This past year, as a new attending physician in pediatric gastroenterology at Boston Children’s Hospital, Dennis Spencer has been juggling his clinical responsibilities and his clinical research, studies which he hopes “may unearth a new prebiotic that would allow us to bolster the gut’s microbiome and protect those at risk for opportunistic infections.” It is work Spencer started as a clinical research fellow at Boston Children’s in the laboratory of Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, an HMS assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the hospital.
