Neelendu Dey, MD
Associate Professor
Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutch
Dr. Neelendu “Neel” Dey is a physician-scientist who studies how the microbial communities residing in our intestinal tracts — the gut microbiome — influence health and disease. His research lab seeks to develop microbiome-based strategies for preventing and treating cancer.
Other Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Washington School of MedicineAssociate Professor
Division of Gastroenterology, University of Washington School of Medicine
Gastroenterologist
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Education
2007-2011 Fellow in Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco
2006-2007 Resident in Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
2005-2006 Intern in Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
2000-2005 Yale University School Of Medicine (MD)
1996-2000 Harvard University (BA in Biochemical Sciences)
Current Projects
The Dey lab is characterizing how the gut microbiota interfaces with the host to regulate physiology (e.g. gut motility) and pathophysiology (e.g. colorectal cancer), with an initial focus on how bile acids (and differential bacterial bile acid metabolism) mediate these effects.
Clinical Expertise
Gastroenterology: gastrointestinal cancers, inflammatory bowel diseases
Internal Medicine
"Once we injected my interest in science and medicine with this emotional connection, it became much of a different situation. I wanted to know in the short term what I could do to impact disease care."
— Dr. Neelendu Dey