Ezra Burstein, M.D., Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Director, Inflammation and Digestive Diseases Research Center; Director, Jean Wilson Society Professor Endowed Title Berta M. and Cecil O. Patterson Chair in Gastroenterology Schools Medical School | Graduate School Departments Internal Medicine | Molecular Biology Graduate Programs Genetics, Development and Disease, Immunology You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Download Curriculum Vitae Ezra Burstein, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases. He serves as Director of the Inflammation and Digestive Diseases Research Center and the Jean Wilson Society. Originally from Lima, Peru, Dr. Burstein received his medical degree from Cayetano Heredia University in Lima. He completed internal medicine residency training at UT Southwestern and fellowship training in gastroenterology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He then completed a research fellowship in immunology at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institutes of Health. He joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2008. Dr. Burstein′s research training and expertise is in the area of molecular immunology. Broadly, the work in his laboratory is focused on understanding the regulation of inflammatory responses at a molecular level and elucidating how these events may participate in human disease. Within this very broad field, the work of the lab is concentrated on 3 distinct areas: (1) regulation of the endolysosomal system, (2) role of enteroendocrine cells in host-microbial interactions, and (3) genetic determinants of abnormal inflammatory responses in humans. Dr. Burstein is active in several professional organizations, including the American Gastroenterological Association, American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Society for Cell Biology, and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Education Medical Education Unknown Licensure Board Medical Education Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University (1994) Residency UT Southwestern Medical Center (1998), Internal Medicine Fellowship University of Michigan Hospitals & Health Centers (2001), Gastroenterology Graduate School University of Groningen (2013), Molecular Genetics Research Interest Endolysosomal biology: We study the regulation of endosomal protein sorting and immune function by the Retriever, CCC and WASH complexes Enteroendocrine cell function: we study the role of colonic enteroendocrine cells in host-microbial interactions Genetics of inflammatory disorders: Our lab investigates the genetic basis of disorders of immune function, particularly affecting the GI tract Publications Featured Publications SCGN deficiency results in colitis susceptibility. Sifuentes-Dominguez LF, Li H, Llano E, Liu Z, Singla A, Patel AS, Kathania M, Khoury A, Norris N, Rios JJ, Starokadomskyy P, Park JY, Gopal P, Liu Q, Tan S, Chan L, Ross T, Harrison S, Venuprasad K, Baker LA, Jia D, Burstein E, Elife 2019 Oct 8 Endosomal PI(3)P regulation by the COMMD/CCDC22/CCDC93 (CCC) complex controls membrane protein recycling. Singla A, Fedoseienko A, Giridharan SSP, Overlee BL, Lopez A, Jia D, Song J, Huff-Hardy K, Weisman L, Burstein E, Billadeau DD, Nat Commun 2019 Sep 10 1 4271 Microbial Sensing by Intestinal Myeloid Cells Controls Carcinogenesis and Epithelial Differentiation. Miyata N, Morris LL, Chen Q, Thorne C, Singla A, Zhu W, Winter M, Melton SD, Li H, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Llano E, Huff-Hardy K, Starokadomskyy P, Lopez A, Reese TA, Turer E, Billadeau DD, Winter SE, Burstein E Cell Rep 2018 Aug 24 9 2342-2355 Retriever is a multiprotein complex for retromer-independent endosomal cargo recycling. McNally KE, Faulkner R, Steinberg F, Gallon M, Ghai R, Pim D, Langton P, Pearson N, Danson CM, Nägele H, Morris LL, Singla A, Overlee BL, Heesom KJ, Sessions R, Banks L, Collins BM, Berger I, Billadeau DD, Burstein E, Cullen PJ Nat. Cell Biol. 2017 Oct 19 10 1214-1225 DNA polymerase-a regulates the activation of type I interferons through cytosolic RNA:DNA synthesis. Starokadomskyy P, Gemelli T, Rios JJ, Xing C, Wang RC, Li H, Pokatayev V, Dozmorov I, Khan S, Miyata N, Fraile G, Raj P, Xu Z, Xu Z, Ma L, Lin Z, Wang H, Yang Y, Ben-Amitai D, Orenstein N, Mussaffi H, Baselga E, Tadini G, Grunebaum E, Sarajlija A, Krzewski K, Wakeland EK, Yan N, de la Morena MT, Zinn AR, Burstein E Nat. Immunol. 2016 Mar Endosomal sorting of Notch receptors through COMMD9-dependent pathways modulates Notch signaling. Li H, Koo Y, Mao X, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Morris LL, Jia D, Miyata N, Faulkner RA, van Deursen JM, Vooijs M, Billadeau DD, van de Sluis B, Cleaver O, Burstein E J. Cell Biol. 2015 Nov 211 3 605-17 COMMD1 is linked to the WASH complex and regulates endosomal trafficking of the copper transporter ATP7A. Phillips-Krawczak CA, Singla A, Starokadomskyy P, Deng Z, Osborne DG, Li H, Dick CJ, Gomez TS, Koenecke M, Zhang JS, Dai H, Sifuentes-Dominguez LF, Geng LN, Kaufmann SH, Hein MY, Wallis M, McGaughran J, Gecz J, van de Sluis B, Billadeau DD, Burstein E Mol. Biol. Cell 2014 Oct COMMD1 promotes the ubiquitination of NF-kappaB subunits through a cullin-containing ubiquitin ligase. Maine GN, Mao X, Komarck CM, Burstein E EMBO J. 2007 Jan 26 2 436-47 COMMD proteins, a novel family of structural and functional homologs of MURR1. Burstein E, Hoberg JE, Wilkinson AS, Rumble JM, Csomos RA, Komarck CM, Maine GN, Wilkinson JC, Mayo MW, Duckett CS J. Biol. Chem. 2005 Jun 280 23 22222-32 VPS29C: Adding complexity to the Retromer complex. Chen B, Burstein E, Billadeau DD, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2025 Aug 122 32 e2515546122 Results 1-10 of 30 1 2 3 Next Last Honors & Awards Physician Champion of the YearCrohn's and Colitis Foundation, North Texas Chapter (2021) Berta M. and Cecil O. Patterson Chair in GastroenterologyUT Southwestern (2019) Physician of the YearCrohn's and Colitis Foundation, North Texas Chapter (2017) Helmsley ScholarCrohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (2010) AGA Research Scholar AwardFoundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition (2003) John S. Miller Award for Outstanding Performance as a House OfficerUT Southwestern Medical School (1998) ValedictorianMedical School of Cayetano Heredia University (1994) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases American Gastroenterological Association American Society for Cell Biology American Society for Clinical Investigation (2012) Association of American Physicians (AAP) (2024)
