Bana Jabri
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Bana Jabri is a French gastroenterologist and immunologist of Syrian and Armenian descent. She is the Sarah and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She researches inflammatory diseases of the intestine, including celiac disease. She is an elected fellow of the Association of American Physicians.
Bana Jabri was born in Syria; her father was Syrian and her mother was Armenian. She moved to Germany when she was two years old and to France when she was twelve.[1] She attended Paris Diderot University, graduating in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry. She graduated from the Pasteur Institute in 1991 with her Doctor of Medicine, followed by a residency at Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris,[2] which is when she had her first child.[1] She then completed a fellowship at the US National Institutes of Health. She returned to Paris Diderot University for a PhD in immunology, graduating in 1996.[2]
