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New paper on Long COVID published in Cell

Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC, “Long COVID”) pose a significant global health challenge. The pathophysiology is unknown, and no effective treatments have been found to date. Several hypotheses have been…

Maayan Levy receives BWF PATH Award

Congratulations to Maayan for being named a Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award! The BWF PATH grants are awarded to support innovative ideas…

New paper on psychological stress in IBD published in Cell

Mental health profoundly impacts inflammatory responses in the body. This is particularly apparent in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), in which psychological stress is associated with exacerbated disease flares. Here, we…

Maayan Levy receives a Pew Biomedical Scholarship

Congratulations to Maayan for being named a Pew Biomedical Scholar! The Pew Biomedical Scholarships are awarded to support innovative ideas in the life sciences that have the potential to transform…

Maayan Levy named an ACS Scholar

We are greatful to the American Cancer Society for supporting our research. The American Cancer Society is helping our lab uncover the mechanisms underlying the interplay between diet and colorectal…

The lab receives an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Congratulations to Maayan for receiving an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award! The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award supports high-risk high-reward projects that have a potentially broader effect on scientific understanding…

Maayan Levy named a 2019 Searle Scholar

Congratulations to Maayan for being selected as a 2019 Searle Scholar. The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young…

The lab has opened in March 2018

We are excited to build a state-of-the-art environment for the study of host-microbiome interactions and epithelial cell biology. We are currently looking for highly talented and motivated scientists at all…

New review in Nature Reviews Immunology

Throughout the past century, we have seen the emergence of a large number of multifactorial diseases, including inflammatory, autoimmune, metabolic, neoplastic and neurodegenerative diseases, many of which have been recently…

New paper on epithelial-microbiota interactions in Cell

The intestinal microbiota undergoes diurnal compositional and functional oscillations that affect metabolic homeostasis, but the mechanisms by which the rhythmic microbiota influences host circadian activity remain elusive. Using integrated multi-omics…

New paper on NLRP6 in Cell

Host-microbiome co-evolution drives homeostasis and disease susceptibility, yet regulatory principles governing the integrated intestinal host-commensal microenvironment remain obscure. While inflammasome signaling participates in these interactions, its activators and microbiome-modulating mechanisms…