Patrick Hughes
Medicine
University of Adelaide
Australia
Biography
Dr. Hughes is interested in understanding how the nervous and immune system communicate, the role that microbiota has in mediating these interactions and the development of new tools for imaging these interactions. He investigates these interactions in diseases of the lower gastrointestinal tract, particularly Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. These diseases are associated with pronounced changes to microbiota, immune function and nervous signalling, but it is currently not clear how these changes relate to symptoms. Dr. Hughes' research has a strong translational aspect, with close collaborations with gastroenterologists based throughout the wider Adelaide area.
Research Interest
Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc
