Dr. Azad co-authors new consensus definition of 'synbiotic'

​Dr. Azad served on an expert panel convened in May 2019 by the International Scientific Association for Prebiotics and Probiotics (ISAPP) to establish a consensus definition and generate guidelines for developing and testing synbiotics. The diverse panel of experts in consisted of eleven interdisciplinary scientists in the fields of microbiology and microbial ecology, gastrointestinal physiology, immunology, food science, nutritional biochemistry, and host metabolism. Their definition of synbiotic is: “A mixture, comprising live microorganisms and substrate(s) selectively utilized by host microorganisms, that confers a health benefit on the host.” Their report has now been published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology.