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The following individuals serve as members on the Microbiome Subcommittee:

Subcommittee Members

CHAIR
Suchitra Hourigan, MD
Chief, Clinical Microbiome Unit (CMU), NIAID, NIH

PACCARB SGE
Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI
Northwestern University

Martin Blaser, MD
Rutgers University

Frederic Bushman, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello, PhD
Rutgers University

Eran Elinav, MD, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Sangeeta Khare, PhD
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Rob Knight, PhD
UC San Diego

Sarkis Mazmanian, PhD
California Institute of Technology

Majdi Osman, MD, MPH
Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge

Nicola Segata, PhD
University of Trento

Tim Spector, MD 
King’s College London

Jennifer Wargo, MD, MMSc
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
 

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Content last reviewed August 28, 2026