Katrina Ray
Katrina Ray is a biologist and the chief editor of Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
Education
Ray has a bachelor's degree in microbiology from the University of Manchester and a PhD from Imperial College London where she studied Shigella flexneri.[1]
Career
Ray has worked at the Institut Pasteur, the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, and the Karolinska Institutet.[1] She started working at Nature Reviews in 2010 and has worked in Nature Reviews Rheumatology and also Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology where she became the chief editor in 2014.[1]
Her research focusses on gastroenterology, infection, microbiota, neurogastroenterology, and viral hepatitis.[1][2] She has advocated for people to consider gut microbes as a "human microbial organ."[3]
Selected publications
- Gut microbiota: married to our gut microbiota Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 2012 Oct;9(10):555. doi: 10.1038/nrgastro.2012.165. PMID 23034427.
- Mapping the Cells in the Liver — Unchartered Subtypes and Heterogeneity, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, July 30, 2019 doi 10.1038/s41575-019-0192-0
Personal life
Ray lives in London, England.[1]
References
- "About the Editors | Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology". www.nature.com. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- "It's Time for Indian Medicine to Give Poop Transplants a Fair Chance". The Wire. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- Brody, Jane E. (14 July 2014). "We Are Our Bacteria". Well. Retrieved 3 April 2022.