Researchers and Staff

Scott B. Snapper, MD, PhD 
Director of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Contact Information:
(617) 732-6389
ssnapper@partners.org

Dr. Scott B. Snapper recently joined the GI Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as Director of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research.  He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is also on staff at Children’s Hospital Boston, where he is the Wolpow Family Chair and Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center.  Dr. Snapper’s clinical interests are focused on immunological disorders of the GI tract including inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease) and gastrointestinal manifestations of human immunodeficiencies.  Dr. Snapper’s research focuses on signaling pathways that control the innate and adaptive immune system (and interactions with the microbiome) in the setting of health and disease.