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.Theresa Alenghat, VMD, PhD1/30/2024
Theresa Alenghat, VMD, PhD11/18/2021
Phone: 513-803-7498
Email: theresa.alenghat@cchmc.org
Research Fellow positions now available.
In her TedTalk, Dr. Alenghat shares how bacteria in the gut communicate with cells and how this relationship can be affected by diet.
Dr. Alenghat named Pew scholar.
Read the article "Gut Reaction" in Research Horizons featuring Dr. Alenghat's work exploring relationships between what we ingest, the cells lining our intestine, and the trillions of commensal bacteria (normal flora) living there.
Dr. Alenghat wins the The inaugural 2015 AGA-CCFA-Janssen Research Award in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Epigenetics Research
Read the article "Med Student Aims to be a Physician-Scientist; Likes Poking Around in Guts." featuring Patrick Lee from the Alenghat Lab.
Read the article "One Gut, a Couple Trillion Microbes, and an Enduring Mystery" in Research Horizons.