People

Averil Ma, MD

Professor

Medicine

Dr. Ma is Director of the UCSF IBD Center and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology.
He oversees translational and basic research in IBD and related inflammatory diseases.

Uma Mahadevan, MD
Lynne and Marc Benioff Professor of Gastroenterology
University of California, San Francisco
Director, UCSF Center for Colitis and Crohn's Disease
Website: IBD.UCSF.EDU
Twitter: @UmaMahadevanIBD

Ajay Maker, MD

Professor In Residence

Surgery

Biography:

Dr. Ajay V. Maker M.D. is a surgical oncologist and chief of the UCSF Division of Surgical Oncology. He is an expert in surgically treating complex gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatobiliary diseases (those affecting the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts), as well as melanomas and sarcomas.

Robin Marks

Senior Public Information Rep.

Alexander Marson, MD, PhD

Director

Medicine

Our lab's goal is to understand the genetic circuits that control human immune cell function in health and disease. We have begun to identify how genetic risk variants for autoimmune diseases disrupt immune cell circuits (Farh and Marson et al., Nature 2015; Simeonov et al., Nature, 2017), and how pathogenic circuits may be targeted with novel therapeutics (Xiao et al., Immunity 2014). My lab has developed new tools for efficient CRISPR genome engineering in primary human T cells (Schumann et al., PNAS 2015; Roth et al., Nature 2018; Nguyen et al. Nature Biotech 2020).