Alessio Fasano, MD, on the Importance of Novel Tools to Better Understand Celiac Disease

Alessio Fasano, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the need for more novel tools to perform better research on celiac disease, his research on a new 3-dimensional model for studying the effect of microbiota-derived molecules in celiac disease, and more.

Alessio Fasano, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

Reference:

Freire R, Ingano L, Serena G, et al. Human gut derived-organoids provide model to study gluten response and effects of microbiota-derived molecules in celiac disease. Sci Rep. 2019;9(1):7029. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-43426-w.