There are currently 16 NIDDK-funded Digestive Diseases Research Centers in the United States.

Use the links below to learn more about each.

Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Disease
Director: Anil K. Rustgi, M.D.
Co-Directors: Morris J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D.
Gary D. Wu, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
600 Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6144
Web Site: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/moleculr

Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD)
Co-Directors: Robert Sandler, M.D., M.P.H.
David Brenner, M.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 7555, Unit 49 Mason Farm Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7555
Web Site: http://www.med.unc.edu/gibiolog

Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Director: Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D.
Co-Director: Atul K. Bhan, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street, GJR 719
Boston, MA 02114
New England Regional Primate Research Center
Southborough MA, and Beth Israel Hospital
Boston, MA
Web Site: http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/gi/

Michigan Gut Peptide Research Center
Director: Chung Owyang, M.D.
Co-Directors: John A. Williams, M.D., Ph.D.
John DelValle, M.D.
University of Michigan Medical Center
6520 MSRB I
1150 West Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0682
Web site: http://www.med.umich.edu/mgpc/

Gastrointestinal Research on Absorptive and Secretory Processes Center (GRASP)
Director: Andrew G. Plaut, M.D.
Co-Director: Richard J. Grand, M.D.
New England Medical Center Hospital
Department of Medicine
750 Washington Street, Box 006
Boston, MA 02111
Web Site: http://www.graspcenter.org

Harvard Digestive Disease Center
Director: Marian Neutra, M.D.
Assoc Directors: Richard Blumberg, M.D., Ph. D.
Wayne Lencer, M.D.
Harvard Medical School, Division of GI Research
Children’s Hospital
300 Longwood Avenue, Enders 1220
Boston, MA 02115
Web Site: Not Currently Available

Marion Bessin Liver Research Center
Director: David Shafritz, M.D.
Assoc Director: Allan W. Wolkoff, M.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Ave
Bronx, NY 10461
Web Site:http://www.aecom.yu.edu/liver/

Molecular Pathogenesis of Digestive Diseases
Acting Director: Bishr Omary, M.D., Ph.D
Assoc Directors: Allen Cooper, M.D.
Anson Lowe, M.D.
Stanford University
269 Campus Drive
CCSR Building, Room 3115
Stanford, CA, 94305-5187
Web Site: http://ddc.stanford.edu///

UCSF Liver Center
Director: D. Montgomery Bissell, M.D.
Co-Director: (None Listed)
University of California at San Francisco
513 Parnassus Avenue, Room S-357
San Francisco, CA 94143-0538
Web Site: http://www.gidiv.ucsf.edu/lc.html

USC Liver Transport Program and Center for Liver Disease
Director: Neil Kaplowitz, M.D.
Assoc Director: Hidekazu Tsukamoto, DVM, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 430
Los Angeles CA 90033-4612
http://www.surgery.usc.edu/divisions/hep/researchanddevelopment.html

CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center
VA/UCLA Gastroenteric Biology Center
Director: Yvette Tache, Ph.D.
Co-Director: George Sach, D. Sc.
University of California at Los Angeles and
VA Wadsworth Medical Center
UCLA Department of Medicine
12-138 Center for Health Sciences
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Web Site: http://www.cure.med.ucla.edu/

Washington University Digestive Diseases Research Core Center
Director: Ellen Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Directors: Nicholas Davidson, M.D., Jeffrey Gordon, M.D., Mark Lowe, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington University at St. Louis
Department of Internal Medicine, CSRB 927
660 S. Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, Mo. 63110
Web Site: http://ddrcc.wustl.edu/

Yale Liver Center
Director: James L. Boyer, M.D.
Co-Directors: Roberto Groszmann, M.D., James Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street, Room 1080 LMP
New Haven CT 06520
Web Site: http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/digdis/otherpages/livcntr.html

Digestive Disease Research Center at Vanderbilt
Director: Raymond DuBois, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Director: D. Brent Polk, M.D.
Vanderbilt Medical Center
Division of Gastroenterology
C-2104 MCN
Nashville, TN 37232-2279
Web Site: http://ddrc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/