Kwon Lab News

Take a look at Dr. Kwon's co-authored paper addressing the connection between Tobacco Smoke and Tuberculosis featured in the Harvard Magazine

December 2023

Learn about Bill Gates mention of Meilin Zhu's research as one of the 5 coolest innovations at the Gates Grand Challenges Meeting in Senegal

November 2023

Learn about our Vaginal Microbiome Transplant on NPR

 

August 2022

Article on our research in Nature Microbiology leveraging L. iners biology to alter the vaginal microbiome

March 2022

Watch our Microbiome Paper on video!

July 2021

Read about our clinical trial of LACTIN-V in the news!

May 2021

WBUR: First Vaginal Bacteria Transplants In The US To Begin At Mass. General Hospital

March 2020

The next frontier for the microbiome: vaginal fluid transplants that take aim at a common condition

September 2019

Check out our "Kwon Lab Science from a 6th Grader" Podcast, Episode 1! From our summer media intern, Lucy

June 2019

Check out our "Kwon Lab Science from a 6th Grader" Podcast, Episode 2! From our summer media intern, Lucy, featuring MD PhD student Elizabeth Byrne

July 2019

DZD Closes $8.6M Series A to Rapidly Diagnose Infectious Diseases

January 2019

Interview with Infectious Disease Consultants

July 2018

Cell Host & Microbe Publishes Kwon Lab Review

April 2018

Day Zero Diagnostics is 2017 MedTech Innovator Global Competition Winner

September 2017

Day Zero Diagnostics Completes $3M Series Seed Fundraise

August 2017

Melis Anahtar’s Ph.D. research showcased in Harvard-MIT HST Forum

June 2017

DZD wins MedTech Innovators Award

April 2017

Cosmopolitan: This Factor Could Make You More Susceptible to HIV

January 2017

Vaginal Bacteria Affect HIV Risk - Lactobacillus dominance appears protective

October 2016

Day Zero Diagnostics wins MGH 2016 DOM Innovation Pilot Grant

June 2016

Harvard Business School Announces Alumni New Venture Winner: Day Zero Diagnostics

March 2016

UNAIDS Highlights Elizabeth Byrne's Paper

January 2016

Bacterial communities of female genital tract have impact on inflammation and HIV risk

May 2015

Upasana Das Adhikari Awarded NIH K99 Pathway to Independence Award

February 2024

Fatima Hussain awarded Schmidt Fellowship

June 2021

See Doug in the Keystone Symposium Live Interview on the Genital Tract Microbiome and Reproductive Health

December 2019

Kwon Lab featured in the article, "Ragon Institute: Harnessing the Power of Human Immunity"

June 2019

VKS Insights: Role of the Genital Tract Microbiome in Sexual and Reproductive Health

December 2018

Kwon Lab Highlighted in NIAID Women's Health Science Advances 2017

January 2018

Kwon Lab & DZD Highlighted on Innovation FWD

February 2018

The New World Order Of Artificial Intelligence

July 2017

DZD accepted to the MassChallenge International Finalist Group

May 2017

JAMA: Cervicovaginal Bacteria May Influence HIV Risk

March 2017

Bacterial Communities of Female Genital Tract Impact HIV Infection Risk

January 2017

Uncovering the female body’s secret protection against HIV

August 2016

Inside Ragon Podcast: Doug Kwon

June 2016

Jesús Luévano featured in Scientific American

March 2016

Kwon Lab Findings on HIV Risk and Hormonal Contraception in Sub-Saharan Africa published in Lancet Infectious Disease

December 2015

Doug Kwon presents keynote address at the 2015 APSA Northeast Regional Meeting

October 2015

Day Zero Diagnostics selected for the Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Incubation Program (VIP)

September 2015

Enumeral Biomedical announces agreement with the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

March 2015

Bjorn Corleis Awarded Postdoc Recognition Award by the Mass General Postdoc Association (MGPA)

February 2015

Dr. Douglas S. Kwon MD, PhD awarded Burroughs Wellcome Career Award

April 2011

Undergraduate Kwon Lab researcher Aaron Abai tapped for Harvard Phi Beta Kappa

May 2021

Hear about our experience doing research in sub-Saharan Africa at the Human Cell Atlas Meeting in Ethiopia

December 2019

HIV-1 and SIV Infection Are Associated with Early Loss of Lung Interstitial CD4+ T Cells and Dissemination of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

February 2019

Doug Kwon Featured in Immunity Voices: "The Next Quarter Century"

April 2019

Facebook Live Interview with Science Immunology

October 2018

A Startup Takes On Antibiotic Resistance

September 2017

DZD MedTech Innovator 2017: Day Zero Diagnostics is out to disrupt the way we diagnose infections

August 2017

Kwon Lab finding on effects of the vaginal microbiome on HIV risk named one of Top Women’s Health Science Advances for 2017 by NIAID

June 2017

David Gootenberg and Justin Rice win HIVMA Medical Student Award

May 2017

BMJ: Susceptibility of heterosexual sub-Saharan women to HIV could be the result of cervicovaginal microbiome characteristics

January 2017

Popular Science: Certain kinds of vaginal bacteria can actually boost HIV risk

January 2017

Vaginal bacteria species can raise HIV infection risk and undermine prevention

July 2016

HIVMA Medical Student Program - Jesús Luévano receives funding for clinical learning and research

June 2016

CROI 2016 - Jesús Luévano presents on HIV Associated Changes in the Gut Microbiome

February 2016

Doug Kwon gives symposium at annual meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America

October 2015

Anahtar et al. Immunity paper listed among the Faculty of 1000

July 2015

Jesus Luevano, Jr. Awarded the 2015 Doris Duke Clinical Research Mentorship Grant

August 2015

Elizabeth Byrne awarded Rhodes Scholarship

November 2014

Radcliffe Awards Elizabeth Byrne Fay Prize for Top Thesis: The Female Genital Tract Microbiome and Hormonal Contraception in the Context of Genital Immune Activation and HIV Acquisition

May 2014