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Training Grants

DHDT32 Faculty

Digestive Health and Diseases Training Faculty

  • Chang, Eugene: Gut microbiome, host-microbe interactions, and disease mechanisms of the gut in states of health and disease
  • Alverdy, John: Molecular mechanisms and mediators of gut-derived microbial sepsis
  • Antonopoulos, Dionysios: Microbial ecology of digestive diseases
  • Barreiro, Luis: Evolution of our species and to which extent past selection events impact present-day susceptibility to disease
  • Basu, Anindita: Multi-disciplinary fields of microfluidics, genomics, and nano- and bio- materials​
  • Becker, Lev: Dissecting mechanisms by which macrophages contribute to disease using systems, immunological, and functional approaches​
  • Bell, Graeme: Molecular biology and genetics of complex diseases
  • Bissonnette, Marc: Chemoprevention of colon cancer
  • Brady, Matthew: Adipose tissue in health and disease
  • Charlton, Michael: Liver transplantation, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and viral hepatitis
  • Chervonsky, Alexander: Autoimmune disorders Enteric Microbiome Immunology
  • Claud, Erika: Diagnosis and treatment of preterm infants and conditions of the immature digestive tract
  • Cohen, Russell: Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, health care outcomes
  • Gilad, Yoav: Human genetics, gene regulation, and genome biology​
  • He, Chuan: Reversible DNA and RNA methylation in biological regulation
  • Henry, Christopher: Computational biology​
  • Huang, Jun: Molecular mechanisms and immune function of cells​
  • Hyman, Neil: Role of serotonin signaling in creating the clinical symptoms observed in a variety of GI diseases​
  • Jabri, Bana: Celiac disease, innate immunity of the GI tract, IBD
  • Kasthuri, Narayanan: Cellular and ultimately synaptic differences in diseased brains affected by autism, diabetes and stroke, among other diseases
  • Kee, Barbara: Determining the basic mechanisms that regulate lymphocyte development from hematopoietic stem cells
  • Krishnan, Yamuna: Nucleic acid-based Molecular Devices​
  • Kupfer, Sonia: Genetics of GI disorders including colorectal cancer and celiac disease
  • Li, Yanchun: Mucosal inflammation, colon cancer and diabetic complications
  • Moellering, Raymond: Metabolic signaling and protein post- translational modifications in disease
  • Nagler, Cathryn: Regulation of allergic responses to food by the commensal microbiota
  • Pan, Tao: Functional genomics and biology of tRNA including microbiomes
  • Pekow, Joel: Genomic studies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and IBD-associated cancer
  • Philipson, Louis: Regulation of intracellular calcium concentration, energy production, and insulin secretion in pancreatic islet beta cells, monogenic diabetes
  • Polite, Blase: Gastrointestinal Malignancies
  • Prendergast, Brian: Chronic disease and brain function: neuroinflammatory processes and HPA axis
  • Randall, Glenn: Hepatitis C virus-host interactions
  • Rubin, David: Colorectal cancer, IBD, medical ethics
  • Semrad, Carol: Small bowel diseases (celiac disease, diarrhea, malabsorption) and nutrition
  • Sogin, Mitchell: Investigating the evolution of protists, many of which cause disease in humans​
  • Tay, Savas: Examining how signaling pathways control cellular decision-making
  • Verma, Ritu: Holistic approach to research that merges adult and pediatric robust basic science research in celiac disease, and food allergies
  • Weber, Chris: Mechanisms by which tight junctions establish and regulate this barrier.
  • Michael Yu: Computational and integrative approaches for systems biology