Basic Science
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 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
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
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