Division of Gastroenterology
Members in the Division of Gastroenterology are actively involved in both clinical and basic science research.
Basic Science Research
The Division’s basic science research programs are supported by national and provincial granting agencies including CIHR, HSFC, CCFC, and the Canadian Society for Intestinal Research (CSIR).
Areas of basic science research include:
- IBD and Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer and Progenitor Cells
Clinical Research
Areas of clinical research include:
- liver disease
- viral hepatitis
- hepatocellular cancer
- liver transplantation
- solid organ transplantation and donation
- inflammatory bowel disease
- capsule endoscopy
- therapeutic endoscopy
- endoscopic ultrasound
- celiac disease
- luminal gastroenterology
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Freeman, Hugh James | Intestinal Diseases |
| Kelleher, Dermot | immune response to many of the leading causes of gastrointestinal infectious disease worldwide |
| Salh, Baljinder Singh | Gastrointestinal Pathologies; Nutrition and Cancer; Inflammatory bowel disease; Colon cancer; Signal transduction |
| Shahidi, Neal | |
| Yoshida, Eric | liver disease including autoimmune; viral hepatitis (including Hepatitis B, C and non-B, non-C); liver transplantation; aboriginal issues regarding liver diseases, viral hepatitis, transplantation; biomedical ethics of transplantation |