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Vanessa El Kamari
Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
BioVanessa El Kamari, MD, is a physician-scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University and a member of the David Relman Laboratory. Her research investigates how host–microbe interactions in the small intestine regulate mucosal immunity, barrier integrity, and systemic inflammation in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
Her current studies use non-invasive sampling of the small intestine in conditions such as celiac disease, multiple sclerosis, and environmental enteropathy. She applies an integrative, multi-omic approach—combining microbiology, immunology, molecular biology, and computational biology—to define spatial immune–microbial networks along the human gut.
Before joining Stanford, Dr. El Kamari’s research focused on inflammation and immune activation in chronic HIV infection, where she identified gut barrier dysfunction as a key driver of systemic inflammation and cardiometabolic complications. She also led intervention studies targeting immune activation and endothelial dysfunction in HIV, work that laid the foundation for her current efforts to apply similar mechanistic approaches to autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. -
Matilda Fresk
LSRP 2, Pediatrics - Gastroenterology
BioBiorepository Manager and Life Science Research Professional at Stanford Medicine. I support both the Center for IBD and Celiac Disease and Dr. Michael Rosen’s Lab, where my primary focus is the administration and execution of the Biorepository study.
My role bridges strategic operations with hands-on technical execution. I oversee the development of SOPs, inventory management, and maintain direct contact with our cohort of research participants and their families. I also collaborate closely with research labs across Stanford to supply them with biorepository samples, ensuring full regulatory compliance and proper documentation for all de-identified sample transfers. Furthermore, I provide integral support for our Clinical Research Coordinators (CRCs) on key initiatives, including the CAPTURE IBD and MUSIC-CD studies, managing essential processes such as visit registration, supply procurement, research kit preparation, and biospecimen processing.
I bring a deeply technical engineering background, with over three years specialized in the generation, characterization, and affinity purification of antibody-based constructs and AAV vectors, with a strong understanding of process development. Previously a Research Engineer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where I coordinated autoimmune research with the Karolinska Institute.
I hold both an MSc and a BSc in Medical Biotechnology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
