Corporate Support

The following is a list of the various companies that have provided financial support to IFFGD:

• American Medical Systems
• Ana-Tech
• Astra Pharmaceuticals
• AstraZeneca
• Axcan
• Boehringer Ingelheim
• Boston Scientific
• Chugai Pharma USA
• Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson Company
• Forest Laboratories
• G&W Labs
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Glaxo Wellcome, Inc.
• Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc. (formerly Microbia)
• Janssen Pharmaceutica
• McNeil Consumer Healthcare
• Medtronic Gastroenterology
• Merck & Co., Inc.
• Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
• Pfizer Limited
• Procter & Gamble
• Prometheus Laboratories
• Salix Pharmaceuticals
• Sandhill Scientific
• Schering Corporation
• Schwarz
• SmithKline Beecham
• Solvay Pharmaceuticals
• Sucampo Pharmaceuticals
• Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America 

IFFGD has provided advice and collaboration to Industry, who in turn have supported many of the educational and research activities that IFFGD initiates. The messages originate from IFFGD and are implemented by IFFGD. The foundation's interests, consistent with our mission to support patients, are communicated clearly and consistently.

We do not endorse any product or particular treatment. Rather, we focus on overall treatment or management issues or strategies, including quality of life issues.

The impartiality of the foundation is a strength essential to accomplishing our mission and attracting widespread support.

We work within the framework of guidelines established to help ensure our independence. Please see IFFGD Standards for Collaboration.