ECCO Fellowships & Grants Abstracts 2025

BMS Sponsorship
ECCO would like to thank Bristol Myers Squibb for their unrestricted grant support for registry, nutrition and nursing projects. BMS has no input or influence on the overall grant process.

Please see all the research projects and abstracts listed below. 

ECCO Pioneer Award

The role of SMooth muscle cell minerAlocorticoid Receptor in inTestinal fibrosis (SMART)
R. Marion-Letellier and others
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1586

ECCO Global Grant

Perianal Crohn’s disease across borders – understanding unmet needs to aid future global solutions
A. Hart
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1587

ECCO Fellowship

Microscopic colitis as pre-inflammatory bowel disease model: from early-stage to tissular endpoint fibrosis
C. Escudero-Hernández
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1588

Patterns and mechanisms of visceral and rectal hypersensitivity in patients with ulcerative colitis in remission
A. Trikola
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1589

ECCO Grant

Evaluating protein SUPPLEMENTation in Ulcerative Colitis (SUPPLEMENT-UC)n
A.S. Day and others
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1590

Inhibition of the gut sulfidogenic bacteria targeting the production of toxic and inflammatory sulfide
A. Pímenta
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1591

Caudovirales as a Trigger of Molecular Mimicry in Crohn’s Disease
C. Errico
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1592

Diagnostic Markers of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis in Newly Diagnosed Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease – a Copenhagen IBD Inception Cohort Sub-study
T.V. Honoré and others
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1593

Role of indole derivatives in neutrophil functions in homeostasis and inflammation
C. Danne
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjad212.1429

Deciphering the role of the intestinal microbiota in mediating the protective effect of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition on patients with Crohn’s disease
F. Stallbaum and others
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjad212.1430

Immunometabolic landscaping in Crohn’s disease creeping fat – Does fat matter?
L. M. Haag
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1596

Optimizing Appendectomy in Ulcerative Colitis: Predictive Markers and Mechanistic Insights
M. A. J. Becker and others
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1597

Targeting hypoxia-induced signaling via HIF-2 inhibition, a promising treatment strategy for intestinal fibrosis?
S. Van Welden
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1598

Klebsiella pneumoniae T6SS impact in IBDs
M. S. Aschtgen
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1599

D-ECCO Grant

Biomarkers of dietary intake in faeces of children with Crohn’s disease and their role in disease recurrence following treatment with exclusive enteral nutrition
SK. Gerasimidis and others
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1600

N-ECCO Grant

Patient and public involvement and engagement to inform an adaptive platform trial using a multi-arm multi-stage (MAMS) approach in Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
S. Radford
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1601

Self-care in patients affected with inflammatory bowel disease and Mutuality in nursing: A protocol for a longitudinal study
D. Napolitano and others
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1602

IIS Registry Grant

Prevalence, clinical and anorectal function characterization of faecal incontinence and rectal urgency in ulcerative colitis patients (HOPE Study)
M.J. Casanova and others
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae190.1603

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