Robin M. Voigt-Zuwala, PhD

Robin Michelle Voigt-Zuwala is an Associate Professor of Medicine & the Graduate College in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at Rush University Medical Center. She received her bachelor’s in biology in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a PhD in molecular pharmacology and therapeutics from Loyola University Chicago in 2010, completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Rush Department of Internal Medicine from 2010-2012, and was appointed to assistant professor in 2012 and associate professor in 2020. Voigt-Zuwala has been principal investigator and co-investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health. In 2007 she received a pre-doctoral research fellowship (F31) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which helped support her dissertation research which studied the role of the GABAB receptor in methamphetamine addiction.  During her time as a postdoctoral research fellow and as assistant professor, Voigt-Zuwala has studied the gut-brain axis and has been co-investigator on several NIH-funded projects and currently has an R01 from the National Institute of Aging to study the role of the intestinal microbiome in cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease. She has 61 peer-reviewed publications, an h-index of 30, is reviewer for several peer reviewed journals and has served on several NIH study sections.