film features one of our researchers, Eva, and explores her work with Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease research. She works as part of the TRIPP study where we take very small samples of bowel, donated by our amazing young people, and grow them into “mini guts” { also known as Organoids }.

It was filmed and produced by one of our Clinical Research Nurses, Kelly, as part of the “Introduction to filmmaking” course with . Kelly also has the unique perspective of working within this field whilst also having Crohn’s Disease herself.

For both Eva and Kelly, getting to work with the young people that donate their samples is the most rewarding part of the job. Their resilience and excitement to take part in research will always amaze us here .childrensguthealth . Without them we wouldn’t be able to make the advancements that we have and hope to continue to make.

| | Crohn’s Disease | Ulcerative Colitis | Clinical Research | | | Science Communication | | Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

{ Video description: Eva sits in a chair in front of a large window, behind her is a busy building entrance. She tells us about her work using stem cells to make gut organoids, over this interview are clips of her in a white coat working at her bench in the lab. There are close ups of the samples she works with. Towards the end of the video we see clips of young people and their families enjoying a PIBD celebration day with the clinical and research teams that look after them. }

13/05/2026

It’s World IBD Day next week ( May 19th ) and to mark the occasion we will be sharing “Understanding IBD: A researcher’s journey”.

This mini-documentary features one of our researchers, Eva, and explores her work with Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease research. It was filmed and produced by one of our Clinical Research Nurses, Kelly, who has the unique perspective of working within this field whilst also having IBD herself.

Here’s a little peak of what you can expect from the full film.

If you’re not already, follow us .childrensguthealth so you don’t miss this mini documentary in full on May 19th.

Film produced alongside

| | Crohn’s Disease | Ulcerative Colitis | Clinical Research | | | Science Communication

07/05/2026

They say laughter is the best medicine, so here’s an outtake from our latest interview with Woojin…

We take our research very seriously, but it only took one question to get the whole team giggling. And we still have no idea what his answer actually was! You can watch his full interview a few posts over.

We’re interested to know though, what’s the “weirdest thing you’ve done in the name of science”?

PhD | Science Communication | Outtake | | Stem Cell Research | | | | Patient-derived Organoid

01/05/2026

Welcome to the first instalment of our ‘Behind the Scenes’ series! Today we’re featuring Woojin, a PhD student at our lab here in .

Our research nurses, Claire and Kelly, popped to the lab this week to quiz Woojin all things his PhD. His project is part of the TRIPP study and looks at how the cells that line your gut and the cells underneath them talk to each other when someone has IBD. This research is made possible by the young people that take part in TRIPP and donate samples of their own gut that we can then grow “mini guts” from.

How do you think he did?

Let us know in the comments if you have any questions you’d like us to ask as part of future episodes…

Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Crohn’s Disease | Ulcerative Colitis | IBD research | Clinical Research | Science communication

{ video description: Woojin is a PhD student and is sat in a swivel chair in the corner of our brightly lit lab. He is holding a blue wand that has tassels and a mic attached. There is lots of lab equipment on a bench next to him, and some shelves full of supplies behind him. Kelly and Claire, our research nurses, are asking him questions from behind the camera. }

20/04/2026

What did you all get up to this weekend?

Lucky for us the latest issue of our research newsletter ‘Under the Microscope’ is out. We spent some time reading it in the garden and listening to the birds. Keep swiping through to see one surprise reader!

Printed copies of the newsletter are sent in the post to the young people we look after here in Cambridge. It’s designed and produced by a very talented duo & our Senior Research Nurse, Claire. Our ‘young journalist’ guest editor this issue was Teddie { thank you Teddie!}.

If you’d like to read this, or any of our past issues, you can find them through the link in our bio.

Where have you been reading yours?

Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease | | | Clinical Research | | | Crohn’s Disease | Ulcerative Colitis

16/04/2026

What is the Cambridge Centre for Children’s Gut Health?

We bring together cutting-edge science and clinical care with the young people & their families that we care for. It’s a link between & .

By working together we want to learn all we can about Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PIBD) through our research, and deliver the best quality & up-to-date clinical care.

These are some of the things we’ve been doing so far...

| IBD | Crohn’s Disease | Ulcerative Colitis |IBDu | | Clinical Research

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