Center for the Study of IBD

CSIBD Associate Investigators organized alphabetically. For contact information, follow the website link.

Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, M.B.B.S., M.P.H.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Epidemiology and outcomes of IBD and development of personalized medicine approach

Robert Anthony, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Interplay of inflammation and glycosylation

Abraham L. Brass, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS (Current location: University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Interest: Forward genetic screening to identify host dependency factors in viral infections

Shannon Bromley, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Visualization of CCR4-directed Treg control of IBD

Michael Y. Choi, M.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Regulation of gut development and its relationship to colitis and cancer

Nicolas Da Silva, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Dendritic cell function in the mucosa of the male reproductive tract

Dirk Gevers, Ph.D.
Broad Institute
Interest: Microbiome; microbial genomics and evolution

Cosmas C. Giallourakis, M.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Integrative genomic analysis of transcriptional regulation of B cell development

Daniel Graham, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Coordination of innate and adaptive immunity, inflammatory pathologies, signal transduction

Kevin M. Haigis, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Nras as a modulator of DSS-induced epithelial damage and colitis

Deborah T. Hung, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Genomic and chemical approaches to bacterial pathogenesis

Chin Hur, M.D., M.P.H.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Clinical predictors and health outcomes in gastrointestinal diseases

Kate Jeffrey, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Cell signaling, global gene expression, epigenetics and small non-coding RNAs

Andrew C. Keates, Ph.D.
BIDMC/HMS
Interest: Signaling pathways in inflammatory mechanisms of leukocyte recruitment in IBD

Christine Kocks, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Phagosome assembly and developmental immunology

Adam Lacy-Hulbert, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest:
Alpha(v) integrins, apoptotic cell clearance and mucosal immune homeostasis

Sam W. Lee, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest:
The roles of tumor suppressor p53 and its downstream signaling in stress response

Anna Mandinova, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Chemical biology approaches and models of epithelial tumorigenesis and regulation of keratinocyte proliferation

Terry K. Means, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of inflammation and host defense

Thorsten R. Mempel, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Controls of T cell effector function

James Moon, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: CD4+ T cell tolerance

J. Rodrigo Mora, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Lymphocyte acquisition of migratory capacity

Alan Moss, M.D.
BIDMC/HMS
Interest: Translational and clinical studies in inflammatory bowel disease

Alan Mullen, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: TGF-beta signaling and the regulation of the activity of coding and non-coding genes in health and disease

Aylwin Ng, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Computational biology

Deanna D. Nguyen, M.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Innate immune control of inflammatory bowel disease

Biju Parekkadan, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Therapeutic use of peripheral tissue antigen display in inflammatory bowel disease via mesenchymal stem cell transplantation

Mikael J. Pittet, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: In vivo behavior of immune cells in resting and inflammatory conditions

Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D.
MIT
Interest: The dynamics of this protracted chess game between our bodies and outside invaders

Jenny Sauk, M.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Clinical treatments for ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, microscopic colitis, celiac disease, and gastrointestinal cancer

Stanley Y. Shaw, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Chemical biology approaches assigning function to human disease mutations

Hai Ning Shi, D.V.M., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Pathogenesis and immune regulation of intestinal inflammation

Roy J. Soberman, M.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Molecular organization of inflammation

Jatin M. Vyas, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Dendritic cell pathogen responses in immunity

Vijay Yajnik, M.D., Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Functional analysis of DOCK4

Seok-Hyun Yun, Ph.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: In vivo confocal and multiphoton endoscopy in animal models of IBD

Lawrence R. Zukerberg, M.D.
MGH/HMS
Interest: Role of cables in colitis and cancer