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 AiPhD
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