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Rodney D. Newberry, M.D.
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Rodney D. Newberry, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Newberry joined the Gastroenterology Division faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1998. He received his M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine in 1987. He completed his internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at Barnes Hospital. Dr. Newberry's major research interest is the function of the mucosal immune system in health and disease. Dr. Newberry's clinical interests include intestinal inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease. “The gastrointestinal immune system is continuously exposed to luminal antigens in the form of normal microbial flora and non-pathogenic dietary antigens. Crucial to normal gastrointestinal function is the ability of the gastrointestinal immune system to avoid a potentially damaging inflammatory response to non-pathogenic luminal antigens, despite the concurrent exposure to bacterial stimuli known to induce inflammatory responses in other lymphoid organs. The major aim of our research is to understand the mechanisms allowing tolerogenic responses to predominate in intestinal immune responses, and to identify pathways to manipulate these responses in a therapeutic manner.”
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Newberry Lab 
Division of Gastroenterology
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