Immunity & Inflammation Archives - Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Andrew Wang, MD, Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

The Wang lab aims to apply advances in engineering to improve disease treatment. They developed a novel approach to treat autoimmune diseases using lessons they learned and cutting-edge techniques like glycoengineering and tissue engineering.

Fiona Powrie, PhD, Professor, University of Oxford

The Powrie lab is focused on understanding the interaction between the intestinal microbiota and the host immune system and how this mutualistic relationship breaks down in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and cancer.

Headshot of Gwen Randolph

The Randolph laboratory seeks to understand how the clearance of cells and molecules from tissues impacts inflammation, disease states and organ physiology.

Meenakshi Rao, Associate Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital

The Rao lab investigates how the neural networks of the gut detect and use information about nutrients, microbes and hormones to regulate intestinal motility, immune responses and tissue repair.

Headshot of Carla Rothlin

Dr. Rothlin’s research focuses on the mechanisms that underlie the regulation of inflammation and the homeostatic control of immune function.

Eran Segal, Faculty, Weizmann Institute of Science

Dr. Segal is part of a multi-disciplinary lab of computational biologists and scientists focusing on microbiome, nutrition, genetics, and gene regulation in health and disease.

Anna Katherina (Katja) Simon, Professor, University of Oxford

Dr. Simon’s group is trying to understand the role of autophagy in immune cell fate mechanistically by identifying the autophagosomal cargo in vivo and during cell division and how autophagy in the microenvironment impacts on immune cells.

Headshot of Ronen Sumagin

The Sumagin lab is exploring the roles of innate immune cells in regulating intestinal homeostasis, wound healing, host pathogen interactions and cancer development. They are using various approaches to study leukocyte trafficking in mucosal tissues.

Jhimmy Talbot, PhD, Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

The Talbot lab investigates how food and microbes are sensed by neurons in the gut and their influence on immunity, nutrition, and metabolism.

Headshot of Christoph Thaiss

The ThaissLab is interested in understanding the environmental impacts on human physiology. Deciphering the role of environmental and lifestyle elements will transform the ability to decode host-environment circuits that regulate physiology.