{"id":94745,"date":"2019-08-13T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/gift-launches-new-ucsf-benioff-center-for-microbiome-medicine"},"modified":"2019-08-13T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:22:53","slug":"gift-launches-new-ucsf-benioff-center-for-microbiome-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/gift-launches-new-ucsf-benioff-center-for-microbiome-medicine","title":{"rendered":"Gift Launches New UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gift-launches-new-ucsf-benioff-center-for-microbiome-medicine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faculty engaged in microbiome research across campus have previously shown that our microbiome plays a key role in defining human health. For example, microbial dysfunction in the infant gut \u2013 characterized by the enrichment of particular microbial genes and their products \u2013 drive immune dysfunction and can be used to <a data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"c2aefc81-bdfc-4D09-b039-b1dbe2d9ed4b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/404071\/newborn-gut-microbiome-predicts-later-allergy-and-asthma-study-finds\" title=\"Newborn Gut Microbiome Predicts Later Allergy and Asthma, Study Finds \">predict the development of allergy and asthma in childhood<\/a>. Perturbed microbial ecosystems across the human body have been <a data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"63879ec8-180a-4009-88d6-1c15c25e15bb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/403771\/gut-bacteria-linked-rare-autoimmune-disease\" title=\"Gut Bacteria Linked to Rare Autoimmune Disease\">linked to autoimmune disease<\/a>, metabolic syndromes such as obesity and diabetes, skin diseases, and even <a data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"6e9656b0-4300-49dc-810b-1feaa4904869\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/408241\/gut-microbes-may-influence-multiple-sclerosis-progression\" title=\"Gut Microbes May Influence Multiple Sclerosis Progression\">multiple sclerosis<\/a>. Gut microbes can even contribute to <a data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"51775765-2d28-42c9-af1c-e388529b0b4e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/410461\/gut-bacteria-produce-special-enzyme-protect-us-plant-toxins\" title=\"Gut Bacteria Produce a Special Enzyme To Protect Us from Plant Toxins\">metabolizing drugs<\/a> and <a data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"b05fff38-82d1-41c1-99b1-cb0556a088e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/414691\/targeting-microbiome-could-improve-parkinsons-therapy\" title=\"Targeting the Microbiome Could Improve Parkinson\u2019s Therapy\">influence how much enters the circulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leveraging this expertise and collaborations with UCSF Benioff Children\u2019s Hospitals in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrenshospitaloakland.org\/main\/home.aspx\">Oakland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org\/\">San Francisco<\/a> and institutions nationwide, the UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine aims to develop a holistic understanding of our earliest interactions with microbes in utero, through birth, and in early life. These efforts aim to find ways of predicting and preventing not only asthma and allergy, but other childhood diseases \u2013 including dermatological, gastrointestinal, respiratory and neurological disorders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time that we are developing therapeutic strategies to restore microbial ecosystems once they have been damaged,\u201d Lynch said. \u201cWe also need to find ways to intervene in at-risk populations in very early life to prevent chronic diseases before they start.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty engaged in microbiome research across campus have previously shown that our microbiome plays a key role in defining human health. For example, microbial dysfunction in the infant gut \u2013 characterized by the enrichment of particular microbial genes and their products \u2013 drive immune dysfunction and can be used to predict the development of allergy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}