Gastroenterology & Nutrition | Research

The research area of the Division of gastroenterology and nutrition occupies more than 4,500 square feet within a fully equipped, sophisticated biomedical physical facility located at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Basic science programs in modern cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology are ongoing within the Division. Laboratories of the Division attract M.D., Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists from around the world to participate in training. The research program is heavily supported by extramural funding, receiving approximately 2.0 million dollars a year in extramural support from the National Institutes of Health as well as several private foundations. The fellowship training program is supported by an award from the National Institute of Child Health and Development of the NIH. Together with investigators from the adult GI program and the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, the Division co-directs a Digestive Disease Research Core Center funded by the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive Diseases and Kidney Disease of the NIH with 700,000 dollars a year for core facilities for transgenic/knockout mice, tissue/cell culture, morphology and structural biology, for pilot feasibility projects as well as an intellectual enrichment program of seminars and symposiums in gastrointestinal physiology and diseases. The Division also participates in the direction of an NIDDK-funded Nutrition Center with core facilities for stable isotope/mass spectrometry studies, biomolecular analysis and animal models. The Pediatric GI program is also incorporated into exciting research programs within the Center for Excellence in Animal Models of Pediatric Diseases of the Department of Pediatrics. This program, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development of the NIH provides funding for six junior faculty scholars, for an intellectual program in modern development/molecular biology and for a state-of-the-art transgenic/knockout mouse facility. The Pediatric Liver Program is one of seven participants nationally in the NIH-Funded Biliary Atresia Clinical Research Consortium

The Division also plays an active role in the training programs for Immunology, Genetics, Cell Biology, and Molecular Microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine.

For further information about our fellowship program, please call (314) 286-2857.