Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Executive Steering Committee
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Ramnik J. Xavier, M.D., Ph.D. Center Director Co-Director, Clinical/Tissue Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University Research Interest: Systems approaches to innate and adaptive immunity |
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Atul K. Bhan, M.D. Center Associate Director Director, Morphology Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interest: Pathogenesis of chronic intestinal inflammation in murine models of IBD |
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Cornelis P. Terhorst, Ph.D. Center Associate Director Director, Genetic Animal Models Core Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School Research Interest: SLAM family in innate and adaptive immunity |
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Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, M.B.B.S., M.P.H. Co-Director, Clinical/Tissue Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interest: Epidemiology and outcomes of IBD and development of personalized medicine approach |
| Shannon Bromley, Ph.D. Assistant Director, Immunology Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interest: Visualization of CCR4-directed Treg control of IBD |
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Dennis Brown, Ph.D. Co-Director, Morphology Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interest: Structural basis of functional membrane specialization in polarized epithelial cells and regulation of aquaporin family of water channels in fluid and electrolyte homeostasis in IBD |
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Mark J. Daly, Ph.D. Co-Director, Genetics, Genomics and Molecular Biology Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University Research Interest: Genetics of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis |
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Dirk Gevers, Ph.D. Assistant Director (Broad Institute), Clinical/Tissue Core Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University Research Interest: Microbiome; microbial genomics and evolution |
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Curtis Huttenhower, Ph.D. Co-Director, Clinical/Tissue Core Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health Research Interest: Large-scale genomic data mining |
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Gregory Y. Lauwers, M.D. Assistant Director, Clinical/Tissue Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interest: Histopathology correlates of IBD |
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Andrew D. Luster, M.D., Ph.D. Co-Director, Immunology Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interest: Chemokine receptors and mechanisms of chemokine action in lymphocyte recruitment and differentiation in IBD/allergy/asthma |
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J. Rodrigo Mora, M.D., Ph.D. Co-Director, Immunology Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interest: Leukocyte trafficking in gastrointestinal and systemic immunity in health and disease |
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Hans-Christian Reinecker, M.D. Director, Genetics, Genomics and Molecular Biology Core Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Research Interest: Mucosal immunity, innate immune defenses, dendritic cell function and intestinal microbiome |










