s assistant professor in the department of medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Manisha Bajpai, PhD., led the Gastroenterology division’s clinical and translational research efforts funded by the NIH/NIDDK and grants from industry foundations. Her research initiative focused on early-stage biomarker discovery in Barrett’s esophagus and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases using various contemporary molecular biology, cell biology as well as Omics methods. In this lecture we will develop a basic understanding of the methods of the various ‘omics” approaches and discuss their potential in improving human health.