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Jiarui Ding, PhD

Jiarui Ding is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is a Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Single-cell Analysis. He received his Ph.D. from UBC in 2016, under the guidance of Drs. Sohrab Shah and Anne Condon, and from 2017 to 2021, he performed postdoctoral training under Dr. Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His lab develops interpretable machine learning models and efficient inference algorithms for multi-modality data analysis, to elucidate the cellular and molecular features in tissue homeostasis and inflammation, and help to reveal the general principles of tissue cellular organization.

Kelly Whelan, PhD

Dr. Kelly Whelan is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her BA from Rosemont College and PhD from Drexel University before pursuing her postdoctoral studies with Drs. Anil Rustgi and Hiroshi Nakagawa in the GI Division at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Whelan joined Temple University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2017. Working in the Department of Cancer & Cellular Biology, Dr. Whelan has developed a research program exploring mechanisms of homeostasis in the esophagus and how these go awry in widely prevalent esophageal diseases, including eosinophilic esophagitis. Dr. Whelan’s work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense and has resulted in more than 50 publications in journals including Nature Communications.

Amanda B. Muir, MD, MSTR 

Dr. Amanda B. Muir's clinical and research goal is to improve the lives of children with eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease and prevent the devastating consequences of eosinophilic inflammation, including weight loss, feeding disorders, dysphagia and esophageal stricture.  Following her training in general pediatrics, her strong foundation in mucosal immunology led to a natural interest in pediatric gastroenterology, in which perturbations in the balance between environmental factors and host innate immune responses have a profound impact upon human growth and development. Among its many complications, disruptions in the esophageal epithelial homeostasis and fibrosis are the most striking histologic features of EoE. Utilizing clinical and basic science techniques, her lab seeks to re-establish tissue homeostasis and halt the damage done in these diseases. 

Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD

Marc Rothenberg is the Director of Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, a Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, the Founder and Director of the Cincinnati Center for Eosinophilic Disorders, the Founder and Director of the NIH’s Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers and the incumbent of the Bunning Chair of Allergy and Immunology. He has published over 500 peer review articles that have garnered >50,000 citations, an H-index of >130, and laid the foundation for therapeutics that are advancing the allergy/immunology field including the first drug approval by the FDA for eosinophilic esophagitis. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is the current President of the International Eosinophil Society (IES).

Simin Zhang, MD

Simin Zhang, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She is a member of the Rothenberg CURED lab. She is a “Dr. Ikuo Hirano Scholar” as a part of the Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers.