The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded a grant of more than $4 million from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support an innovative research project aimed at understanding the early stages of Crohn’s disease before noticeable symptoms develop.
Uncovering new antibiotics from the human gut microbiome
The average human gut contains roughly 100 trillion microbes, many of which are constantly competing for limited resources.