Scientific Advisory Committee

  • Dr. Alessio Fasano (W. Allan Walker Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
  • Dr. Alexandra Zhernakova (Professor at University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands)
  • Dr. Ami Bhatt (Associate Professor at Stanford University, USA)
  • Dr. Dirk Hadrich (Policy and Program Officer, Health research, Personalised Medicine, Human Microbiome, European Commission, Belgium)
  • Dr. Elena Verdú (Professor at McMaster University, and a Canada Research Chair in Intestinal Inflammation, Microbiota, and Nutrition, Canada)
  • Dr. Eran Segal (Professor at Department of Computer Science and Applied Math, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
  • Dr. Francisco Guarner (Senior Researcher at Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, Local host of the 8th IHMC 2021, Spain)
  • Dr. GwangPyo Ko (Professor at Seoul National University, Korea)
  • Dr. Hiroshi Kiyono (Project Professor at the University of Tokyo & Chairman of the Intestinal Microbiology Society in Japan, Japan)
  • Dr. Hiroshi Ohno (Team Leader of RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
  • Dr. James Versalovic (Professor and Vice Chair of Pathology & Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
  • Dr. Jennifer Wargo (Endowed Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, USA)
  • Dr. Jeroen Raes (Professor at Rega Institute, KU Leuven & Group Leader Microbiome, VIB, Belgium)
  • Dr. Joël Doré (Research Director at INRA, France)
  • Dr. Jonel Trebicka (EF CLIF, Director of Medical Department B at the University Hospital Münster & Coordinator of MICROB-PREDICT project)
  • Dr. Julia A. Segre (Chief and Senior Investigator of the Translational and Functional Genomics Branch in NHGRI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
  • Dr. Karen E. Nelson (President and Professor at J. Craig Venter Institute, USA)
  • Dr. Karen Scott (The Board of Directors of ISAPP & Senior Research Fellow of the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK)
  • Dr. Kenya Honda (Professor at Keio University & Team Leader of RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan)
  • Dr. Kjersti M. Aagaard (Professor & Vice Chair of Research at Baylor College of Medicine, USA).
  • Dr. Lanjuan Li (Professor at National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, China)
  • Dr. Laurence Zitvogel (Scientific director at the Gustave Roussy Cancer Centre in Villejuif, France)
  • Dr. Liping Zhao (Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and at Rutgers University, USA)
  • Dr. Lita Proctor (NIH Common Fund, Office of the Director)
  • Dr. Mark Morrison (Professor at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Australia)
  • Dr. Masahira Hattori (Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, Senior Researcher at RIKEN & Waseda University, Japan)
  • Dr. Nicola Segata (Professor and Principal Investigator at University of Trento, Italy)
  • Dr. Owen White (Professor at Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, US)
  • Dr. Paul O'Toole (Professor at University College Cork, Ireland)
  • Dr. Paul Wilmes (Professor at Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg)
  • Dr. Rob Knight (Director and Professor of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego, USA)
  • Dr. Roberto Flores-Munguia (Coordinator for the Nutrition Research Implementation Working Groups in the Office of Nutrition Research in NIH, USA)
  • Dr. Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich (Research Director Emeritus at INRA, France, Professor at King’s College London, UK)
  • Dr. Wendy S. Garrett (Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, USA)