Peter J. Turnbaugh (born ) is a microbiologist and a professor at

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. He is known for his research on the metabolic activities performed by the trillions of microbes that colonize humans' adult bodies. Turnbaugh and his research group use interdisciplinary approaches in preclinical models and human cohorts to study the mechanisms through which the gut microbiome influences nutrition and pharmacology.

Education

Turnbaugh received a B.A. in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology from

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and a Ph.D. in Microbial Genetics and Genomics from

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Career

From 2010 to 2014 he was a Bauer Fellow in the FAS Center for Systems Biology at

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, where he established an independent research group prior to starting his faculty position at the

. Notable honors include the Kipnis Award in Biomedical Sciences, the Needleman Pharmacology Prize, the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Searle Scholars Award, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Disease Award.

Selected honors

* 2006 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship,

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* 2009 David M. Kipnis Award in Biomedical Sciences,

* 2010 Philip Needleman Pharmacology Prize,

* 2016 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award,

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* 2016 Searle Scholar, Kinship Foundation * 2018 CZ Biohub Investigator, Microbiome Initiative, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub * 2018

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Young Investigator Award * 2018

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Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Disease Award * 2020 Tri-institutional partnership for microbiome research pilot awards

References

External links

The Turnbaugh Lab website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turnbaugh, Peter J. 21st-century American biologists 1981 births Living people Whitman College alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Washington University in St. Louis alumni Harvard Fellows University of California, San Francisco faculty