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Doug Kwon retweeted
“Our results offer a roadmap to guide development and use of LACTIN-V and similar live biotherapeutic products to improve the health of the millions of women worldwide who experience BV.”
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#Immunology #BacterialVaginosis #WomensHealth
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Huge congratulations 🎉! A beautiful piece of work uncovering how immune cell metabolism shapes its epithelial neighbors. So proud of the creativity and persistence that went into this study — amazing job @UpasanaDA ! 👏🔬
11 Sep 2025
Yayy its here! We find an unique immune-epithelial interaction where metabolic regulation of immune cell has an influence on its adjacent epithelium @kwonlab
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Grateful for the wonderful team @mzhu_ology, @sethlbloom, @blaineylab, @ragoninstitute, @broadinstitute, the committed staff and participants at the FRESH clinic, and our funders @gatesfoundation
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Excited to share our work out at @cellcellpress showing how key differences in vaginal bacterial fatty acid metabolism may be leveraged to alter the vaginal #microbiome to improve health outcomes for women globally. bit.ly/4fNfClv
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Doug Kwon retweeted
19 Aug 2024
Researchers from the Ragon Institute, the Broad Institute, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered that oleic acid restores a healthy balance of vaginal microbes in a laboratory model of bacterial vaginosis.
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Doug Kwon retweeted
1 Feb 2024
Its NOA day!!! truly thrilled to share that I have been awarded the prestigious K99/R00 from NIDDK/NIH to continue studying mucosal immunology. Thank you @kwonlab and @ohyilmaz for your unwavering support. @leah_froehle without you this was not possible
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Wonderful work @mzhu_ology! And thanks to all our fantastic collaborators!
3 Jan 2024
Excited to share our preprint on metabolic differences in the vaginal #microbiome. We find key differences in fatty acid metabolism among #Lactobacillus species & leverage those findings to identify a potential new therapy for bacterial vaginosis (BV) & #WomensHealth 🧵 (1/n)
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Doug Kwon retweeted
20 Dec 2023
In a recent @ScienceMagazine publication, researchers from @ragoninstitute @mgh_id and colleagues found a link between smoking and the immune cells that invade the lungs, and it may increase the risk of tuberculosis.
Read more: massgeneral.org/news/press-r… @LabMedoff @kwonlab
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Doug Kwon retweeted
2 Jan 2024
This Friday JAN-5 (8am US ET) PhD @UpasanaDA presents her #HIV #research in progress “Immunometabolic regulation of mucosal CD8 T cells on the intestinal barrier integrity of people with HIV on ART” @harvardmed @kwonlab @ragoninstitute @mgh_id info at conta.cc/48EBuLs
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Congrats to lead authors Bjorn Corleis and @constantine_sci for wonderful work elucidating mechanisms by which smoking increases TB risk. Yet another reason not to 🚬
6 Dec 2023
New paper! Tuberculosis (TB) has infected >20% of the world’s population, with tobacco smoking as a leading risk factor for active TB. How do environmental exposures like smoking shape immune function, tissue microenvironments, and disease risk? (1/n) science.org/doi/10.1126/scit…
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Wonderful and very deserved recognition of your work @mzhu_ology
8 Nov 2023
Excited that Bill Gates named us one of top 5 innovations at Grand Challenges! We uncovered species-specific metabolic differences to identify new targets for Bacterial Vaginosis. From basic biological discovery to potential new therapies! bit.ly/3QSI8YM
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Doug Kwon retweeted
19 Oct 2023
UKZN’s Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine is hosting the first of its Data Science for Biology workshop series. Attended by novice and seasoned researchers, this week’s interactive three-day workshop is teaching delegates Reproducible Data Analysis using R Programming
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Doug Kwon retweeted
3 May 2023
Be a vagina superhero! Pre-menopausal people in/near Boston who have never had BV and want to donate vaginal fluid to improve #BVtreatment - contact us! motifstudy.org @kwonlab @SmitaGopinath @MGHVCRBResearch
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This is what happens when you tell your #postdoc that he’s charge while you’re going to an international conference. New path to 2x productivity! #whoworeitbetter #instantpromotion #helpinghand #twinning instagram.com/p/CqQblEUu6on/…
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Doug Kwon retweeted
24 Feb 2023
Postdoc fellow @UpasanaDA (Mucosal Immunology specializing in organoids modelling of human host microbiota interface) @kwonlab @ragoninstitute presents her #HIV Research. @MGH_RI @AHRI_News @bwh_id @MITBiology @alisoneringel. Join virtually or in person @ conta.cc/3ZhDUuT
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Doug Kwon retweeted
30 Oct 2022
So pleased for this first publication from our #VMT group - donor recruitment, screening and collection protocol, and analysis of donations from 1st 3 donors.
rdcu.be/cYAS8 @kwonlab @laura_yockey_ @fatiaysh @SethMBloomMDPhD @MGHVCRBResearch
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Doug Kwon retweeted
21 Sep 2022
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Despite a 40-50% 6-month success rate for #bacterialvaginosis treatment, recommendations haven’t fundamentally changed since 1982. Pretty sure penis discharge would have a cure by now...Lets find something better! motifstudy.org @kwonlab @fatiaysh @MGHVCRBResearch
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Doug Kwon retweeted
21 Sep 2022
Despite a 40-50% 6-month success rate for #bacterialvaginosis treatment, recommendations haven’t fundamentally changed since 1982. Pretty sure penis discharge would have a cure by now...Lets find something better! motifstudy.org @kwonlab @fatiaysh @MGHVCRBResearch
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Great opportunity for promising physician-scientists to accelerate your pathway to independence!
19 Sep 2022
Applications are open on a rolling basis for the Ragon Early Independence Fellows Program, a fellowship for PhDs, MDs, or MD/PhDs who want to start their independent research career without the traditional postdoc. More info & application link on our site: ragoninstitute.org/get-invol…
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Always a pleasure to work with @Tuliodna , @krisp_news , @JSAN4CHRIST , and the Handley Lab @WUSTLImmuno!
20 Sep 2022
Last month, a team of instructors from the US and South Africa led a five-day workshop on R programming language basics and data modeling best practices @UKZN.
Read more about Data Durban 2022: ragoninstitute.org/latest-ne…
@SANTHEafrica @HarvardCFAR @CAPRISAOfficial @AHRI_News
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