Ramnik Xavier, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Director, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research
Interests: Research Interests: Systems approaches to innate and adaptive immunity
Eugene B. Chang, M.D.
Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine DDRCC Director and Host-Microbe Core Director University of Chicago Research Interests: Host-microbial interactions, particularly as they relate to health, digestive diseases and other immune- and metabolic-related disorders
Jorge A. Bezerra, M.D.
Director, Cincinnati Digestive Health Center Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Interests: Liver development, regeneration, and repair; molecular basis of biliary atresia; genetic basis of intrahepatic cholestasis
Wayne I. Lencer, M.D.
Co-Director HDDC, Professor of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School Research Interests: mechanisms for how intestinal epithelial cells interact with theluminal and sub-epithelial microenvironment, and the cell biology of bacterial pathogenesis and mucosal host defense
Mark Donowitz, M.D.
Director, Hopkins Digestive Diseases Basic and Translational Research Core Center Research Interests: All diseases of the liver; general gastroenterology
Nicholas F. LaRusso, M.D.
Director, Center for Cell Signaling in Gastroenterology Mayo Clinic Research Interests: Hepatic epithelial cell function and dysfunction
Chung Owyang, M.D.
Director, Digestive Health Center Director, In Vivo Studies Core University of Michigan Research Interests: Neurohormonal control of digestive functions including pancreatic endocrine and exocrine secretion, GI motility, and eating
behavior
Anil K. Rustgi, M.D.
Director, Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine Research Interests: Oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, molecular genetics of GI cancers (colon, pancreatic, upper GI)
Mary K. Estes, Ph.D.
Director, Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center Baylor College of Medicine Research Interests: Viral diarrhea, Norwalk virus, rotavirus and mucosal immunity, translational biology and molecular medicine
Jacquelyn J. Maher, M.D.
Director, UCSF Liver Center Research Interests: Clinically relevant diseases such as drug-induced liver injury and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
Robert Sandler, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease UNC Research Interests: Colon cancer etiology, screening and prevention
Neil Kaplowitz, M.D.
Director, USC Liver Transplant program and Center for Liver Disease USC, Los Angeles Research Interests: Drug toxicity, signal transduction, oxidative stress, glutathione metabolism, pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease, ER stress, mitochondrial biogenesis
Richard M. Peek, Jr., M.D.
Director, Digestive Disease Research Center Vanderbilt University Research Interests: Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer
Nicholas Davidson, M.D.
Director, Division of Gastroenterology Washington University Research Interests: Complex lipid trafficking from cells of the small intestine and liver
Bishr Omary, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Director, Digestive Health Center, University of Michigan Research Interests: (1) Studying the regulation, function and disease association of the cytoskeletal intermediate filament proteins that are specifically expressed in digestive-type epithelia; (2) studying the stress-inducible protein heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) as a potential therapeutic target in acute pancreatitis
Scott B. Snapper, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center Director, Basic and Translational Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Childrens Hospital Boston, Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School. Research Interests: Mucosal immunology and pathogenesis of IBD.
Gregory Y. Lauwers, M.D.
Co-Director, Clinical/Tissue Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interests:Histopathology correlates of IBD
Philip C. Andrews, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Chemistry Protein Identification and Localization Core Co-Director Research Interests: Structure and function studies in systems biology and the molecular architecture of organelles
Bana Jabri, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology DDRCC Co-Director and Integrated Translational Core Director University of Chicago Research Interests: celiac disease, autoimmune disorders and inflammatory bowel disease
Atul K. Bhan, M.D.
Center Associate Director, Director, Morphology Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interests: Pathogenesis of chronic intestinal inflammation in murine models of IBD
Mitchell B. Cohen, MD
Associate Director, Cincinnati Digestive Health Center Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Interests: pathophysiology of diarrheal diseases and continues to direct basic science and clinical research programs related to intestinal secretion and infection
Jerrold Turner, M.D., Ph.D.
DDRCC Associate Director and Tissue and Cell Analysis Core Director University of Chicago Research Interests: studying epithelial cell function in the context of mucosal inflammation and inflammatory bowel disease that includes development, functional analysis, and live imaging of genetically-modified
cell lines and mice
Cynthia C. Wetzel, PhD
Program Manager, Cincinnati Digestive Health Center Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Interests: Oversee the operations of the Digestive Health Center and the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program at Cincinnati Children's
J. Rodrigo Mora, M.D., Ph.D.
Co Director, Immunology Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interests: Lymphocyte acquisition of migratory capacity
Marshall H. Montrose, PhD
Associate Director, Cincinnati Digestive Health Center Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Interests: interested in the cellular and sub-cellular physiology of epithelial cells lining the gastrointestinal tract.
Linda Samuelson, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center for Organogenesis Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Molecular Biology Core Co-Director Research Interests: Mechanisms of development and cellular differentiation in stomach and intestine.
Stephen A. Ernst, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus Protein Identification and Localization Core Co-Director Research Interests: Localization of small G-proteins and other constituents thought to be involved in regulated secretion of digestive enzymes in pancreatic exocrine cells and purified zymogen granules
