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Eduardo Villablanca

@ejvillablanca.bsky.social
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Mucosal Immunologist interested in the complexity of IBD. Professor @Karolinskainst, Wallenberg Fellow & editor @MucosalImmunol. Opinions are my own

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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is one of the most exciting IBD papers of 2026 so far!!! 👇🏼 Every now and then, a study comes along that fundamentally changes how we think about disease mechanisms. This is one of them. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Interleukin-10 Autoantibodies and HLA-DRB1*01:03 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease | NEJM
Neutralizing autoantibodies against interleukin-10 can result in a phenocopy of monogenic defects of interleukin-10 signaling in children and may be associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)...
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation @kawresearch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Chronic immune diseases are shaped by multiple inflammatory processes happening at once. This is shown in a mouse study from Karolinska Institutet. The findings may help explain why patients respond differently to treatment. @ki.se @ejvillablanca.bsky.social #immunology tinyurl.com/5bkn276u
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Chronic bowel disease involves multiple types of inflammation happening at once
Chronic immune diseases are shaped by multiple inflammatory processes happening at the same time, each in different parts of the tissue. This is shown in a mouse study from Karolinska Institutet, publ...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Shared inflammatory programs, epithelial antigen presentation, and dynamic neutrophil states link mouse models to human #IBD and highlighting epithelial-immune crosstalk as a therapeutic target @cp-immunity.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/ful... @ki.se @ejvillablanca.bsky.social
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Thanks for the invite to discuss how we can think out of the box to explain mucosal immunology :)
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Dark Matter Project @id-darkmatter-ncd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
#ECCO26 Feb 19 Stockholm, Ludwig Erlmeier (UMCG) presents: “High-throughput antibody epitope repertoire profiling links NOD2 risk-variants to specific antibody responses in Crohn’s disease.” A step toward connecting genetic risk with functional immune signatures in IBD cm.ecco-ibd.eu/cmPortal/sea...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Our KAW research grant focuses on uncovering novel drivers of mucosal healing by leveraging unique IBD cohorts and novel technologies to map cell–microbiota interactions, complemented by advanced non-animal models like human organoids Check the note 👇🏼 kaw.wallenberg.org/en/research/... #Hashtag
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Promoting healing to cure intestinal autoimmunity | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Immunosuppressive drugs are currently the main therapeutic option for treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, fewer than half of patients achieve sustained benefit, and these treatments ca...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Spatial omics at the forefront: emerging technologies, analytical innovations, and clinical applications @cp-cancercell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
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Spatial omics at the forefront: emerging technologies, analytical innovations, and clinical applications
Liu et al. review how spatial omics technologies reveal the organization, interaction, and evolution of tumor cells and their microenvironment within tissues. They highlight analytical advances that t...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
This one resonates a lot! “I thought science hinged on prestige. Moving abroad made me reassess my priorities” www.science.org/content/arti...
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I thought science hinged on prestige. Moving abroad made me reassess my priorities
In Denmark, this Ph.D. student fell in love with an egalitarian society that values work-life balance
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Connecting AI to biology: Model Context Protocol www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
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Connecting AI to biology: Model Context Protocol
Julio Saez-Rodriguez discusses how MCP servers are helping AI connect to life science databases, making AI a more reproducible tool for research.
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Gut microbiota promotes immune tolerance at the maternal-fetal interface www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... “our findings identify microbiota-dependent immune tolerance mechanisms that promote fetal development.”
