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Daria Esterhazy is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Pathology. Her research focuses on understanding how tissue-specific immunity shapes the digestive system's homeostatic conditions and the perturbations that cause various pathologies. Her work examines immunological niches in the digestive system to uncover the drivers of niche-specific immune differences across functional segments of the gut, liver-biliary system, and pancreas. Esterhazy postulates that immune compartmentalization is crucial to understanding site-specific disease susceptibility, pathogen interactions, food allergies, and autoimmune diseases. Her research aims to identify the cellular substrates of tissue-specific lymph nodes and the immune crosstalk between the gut, pancreas, and liver. She employs a variety of techniques, including lymph node dissection and genetic manipulation, to explore these interactions and their implications for diseases like diabetes and pancreatic cancer.
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