These faculty members participate in the Mass General Brigham for Children 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
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center (MIBRC)
Infection and inflammation at mucosal barriers
Alessio Fasano, MD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Celiac disease
Verena Göbel, MD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Gut epithelial polarity and tubulogenesis
Nitya Jain, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Immune system development in the newborn
Hongmei Mou, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Cystic fibrosis / structure and function of the airway mucosa
Chienwen Su PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Helminth infections and metabolic disease
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
Mass General Brigham for Children Pediatric Global Health
Immune responses to Vibrio cholerae
Allan M. Goldstein, MD, MS
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Pediatric Surgery
Enteric nervous system
Marcy Kingsbury, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Lurie Center for Autism
Neuroimmune and gut-brain interactions during development
Paul Lerou, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Newborn Medicine
Stem cells/prematurity and child development
Xingbin Ai, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Newborn Medicine
Neural regulation of airway physiology and disease
Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children General Pediatrics
Childhood obesity
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
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
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Celiac Disease
Ali R. Zomorrodi, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Precision medicine through developing computational and systems biology approaches
Enid Martinez, MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Gastrointestinal dysfunction, both epithelial barrier disruption & gastrointestinal dysmotility
Michiko Oyoshi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Immunomodulatory effects of breast milk on food allergy
Evan Bordt, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children 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
Bryan Lenneman, PhD
Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children / MIBRC
Engineering bacteriophages to treat human disease
Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD
Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children / Lurie Center / MIBRC
Epigenetic scars of lifelong susceptibility to stress
Sudhir Thakurela, PhD
Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children / Lurie Center
Computational biology and bioinformatics: signaling to topology in neurodevelopmental disorders
Rachel Whooten, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children / General Pediatrics
A life course approach to health promotion for chronic disease prevention
Lauren Fiechtner, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children / Pediatric GI & Nutrition
Healthy weight and nutrition equity implementation science
Victoria Martin, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children / Pediatric GI & Nutrition
Mucosal food allergic diseases
Takara Stanley, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children / Pediatric Endocrinology
Pediatric obesity, type 2 diabetes, and steatotic liver disease
Angela Schmider, PhD
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mass General / Nephrology / NCEMIC
Single molecule microscopy and molecular organization in immune cells
Recently Retired Faculty
Fred Ausubel, PhD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Center for Computational and Integrative Biology
Computational science: genetics
Bobby Cherayil, MD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Iron homeostasis and enteric infections
W. Allan Walker, MD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Mass General Brigham for Children Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Gut mucosal immunity during development