by GI Research Foundation | Nov 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
In this powerful video, three patients living with digestive diseases share their personal journeys—what it’s like to face Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis, and GI cancer—and how research has led to better treatments, better outcomes, and renewed hope. But their stories...
by GI Research Foundation | Nov 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Behind every medical breakthrough is an idea—and the support to make it real. At the GI Research Foundation, we give bold ideas the early support they need to become real treatments. From Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis to liver disease and GI cancers, we help...
by GI Research Foundation | Dec 4, 2025 | Newsletter, Resources for Patients
Visceral: Episode 16When Sleep and IBD Collide The GI Research Foundation produced this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center. In this episode, Dr. Levine, a current fellow with The University of Chicago Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition...
by GI Research Foundation | Oct 22, 2025 | Newsletter, Resources for Patients
Visceral: Episode 15Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too The GI Research Foundation produce this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center. In this episode, Dr. Cham, an immunologist and chief investigator for the Chang Lab at the University of Chicago, shares...
by GI Research Foundation | Dec 5, 2023 | GIRF in the News, Research and Discovery
A University of Chicago team is exploring how a series of cooking classes, focused on nutrition and making better food choices, impact participants’ gastrointestinal microbiomes and overall health. Supported in part by the GI Research Foundation, they are seeing...
by Anna Gomberg | Sep 14, 2021 | GIRF Profiles, Newsletter, Research and Discovery, University of Chicago Medicine
Tina Rodriguez, GI Research Foundation Scholar, 2021-2022, spent this past year working hard in the Rubin lab on a complex issue of perennial interest to the IBD community: the connection between mental health disorders like anxiety and depression and Crohn’s disease...
by GI Research Foundation | Nov 30, 2016 | GIRF Profiles
No one likes having their nighttime routine interrupted—not even microbes. But whereas a bad night’s sleep might do nothing but leave us a bit bleary-eyed the next morning, the consequences of our gut microbes having their schedule thrown off can be much more dire....
