These faculty members participate in the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) Digestive Disease Summer Research Program.
Each faculty member is listed with their affiliations and research topics, so you can find a mentor working on the same subject you wish to study.
Bryan Hurley, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center (MIBRC)
Infection and inflammation at mucosal barriers
W. Allan Walker, MD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Gut mucosal immunity during development
Alessio Fasano, MD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Celiac disease
Bobby Cherayil, MD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Iron homeostasis and enteric infections
Verena Göbel, MD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Gut epithelial polarity and tubulogenesis
Christina Faherty, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Bacterial pathogenesis of shigellosis/vaccine development
Nitya Jain, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Immune system development in the newborn
Hongmei Mou, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Cystic fibrosis / structure and function of the airway mucosa
Chienwen Su PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Helminth infections and metabolic disease
Lael Yonker, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Cystic fibrosis / neutrophils
Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases (CIID)
Food allergies
Jason Harris, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Pediatric Global Health
Immune responses to Vibrio cholerae
Allan M. Goldstein, MD, MS
Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Pediatric Surgery
Enteric nervous system
Marcy Kingsbury, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Lurie Center for Autism
Neuroimmune and gut-brain interactions during development
Paul Lerou, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Newborn Medicine
Stem cells/prematurity and child development
Xingbin Ai, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Newborn Medicine
Neural regulation of airway physiology and disease
Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH
Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC General Pediatrics
Childhood obesity
Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH
Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Pediatric Endocrinology
Neuroendocrinology
James Moon, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases
Regulatory role of T cells in the immune system
Daniel Irimia, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General BioMEMS Resource Center
Bioengineering: microfluidic devices
Fred Ausubel, PhD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Center for Computational and Integrative Biology
Computational science: genetics
Brian Seed, PhD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Center for Computational and Integrative Biology
Computational science: genetics
Guillermo Tearney, MD, PhD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Wellman Center for Photomedicine
Bioengineering, bioimaging
Maureen Leonard, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Celiac Disease
Ali R. Zomorrodi, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Precision medicine through developing computational and systems biology approaches
Enid Martinez, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Gastrointestinal dysfunction, both epithelial barrier disruption & gastrointestinal dysmotility
Michiko Oyoshi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Immunomodulatory effects of breast milk on food allergy
Stefania Senger, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Intestinal cell biology in non-pathological and pathological setting
Evan Bordt, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
MGHfC Lurie Center for Autism
Influence on neurodevelopment of sex differences in perinatal life
Sarita Patil, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases (CIID)
Allergen-specific antibodies in allergic diseases