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Overview

Douglas S. Kwon is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and focuses primarily on medical research, particularly in the intersecting fields of immunology and microbiology. Their body of work spans a significant number of publications related to Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, reflecting longstanding engagement with infectious diseases and microbial interactions in human health.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Persistence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an Immunocompromised Host, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • FcγR-mediated SARS-CoV-2 infection of monocytes activates inflammation, 2022, Nature
  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Vaginal microbiome-host interactions modeled in a human vagina-on-a-chip, 2022, Microbiome
  • Cysteine dependence of Lactobacillus iners is a potential therapeutic target for vaginal microbiota modulation, 2022, Nature Microbiology

The scientist's research addresses several key topics in their field, notably:

  • Reproductive tract infections research
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Urinary Tract Infections Management
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Reproductive System and Pregnancy
  • Pelvic floor disorders treatments

Douglas S. Kwon's work is also distributed across important subfields such as Microbiology, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiome
  • Scientific Reports
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications

Collaboration plays a notable role in their research activities. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Jiawu Xu
  • Seth M. Bloom
  • Caroline M. Mitchell
  • Upasana Das Adhikari
  • Nomfuneko A. Mafunda

Best Publications

  • DC-SIGN, a dendritic cell-specific HIV-1-binding protein that enhances trans-infection of T cells

    T.B.H. Geijtenbeek;D.S. Kwon;R. Torensma;S.J. van Vliet

  • The major genetic determinants of HIV-1 control affect HLA class I peptide presentation

    Pereyra F;Jia X;McLaren Pj

  • Persistence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an Immunocompromised Host.

    Bina Choi;Manish C. Choudhary;James Regan;Jeffrey A. Sparks

  • FcγR-mediated SARS-CoV-2 infection of monocytes activates inflammation

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  • DC-SIGN-Mediated Internalization of HIV Is Required for Trans-Enhancement of T Cell Infection

    Douglas S. Kwon;Glenn Gregorio;Natacha Bitton;Wayne A. Hendrickson

  • Cervicovaginal bacteria are a major modulator of host inflammatory responses in the female genital tract

    Melis N. Anahtar;Melis N. Anahtar;Elizabeth H. Byrne;Kathleen E. Doherty;Brittany A. Bowman

  • Lactobacillus-Deficient Cervicovaginal Bacterial Communities Are Associated with Increased HIV Acquisition in Young South African Women

    Christina Gosmann;Melis N. Anahtar;Melis N. Anahtar;Scott A. Handley;Mara Farcasanu

  • Transcriptional analysis of HIV-specific CD8 + T cells shows that PD-1 inhibits T cell function by upregulating BATF

    Michael Quigley;Florencia Pereyra;Björn Nilsson;Filippos Porichis

  • Altered Virome and Bacterial Microbiome in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

    Cynthia L. Monaco;David B. Gootenberg;Guoyan Zhao;Scott A. Handley

  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist

    Chloe Mirzayi;Audrey Renson;Massive Analysis

  • IL-10 is up-regulated in multiple cell types during viremic HIV infection and reversibly inhibits virus-specific T cells.

    Mark A. Brockman;Mark A. Brockman;Douglas S. Kwon;Douglas S. Kwon;Douglas S. Kwon;Daniel P. Tighe;David F. Pavlik

  • Gut microbiota is critical for the induction of chemotherapy-induced pain.

    Shiqian Shen;Grewo Lim;Zerong You;Weihua Ding

  • Cervicovaginal Microbiota and Reproductive Health: The Virtue of Simplicity.

    Melis N. Anahtar;David B. Gootenberg;Caroline M. Mitchell;Douglas S. Kwon;Douglas S. Kwon

  • The Evolving Facets of Bacterial Vaginosis: Implications for HIV Transmission.

    Lyle R McKinnon;Lyle R McKinnon;Sharon L Achilles;Catriona S Bradshaw;Adam Burgener

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Specific CD8+ T-Cell Responses during Primary Infection Are Major Determinants of the Viral Set Point and Loss of CD4+ T Cells

    Hendrik Streeck;Jonathan S. Jolin;Ying Qi;Bader Yassine-Diab

  • HIV-1-Specific Interleukin-21+ CD4+ T Cell Responses Contribute to Durable Viral Control through the Modulation of HIV-Specific CD8+ T Cell Function

    Mathieu F. Chevalier;Boris Jülg;Augustine Pyo;Michael Flanders

  • Use of Coreceptors Other Than CCR5 by Non-Syncytium-Inducing Adult and Pediatric Isolates of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Is Rare In Vitro

    Yi-jun Zhang;Tatjana Dragic;Yunzhen Cao;Leondios Kostrikis

  • Responsiveness of HIV-specific CD4 T cells to PD-1 blockade

    Filippos Porichis;Douglas S. Kwon;Douglas S. Kwon;Douglas S. Kwon;Jennifer Zupkosky;Daniel P. Tighe

  • Capturing sequence diversity in metagenomes with comprehensive and scalable probe design.

    Hayden C Metsky;Hayden C Metsky;Katherine J Siddle;Katherine J Siddle;Adrianne Gladden-Young;James Qu

  • Natural Infection of a Homozygous Δ24 CCR5 Red-capped Mangabey with an R2b-Tropic Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

    Zhiwei Chen;Douglas Kwon;Zhanqun Jin;Simon Monard

  • Tn10 and IS10 Transposition and Chromosome Rearrangements: Mechanism and Regulation In Vivo and In Vitro

    N. Kleckner;R. M. Chalmers;D. Kwon;J. Sakai

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce D. Walker
Bruce D. Walker Harvard University
Marylyn M. Addo
Marylyn M. Addo Universität Hamburg
Daniel Kaufmann
Daniel Kaufmann University of Lausanne
Marcus Altfeld
Marcus Altfeld University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hendrik Streeck
Hendrik Streeck University Hospital Bonn
Florencia Pereyra
Florencia Pereyra Harvard University
Dan R. Littman
Dan R. Littman New York University
Thumbi Ndung'u
Thumbi Ndung'u University of KwaZulu-Natal
Eric S. Rosenberg
Eric S. Rosenberg Harvard University

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