Nita H Salzman,

• Children's Research Institute-Children's Wisconsin
  8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
  Milwaukee, WI 53226

Division

• Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Research interests

• Gastrointestinal diseases
• Infectious/immunological diseases

Study interests

• Antimicrobial peptides
• Commensal microbiota
• Defensins
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Innate immunity
• Intestinal infection
• Intestinal inflammation
• Mucosal immunity

Certifications

• Pathology
• Anatomic Pathology

Education

• 1990, New York University School of Medicine, MD
• 1990, New York University School of Medicine,

Residencies

• 1990-1997, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Fellowships

• 1994-1996, Children's Wisconsin of Philadelphia
• 1996-1997, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Research

• Intestinal bacterial metagenome in pediatric NAFLD. NIH NIDDK R01, co-PI
• Enterococcus niche formation in the GI tract. NIH NIAID R21, co-PI
• Bacterial-host dynamics at the intestinal mucosal interface. NIH GMS R01, PI
• Establishing mechanistically validated targets and lead molecules for microbiome-based therapy in IBD. Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, co-PI

Publications