GI & Endoscopy

A federal jury awarded Claudio De Simone, MD, $18 million after they ruled VSL Pharmaceuticals created an unauthorized copycat product and tried to sell it without clinically testing it.

Jeffrey Gordon, MD, a gut microbiome researcher and trained gastroenterologist, won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in biology and biomedicine.

  John M. Inadomi, MD, is the gastroenterology division head at the Seattle-based UW Medicine Department of Medicine.

  Here are three updates on gastroenterology and industry-relevant companies to note:

Gastroenterologist Joseph Hancock, MD, joined South Lake Tahoe, Calif.-based Barton Health, SouthTahoeNow.com reports.

TKS 1 made an investment in gastrointestinal-focused clinical research company Objective GI.

Gastroenterologist David Boss, MD, and other physicians are partaking in the Lakewood, N.J.-based Georgian Court University in the mini-medical school speaker series, TheSandPaper.net reports.

The American College of Gastroenterology endorsed HMP's upcoming Interdisciplinary Autoimmune Summit, April 5-7 in Chicago.

Four Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine gastroenterologists met with a representative of Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to advocate for National Institutes of Health funding, Patient's Voice Act restoration and to close the colonoscopy loophole.

John F. Thompson, MD, is the gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition division chief at New York City-based The Children's Hospital at Montefiore.