Gastrointestinal (GI) Clinical Trials Made Simple
The Functional Gut Clinic specialises in offering end-to-end solutions in clinical trials for medicines, medical devices, food supplements and digestive health products.
Our expertise spans a range of clinical trial designs and budgets, with proven strategies for fast recruitment and exceptional retention rates. We help companies meet regulatory requirements to substantiate product claims and enhance credibility.
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How it works
Whether your project is a small pilot study or a large, multi-site trial, our tailored approach ensures your objectives are met efficiently, effectively and in full compliance with regulatory standards.
Perception Study
A perception study explores how participants experience and respond to a gut health product or intervention.
Single Group Study
A single group study evaluates the effects of a gut health intervention in a defined population without a control group.
Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT)
A RCT is the gold standard. Participants are randomly assigned to treatment or comparator groups.
How our process works
We are passionate about elevating your product with the power of clinical research - and the need to substantiate claims with robust scientific evidence has never been greater.
Our research team designs clinical trials tailored to your product, whether you need a single trial or multiple protocols across different formulations. We support you through every stage — from determining timelines and budget expectations to full study set-up and execution.
Why it matters?
We have helped brands transform their marketing and regulatory positioning with credible, research-backed claims.
We understand every brands’ journey is unique. Our streamlined process means your study is conducted efficiently.
Conception
We work with you to design a scientifically robust, efficiently-designed protocol concept to test your product.
Set-up
We develop and submit the clinical protocol and associated documents for regulatory and ethics approvals.
Recruitment
We utilise our innovative recruitment and retention strategies to deliver a timely trial
solution.
Analysis & write-up
We perform expert analyses and interpretation of the trial outcomes, and author regulatory-standard study reports.
Publication
We can co-author conference abstracts and publications for peer-reviewed journals.
Aftercare
We can help you share the results of your trial with consumers and healthcare practitioners to promote your product using social media and our consumer platform, TummyMOT.com
Research-Backed For Your Product
The Right Clinical Trial for Your Product Category
We specialise in creating robust, evidence-based studies for digestive health supplements and products, medicines and medical devices. From concept to claims - we make it happen.
Our research team designs clinical trials tailored to your product type, whether you need a single trial or multiple protocols across different formulations. We support you through every stage — from determining timelines and budget expectations to full study set-up and execution.
Why it matters?
We’ve helped brands transform their marketing and regulatory positioning with credible, research-backed claims that drive trust, compliance, and growth.
Medicines &
medical devices
Food supplements & digestive health products
Your product, our priority
At the Functional Gut Clinic, your success is at the heart of everything we do. Unlike established CROs with rigid processes and less experience in the GI field, we use our extensive experience, our flexible, streamlined processes and access to advanced biomarkers to deliver world-class trials.
We are not just a service provider — we are your partner in turning innovation into trusted, science-backed solutions.
The Functional Gut Clinic Highlights
Functional Gut Clinic
GI-specialist study design
Existing partnerships with other key opinion leaders
End-to-end trial management
Fast recruitment and high retention rate
Gold-standard GI testing and clinical assessmenets
Access to advanced biomarkers
Expert interpretation and analysis of data
Publication support
Other CROs
Generic study templates
Limited GI expertise
No biomarker integration
No claims guidance
Slower recruitment
No HCP interpretation
Trusted by leading brands
What Our Partners Say
"Working with the Functional Gut Clinic on our clinical study was a great experience. The team is highly professional, with great attention to detail and an in-depth expertise in the area of gut health. The study was conducted in the most robust way possible, with timely sample and data analysis. The study report was thorough and was provided in a readily usable format. The team did a wonderful job of keeping us appraised of any challenges or delays to any part of the study. Overall, it was a very positive experience and one that Brightseed would be happy to repeat when another opportunity arises."
"Our collaboration with the Functional Gut Clinic has been very exciting and productive. Together, we are working to identify novel molecular biomarkers for gut health, with the shared goal of enabling earlier diagnosis and better preventive management. In our current project, we are exploring urinary microRNA as potential biomarkers for Irritable Bowel Syndrome — an area with significant unmet clinical need. With several exciting genomics-driven biomarker discovery projects already in the pipeline, I look forward to strengthening this partnership and advancing impactful research together.”* – Prof. Arijit Mukhopadhyay"
"It was a pleasure to work with the Functional Gut Clinic who conducted a pilot study of our product in participants with constipation. They provided a hassle-free experience in conducting a clinical trial, with the results written up and presented by the FGC team at a national conference."
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