Justin Sonnenburg
Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, is currently an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he studies the gut microbiota in health and disease and co-directs the Center for Human Microbiome Studies. He has received an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and Pioneer Award and co-founded Novome Biotechnologies, a synthetic biology company that engineers gut microbes to treat disease. He and his wife and collaborator, Erica, are the authors of the book The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health.
Primary Areas of Expertise:
Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Computational Biology, Endocrinology, Epidemiology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Human Development, Immunology, Infectious Disease, Medicine, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Science Communication Studies (SciComm)
