Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Research | NYU Langone Health

Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Research

We conduct research to better care for current and future patients with gastrointestinal and liver conditions.

Our research goals at NYU Langone’s Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology are to provide access to the latest treatments in the pipeline to our patients and to advance knowledge of gastroenterology and hepatology through innovative basic science, translational research, and clinical trials. We aim to foster a spirit of scientific inquiry and innovation among faculty, fellows, and students.

Our researchers study the biology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) and liver diseases. Among our current areas of research are the following:

  • role of the gut microbiome in health and the pathogenesis of disease such as colorectal cancer, liver cancer, and fatty liver and other diseases
  • role of GI infection and gut microbial dysbiosis in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease
  • quality and innovations in enhanced technologies for colon cancer screening
  • bariatric endoscopy outcomes in obesity and fatty liver disease
  • clinical trials in all areas of liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, colorectal cancer screening and prevention, and other GI conditions
  • cirrhosis and hepatitis C infection

Select Faculty Publications

Esophageal Disorders in the Older Adult

Babbar, Shaili; Sachar, Moniyka; Faye, Adam; Knotts, Rita M

Current treatment options in gastroenterology. 2025 Dec ; 23:

Benchmarking proprietary and open-source language and vision-language models for gastroenterology clinical reasoning

Safavi-Naini, Seyed Amir Ahmad; Ali, Shuhaib; Shahab, Omer; Shahhoseini, Zahra; Savage, Thomas; Rafiee, Sara; Samaan, Jamil S; Al Shabeeb, Reem; Ladak, Farah; Yang, Jamie O; Echavarria, Juan; Babar, Sumbal; Shaukat, Aasma; Margolis, Samuel; Tatonetti, Nicholas P; Nadkarni, Girish; El Kurdi, Bara; Soroush, Ali

NPJ digital medicine. 2025 Nov 27;

Colorectal Cancer Screening and Mortality Trends in the United States Over 25 Years: A Story of Success and Inequity

Eldesouki, Mohamed H; Youssef, Mohammed Y; Ali, Mohamed Ahmed; Umer, Muhammed; Awad, Abdelaziz; Elfert, Khaled; Shaukat, Aasma

Digestive diseases and sciences. 2025 Nov 13;

Clostridioides difficile Infection Is Associated With Increased Colectomy Risk in Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis Treated With Infliximab

Kahan, Tamara F; Delau, Olivia; Hong, Simon; Holmer, Ariela; Dodson, John; Shaukat, Aasma; Chodosh, Joshua; Hudesman, David; Axelrad, Jordan E; Faye, Adam S

Journal of clinical gastroenterology. 2025 Nov 10;

Cracking the code to early detection of pancreatic cancer using AI [Editorial]

Jayaprakash, Vishnu; Gonda, Tamas A

Pancreatology. 2025 Nov ; 25:999-1000

Appropriate use and complications of corticosteroids in inflammatory bowel disease: A comprehensive review

Feuerstein, Joseph D; Rubin, David T; Aberra, Faten N; Yarur, Andreas; Malter, Lisa

Clinical gastroenterology & hepatology. 2025 Nov ; 23:2068-2082

COVID-19 Infection Before or After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis Is an Independent Predictor of Mortality and Treatment Delays Compared to Patients Who Never Tested Positive

Qureshi, Imran; Rella, Steven; Shaukat, Aasma

Cancer medicine. 2025 Nov ; 14:e71411

Efficacy, Safety, and Metabolic Outcomes of Primary Obesity Surgery Endoluminal 2 (POSE-2) for Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Farooque, Umar; Qadri, Syeda Hafsa; da Silva, Ana Beatriz Nardelli; Malaj, Andela; Aparna, Fnu; Murtaza, Meer; Ahsan, Waseh; Warsi, Arshia; Badurdeen, Dilhana; Shaukat, Aasma

Obesity surgery. 2025 Nov ; 35:4814-4823