The Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Unit (GIDRU) houses a multidisciplinary team of clinician-scientists from the departments of Medicine, Surgery and Pathology, and Biomedical and Molecular Sciences. GIDRU is design to offer collaborative research and training opportunities to facilitate bench to bedside discovery. The facility includes state of the art laboratory space, as well as office and meeting areas to facilitate collaborative discovery.

GIDRU teams work to study a wide spectrum of factors influencing gastrointestinal diseases, from pain mechanisms in irritable bowel syndrome to new treatments for c.Difficile. The Unit also offers several training opportunities for Masters and PhD students, as well as Postdoctoral Fellows.

Read about Dr. Elaine Petrof’s “Re-Poopulate” discovery

Read about Jennifer Flemming’s Hepatitis C research

Watch GIDRU Director Stephen Vanner talk about the lab:

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