Dr. Iliyan D. Iliev

Higher levels of a type of fungus in the gut are associated with better outcomes for patients with a type of inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis who are treated with gut microbes from healthy donors.

Common drug treatments that lead to changes in gut fungi can persistently exacerbate allergic airway diseases such as asthma.

Vaccines containing inactivated versions of disease-causing germs are traditionally not as effective as live vaccines made with weakened pathogens.