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Researchers
Below are researchers funded by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation who are working in immunity and inflammation.
Amy Lightner, MD
Professor, Scripps Research, Former Grantee
Dr. Lightner specializes in colon and rectal surgery. She is advancing research on regenerative cellular and acellular based therapeutic approaches to offer her Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients non-surgical alternatives.
Dan Littman, MD, PhD
Professor, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, Current Grantee
Dr. Littman’s lab studies how information from the environment, including microbiota and metabolites, is relayed to cells of the immune system and how this is manifested in homeostatic processes as well as in pathological conditions.
Carrie Lucas, PhD
Associate Professor, Yale University, Former Grantee
The Lucas lab strives to discover mechanisms of disease driving rare immune disorders, focusing on the genetic, cellular and biochemical underpinnings that can illuminate fundamental biology and broadly inform diagnoses and treatments.
Susan Lynch, PhD
Professor; University of California, San Francisco; Former Grantee
The Lynch lab focuses primarily on the human microbiota in both respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts, environmental microbial exposures that shape its development and its role in chronic inflammatory diseases.
Ankit Malik, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Current Grantee
Dr. Malik work focuses on how the immune system at mucosal surfaces reacts to pathogens, commensals and environmental agents, and how that affects local and distal diseases.
Eric Martens, PhD
Professor, University of Michigan, Former Grantee
The Martens lab investigates the symbiotic microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract at multiple levels with the goal of using diet and gut microbial interventions to treat chronic conditions such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
