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