Our team

Curiosity is
a team effort.

Clinicians, experimental scientists and computational thinkers working together to understand intestinal immunity.

Dr. John Gubatan, Principal Investigator

Principal investigator

Dr. John Gubatan

Physician–scientist · Gastroenterologist
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Dr. John Gubatan studies how immune cells and the gut microbiome shape inflammatory bowel disease. His laboratory brings patient cohorts together with multi-omics, experimental models and machine learning to investigate mechanisms of inflammation and treatment response.

He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, completed internal medicine training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and trained in gastroenterology, translational immunology, and bioinformatics at Stanford University. He leads his laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Basic science
postdoctoral fellows

Jorge Canas, PhD

Jorge Canas, PhD

Basic Science Postdoctoral Fellow

Yuxi (Zoe) Zhou, PhD

Yuxi (Zoe) Zhou, PhD

Basic Science Postdoctoral Fellow

Clinical research
assistants

Ali Eltantawy, MBChB

Ali Eltantawy, MBChB

Clinical Research Assistant

Rahul Chidurala, MBBS

Rahul Chidurala, MBBS

Clinical Research Assistant

Undergraduate research
& internships

Lexi Haw

Lexi Haw

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Gubatan Lab Intern

Edward Shen, BS

Edward Shen, BS

Undergraduate Research Assistant

CRISP Intern · Summer 2026

Science through collaboration

A connected research community

University of Copenhagen

Ole Haagen Nielsen, MD, DMSc
Theresa L. Boye, PhD

Denmark

University of Oslo

Geir Kjetil Sandve, PhD
Christin Lund-Andersen, PhD

Norway

Acknowledgements

Support for discovery

Our research and career development have been supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, NIH NIDDK Loan Repayment Program, Stanford TRAM and MCHRI programs, the AGA FORWARD program, collaborative research grants from Genentech and Gilead Sciences, and Mayo Clinic Florida Gastroenterology and Hepatology startup funds.