In the News
Below are new releases and up-to-date information relating to inflammatory bowel disease, promising research studies and the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
November 19, 2009, Stephan R. Targan, MD, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Division of Gastroenterology and the Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute wins the Scientific Achievement Award from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). This award is presented to the outstanding clinician and basic researcher in IBD who has the courage, innovation and vision as a leader in the scientific community to recognize significant scientific efforts that moves Crohn's and Colitis research and patient care in directions that ultimately improve the quality of life for patients and their families.
November 16, 2009, Marla C. Dubinsky, MD, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and one of the world's leading researchers studying the disease, was awarded the first Abe and Claire Levine Chair in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The endowed chair, presented in a ceremony at the medical center Nov. 16, will fund continuing research to find groundbreaking new treatments for IBD. Claire Levine, who was inspired to create the endowment after seeing her own daughter struggle with Crohn¿s disease, hopes that this research will also lead to a cure for the painful disease that affects more than 250,000 children in the United States.
