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Stephen Vanner

ResearcherMedicineQueen's University

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Stephen Vanner

Researcher

Medicine

Health Sciences

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 CIHR), most recently in 2023.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2017.

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Research

Irritable Bowel Syndrome Analgesia Commercialization Opioids Pain Electrophysiology Gastrointestinal Proteases

Latest papers

Symptoms in Persons With Either Active or Inactive Crohn‘s Disease Are Agnostic to Disease Phenotype
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology · 2026
Patient-reported Symptoms Are Independent of Extent of Disease in Longstanding Ulcerative Colitis
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology · 2026
Effect of gluten and wheat on symptoms and behaviours in adults with irritable bowel syndrome: a single-centre, randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled crossover trial
The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology · 2025

All 49 publications

Latest funding

Inflammation, Microbiome, and Alimentation: Gastro-Intestinal and Neuropsychiatric Effects: the IMAGINE-SPOR chronic disease network.
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$2,000,000
Developing a potent non-addictive analgesic as an alternative to conventional opioids
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$665,550
Novel microbial driven histamine pathways underlying chronic abdominal pain
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$918,000

All 12 grants and awards

49 publications.

Symptoms in Persons With Either Active or Inactive Crohn‘s Disease Are Agnostic to Disease Phenotype

Bernstein CN, Nugent Z, Panaccione R, Marshall DA, Kaplan GG, Dieleman LA, Vanner S, Graff LA, Otley A, Jones J

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology20262 citations

DOI: 10.1097/mcg.0000000000002137

Patient-reported Symptoms Are Independent of Extent of Disease in Longstanding Ulcerative Colitis

Bernstein CN, Nugent Z, Panaccione R, Marshall DA, Kaplan GG, Vanner S, Dieleman LA, Graff LA, Otley A, Jones J

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology2026

DOI: 10.1097/mcg.0000000000002329

Effect of gluten and wheat on symptoms and behaviours in adults with irritable bowel syndrome: a single-centre, randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled crossover trial

Seiler CL, Rueda GH, Miranda PM, Nardelli A, Borojevic R, Hann A, Rahmani S, De Souza R, Caminero A, Curella V

The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology202513 citations

DOI: 10.1016/s2468-1253(25)00090-1

Crohn’s Disease Phenotypes and Associations With Comorbidities, Surgery Risk, Medications and Nonmedication Approaches: The MAGIC in IMAGINE Study

Bernstein CN, Panaccione R, Nugent Z, Marshall DA, Kaplan GG, Vanner S, Dieleman LA, Graff LA, Otley A, Jones J

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases202510 citations

DOI: 10.1093/ibd/izae055

Response to Maximilian and Gasche

Quigley EMM, Kashyap P, Moayyedi P, Simren M, Vanner S

Neurogastroenterology and Motility2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/nmo.70182

Chronic Visceral Pain: New Peripheral Mechanistic Insights and Resulting Treatments.

Ford AC, Vanner S, Kashyap PC, Nasser Y

Gastroenterology2024

DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2024.01.045 PMID: 38325759

Critical appraisal of the SIBO hypothesis and breath testing: A clinical practice update endorsed by the European society of neurogastroenterology and motility (ESNM) and the American neurogastroenterology and motility society (ANMS)

Kashyap P, Moayyedi P, Quigley EMM, Simren M, Vanner S

Neurogastroenterology and Motility202463 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1111/nmo.14817

The IBS bug-pain connection

Verdu EF, Vanner S

Gut Microbes2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2024.2308956

Asymptomatic surveillance testing for COVID-19 in health care professional students: lessons learned from a low prevalence setting.

Burrows AG, Linton S, Thiele J, Sheth PM, Evans GA, Archer S, Doliszny KM, Finlayson M, Flynn L, Huang Y, Kasmani A, Hugh Guan T, Maier A, Hansen-Taugher A, Moore K, Sanfilippo A, Snelgrove-Clarke E, Tripp DA, Walker DMC, Vanner S, Ellis AK

Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology2023

DOI: 10.1186/s13223-023-00769-4 PMID: 36991486

Face‐to‐face interviews versus Internet surveys: Comparison of two data collection methods in the Rome foundation global epidemiology study: Implications for population‐based research

Sperber AD, Bor S, Fang X, Bangdiwala SI, Drossman DA, Ghoshal UC, Simren M, Tack J, Whitehead WE, Dumitrascu DL

Neurogastroenterology and Motility202336 citations

DOI: 10.1111/nmo.14583

Inflammation, Microbiome, and Alimentation: Gastro-Intestinal and Neuropsychiatric Effects: the IMAGINE-SPOR chronic disease network.

Co-investigatorCIHR2025SPOR Networks - Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Science - Extension

Principal investigators: Moayyedi, Paul; De Nino, Alysia; Marsiglio, Megan L; Munro, Sandra; Lavis, John N; Marshall, Deborah A; Presseau, Justin; Surette, Michael G

Keywords: Gastro-Intestinal; Inflammation; Microbiome, And Alimentation

$2,000,000

Developing a potent non-addictive analgesic as an alternative to conventional opioids

Nominated PICIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Vanner, Stephen J

Keywords: Analgesia; Commercialization; Opioids; Pain

$665,550

Novel microbial driven histamine pathways underlying chronic abdominal pain

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Reed, David E; De Palma, Giada

Keywords: Histamine; Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Mast Cells; Microbiota; Pain Signaling

