Crohn`s & Colitis Foundation: Chronic Abdominal Pain in IBD: Academic Request for Proposals – LOI

Aim: to identify knowledge gaps and strategies to move the field forward regarding both the understanding of the biology of chronic abdominal pain in IBD and its clinical management. The main challenges identified:

1. categorization of the heterogeneity of clinical presentations and underlying biological mechanisms to enable the discovery of novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers
2. translationally relevant experimental models;
3. systems-level understanding of pain physiology, cell-cell interactions and triggers;
4. identification of therapeutic mechanisms and novel targets within specific patient populations

Funding: up to $300,000 per year for 3 years. (10% overhead)

www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/research/grants-fellowships/chronic-abdominal-pain-ibd