Research focus
Recurring themes across recent publications include Inflammatory Bowel, Bowel Disease, Crohn Disease, Trained Immunity. Work appears regularly in Nature, Cell Host & Microbe, Genome biology. See the publication list below for the most-cited works compiled from OpenAlex.
Recent publications
- Host鈥搈icrobe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel diseaseDOI
- Succinate is an inflammatory signal that induces IL-1尾 through HIF-1伪DOI
- The Treatment-Naive Microbiome in New-Onset Crohn鈥檚 DiseaseDOI
- Regulation of inflammatory responses by gut microbiota and chemoattractant receptor GPR43DOI
- Dysfunction of the intestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease and treatmentDOI
- Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's diseaseDOI
- Trained immunity: A program of innate immune memory in health and diseaseDOI
- Genetics and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseaseDOI
- Defining trained immunity and its role in health and diseaseDOI
- Succinate Dehydrogenase Supports Metabolic Repurposing of Mitochondria to Drive Inflammatory MacrophagesDOI
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External profiles
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5630-5167
- OpenAlex: openalex.org
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