{"id":36461,"date":"2024-05-21T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=36461"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:29:00","slug":"ajay-gulati-md","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/people\/ajay-gulati-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Gulati, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Gulati is a physician scientist specializing in the field of Pediatric Gastroenterology.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gulati\u2019s research interests include inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn\u2019s and ulcerative colitis, as well as intestinal epithelial responses to inflammation-induced gut injury. His research is primarily focused on advancing the care of children with IBD by focusing on the development of novel strategies to augment epithelial cell function as a means to control chronic intestinal inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Work in Dr. Gulati\u2019s laboratory centers on understanding interactions between the commensal microbiota of the gut and the host epithelium in the context of chronic intestinal inflammation found in patients with IBD. Specifically, Dr. Gulati\u2019s team is interested in determining the mechanisms by which various susceptibility genes for IBD affect the structure and composition of the intestinal microbiota through their influences on the intestinal lining.<\/p>\n<p>He is exploring the mechanisms by which various IBD risk alleles induce dysfunction in specific intestinal lining cell subtypes, including Paneth cells and intestinal stem cells, and is particularly interested in how the developmental age of the host affects these interactions. Dr. Gulati\u2019s group is also exploring the impact of host recipient age on gut epithelial and microbial responses to microbiota transplantation. His future research goals include leveraging the relative malleability of the pediatric microbiota to pave the way for microbial modulation strategies to treat pediatric IBD, with hopes that these studies will lead to the development of safer, patient-specific therapies for children with IBD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25152,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[440,311,313,422,316],"class_list":["post-36461","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-all_peds","ud_division-gi","ud_division-gi_clin_fac","ud_division-gi_fac","ud_division-gi_res_fac","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Gulati","ud_first_name":"Ajay","ud_gallery_summary":"","ud_telephone":[{"ud_location":"Administrative Office","ud_number":"9199662435"},{"ud_location":"Fax","ud_number":"9199668641"}],"ud_email":"","ud_positions":[{"ud_title":"Professor of Pediatrics"},{"ud_title":"Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"}],"ud_options":[],"ud_sort_order":""},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1115\/2020\/08\/Gulati-cropped-e1626189531128.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1115\/2020\/08\/Gulati-cropped-265x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1115\/2020\/08\/Gulati-cropped-e1626189531128.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1115\/2020\/08\/Gulati-cropped-e1626189531128.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1115\/2020\/08\/Gulati-cropped-150x150.jpg","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ajay Gulati, MD | Department of Pediatrics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/people\/ajay-gulati-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ajay Gulati, MD | Department of Pediatrics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Gulati is a physician scientist specializing in the field of Pediatric Gastroenterology. 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