Olympus to build $12M service center, FDA clears Getinge Group’s scope sterilizer & more — 4 GI company key notes

Here are four recent news updates on key gastroenterology and endoscopy companies.

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Olympus Surgical Technologies America, a subsidiary of Olympus of the Americas, is building a $12 million service center in Bartlett, Tenn.

The FDA cleared Getinge Group’s STERIZONE VP4 Sterilizer for expanded indications.

Umecrine Cognition named Bruce Scharschmidt, MD, senior development adviser and a member of its board of directors.

ColonaryConcepts, a startup developing a food- and beverage-based colonoscopy prep option, completed two clinical trials and plans to begin a Phase III clinical trial at the end of 2016.

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