AGA Center for Gut Microbiome Research & Education
Major Programs
Our quarterly e-newsletter features articles on hot topics in gut microbiome research and practice and highlights the latest microbiome education, publications and resources.
What we know about COVID-19 and the gut microbiome, coronavirus 101 for gastroenterologists and more.
The future of prebiotics, DDW microbiome programming and more.
What’s new with the liver and the microbiome, CME opportunity and more.
Reality check on microbiome science, diet vs. prebiotics education, and more in this issue of AGA Microbiome Update.
Highlights from the 2019 Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit, spotlight on Dr. Rohit Loomba’s microbiome research, and more in this issue of AGA Microbiome Update.
Industry Partners
For industry working in the microbiome space, the center can work with you to evaluate your product and help bring it to market.
Geoffrey Preidis, MD, PhD, speaks to CNN about AGA’s new clinical practice guidelines on probiotics for the management of GI diseases.
Alexander Khoruts, MD, provides perspective on AGA’s new clinical practice guidelines on probiotics.
Rob Knight, PhD, provides a new understanding of the way microbial populations shift with cancer could open a completely new therapeutic avenue.
Scientific Advisory Board
The mission of the AGA Center for Gut Microbiome Research and Education is to advance research and education on the gut microbiome with the goal of improving human health. To provide guidance on gut microbiome-related issues, AGA has convened a scientific advisory board comprised of world leaders in computational biology and metagenomics, microbiome animal models, microbiology translational research, nutrition, and pertinent regulatory and policy issues.
Eugene B. Chang, MD, AGAF, (Chair), The University of Chicago, Illinois
Jasmohan Bajaj, MD, AGAF, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond
Premysl Bercik, MD, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Robert A. Britton, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Suzanne Devkota, PhD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Diane E. Hoffmann, JD, MS, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore
Elizabeth L. Hohmann, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Purna Kashyap, MBBS, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Alexander Khoruts, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Rob Knight, PhD, University of California, San Diego
Geoffrey Preidis, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Lita Proctor, PhD, NIH/NHGRI, Rockville, Maryland
Marcel R. M. van den Brink, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Liping Zhao, PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Gary D. Wu, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Tor Savidge, PhD, (AGA Council Microbiome Section Liaison) Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Nicholas O. Davidson, MD, DSc, AGAF (AGA Governing Board Liaison) Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
