Jennifer Fettweis
Assistant Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University; Founder and Director, Research Alliance for Microbiome Science (RAMS) Registry
Jennifer Fettweis is founder and director of the Research Alliance for Microbiome Science (RAMS) Registry and assistant professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University. She served as project director for two large-scale vaginal microbiome initiatives funded through the NIH Human Microbiome Project from 2009 to 2019. As an international leader in the field, Fettweis studies how the microbiome impacts risk for pregnancy complications with a focus on the microbiome’s influence on health disparities. She also investigates how human health is influenced by the transmission of the microbiome from mother to child and across generations
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The human microbiome—those trillions of microbes that occupy the gut and many other parts of the body—plays a complex and intricate role in inflammatory diseases. One intrigui...