The Columbia University Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center (CU-DLDRC) promotes collaborative and multidisciplinary research in digestive and liver diseases, integrating expertise in clinical and basic gastroenterology and hepatology with state-of-the-art computational bioinformatics.

We support collaboration among different specialties and backgrounds and promote innovative and creative research approaches. We unite investigators with interests in digestive, liver, and pancreatic physiology and disease in the exploration of creative experimental approaches.

Columbia University
Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center
 
 
The Columbia University Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center (CU-DLDRC) promotes collaborative and multidisciplinary research in digestive and liver diseases, integrating expertise in clinical and basic gastroenterology and hepatology with state-of-the-art computational bioinformatics.

We support collaboration among different specialties and backgrounds and promote innovative and creative research approaches. We unite investigators with interests in digestive, liver, and pancreatic physiology and disease in the exploration of creative experimental approaches.
Columbia University
Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center
 
 
The Columbia University Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center (CU-DLDRC) promotes collaborative and multidisciplinary research in digestive and liver diseases, integrating expertise in clinical and basic gastroenterology and hepatology with state-of-the-art computational bioinformatics.

We support collaboration among different specialties and backgrounds and promote innovative and creative research approaches. We unite investigators with interests in digestive, liver, and pancreatic physiology and disease in the exploration of creative experimental approaches.
Columbia University
Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center
 
 
We love digestive research. We enjoy working in teams. We embrace diversity. Together we will achieve more.
Columbia University
Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center
 
 
The Columbia University Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center (CU-DLDRC) promotes collaborative and multidisciplinary research in digestive and liver diseases, integrating expertise in clinical and basic gastroenterology and hepatology with state-of-the-art computational bioinformatics.

We support collaboration among different specialties and backgrounds and promote innovative and creative research approaches. We unite investigators with interests in digestive, liver, and pancreatic physiology and disease in the exploration of creative experimental approaches.
Columbia University
Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center
 
 
The Columbia University Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center (CU-DLDRC) promotes collaborative and multidisciplinary research in digestive and liver diseases, integrating expertise in clinical and basic gastroenterology and hepatology with state-of-the-art computational bioinformatics.

We support collaboration among different specialties and backgrounds and promote innovative and creative research approaches. We unite investigators with interests in digestive, liver, and pancreatic physiology and disease in the exploration of creative experimental approaches.
Columbia University
Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center

Mission and Leadership

The mission of the NIH-NIDDK funded Columbia University Digestive and Liver Diseases Research Center is to promote collaborative and multidisciplinary research in digestive and liver diseases, integrating expertise in clinical and basic gastroenterology and hepatology with state-of-the-art computational bioinformatics.

Our goal is to advance the health of patients through better understanding of digestive and liver diseases and delivery of improved therapeutic, preventative, and diagnostic approaches.

These efforts are supported by a team of full and associate members, specialized cores, and programs that focus on two central themes:

We support collaboration among different specialties and backgrounds and promote innovative and creative research approaches. We unite investigators with interests in digestive, liver, and pancreatic physiology and disease in the exploration of creative experimental approaches. We encourage excellent investigators from outside the field to enter this research area.

Executive Committee

Director

Robert Schwabe, MD, PhD
Professor
CU-DLDRC Director
Department of Medicine
Columbia University
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Co-Directors

Rebecca Haeusler, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Cell Biology
Columbia University
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Timothy Cragin Wang, MD
Silberberg Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases
Department of Medicine
Columbia University
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Internal Advisory Board

Director

Muredach Reilly, MBBCh, MSCE
Florence and Herbert Irving Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Department of Medicine
Columbia University

Board Members

Andrea Califano, Dr.
Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology (in Systems Biology) and Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Professor of Medicine in the Institute for Cancer Genetics
Chair, Department of Systems Biology
Department of Systems Biology
Columbia University
Donald W. Landry, MD
Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Columbia University
Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD
Professor of Genetics and Development
Director of the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative
Department of Genetics and Development
Columbia University
Anil Rustgi, MD
Herbert & Florence Irving Professor of Medicine
Director, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Associate Dean of Oncology
Special Advisor to the President, Cancer Programs and Strategies
Department of Medicine
Columbia University
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Megan Sykes, MD
Michael J. Friedlander Professor of Medicine
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology
Columbia University

External Advisory Board

Director

Bishr Omary, MD, PhD
Henry Rutgers Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research
Department of Medicine
Rutgers University

Board Members

Stephen Duncan, PhD
Chair, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology
Professor of Medicine
Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Jacquelyn Maher, MD
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Medicine
University of Arizona
D. Brent Polk, MD
Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition at Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego,
Executive Vice Chair for the Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego School of Medicine
Cynthia Sears, MD
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins University