Physician Investigator (Cl) Gastroenterology, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School

Assistant In Medicine Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Chen Institute Department of Medicine Transformative Scholar Massachusetts General Hospital

M.D., M.S. Stanford University School of Medicine 2013

autoimmune diseases; colitis; colorectal cancer; gut microbiome

Dr. Long H. Nguyen is a Physician Investigator and Core Faculty at the Mongan Institute, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Faculty at the Harvard Chan Microbiome for Public Health Center. He previously attended the University of California, Los Angeles, followed by graduate studies at Stanford University where he obtained an M.D. in Medicine and M.S. in Epidemiology. He went on to complete a clinical and research fellowship in gastroenterology at MGH where he was mentored by Dr. Andrew T. Chan and Dr. Curtis Huttenhower.

He has since established his own independent research program focused on the dietary and lifestyle determinants of the microbiome with a particular interest in gut microbial communities and their role in colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease, as well as racial and ethnic health disparities in GI disease and COVID-19. He is currently funded by an NIDDK K23 Award, American Gastroenterological Association Research Scholars Award, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Career Development Award, Astellas Pharma Incorporated Strategic Research Alliance, and is the MGH/Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute Department of Medicine Transformative Scholar.