Acknowledgements
Diabetes II, Diabetes
RECRUITMENT, DIABETES
We want to thank Aline Fenneman, Klaartje de Bruin and Melanie Benard for their help with stool donor recruitment and screening. In addition, we thank Veera Houttu, Ulrika Boulund, Kim Dzobo and Torsten Scheithauer for performing the randomisation to guarantee blinding of the investigator and volunteer. We would also like to thank Ana Gerós, Yannick van Schajik and Stephanie Handana for their help in setting up the faecal filtrate production and optimisation. We are grateful for the help of the gastroenterology department of the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, for their support with the Cortrak®2 enteral access system. We also like to acknowledge the Microbiota Centre Amsterdam for their help with the DNA isolation of the faecal samples and the Genomics core of the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, for their advice on the whole genome shotgun sequencing. Finally, we are most grateful for the volunteers who participated in this clinical pilot study. Researchers were supported by various grants. K.W. was supported by a Novo Nordisk Foundation CAMIT grant 2018 (28232) to M.N. and a Diabetes II Breakthrough grant (459001008) to H.H.; P.A.dJ. and T.P.M.S. were supported by DDRF Senior fellowship (2019.82.004) to H.H.; I.A. was supported through a Le Ducq consortium grant (17CVD01) to M.N.; M.N. was supported by a personal ZONMW-VICI grant 2020 (09150182010020) and a Le Ducq consortium grant (17CVD01). H.H. was supported by a Senior Fellowship of the Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation (2019.82.004). The funders had no role in the study design, the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, the writing of the report and the decision to submit the article for publication.