William Faubion is a Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine, Immunology and Pediatrics at Mayo Medical School and Director of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Mayo Clinic. He is the principal investigator of the T32 training grant and Vice-Chair of Research for the adult GI division. A graduate of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, he has authored more than 130 papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Nature Immunology, Journal of Immunology, and Gastroenterology. He also has an active clinical trails program, steers the translational IBD research group, and an NIH funded mucosal immunology labratory focused on immuno-epigenetics.