Peter J. Turnbaugh

Peter J. Turnbaugh (born c. 1981) is a microbiologist and a professor at University of California, San Francisco. He is known[1] 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[2][3][4] and pharmacology.[5]

Peter J. Turnbaugh
Bornc. 1981 (age 41–42)
United States
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis
Whitman College
Known forMicrobiome Research
Scientific career
FieldsMicrobiology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Francisco
Doctoral advisorJeffrey I. Gordon

Education

Turnbaugh received a B.A. in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology from Whitman College and a Ph.D. in Microbial Genetics and Genomics from Washington University in St. Louis.[6]

Career

From 2010 to 2014 he was a Bauer Fellow in the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University, where he established an independent research group prior to starting his faculty position at the University of California, San Francisco. Notable honors include the Kipnis Award in Biomedical Sciences, the Needleman Pharmacology Prize, the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Searle Scholars Award,[7] and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Disease Award.[8]

Selected honors

References
  1. "Peter Turnbaugh". scholar.google.com.
  2. "Cooking Food Alters the Microbiome". Cooking Food Alters the Microbiome | UC San Francisco. September 30, 2019.
  3. Greenwood, Veronique (October 23, 2019). "When the Menu Turns Raw, Your Gut Microbes Know What to Do". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  4. Murphy, Kate (October 31, 2011). "In Some Cases, Even Bad Bacteria May Be Good". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  5. "The pharmacist inside us: what are the implications of drug-gut microbiome interactions in the clinical setting?". Gut Microbiota for Health. January 4, 2021.
  6. "Peter Turnbaugh". American Institute of Chemical Engineers. April 8, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  7. "Peter Turnbaugh". Searle Scholars Program.
  8. "Grant Recipients".
  9. "Investigator Program – Chan Zuckerberg Biohub". www.czbiohub.org. Archived from the original on April 20, 2021. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  10. Kellner, Media contact: Laurel (August 6, 2020). "New Partnership Seeds Microbiome Research". News Center.
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