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.
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.
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