Founding Members
Principal Investigators
Alexio Muise, MD, PhD
• Staff Gastroenterologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
• Co-Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
• Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and the Institute of Medical Sciences
• Senior Scientist, Cell & Systems Biology
• Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) In Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Christoph Klein, MD, PhD
• Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Ludwig-Maximillians-University, Munich, Germany
• Director, Care-For-Rare Laboratories, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
• Full Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Hannover Medical School
Scott B. Snapper, MD, PhD
• Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
• Wolpow Family Chair, and Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
• Staff Gastroenterologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
• Physician, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA, USA
• Egan Family Foundation Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Transitional Medicine & Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Investigators
Judy Cho, MD
• Professor of Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA
• Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA
• Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA
• Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA
• Professor of Immunology & Immunotherapy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA
• Dean of Translational Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA
Dermot McGovern, MD, PhD
• Staff Gastroenterologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, CA, USA
• Director, Precision Health, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, IBD Institute, CA, USA
• Director, Translational Research in the Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Institute, CA, USA
• Joshua L. and Lisa Z. Greer Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics, Cedars-Sinai, CA, USA
• Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, CA, USA
• Professor of Biochemical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai, CA, USA
Fiona Powrie, PhD
• Director of the Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford, Medical Sciences Division, England, United Kingdom
• Director of the Wellcome Trust, England, United Kingdom
• Director of MRC National Mouse genetics Network Microbiome Cluster, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom
• Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Holm Uhlig, MD, DPHIL
• Director, Center for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom
• Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Eric Schadt, PhD
• Dean for Precision Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA
• Professor, Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, Mouth Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA
• Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai Schol of Medicine, NYC, USA
Daniel Kotlarz, MD, PhD
• Professor for Precision Medicine of Pediatric IBD, Ludwig-Maximillians-University, Munich, Germany
Carmen Argmann, PhD
• Associate Clinical Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA
Xu Zhou, PhD
• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Vanessa Mitsialis, MD
• Staff Gastroenterologist, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA, USA
• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Jay Thiagarajah, MD, PhD
• Staff Gastroenterologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
• Co-Director of the Congenital Enteropathy Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, MA, USA
• Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Program Director
Jodie Ouahed, MD, MMSC
• Staff Gastroenterologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
• Co-Director of the Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic, Boston Children’s Hospital, MA, USA
• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Data Management
Sage Bionetworks
Bishoy Kamel, PhD
• Associate Director of Computational Immunology, Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, USA.