UCB is once again offering 30 one-time scholarships for up to $10,000 each in 2009. This opportunity extends to participants diagnosed with Crohn’s disease who are seeking an associate’s, undergraduate, or graduate degree, or are enrolled in a trade school educational program. The deadline for application is February 6, 2009.

More information can be found at the Crohns and Me home website.

Inflammatory bowel disease or IBD includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, which causes inflammation in the digestive tract. The causes of IBD are unknown. Inflammatory bowel disease symptoms include abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, and fever. Other symptoms of IBD include weight loss. The goal of IBD treatment is to suppress inflammation.

Most with the disease can live full, productive lives, without tailoring life according to the dictates of the disease. Some however have more severe cases which may require modification of some things about there life such as what they eat, medicines they take, managing of stress levels, or ways they exercise.

Both Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis can be managed, but not cured.