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