Josh joined the Kwon Lab as a postdoctoral fellow in July 2020. He completed his Ph.D. in bioengineering at the University of Maryland, where he was a PhRMA Foundation graduate fellow in Christopher Jewell’s lab. His doctoral research involved leveraging biomaterials to locally target immunotherapies to lymph nodes to promote immunological tolerance. In the Kwon Lab, Josh’s work focuses on studying the interactions between microbes in the female genital tract and local inflammation. He aims to use his research to inform the design of interventions to prevent HIV infection. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, fishkeeping, sampling tasty beers, and hiking.