Prof. Eran Elinav

The human body contains trillions of microbes in and around it, collectively termed the microbiome. Dysregulation of host-microbiome interactions and the factors that regulate them (such as our nutrition) predisposes to disease ranging from chronic inflammation, obesity, the metabolic syndrome and even cancer and neurodegeneration. The Elinav lab mechanistically studies in mice and in humans the factors participating in the reciprocal regulation between the host and the intestinal microbial ecosystem, using advanced genomics, immunology, microbiology, metabolomics, proteomics, computational biology, mouse and human experimentation. Understanding the molecular basis of host-microbiome interactions may lead to development of new microbiome-targeting treatments