
Jorge Canas, PhD
Basic Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Our team
Clinicians, experimental scientists and computational thinkers working together to understand intestinal immunity.

Principal investigator
Physician–scientist · Gastroenterologist
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Dr. John Gubatan studies how immune cells and the gut microbiome shape inflammatory bowel disease. His laboratory brings patient cohorts together with multi-omics, experimental models and machine learning to investigate mechanisms of inflammation and treatment response.
He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, completed internal medicine training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and trained in gastroenterology, translational immunology, and bioinformatics at Stanford University. He leads his laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Basic Science Postdoctoral Fellow

Basic Science Postdoctoral Fellow

Clinical Research Assistant

Clinical Research Assistant

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Gubatan Lab Intern

Undergraduate Research Assistant
CRISP Intern · Summer 2026
Science through collaboration
Ole Haagen Nielsen, MD, DMSc
Theresa L. Boye, PhD
Geir Kjetil Sandve, PhD
Christin Lund-Andersen, PhD
Acknowledgements
Our research and career development have been supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, NIH NIDDK Loan Repayment Program, Stanford TRAM and MCHRI programs, the AGA FORWARD program, collaborative research grants from Genentech and Gilead Sciences, and Mayo Clinic Florida Gastroenterology and Hepatology startup funds.