Our Team

Wayne I. Lencer, MD

Center Director and PI, Core C Director 

Longwood Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Director of Academic Development & Chief Emeritus, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital

Lencer Lab

Richard S. Blumberg, MD

Center Associate Director

Jerry S. Trier Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Vice-Chair for Research & Chief Emeritus, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Blumberg Lab

Jonathan C. Kagan, PhD

Enrichment Program Director

Marion R. Neutra Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Director of Basic Research and Shwachman Chair in Gastroenterology, Boston Children’s Hospital

Kagan Lab

Jerrold R. Turner, MD, PhD

Pilot & Feasibility Grant Program Director

Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Senior Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Turner Lab

Scott B. Snapper, MD, PhD

Clinical and Translational Research Program (CTRP) Director

Professor of Medicine & Egan Family Foundation Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Wolpow Family Chair and Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center & Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital

Physician, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Snapper Lab

Vanessa Mitsialis, MD

CTRP Co-Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Susan Hagen, PhD

Core B Director, Epithelial Cell Biology and Advanced Imaging

Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Associate Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Surgery & Director of the Center for Advanced Microscopy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Jay Thiagarajah, MD, PhD

Core B Co-Director, Intestinal Epithelial Cell Biology and Advanced Imaging

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Attending Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital

Thiagarajah Lab

David T. Breault, MD, PhD

Core C Co-Director, Intestinal Stem Cell and Developmental Biology

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Faculty, Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children’s Hospital

Jose Ordovas-Montanes, PhD

Core C Co-Director, Single Cell Transcriptomics

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Harvard Immunology Program

Boston Children’s Hospital

Lynn Bry, MD, PhD

Core D Director, Gut-Microbiome

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School 

Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Alexander S. Banks, PhD

Core D Co-Director, Metabolism

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Faculty, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Jessica Allegretti, MD, MPH

Clinical Translational Research, Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Associate Director, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

David Cohen, MD, PhD

Lipid Metabolism, Hepatic Cell and Molecular Physiology

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Sloan Devlin, PhD

Gut Microbiome and Physiology

Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Wendy S. Garrett, MD, PhD

Gut Microbiome and Epithelial Crosstalk, GI Cancers

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Associate Director, Harvard Medical School Graduate Program in Immunology

Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Co-Director Harvard T. H. Chan Center for the Microbiome in Public Health

Garrett Lab

Georg Gerber, MD, PhD

Gut-Microbiome

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Gerber Lab

Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD

Stem Cell, and Developmental Biology

Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine & Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Technology & Advisory Dean of the Irving M. London Society, Harvard Medical School

Co-Director, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Division Chief of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Goessling Lab

Marcia Haigis, PhD

Metabolomics

Professor of Cell Biology & Member of Faculty Council, Harvard Medical School

Haigis Lab

Meenakshi Rao, MD, PhD

Enteric Neurobiology

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Associate Program Director, Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Boston Children’s Hospital

Rao Lab

Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD

Developmental and Stem Cell Biology

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Deputy Director, NIH-funded Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

Shivdasani Lab

Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD

Liver Diseases, Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chief Academic Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center