Habtezion Lab
Aida Habtezion, MD, MSc
Principal Investigator
Ballinger-Swindells Endowed Scholar
Dr. Habtezion's current research addresses leukocyte recruitment and immune responses in diseases affecting the digestive organs. Dr. Habtezion obtained her medical degree from McMaster University, completed an Internal Medicine residency at the University of Western Ontario, a Gastroenterology Fellowship at the University of Toronto, and a post doctoral research fellowship at Stanford University. Her research is supported by foundation and National Institutes of Health grants.
Current Members
Michelle Hang
- Administrative Associate
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- 430 Broadway Street Pavilion C, 3rd Floor
- P: 650.725.8652
- e: mhang1@stanford.edu
Nielsen Fernandez-Becker, MD, PhD
- Clinical Assistant Professor
- Project: Immune Pathways and Responses in Celiac Disease
- Member 2012- present
Laren Becker, MD, PhD
- Instructor
- Project – The role of macrophages in GI motility and aging
- Member 2012 – Present
Steven Levitte, MD, PHD
- Pediatrics Resident
- Project: Inflammatory pathways in fibrostenotic Crohn’s disease
- Member 2019-Present
Alexa Weingarden, MD, PhD
- Gastroenterology Fellow
Member: July 2020-present
Sid Sinha, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Project – Topical and novel therapies in ulcerative colitis
- Member 2012 – Present
Yeneneh Haileselassie, PhD
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Project - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Member 2017 - Present
Estelle Spear, PhD
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Project - ENS and inflammation
- Member 2017 - Present
Murli Manohar, PhD
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Project - Pancreatitis
- Member 2018 - Present
Gulshan Singh, PhD
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Host-microbial pathways in intestinal inflammation
- Member 2018 - Present
Gayathri Swaminathan, PhD
- Research Scientist
- Project - Immune signaling mechanisms in pancreatic cancer and IBD
- Member 2018 - Present
Elaina Jones, PhD
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Project - Pancreatitis
- Member 2018 - Present
Lawrence Bai
- PhD Student, Immunology
- Project - Epigenetics landscapes of IBD
- Co-mentor: Purvesh Khatri, PhD
- Member 2017 - Present
“Yoni” Samuel Rubin
- Postdoctoral Scholar and MD Candidate
- Project – Single-cell immune profiling in IBD
- Member 2016 – 2019 (PhD Student) and 2019 - present (postdoc)
Hong NamKoong, PhD
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Project- Enteric nervous system and IBD
- Member 2016-Present
Andres Gottfried Blackmore, MD, PhD
- Instructor
- Project: Enteric nervous system and IBD
- Member 2016-Present
John Gubatan, MD
- Gastroenterology Fellow
- Member 2019 - Present
Yasemin Cagil, MD
- Pediatric GI Fellow
- Member 2019-Present
Bomi Lee, PhD
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Project- Inflammatory pathways in acute and chronic pancreatitis
- Member 2016-Present
Allison Ji
Research Assistant
Member 2018 - present
Akshar Patel
- Research Assistant/Clinical Research Coordinator
- Member 2019- Present
Yi Wei
- Research Assistant
- Member 2011 – 2013 and 2016 – Present
Tatiana Clorice Balabanis
- Research Assistant/Clinical Research Coordinator
- Member 2019- Present
Arpita Sharma
- Research Assistant/Clinical Research Coordinator
- Member 2019 - Present
David Mikhail
- Research Assistant
- Member 2019 – Present