Wendy Garrett, MD, PhD

Wendy Garrett, M.D., Ph.D., is the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Garrett co-founded and co-directs the Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center and her laboratory’s research focuses on the interplay between the gastrointestinal immune system and the gut microbiota in health, inflammatory bowel diseases and colorectal cancer. Her laboratory has identified both specific species, pathways, and metabolites produced by the microbiota that influence health and disease states.