About

Dr. Gray earned his MD/PhD at the Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Immunobiology. His PhD thesis was completed under the mentorship of Dr. Susan Kaech, PhD and focused on the epigenetic regulation of CD8+ T cell development. He completed the Advanced IBD Clinical Fellowship at UNC. His post-doctoral research fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. R. Balfour Sartor, MD focused on identifying and manipulating bacterial functions that modulate mucosal inflammation. Dr Gray’s clinical and research interests are inflammatory bowel diseases and the role of host-microbial interactions in driving and modulating gut inflammation. His research laboratory focuses on understanding the causes of IBD relapse and loss of response to medical therapy with the goal to develop therapeutic strategies that maintain durable IBD remission.