Gastrointestinal Development
Gastrointestinal Diseases
- Cancer
- Congenital defects in digestive and respiratory systems
- Congenital disorders of the digestive system
- Diabetes
- Hirschsprung disease
- Intestinal neoplasia & metaplasia
- Scid
- Short-bowel syndrome
View a complete list of the diseases that our students and faculty are fighting.
Researchers in this group investigate the development of/diseases effecting gastrointestinal organs such as the esophagus, intestines, liver, pancreas, and stomach.
Basic and clinical researchers work in collaboration to elucidate disease mechanisms and identify new ways to predict disease and to stimulate regeneration of diseased tissues.
Faculty
- Michael Bates, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Digestive system development, including development of intestinal mesenchyme/smooth muscle and of the enteric nervous system; homeobox transcription factor regulation and downstream targets; intestinal differentiation and patterning; genetics of congenital disorders of the digestive system [Visit the Bates Lab]
- Mitchell Cohen, MD, Professor
- Intestinal secretion; activators of intestinal guanylate cyclase
- Jim Wells, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Endoderm organogenesis and promoting the differentiation of embryonic stem cells into therapeutic endoderm derivatives. [Visit the Wells Lab]
- Daniel Wiginton, PhD, Associate Professor
- Regulation of development and differentiation in the intestinal epithelium
- Aaron Zorn, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Molecular mechanisms of endoderm organ development [Visit the Zorn Lab]
For more information about the Molecular and Developmental Biology Program at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati, email mdbprog@cchmc.org or call 513-636-4545. You can also apply online at our application page.
