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Time to switch gear?
Utilizing the full potential of IL-23 inhibition

November 26 – 17.00 – 17.30 Satellite Symposia 1

Speakers: Geert D’Haens is Professor of gastroenterology and Head of Department at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers. After graduation at the University of Leuven, Belgium, he was trained in gastroenterology, gastrointestinal endoscopy and inflammatory bowel diseases at the University Hospitals in Leuven and at the University of Chicago Hospitals under the mentorship of Paul Rutgeerts and Steven Hanauer, respectively. He finished his PhD thesis in 1996 on mechanisms causing postoperative recurrence of Crohn’s disease. After that, most of his research efforts went into the mechanism of action of new IBD drugs, the development of endoscopic endpoints and surrogate markers for IBD and novel treatment algorithms.