GI & Endoscopy

CSA Medical received $23 million in venture debt and equity financing to advance its pair of cryospray therapies.

Marla C. Dubinsky, MD, is a gastroenterologist at New York City-based Mount Sinai Hospital.

Rochester, Minn.-based gastroenterologist Sunanda Kane, MD, is the American College of Gastroenterology's newly elected president.

More than 40 endoscopists and colorectal surgeons have completed over 500 procedures with Lumendi's visibility-enhancing endoscope accessory, the DiLumen Endolumenal Interventional Platform.

Allergan launched two global clinical research programs for its inflammatory bowel disease drug, brazikumab.

A series of studies confirmed Synergy Pharmaceuticals' Trulance was effective in older patients with chronic idiopathic constipation or irritable bowel syndrome with constipation.

The American College of Gastroenterology will recognize 21 projects in its fourth annual SCOPY awards ceremony Oct. 8 in Philadelphia.

Here are six gastroenterologists that made news in the past week:

The New York State Department of Health awarded University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center's Center for Community Health and Prevention a five-year, $1.8 million grant to fund cancer screening programs in the region, Livingston County News reports.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gastroenterologist Leo Treyzon, MD, is joining uBiome's medical advisory board.