By Gordon Lambie
According to Dr. Fernand-Pierre Gendron, who works at the Pavillon de recherche appliquée sur le cancer (PRAC) on the health campus of the University of Sherbrooke, the Eastern Townships is a hotbed in Canada for Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): a group of conditions that that inflame the lining of the gastrointestinal tract and disrupt the body’s ability to digest food, absorb nutrition, and eliminate waste in a healthy manner. Gendron recently received a three year research grant from Crohn’s and Colitis Canada to help continue a project he has been working on for the last eight years.
