Edward Giles

Ed Giles is a consultant paediatric gastroenterologist at Monash and the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and lead for inflammatory bowel disease at Monash. Ed trained at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Children’s Hospital, and several hospitals in London. He received a PhD from the University of London in 2015. He was a consultant at the Royal London Hospital and Barts Medical School until he returned to Melbourne in 2016. He is a research fellow at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research and senior lecturer in the department of paediatrics at Monash University.  He has held a number of senior positions, including past president of the Australasian Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and foundation chair of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia – Paediatric Network. His research interests are in host-microbiome interactions, particularly in IBD. He has projects developing novel biotherapeutics, and collaborations in laboratory research for which he jointly holds several grants worth over A$9 million. He has published widely, including in Science, Science Translational Medicine and Nature Reviews Microbiology. He is also involved in clinical research and is PI on several industry clinical trials.