Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Kids with IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) often struggle with tiredness and difficulty doing everyday activities, which can make life harder, but there aren't good tools to measure these problems in children.

Risankizumab is a medication used for the treatment of Crohn's Disease in adults and children to limit symptoms of the disease.

The Center for Microbial Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia leverages the microbiome to improve the health of children and bring personalized microbiome-based medicine from bench to bedside to every child who receives care at CHOP.

Evaluate the impact of non-persistent and persistent chemical exposures on autoimmunity, gene expression and the microbiome in children with and without Crohn’s disease.

The Penn Human Intervention Core offers a wide array of services to assist with the design and implementation of microbiome studies.

The Penn Microbial Culture and Metabolomics Core features facilities and equipment for the aerobic and anaerobic culture of microbial species in both batch and continuous systems, as well targeted metabolomics services.