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Gary D. Wu, University of Pennsylvania, USA – IUBMB Lecture

Wu

Dr. Gary Wu is the Ferdinand G. Weisbrod Professor in Gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine where he is the Co-Director of the Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Disease, the Co-Director of the PennCHOP Microbiome Program, and the Director of the Penn Center for Nutritional Sciences and Medicine. An elected member of both the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, Dr. Wu was the inaugural Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the American Gastroenterology Association’s Center for Gut Microbiome Research and Education and currently serves as member of the its Governing Board. Current areas of investigation include the effect of diet on the composition of the gut microbiota and its subsequence effect on host metabolism related to nitrogen balance as well as its impact on metabolic pathways in the intestinal epithelium.

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