Dr. Aaron Wright from Baylor University has been awarded a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop personalized treatments for gut microbiome diseases like IBS, Crohn's, and Ulcerative Colitis.
Baylor UniversityOct 9 2024 Baylor University researcher Aaron Wright, Ph.D., has earned a $5.6 million National Institutes of Health Director's Transformative Research Award for a project that he and collaborators hope could lead to personalized – and revolutionary – treatments for gut microbiome diseases like Irritable Bowel Syndrome , Crohn's, Ulcerative Colitis and more.
"The innovative research being done by Dr. Wright into the microbiome is garnering national recognition for Baylor University in an important and emerging area of medical sciences," said Lee Nordt, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. "The specific application of this project to human health has the potential to serve individuals with a number of gut diseases, and we look forward to seeing the impact of that work.
"If you sampled random people from around the world, such as Japan, Norway or Kenya, you'd find different population components and distributions within their gut based primarily on diet," Wright said. "If you compare them all, you'd say, 'their guts are wildly different.' And while that's true, the argument I make is that they are all capable of nearly the same functional skills, or what we call metabolic activities.
Personalized treatments The answer to those questions, Wright and his collaborators hope, will enable the development of personalized treatments as an outcome of this project. Fecal microbiota transplantation has long been used in hospitals to treat individuals with infections, and that approach could be used to deposit needed bacteria tailored to the individual.
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