@UpasanaDA So proud of @UpasanaDA on starting her new lab at U Mass this fall!!
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Doug Kwon
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Doug Kwon
@kwonlab
Physician-scientist, researcher and entrepreneur working at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard @ragoninstitute @harvardmed
Cambridge, MA Katılım Mart 2012
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Excited to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Immunology at University of Massachusetts Amherst!
The Upi Lab will study how tissues instruct immune cell fate and function — and how these programs become dysregulated in disease.
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“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.”
@kwonlab
Read More: ragoninstitute.org/2026/03/kwon-l…
#Immunology #BacterialVaginosis #WomensHealth
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@CellCellPress Thrilled to share our new @CellCellPress paper! 🎉
We uncover a unique immune–epithelial interaction where metabolic regulation of CD8⁺ T cells shapes epithelial health.
Especially proud of the @UpasanaDA and collaborators for their creativity and persistence on this work! 🔬✨
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Now online! Immunometabolic defects of CD8+ T cells disrupt gut barrier integrity in people with HIV dlvr.it/TN1gln
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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 ! 👏🔬
Upasana DasAdhikari@UpasanaDA
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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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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Read more at: ragoninstitute.org/latest-news/a-…
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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!
Meilin Zhu@mzhu_ology
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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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-rel… @LabMedoff @kwonlab
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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 🚬
Constantine Tzouanas@constantine_sci
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/sc…
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Wonderful and very deserved recognition of your work @mzhu_ology
Meilin Zhu@mzhu_ology
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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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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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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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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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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Caroline Mitchell@bostonvaginadoc
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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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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