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Gut microbiota promotes immune tolerance at the maternal-fetal interface
Microbiota-dependent tryptophan-derived indole deficiency is linked to mouse fetal resorption and human recurrent miscarriage. Tryptophan-derived indoles prime MDSCs and RORγt+ Tregs to suppress IFN-γ...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Single-cell resolution spatial analysis of antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblast niches: Cancer Cell www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
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Single-cell resolution spatial analysis of antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblast niches
Chen et al. identify two distinct antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblast (apCAF) populations across multiple cancer types. Mesothelial-related apCAFs locate near cancer cells while fibrocyte-...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Human gut M cells resemble dendritic cells and present gluten antigen @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human gut M cells resemble dendritic cells and present gluten antigen - Nature
An intestinal organoid model recapitulates human microfold (M) cell function and transcriptomic profiling and biochemical assays demonstrate that M cells uptake and present antigens to the immune syst...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The dawn of ‘off-the-shelf’ B cell-depleting therapies for autoimmune diseases @Nature Reviews Rheumatology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The dawn of ‘off-the-shelf’ B cell-depleting therapies for autoimmune diseases - Nature Reviews Rheumatology
In 2025, a new wave of ‘off-the-shelf’ B cell-depleting modalities for the treatment of autoimmune diseases emerged, encompassing allogeneic cellular therapies, in vivo chimeric antigen receptor engin...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Join us ag the upcoming DDLS CMB Conference: Data Driven Systems Biology – Harnessing Big Data and Systems Approaches to Decode Complex Biology March 24–25 at LifeCity, Hagastaden, Solna. #scilifelab #DDLS #datadriven #systemsbiology Register here! 👇🏼👇👇🏾👇🏿 lnkd.in/dT9gCvEu
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
What a great #BSI25! The second-largest immunology conference was a fantastic chance to meet old friends and make new ones. Amazing science, and they definitely know how to party 😜
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Orlando Ross @orlandorosss.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#BSI25 day 2! Another wonderful day of immunology and a chance to discuss my PhD research during the first poster session. Meeting so many people, discussing cutting-edge immunology and sharing our passions for science! @mrccmm.bsky.social
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Doctoral (PhD) Position – Spatial Transcriptomics, Bioinformatics & Mucosal Immunology 📍 Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 🗓️ Deadline: Dec 10, 2025 kidoktorand.varbi.com/what:job/job... #SpatialTranscriptomics #Bioinformatics #MucosalImmunology #SingleCellOmics #IBDResearch #SystemsImmunology
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 22/11/2025
Joshua A. Boyce, MD, describes two studies implicating intestinally generated cysteinyl leukotrienes in food anaphylaxis. Learn more: nej.md/4rp7MEL #MedSky #PedSky #Immunology
An illustrated diagram of intestinal mucosal mast cells, cysteinyl leukotrienes, and food-induced (oral) anaphylaxis.
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
IL-9 as a naturally orthogonal cytokine with optimal JAK/STAT signaling for engineered T cell therapy Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
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IL-9 as a naturally orthogonal cytokine with optimal JAK/STAT signaling for engineered T cell therapy
Cytokines optimize and fine-tune effector T cell responses. Here, Jiang et al. utilize IL-9, with scarce receptor expression in normal tissues, to boost IL-9R engineered T cells for cancer therapy. IL...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🥷“Lab manager in immunology and spatial biology” Open position not only to work in my lab but also the Engblom lab!!👇🏼👇🏾👇👇🏿 Join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/eduard...
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Lab manager inom immunologi och spatiell biolog | Eduardo Villablanca
Open position not only to work in my lab but also the Engblom lab!!👇🏼👇🏾👇👇🏿 “Lab manager in immunology and spatial biology” Come join the Engblom and Villablanca labs! A lab manager position is avail...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
42 ectopic oral species found in the gut could be predictive of systemic diseases 😲 A high-quality genomic catalog of the human oral microbiome broadens its phylogeny and clinical insights Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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A high-quality genomic catalog of the human oral microbiome broadens its phylogeny and clinical insights
Oral microbiome shows rising importance in human health. Cha et al. present the human reference oral microbiome (HROM), comprising 72,641 high-quality genomes from 3,426 species, including 2,019 previ...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“Women who consumed the highest amounts of ultraprocessed foods — 10 servings per day on average — had a 45 percent higher risk of developing conventional adenomas, compared with those who consumed the lowest amounts” www.linkedin.com/posts/harvar...
