The Role of Research at the Digestive Healthcare Center
About the Digestive Healthcare Center
From swallowing conditions to colorectal diseases, we provide specialized multidisciplinary expertise that span innovations in research, diagnostics and patient care.
The clinical investigators and physician-scientists in the Digestive Healthcare Center are contributing to advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the digestive tract, liver and pancreas.
The faculty are established researchers, often with independent research programs supported by external funding from the government and private foundations. Many of our faculty also teach at Harvard Medical School, training the next generation of medical researchers in areas relevant to the study of the digestive tract and related organs.
Important research topics that are actively investigated by our research faculty include:
- Genetics
- Obesity
- Colon cancer
- Development of the gastrointestinal tract
- Viral replication and injury
- Origins of GI tumors
- Epidemiology of digestive diseases
Clinical research in these areas and others helps foster new discoveries in the novel therapies of digestive and gastrointestinal cancers and diseases.