Prinicipal Investigator  
Barbara Jung, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology 

Fellowship, Residency, Internship: University of California San Diego Medical Center

Research Interest: Colon cancer, hereditary colon cancer, polyposis syndromes
 

Email: bjung@northwestern.edu

Phone: 312-503-1837

Fax: 312-503-2576



  Post Doctoral Fellows
 
Jessica Bauer, PhD
  • MS: Biology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main Germany
    • 2000-2005
  • PhD: University Hospital Regensburg, Germany
    • Supervisor: Juergen Schoelmerich
    • 2006-2010
  • Postdoc: Northwestern University
  • Supervisor: Barbara Jung
    • 2010 to present

Recent Publications

Email: jessica-bauer@northwestern.edu

Phone: 312-503-2218

 
 
 
Faraz Bishehsari, MD, PhD
  • MD: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
    • 2003
  • PhD: Molecular Oncology and Pathology, Center for Exellence on Ageing (CeSI),
  • G. D'Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy
    • 2008
  • Residency: Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC),
  • Pittsburgh, PA
    • 2011
  • Fellow: Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,
  • Northwestern University
    • Supervisor: Barbara Jung
    • 2012 to present
 
 
Phone: 312-503-2218
 
 
   




 
Naomi Akagi, BA
 
  • BA: Chemistry, Knox College, IL
  •      2008-2012


 
 
 
Volunteers
 
 Victoria Liu, PhD

  •  BS: Missouri Southern State University
  •  PhD: Northwestern University 

 
 
 
 
Molly Webber

  • University of Illinois at Chicago
 

 
 
 
 Alumni
 
 

Judith Sporn, M.D.

  • MD: University of Heidelberg, Germany - 2007
  • Medical Thesis: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL),
    Heidelberg, Germany
    • Supervisor: Andreas Ladurner
    • 2005 to 2008
  • Postdoc: University of California San Diego, US
    • Supervisor: Barbara Jung
    • 2008 to 2010
  • Postdoc: Northwestern University
    • Supervisor: Barbara Jung
    • 2010 to 2012
 

 

Johannes S. Gach, PhD
  • MS: Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    • 1996-2002
  • Ph.D: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,
    Vienna, Austria
    • 2004-2007
  • Postdoc: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,
    Vienna, Austria
    • Supervisor: Renate Kunert
    • 2007-2008
  • Research Associate:The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, US
    • Supervisor: Michael B. Zwick
    • 2008-2010
  • Research Associate: Northwestern University
    • Supervisor: Barbara Jung
    • 2010 to present

Recent Publications