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The Mansour Lab @Mansour_Lab

The Mansour Lab at MGH focuses on developing novel cellular diagnostics and therapies for invasive fungal infections. Affiliated with HMS and CIG.

Joined May 2020
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Dr. Amir Arastehfar presenting his research at IDWeek 2023: The Clinical Implications of High Echinocandin Persistence of a Major Fungal Pathogen and Development of a Rapid and Convenient Approach to Determine Echinocandin Persistence
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Dr. Michael Mansour presenting the multi-center randomized controlled trial ProSAVE at IDWeek 2023
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Farnaz Daneshnia presenting her research at IDWeek 2023: Biofilm and Aggregate Formation as an Efficient Strategy Used by C. parapsilosis to Persist Echinocandin Treatment and Evade the Innate Immune Cells
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Dr. Anna Apostolopoulou presenting at IDWeek 2023: A man in his fifties with a 2-month history of a swollen and tender calf
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Emma Yvanovich presenting her research at IDWeek 2023: Using CRISPR/Cas9 to dissect the regions of MLL/AF9 that are critical for myeloid immortalization
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Kyle Timmer presenting his research at IDWeek 2023: Optimized hematopoietic stem cell source for the ex vivo production of mature human neutrophils as a potential cell-based therapy for neutropenia
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Nathan Jeffries presenting his research at IDWeek 2023: A Focused Screen Identifies Essential Genes Enabling Increased Expansion in Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Generate Human Neutrophils
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Daniel Floyd presenting his research at IDWeek 2023: Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Augment Neutrophil Function to the Human Fungal Pathogen, Candida albicans
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Dr. Johnny Atallah presenting his research at IDWeek 2023 on CT-ProET-1 and sFlt-1 as predictors of clinical outcomes in COVID-19
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The ProSAVE Team celebrated the conclusion of the multi-center randomized controlled trial
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Congratulations to Johnny for being one of the final winners at the annual MGH Scientific Advisory Committee meeting for his work on host transcriptional profiling in patients with fever
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The Mansour Lab retweeted
MGH Division of Infectious Diseases@mgh_id
22 Mar 2023
Learn more from Dr. Michael Mansour @MKMansour_MDPhD during his talks at #IDinAdults2023. The deadline to receive the early registration discount is only NINE DAYS away! ✅id.hmscme.com

Infectious Diseases in Adults 2026 | Harvard Medical School Professional, Corporate, and Continuing...

Infectious Diseases in Adults 2026 provides state-of-the-art approaches for the prevention, diagnosis, and management of infectious diseases: common, challenging, rare, and emerging.

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WBZ | CBS News Boston@wbz
21 Mar 2023
CDC warns cases of dangerous fungus rising quickly in U.S. @LouisaMoller reports cbsnews.com/boston/news/cdc-…
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Nothing like a little breakfast before tackling cold room clean-up! Nice job everyone 😃👍
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An amazing study by Kyle Timmer exploring a new multiparametric assay capable of determining several key neutrophil functional responses at once! Nice job Kyle!
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Congratulations to Johnny Atallah for his new publication looking at transcriptional signatures in patients presenting with fever to the emergency department!
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The Mansour Lab was thrilled to speak at 3 sessions during ID Week 2022 in Washington DC last week. Fantastic presentations by Dr. Michael Mansour, Dr. Johnny Atallah, and Vahe Panossian on their research of procalcitonin and MR-proADM. #IDWeek2022
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6 Jun 2022
Replying to @Mansour_Lab
@Mansour_Lab Fantastic work by Adam Viens from the lab showing Syk-independent accessory pathway responsible for neutrophil responses to Candida Great work, Adam! TLR Signaling Rescues Fungicidal Activity in Syk-Deficient Neutrophils. Viens AL et al. J Immunol. 2022 Apr 1.
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Exciting new paper from the lab showing the impact of neutrophil precursors as a cellular therapy for invasive fungal infection in neutropenia. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3535… Our cover image for this JLB issue:
Scanning EM of an engineered neutrophil engaging with Candida albicans

ALT Scanning EM of an engineered neutrophil engaging with Candida albicans

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The Mansour Lab retweeted
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21 Apr 2021
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MGH’s Complex Care Service untangles autoimmune mystery

The Complex Care Service was created for patients like Emily Hedspeth who are, as Thompson described, “the sickest 1 percent of the sickest 1 percent.”

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New paper from @NicoBarrosID and @NatJAlexander shows neutrophil dysfunction in transplant patients can be reversed by GCSF! Cytokine Augmentation Reverses Transplant Recipient Neutrophil Dysfunction against the human fungal pathogen, Candi… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3341…

Cytokine Augmentation Reverses Transplant Recipient Neutrophil Dysfunction Against the Human Fungal...

Despite normal circulating numbers, our data suggest that neutrophils from SOT and SCT recipients mount dysfunctional responses against C. albicans. Intrinsic neutrophil changes and extrinsic serum...

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