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Kumar Thurimella, PhD

@00kumar.bsky.social
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MD student @cuanschutz.bsky.social | former Gates Cambridge PhD @broadinstitute.org / Cambridge & software engineer @ Uber | CO native ⛰️

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Reposted by Kumar Thurimella, PhD
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge @ceb.cam.ac.uk · 27/02/2026
Artificial intelligence has been used to uncover hidden allergens within the trillions of microbes living in the human body, offering insight into why some people develop allergies while others do not. Full story 👇 🧪⚙️🌱🔋 #ChemicalEngineering #Biotechnology
Microscopic blue-stained cells with a headline saying AI reveals hidden allergens in the human microbiome
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Kumar Thurimella, PhD @00kumar.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
1/ Our paper is out today in @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social. We used protein language models and deep learning to identify candidate protease allergens in the human microbiome. www.cell.com/cell-systems...
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Identifying microbial protease allergens through protein language model-guided homology
Thurimella et al. introduce a deep learning framework using protein language models to predict allergenic proteases in the microbiome. The model identified hundreds of candidate allergenic proteases i...
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