Research Base
Vanderbilt Digestive Diseases Research Center Investigators are faculty members who have research programs with a digestive disease focus. Associate member status is awarded to attract young investigators into the field of digestive disease research by supporting pilot projects and allowing them some utilization of VDDRC core facilities. Members in the Academy of Investigators are trainees or junior faculty who are establishing a research career or who are junior faculty in VDDRC-supported cores
All Digestive Diseases Center members are organized into three categories depending on their particular research interest.
1.
Gastrointestinal Infections and Injury (GII)
Directors:
Timothy Cover, MD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Mariana Byndloss, PhD, DVM
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
2.
Homeostasis, Regeneration, and Pathophysiology
Directors:
James Goldenring, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Cell & Developmental Biology
Department of Surgery
E. Michelle Southard-Smith, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology
3.
Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition (OMN)
Directors:
Julio E. Ayala, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism