Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs

Biography

Nadia Ameen completed her medical degree from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. She completed training in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Wisconsin and then pursued post-doctoral fellowship in gastroenterology at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the principal investigator of an NIH supported research laboratory at Yale University that studies CFTR and diarrheal diseases for over 20 years. She was the first to recognize a trafficking defect in MVID before a genetic defect was identified. She has authored more than 30 papers in reputed journals and serves as an editorial board member for several journals.

Research Interest

Intestinal Diseases