Microbiome and Medicine.
Project Overview
Microbiome plays important roles in human health and influences host responses to infectious diseases and medicine. As a dynamic system, gut microbiome changes with external diet and environmental variations as well as the internal interactions from the ~10^13 microbial residents in hundreds of species.
Researchers hope to answer these straightforward but challenging questions:
1) How to reduce the side effects of antibiotics on gut microbiota?
2) How does the medicine we take every day alter our microbiome?
3) Can we balance the microbiota for a health gut?
The Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health is part of the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health