Pediatric Gastroenterology Research Training Program
Award #: T32 DK077653
Project period | July 1991 – April 2027 |
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Predoc slots | 2 |
Postdoc slots | 4 |
This program in academic investigative pediatric gastroenterology, nutrition, and hepatology will provide a two year immersion in research to physicians and scientists who wish to focus their training in areas relevant to these fields. The program utilizes three tracks to leverage institutional, department, and division strengths, and pursue new concepts in investigative pediatric gastroenterology:
- Microbial– host Interactions in the gastrointestinal tract is formed in consideration of provocative data regarding host – flora interactions, strong pathogenesis, and pathogen discovery groups at Washington University, the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center, and the Center for Genome Sciences and its gnotobiotic facility, which enables studies of host-microbial mutualism in the developing gut;
- Cellular and molecular biology of the developing gastrointestinal tract, exploits this institution’s strengths in modern biologic study of health and disease, and includes as mentors investigators who represent the traditional core of this program;
- Translational biology of the gastrointestinal tract allows for the study of disease processes in human hosts and populations.
This program will continue to use extensive oversight of trainees and embedded mentoring and evaluation mechanisms, and Washington University’s broad and deep research base, to train leaders in pediatric academic gastroenterology, nutrition, and hepatology.
Principal Investigator/Program Director

Phillip I. Tarr, MD
Professor of Molecular Microbiology
Melvin E. Carnahan Professor of Pediatrics
Co-Leader, Pathobiology Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics
Division Director, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
- Phone: 314-454-6173
Mentors
Program Faculty | Department or Institution | Role in Program |
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Allen, Paul | Pathology & Immunology / Immunobiology | Preceptor |
Ciorba, Matthew | Medicine / Gastroenterology | Preceptor |
Colditz, Graham A. | Surgery | Preceptor |
Colonna, Marco | Pathology & Immunology / Immunobiology | Preceptor |
Dantas, Gautam | Pathology & Immunology / Laboratory & Genomic Medicine | Preceptor |
Davidson, Nicholas | Internal Medicine / Gastroenterology | Preceptor Program Co-Director |
Dubberke, Erik R. | Medicine / Infectious Diseases | Preceptor |
Finck, Brian | Medicine / Geriatrics & Nutrition | Preceptor |
Fritz, Stephanie | Pediatrics / Infectious Diseases | Preceptor |
Gordon, Jeffrey | Developmental Biology | Mentor |
Holtzman, Michael | Internal Medicine / Pulmonary | Mentor |
Hsieh, Chyi | Medicine / Rheumatology | Preceptor |
Klein, Samuel | Internal Medicine / Nutritional Sciences | Mentor |
Manary, Mark | Pediatrics / Emergency Medicine | Preceptor |
Mecham, Robert | Cell Biology and Physiology | Mentor |
Milbrandt, Jeffrey | Pathology and Immunology | Mentor |
Mills, Jason | Medicine / Gastroenterology | Preceptor |
Moley, Kelle | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Preceptor |
Newberry, Rodney | Medicine / Gastroenterology | Preceptor |
Perlmutter, David | Pediatrics / Gastroenterology | Preceptor |
Randolph, Gwendalyn | Pathology & Immunology / Immunobiology | Preceptor |
Rubin, Deborah | Internal Medicine / Gastroenterology | Mentor |
Rudnick, David | Pediatrics / Gastroenterology | Mentor |
Schnadower, David | Pediatrics / Emergency Medicine | Preceptor |
Schwartz, Alan | Pediatrics / Hematology and Oncology | Mentor / Executive Committee |
Stappenbeck, Thaddeus | Pathology & Immunology / Immunobiology | Preceptor |
Stenson, William | Internal Medicine / Gastroenterology | Mentor |
Tarr, Phillip | Pediatrics / Gastroenterology | Program Director, Preceptor |
Virgin IV, Herbert W. | Pathology & Immunology / Immunobiology | Preceptor |
Wang, David | Molecular Microbiology | Mentor |
Warner, Brad W. | Surgery | Program Co-Director, Preceptor |