Ongoing Research Funded by Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Institute Advisory Council

Passion and Determination

The Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Institute Advisory Council focuses on improving the quality of life for anyone facing a digestive disorder by supporting novel medical research, physician training, and education at the Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Institute. In the past 10 years, we have raised over $24 million and funded nearly 100 independent GI research studies. Together, we are changing the landscape of digestive health.

Research Studies

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Vasilios Kalas, MD, PhD, Gabriel Rocklin, PhD
2025
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Paulius Kuprys, MD, PhD
2025
Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Livia Guadagnoli, PhD, Kathryn Tomasino, PhD, Anjali Pandit, PhD, Sara Hoffman-Marchese, PhD
2025
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Ronen Sumagin, PhD
2025
Ulcerative Colitis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Ronen Sumagin, PhD
2024
Ulcerative Colitis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Vasilios Kalas, MD, PhD, Gabriel Rocklin, PhD
2024
Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Keith C. Summa, MD, PhD
2023
Psychology (Clinical) Behavioral Health, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Fred W. Turek, PhD
2022
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
John E. Pandolfino, MD
2021
Liver/Hepatology, Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Liver Transplantation, Cancers of the Digestive Tract, Esophageal Gastroenterology, Surgery (Gastrointestinal), General Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Salva N. Balbale, MS, Jonah J. Stulberg, MD PhD MPH
2021
Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
David Escobar, MD, PhD, Stephen B. Hanauer, MD, Leyu Sun, Guang-Yu Yang, MD, PhD
2021
Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Emanuelle Bellaguarda, MD, Stephen B. Hanauer, MD, John Zhang, MD
2020
Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Shilajit D. Kundu MD, Adam B. Weiner, MD
2019
Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Stephen B. Hanauer, MD, Madeline McGuire Bertha, M.D./M.S.
2018
Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
John E. Pandolfino, MD, Marie-Pier Tétreault, PhD
2017
Liver/Hepatology, Cancers of the Digestive Tract, Esophageal Diseases, Surgery (Gastrointestinal), Psychology (Clinical) Behavioral Health, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Anne Grosen, PhD, Stephen B. Hanauer, MD
2017
Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Itishree Trivedi, MD
2016
Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

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