NTNU is an international oriented university with headquarters in Trondheim and campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund. NTNU has a main profile in science and technology, a variety of programmes of professional study and great academic breadth that also includes the humanities, social sciences, economics, medicine, health sciences, educational science, architecture, entrepreneurship, art disciplines and artistic activities. The university's root goes back to 1760. A merger in 2016 made NTNU Norway's largest single university. NTNU is a host or parter in several national research centres and participates in 611 EU Framework Programme projects and has been awarded 42 ERC grants.
The Trøndelag Health Study (The HUNT Study) is one of the largest health studies ever performed. It is a unique database of questionnaire data, clinical measurements and samples from a country’s inhabitants since 1984. Today, HUNT Research Centre has a database with information on 250,000 people, and has been certified in conformity with NS-EN ISO 9001:2015 since 2011.
Role within INTERCEPT
The role of the HUNT cohort is to validate and discover novel biological signatures in a large well-characterized Norwegian population of asymptomatic subjects that developed Crohn´s disease. Serum from 150 pre-symptomatic subjects that will develop Crohn´s disease and 150 control samples will be studied.
In a second step, this data will be integrated with other cohorts and used to create a risk profile that can be used to detect those who are at risk of developing Crohn´s disease using AI.
Main contacts
MD, PhD Ignacio Catalan-Serra
Gastroenterologist at AHUS University Hospital in Oslo and Senior Researcher at NTNU
Professor Kristian Hveem
Professor at NTNU and HUNT Coordinator