Rodney Newberry

Dr. Rodney D. Newberry is a Danforth Physician-Scientist Scholar and the Nicholas V. Costrini endowed Professor of Gastroenterology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology. His group made the transformative identification of a new function for intestinal goblet cells in delivering gut luminal substances to the immune system to generate antigen specific responses. Paradigm shifting work by his group identified how this process was regulated, how it contributes to the development of a healthy immune system, and how it can become dysregulated to contribute to intestinal disease and extra-intestinal diseases such as allergy. His work has been presented at numerous National and International meetings and symposia. He is currently serving as the President of the international Society for Mucosal Immunology. In recognition of his contributions Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine named Dr. Newberry a William Danforth Physician-Scientist Scholar in January 2023.