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Research Shows Cooking Classes Have Positive Impact on Participants’ Microbiome

Research Shows Cooking Classes Have Positive Impact on Participants’ Microbiome

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...
2021 GIRF Scholar Tina Rodriguez Update: Investigating Inflammation, IBD and Mental Health Disorders

2021 GIRF Scholar Tina Rodriguez Update: Investigating Inflammation, IBD and Mental Health Disorders

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...
Research Spotlight: Vanessa Leone, PhD

Research Spotlight: Vanessa Leone, PhD

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....

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The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Medicine Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory research, leading to groundbreaking discoveries that transform lives.

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