Liver and Gut

Researchers in Pediatrics are involved in a number of multidisciplinary projects with faculty in other divisions and departments designed to understand and address conditions that affect the liver and gastrointestinal tract. Areas of research include:

• gut motility
• irritable bowel disease
• celiac disease
• autism and its links to the enteric nervous system
• the microbiome and adaptive immunity
• non-invasive diagnostic tools for fatty liver disease
• liver transplantation
• early life risk factors for obesity and fatty liver disease
• gastrointestinal disorders in patients with cystic fibrosis
• promoting healthy weight gain