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Dr. Ashu Mangalam

Dr. Ashutosh Mangalam receives a five-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health

Sunday, February 18, 2018
Dr. Ashutosh Mangalam received a five-year NIH R01 research grant entitled “Linking diet, gut microbiota and autoimmune disease: Bacteria induced phytoestrogen metabolites impact immune function in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalitis”.
Dr. Ashu Mangalam

Dr. Ashu Mangalam receives a Pilot Grant Award from the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center

Monday, October 2, 2017
Dr. Mangalam was awarded a Pilot Grant Award from the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center at the University of Iowa.

Human Gut-Derived Commensal Bacteria Suppress CNS Inflammatory and Demyelinating Disease

Could healthy gut bacteria hold the key to a new way of treating multiple sclerosis? That is a possibility raised by a new study in mice conducted by scientists with University of Iowa Health Care and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Pathology Faculty Members Receive Carver Trust Medical Research Initiative Grants

Monday, February 13, 2017
Drs. Bradley Ford, Siegfried Janz, Kevin Legge and Ashutosh Mangalam were each awarded $30,000 Medical Research Initiative Grants from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.

Multiple sclerosis patients have a distinct gut microbiota compared to healthy controls

Received one of the top 100 read Scientific Reports articles in 2016.