Susan Lynch is the Director of Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine (Links to an external site.) and Professor of Medicine, at the University of California San Francisco. Her research program focuses on the role of microbiomes in the origins and chronicity of inflammatory diseases, leveraging principals of microbial physiology with ecological theory and seeking to understand human microbiome genesis, establishment and influence on human immunity. Dr. Lynch graduated from University College Dublin and completed her postdoctoral studies at Stanford University. Her laboratory is located in the Division of Gastroenterology, at the University of California San Francisco, Parnassus Campus.