Rebecca Zasloff is a student at the University of North Carolina whose research project on racial disparities associated with fecal incontinence patients is made possible through an AGA-funded fellowship.
Rebecca worked on investigating intestinal permeability as a target for disease prevention and identifying linkages between specific communities of gut microbiota to serve as the foundation for the development GI therapies.
By studying racial disparities associated with fecal incontinence (FI) patients, she hopes that it could draw attention to a potentially-underserved patient group and highlight the role of access to healthy foods in diseases such as FI.
Rebecca’s story, like those of other undergraduate students, shows the importance of growing the investigators pipeline.
