Sarah Young, DVM, graduate fellow, has been selected as a presenter for the 2021 Crohn’s and Colitis Congress for her poster submission. The Crohn’s and Colitis Congress is a partnership of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation and the American Gastroenterological Association. The congress brings together and empowers a multidisciplinary community of health care practitioners and researchers to transform inflammatory bowel disease care.
The title of her project is “Evaluating the Role of Goblet Cell Associated Antigen Passages (Gaps) in the Development of Mucosal Immune Tolerance in the CFTR KO Intestine.” This work was named a poster of distinction for presentation and the submission scored in the top 10 percent of poster abstracts. The Crohn’s and Colitis Congress will take place virtually and is scheduled for Jan. 21-24, 2021.