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Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center Labs and Programs Beaven Laboratory Benhammou Laboratory Chang Laboratory Church Laboratory Donaldson Laboratory Dong Laboratory Familial Mediterranean Fever Laboratory Han Laboratory Hashibe Lab Hepatology Research Hsiao Laboratory Interventional Endoscopy Research Jacobs Laboratory Jensen Laboratory Joshi Laboratory Kaunitz Laboratory Koon Laboratory Larauche Laboratory Limketkai Laboratory May Laboratory Meriwether Lab Mulugeta Laboratory Nguyen Laboratory Patel Laboratory Pisegna Laboratory Rozengurt Laboratory Saab Laboratory Sachs Laboratory Shin Laboratory Sternini Laboratory Taché Laboratory Videlock Laboratory Wong Research Group Training Programs Fellowship Seed Grants GI Fellowship Program NIH T32 Training Grant UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) UCLA Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Program Research Faculty Close Research Faculty Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD Metabolic syndrome, hepatology Jihane N. Benhammou, MD, PhD MASLD, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) Lin Chang, MD Disorders of gut-brain interactions (DGBI) Arpana Church, PhD Obesity, brain-gut microbiome interactions, health disparities Gregory P. Donaldson, PhD Microbiome Tien S. Dong, MD, PhD Microbiome, obesity, metabolic syndrome, liver disease Terri E. Getzug, MD Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) Steven-Huy B. Han, MD Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), hepatitis B Mia Hashibe, PhD, MPH Molecular cancer epidemiology, cancer survivorship Elaine Y. Hsiao, PhD Microbiome, gut-brain interactions Danny Issa, MD Interventional endoscopy, bariatric endoscopy Jonathan P. Jacobs, MD, PhD Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), microbiome Dennis M. Jensen, MD GI bleeding Swapna Joshi, PhD Epigenetic biomarkers, disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI) Jonathan D. Kaunitz, MD Gastric mucosal, gastoenterology Stephen Kim, MD Interventional endoscopy Hon Wai Koon, PhD Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), mucosal immunology Jennifer S. Labus, PhD Brain-gut-microbiome, bioinformatics, multi'omnics Muriel Larauche, PhD Pain, stress, brain-gut axis Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), nutrition Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil Colorectal cancer screening, health services, QI Emeran A. Mayer, MD Brain-gut-microbiome David Meriwether, PhD Inflammatory bowel disease Million Mulugeta, DVM, MVSc, PhD Neurogastroenterology and motility Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS Interventional endoscopy, Barrett's esophagus Alexander H. Nguyen, MD, PhD Liver lipid metabolism Arpan A. Patel, MD Hepatology palliative care, quality improvement Joseph R. Pisegna, MD Pancreatic cancer, neuroendocrine tumors Enrique Rozengurt, DVM, PhD Pancreatic cancer, signal transduction Sammy Saab, MD, MPH, AGAF Hepatology, transplant hepatology Alireza Sedarat, MD Interventional endoscopy, POEM, G-POEM Andrea S. Shin, MD, MSCR Disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI), motility, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) Rajat Singh, MD, MBBS Autophagy, liver lipid metabolism, mTOR signaling and aging Catia Sternini, MD Enteric neuroscience Yvette Taché, PhD Brain-gut axis, stress, peptides Adarsh M. Thaker, MD Interventional endoscopy, bariatric endoscopy Elizabeth J. Videlock, MD, PhD Brain-gut interactions, Parkinson's disease Carrie R. Wong, MD, PhD Chronic liver disease
