2025 Young Guts Scholars
Aishat Adebisi
Washington University
Project: Influence of Household Pets on Infant and Parental Gut Microbes
Goal: Health professional and community organizer
Jacob Cao
University of Pennsylvania
Project: Examining the role of diet in exacerbating risk for disseminated infection in patients with cirrhosis
Katherine Gell
Vanderbilt
Project: Oncogenic KRAS drives epithelial plasticity in the premalignant pancreas
Steven Montecinos
Rutgers
Project: Reaching Remission: Development of an immunological cellular therapy for inflammatory bowel disease
Post Graduate Career: Cornell Immunology PhD
Daliya Rizvi
Duke
Project: Harnessing Changes in Gut Microbial Metabolism to Improve Immunotherapy Outcomes in Gastric Adenocarcinoma Patients
Joud Haj Sakor
University of Minnesota
Project: Elucidating the Role of Annexin A2 in Mediating S100A11 Enrichment on Extracellular Vesicles from Lipotoxic Hepatocytes