DDC Research Focus and Investigator Affinities
Focus: Digestive Disease Pathogens and Host- Pathogen Interaction
Areas of Study
- Hepatitis A, B, C, D
- Helicobacter pylori
- Salmonella, yersinia, whipple's disease
- Rotavirus
- Diarrhea inducing E-coli
- Host-pathogen interaction (including anti-pathogen immunity)
- Entomoeba hystolytica
- Microbial flora of the oral cavity
- Cholera
Investigators (Location)
- Manuel Amieva (SU)
- Eugene Butcher* (VA)
- Yuch-hsiu Chien* (SU)
- Chris Contag (SU)
- Mark Davis* (SU)
- Stanley Falkow (SU)
- Jeffrey Glenn (VA)
- Harry Greenberg*(VA)
- Mark Kay (SU)
- Karla Kirkegaard (SU)
- Julie Parsonnet (SU)
- David Relman (VA)
- Gary Schoolnik (SU)
- Upinder Singh (SU)
- Lucy Tompkins (SU)
Focus: Molecular and Cell Biology of Digestive Epithelia and GI Immunology
Areas of Study
- Epithelial polarity
- Signaling
- Cytoskeleton
- Secretion
- Subcellular organelles
- Metaplasia, carcinogenesis and cancer biology
- Lipid metabolism
- Leukocyte homing to GI tract
- Development and differentiation
- Autoimmune disease
- Mucosal immunity
- Transplant immunology
Investigators (Location)
- Salman Azhar (VA)
- Eugene Butcher * (VA)
- Chris Cartwright (SU)
- Yuch-hsiu Chien * (SU)
- Allen Cooper (SU)
- Mark Davis* (SU)
- Gary Fathman (SU)
- Dean Felsher (SU)
- James Ford (SU)
- Harry Greenberg* (VA)
- Chaitan Khosla (SU)
- Seung Kim (SU)
- Calvin Kuo (SU)
- Anson Lowe (SU)
- Olivia Martinez (SU)
- Sara Michie (SU)
- James Nelson (SU)
- Bishr Omary (VA)
- Eric Sibley (SU)
- Andreas Stahl (PARF)
- Paul J. Utz (SU)
SU = Stanford University ; VA = Palo Alto VA Hospital; PARF = Palo Alto Research Foundation.
* Investigators who have substantial interests in both affinity groups and are listed twice.
