Faculty and Research Team
Our outstanding team of prominent researchers and clinicians brings their specialized knowledge and proficiency to elucidate the role of microbiota in health and disease.
Steering Committee

Suzanne Devkota, PhD
Director, Human Microbiome Research Institute, Associate Professor, Medicine, Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences

Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Assistant Professor, Medicine

David Underhill, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Janis and William Wetsman Family Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Jonathan Braun, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine, Director, IBD Enterprise Operations, Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Peter Jorth, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Assistant Professor, Medicine

Andrea Wolf, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Assistant Professor, Medicine

Magali Noval Rivas, PhD
Associate Director, Infectious and Immunological Diseases Research Center, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Faculty

Moshe Arditi, MD

Robert Barrett, PhD

Neil Bhowmick, PhD

Francesco Boin, MD

Nunzio Bottini

David Casero, PhD, MS

Peter Chen, MD

Jane Figueiredo, PhD

Stephen Freedland, MD

Wei Gao, PhD

Jun Gong, MD

Sergey Grivennikov, PhD

Ophir Klein, MD, PhD

Dalin Li, PhD

Shelly Lu, MD

Gislaine Martins, PhD

Dermot McGovern, MD

Kathrin Michelsen, PhD

Jason Moore, PhD

Nicolas Musi

Magali Noval Rivas, PhD

Ekihiro Seki, PhD

Stephen Shiao, MD, PhD

Christian Stehlik, PhD, MS

Fayyaz Sutterwala, MD, PhD

Clive Svendsen, PhD

Stephan Targan, MD

Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD

David Ziring, MD
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