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Bruce Sands

Bruce Sands

Dr. Bruce E. Sands, MD, MS: Chief of the Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology at Mount Sinai and Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine, expert in inflammatory bowel disease management and clinical trials.

Jun 10, 2026

2:20
[laughs]
2:20
That was never a fun thing for me.
2:23
Um, but, you know, it...
2:24
And I was successful.
2:25
You know, at that time I'd cloned intestinal trefoil factor dream, gene, which, uh, the lab was working on, now called TFF3.
2:34
Turned out to be important for Barrett's esophagus potentially, um, but not too much for IBD probably.
2:41
Around two years into it, um, my first son was born, and that made me introspect quite a bit about what, what I really felt about my laboratory experience.
7:31
And this is probably something we really need to go into, at least with the drugs we have in our hands now, or?

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