$918,000

IMAGINE (Inflammation, Microbiome, and Alimentation: Gastro-Intestinal and Neuropsychiatric Effects) SPOR Chronic Disease Network - Knowledge Mobilization & Implementation Science Phase 2

Principal investigatorCIHR2021SPOR Networks - Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Science

Principal investigators: Moayyedi, Paul; Calliou, Skylin N; Daley, Kimberlee; De Nino, Alysia; Desjarlais, Rhonda; Marsiglio, Megan L; Munro, Sandra; Baumgart, Daniel C; Bercik, Premysl; Bernstein, Charles N; de Souza, Russell J; Dieleman, Levinus A; D'Silva, Adrijana; Ghia, Jean-Eric; Graff, Lesley A; Jones, Meaghan J; Kao, Dina H; Lavis, John N; Leontiadis, Grigorios; Libertucci, Josie; Ma, Christopher; Madsen, Karen L; Marshall, Deborah A; Narula, Neeraj; Nguyen, Geoffrey C; Otley, Anthony R; Panaccione, Remo; Pena-Sanchez, Juan-Nicolas; Presseau, Justin; Ruzycki, Shannon M; Surette, Michael G; Swain, Mark G; Tandon, Puneeta; Taylor, Valerie Hannah; Tremblay, Melissa; Tripp, Dean A; Vanner, Stephen J; Verdu, Elena F; Walters, Thomas D; Wine, Eytan

Keywords: Anxiety; Depression; Diet; Implementation Science; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Knowledge Mobilization; Microbiome; Patient Orientated Research

$3,745,000

Modulation of pain in IBD by microbial proteases

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Lomax, Alan Edward G

Keywords: Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Microbiota; Proteases; Visceral Pain

$791,776

The role of gut microbiota in chronic abdominal pain.

Principal investigatorCIHR2018Team Grant: Canadian Microbiome Initiative 2: Research Teams - LOI

Principal investigators: Bercik, Premysl; Reed, David E; Vanner, Stephen J

Keywords: Animal Models; Celiac Disease; Inflammatory Bowel Disorders; Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Metabolomics; Microbiome; Pain; Translational Research; Visceral Hypersensitivity

$24,900

The role of dietary fermentable carbohydrates (FODMAPs) in the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease

SupervisorCIHR2017Fellowship: Priority Announcement - Clinical Nutrition

Principal investigators: Tuck, Caroline J

Keywords: Carbohydrates; Diet; Dietary Therapy; Fermentable Carbohydrates; Fodmaps; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Irritable Bowel Syndrome

$45,000

Novel signaling mechanisms leading to pain in irritable bowel syndrome

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Vanner, Stephen J

Keywords: Electrophysiology; Gastrointestinal; Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Proteases

$688,500

Inflammation, Microbiome, and Alimentation: Gastro-Intestinal and Neuropsychiatric Effects: the IMAGINE-SPOR chronic disease network.

Principal investigatorCIHR2015SPOR Networks in Chronic Disease

Principal investigators: Moayyedi, Paul; Howse, Douglas; Bercik, Premysl; Bernstein, Charles N; Collins, Stephen M; Eksteen, Johannes A; Fedorak, Richard N; Kaplan, Gilaad G; Kubes, Paul; MacQueen, Glenda M; Otley, Anthony R; Rioux, John D; Surette, Michael G; Vanner, Stephen J

Keywords: Anxiety; Depression; Diet; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Microbiome

$12,450,000

The role of endogenous opioids and chronic stress in the expression of pain in IBD

SupervisorCIHR2012Fellowship - Priority Announcement - Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Principal investigators: Nasser, Yasmin

Keywords: Dorsal Root Ganglia; Endogenous Opioids; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Nociception

$55,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Stephen Vanner

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Symptoms in Persons With Either Active or Inactive Crohn‘s Disease Are Agnostic to Disease Phenotype

Patient-reported Symptoms Are Independent of Extent of Disease in Longstanding Ulcerative Colitis

Effect of gluten and wheat on symptoms and behaviours in adults with irritable bowel syndrome: a single-centre, randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled crossover trial

Crohn’s Disease Phenotypes and Associations With Comorbidities, Surgery Risk, Medications and Nonmedication Approaches: The MAGIC in IMAGINE Study

Response to Maximilian and Gasche

Chronic Visceral Pain: New Peripheral Mechanistic Insights and Resulting Treatments.

Critical appraisal of the SIBO hypothesis and breath testing: A clinical practice update endorsed by the European society of neurogastroenterology and motility (ESNM) and the American neurogastroenterology and motility society (ANMS)

The IBS bug-pain connection

Asymptomatic surveillance testing for COVID-19 in health care professional students: lessons learned from a low prevalence setting.

Face‐to‐face interviews versus Internet surveys: Comparison of two data collection methods in the Rome foundation global epidemiology study: Implications for population‐based research

Frequent collaborators

Paul Moayyedi

Premysl Bercik

Elena Verdu

Giada De Palma

Anthony Otley

Sanjay Murthy

Jennifer Jones

Alain Bitton

Kenneth Croitoru

Remo Panaccione

Shrikant Bangdiwala

Russell de Souza

Stephen Michael Collins

David Wishart

Stephen Archer

Vikki Ho

Karen Madsen

Marcia Finlayson

Yasmin Nasser

David Reed

Laura Targownik

Jennifer Flemming

Henry Wong

Lesley Graff

Maria Pinto-Sanchez

Alberto Caminero Fernandez

Laura Katz

John Lavis

Kieran Moore

Michael Surette