Dr. Jeremy Goettel earned his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology under the direction of pediatric gastroenterologist Dr. D. Brent Polk where he worked on intestinal epithelial cell signaling downstream of the TNF receptor. He then pursued training in mucosal immunology in the laboratory of adult gastroenterologist Dr. Scott Snapper at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. There he focused on mechanisms of intestinal immune homeostasis and cross-regulation of the host immune system with the intestinal microbiome. In pursuit of a translational platform in which to validate in vivo murine models, Dr. Goettel developed several humanized mouse strains to study human immunobiology and assess novel therapeutics for treating inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Goettel was awarded the CCFA Shanti Sitaraman Young IBD Investigator Award in 2016 and the Young Investigator Award from the International Congress of Mucosal Immunology in 2017 and was recruited back to Vanderbilt University Medical Center to start his own laboratory. Dr. Goettel has been funded in part by industry partners Janssen and Merck and is currently funded through the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation and the NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.