Our lab's mission is to understand gut health in relation to nutrition and health condition in preterm infants through clinical studies and translational research. Our efforts focus on anemia and oral iron supplementation in very low birth weight infants (VLBWI) through a variety of methods including in vitro enteroid models of gut inflammation, measurement of iron uptake and its downstream effects, multiomics analysis of gut microbiota, etc. Our goal is to investigate the differences in the preterm gut microbiome in order to best manage patient needs.
