Basic Science
DDW® has awarded 20 Basic Science Travel Awards to young researchers for the third year in a row. The researchers, including Banrida Wahlang, PhD, who were selected to win a $1,000 travel grant from a pool of more than 250 applicants, will be featured in Saturday afternoon’s DDW Clinical Symposium Basic Science Quick Shots. Read more
Basic Science at DDW® 2018
Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) is excited to congratulate the recipients of the DDW Basic Science Travel Awards. Twenty basic scientists were selected from a pool of applicants to receive a $1,000 travel grant to attend DDW 2018. Expert members of DDW’s sponsoring societies worked together to select the award winners, who ar... Read more
Basic science advances continue across the breadth of gastroenterology research, but two areas in particular have seen significant recent advances. Studies of the microbiome and research into cell plasticity are moving from earlier descriptive work to more functional progress, according to Mark R. Frey, PhD, co-chair of the... Read more
Apply for DDW® 2018 Travel Awards
Apply for Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2018 Basic Science Travel Awards by Feb. 22 at 9 p.m. ET. Read more
Two new strategies are emerging to treat GI and other cancers — engineered T cells and immune checkpoint blockade treatments. Read more
AASLD plenary will highlight cutting-edge liver science
Six cutting-edge abstracts will be presented during Sunday afternoon’s AASLD Plenary Session, which will be moderated by AASLD President Anna S. Lok, MD, FAASLD, and AASLD Secretary Kimberly A. Brown, MD, FAASLD. Read more
Hot Coffee, Doughnuts, Debates … and ASGE’s Best Science
Hear from ASGE President Kenneth R. McQuaid, MD, FASGE, why the ASGE Presidential Plenary: Hot Coffee, Doughnuts, Debates … and Our Best Science was one of the society’s most exciting sessions of DDW® 2017. He also shares the research highlights presented during the session in this DDW TV Video. Read more
Gut microbiome studies have powered their way to the top of basic gastroenterology science, expanding the understanding of how the microbiome can interact with epithelial cells and other components of the gut to promote health or disease and dysfunction. Reflecting that trend, half of the abstracts that will be presented du... Read more
With Sunday Lecture, Funderburg Award Celebrates 25-year anniversary of advancing gastric cancer research
In 1991, little was known about the stomach beyond its obvious role as a low pH vessel that helped kick off the process of digestion. Gastric cancer had plummeted from the number one form of cancer in 1900 to a much less common, but still deadly disease, at least in the U.S. Then, in 1992, […] Read more
Monday’s AGA Presidential Plenary session will explore hot topics in GI research, clinical practice
Monday’s AGA Presidential Plenary session will showcase the best GI research and clinical science with a mix of state-of-the-art lectures and abstract presentations. “These are cutting-edge abstracts representing the very best research in three key areas of clinical gastroenterology,” said outgoing AGA Institute President T... Read more