Faculty

Clara Abraham

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Nadia Ameen

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology) and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Meena Ananth

Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Susan Baserga

Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, of Genetics and of Therapeutic Radiology

Douglas Befroy

Research Scientist in Diagnostic Radiology and in Medicine (Endocrinology)

Anton Bennett

Associate Professor of Pharmacology and of Comparative Medicine
Co-Director, Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism
Director, BBS Minority Affairs

Clifford Bogue

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Vice Chair, Pediatrics
Chief, Critical Care Medicine
Director, Program in Vertebrate Development

James Boyer

Ensign Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Emeritus Director, Yale Liver Center

Shi-Ying Cai

Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Michael Caplan

C. N. H. Long Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Professor of Cell Biology
Chair, Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Yung-Chi Cheng

Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology
Chairman, Consortium for the Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM)

Judy Cho

Henry J. and Joan W. Binder Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and Professor of Genetics and of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

Chuhan Chung

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Barbara Ehrlich

Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Sukru Emre

Professor of Surgery (Transplant) and of Pediatrics
Section Chief, Transplantation Surgery
Director, Yale-New Haven Transplant Center

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Section Chief, Infectious Diseases

Romina Fiorotto

Associate Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Richard Flavell

Sterling Professor of Immunobiology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department Chair, Immunobiology

Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Chief, Digestive Diseases, VA-CT Healthcare System
Director, Clinical and Translational Core, Yale Liver Center
Program Director, VA-CT Hepatitis C Resource Center

John Geibel

Professor of Surgery (Gastrointestinal) and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Vice Chair, Surgery
Director, Surgical Research

Fred Gorelick

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Cell Biology
Associate Director, Yale M.D., Ph.D. Program

Roberto Groszmann

Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Karl Insogna

Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Director, Yale Bone Center

Yasuko Iwakiri

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Steven Kleinstein

Associate Professor of Pathology

Michael Kozal

Professor of Medicine (AIDS)
Chief Section of Infectious Diseases VA CT Healthcare System
Director Yale HIV Clinical Trials

Joseph Lim

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Director, Yale Viral Hepatitis Program

Brett Lindenbach

Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis

Jun Lu

Assistant Professor of Genetics

Arya Mani

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and of Genetics
Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Program

Diane McMahon-Pratt

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Ruslan Medzhitov

David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Wajahat Mehal

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Pramod Mistry

Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology) and of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Director, National Gaucher Disease Treatment Center

Kisha Mitchell

Assistant Professor of Pathology
Director, Autopsy Services

Mark Mooseker

Ross Granville Harrison Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Cell Biology
and Pathlogy

Michael Nathanson

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Cell Biology
Section Chief, Digestive Diseases
Director, Yale Liver Center
Director, Center for Cell and Molecular Imaging

Kitt Petersen

Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Professor (Adjunct) Aarhus University, Denmark
Honorary Professor of Medicine and Clinical Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Petr Protiva

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Adjunct Faculty at Breslow Lab, Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Anna Marie Pyle

William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry
Director, Division of Biological Sciences

Michael Robek

Associate Professor of Pathology
Director of Graduate Studies

James Rothman

Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Chemistry and Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Chairman, Department of Cell Biology
Director, Nanobiology Institute

W. Mark Saltzman

Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Chemical Engineering
Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering

Varman Samuel

Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Mayra Sanchez

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Michael Schilsky

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Surgery (Transplant)
Medical Director, Adult Liver Transplant at Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center

William Sessa

Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Vice Chairman, Pharmacology
Director, Vascular Biology & Therapeutics Program

Robert Sherwin

C. N. H. Long Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Section Chief, Endocrinology
Director, YCCI

Gerald Shulman

George R. Cowgill Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Andre Sofair

Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Carol Soroka

Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Technical Director, Liver Center Morphology Core

Carlo Spirli

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Mario Strazzabosco

Professor (Adjunct) of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Director, Transplant Hepatology

Scott Swenson

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Associate Director, Fellowship Training Program in Digestive Diseases

Tamar Taddei

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Wendy Walker

Associate Research Scientist in Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Howard Hughes Research Specialist I

Jeffrey Weinreb

Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
Director, Medical Imaging
Chief, Body Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Xiaoyong Yang

Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Herbert Yu

Professor (Adjunct) of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Yang Zhao

Postdoctoral Fellow in Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Associate
Postdoctoral Fellow in Medicine (ID)
Associate
Postdoctoral Fellow

Members outside Yale

Ned Ballatori, University of Rochester
Mario Chojkier, University of California San Diego

Additional Participating Resource Personnel

Antonios Arvelakis
Maria Ciarleglio
Dhanpat Jain
Al Mennone
Jeffrey Pollack
Marie Robert
Randolph del Rosa Rodriguez
Brian West
Kenneth Williams
Hongyu Zhao

2011 Pilot Project Recipients

David Assis
Violeta Popov
Carlo Spirli
Zhaoxia Sun
Narendra Wajapeyee