Hopkins Conte Digestive Diseases Basic and Translational Research Core Center is an NIH/NIDDK funded, institutionally supported center that has as its mission, to make gastrointestinal studies at Hopkins as outstanding as possible, by encouraging helping develop interactions between Hopkins basic and translational investigators. The Center consists of an Administrative Core, four scientific Cores, an Enrichment Program, a Pilot and Feasibility Project Program, and services a Research Base of ~60 Hopkins faculty investigators. Co-Director, Mark Donowitz, MD Co-Director, Svetlana Lutsenko, PhD