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Researchers link ultraprocessed foods to precancerous polyps — Harvard Gazette | Harvard University
Colorectal cancer diagnoses have become increasingly common in adults 50 or younger in recent years, particularly in high-income countries like the U.S. A new study led by Harvard and Mass General Bri...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Karolinska Institutet is recruiting three Assistant Professors through the @SciLifeLab and @DDLS programs! These six-year positions come with generous support packages and a strong research environment. Apply by Nov 15, 2025 #academiajobs #sciencelife #KI #SciLifeLab news.ki.se/call-for-sci...
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Call for SciLifeLab and DDLS Fellows 2025
Karolinska Institutet is recruiting three Assistant Professors in two programs tied to SciLifeLab. SciLifeLab and DDLS Fellows (Assistant Professors) are six-year positions with generous recruitment p...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Packed room for @reinacampos.bsky.social’s talk at @cmm @ki.se! Miguel presented stunning insights into how spatial cues instruct T cells in tissue barriers. Cutting-edge and deeply inspiring research!
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Using Zebrafish to study CD8 T cells and tumors interactions in vivi the Zon lab identified “CRATER tumor niches”. CRATER facilitate CD8+ T cell engagement and correspond with immunotherapy success Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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CRATER tumor niches facilitate CD8+ T cell engagement and correspond with immunotherapy success
CD8+ T cells preferentially engage tumor cells in pockets termed CRATERs, which are rich with antigen presentation molecules and breach into the tumor mass from the stromal compartment. CRATERs expand...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Cancer cells co-opt an inter-organ neuroimmune circuit to escape immune surveillance Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Cancer cells co-opt an inter-organ neuroimmune circuit to escape immune surveillance
Cancer cells exploit distant tissues and organs to escape immune surveillance by activating nociceptive neurons, which remodel tumor-draining lymph nodes into an immune-suppressed state. Blocking this...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Tumor-infiltrating bacteria disrupt cancer epithelial cell interactions and induce cell-cycle arrest: Cancer Cell www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
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Tumor-infiltrating bacteria disrupt cancer epithelial cell interactions and induce cell-cycle arrest
Galeano Niño et al. show that extracellular bacteria dominate colorectal and oral tumor microniches, remodeling the microenvironment with reduced cell density, scattered epithelium, and low proliferat...
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Adlung Lab @adlunglab.com · 10/10/2025
Great reference to get up to speed on B cells in IBD from our good friend @ejvillablanca.bsky.social TL;DR B cells aren’t just bystanders in IBD, they’re active players in both gut protection, pathology and mucosal healing. doi.org/10.1016/j.im... 🧪
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B cells in inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) have traditionally been considered T cell-driven disorders; however, accumulating evidence challenges this view and …
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Yesterday marked my installation as Professor at Karolinska Institutet I’m extremely grateful to my family, friends, and lab members who joined to celebrate this milestone. Excited for the journey ahead! @ki.se
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Saddened to hear of Sir John Gurdon’s passing at 92. His pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming laid the foundation for modern stem cell biology. A true giant of developmental biology and an inspiration to generations. Nobel Laureate (2012, with Shinya Yamanaka). 👇🏼being grilled by him :)
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Thanks @societymucosalimm.bsky.social for highlighting our work! Kudos to Francisca and Bianca for an amazing job!
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This is how we experience the Nobel Prize announcement every year, with excitement! This year was extra special, as we celebrated the immunology and Treg! 👇🏼 Listening to our department prefect and lab neighbor, Marie Wahren, beautifully explaining the motivation behind this year’s #nobelprize
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
CD19 CAR T-Cell Therapy in Multidrug-Resistant Ulcerative Colitis | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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CD19 CAR T-Cell Therapy in Multidrug-Resistant Ulcerative Colitis | NEJM
In a patient with treatment-resistant ulcerative colitis, CD19 CAR T-cell therapy led to drug-free remission and mucosal healing, suggesting that B-cell targeting may offer a novel therapeutic ...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Karolinska Institutet organizes an Installation Ceremony every fall, where new professors at KI are inaugurated and presented. This year, it is my turn to be installed :) 😍 "Studying how inflammation starts and heals in the gut" news.ki.se/studying-how...
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Studying how inflammation starts and heals in the gut
Inflammatory bowel disease affects millions of people worldwide and currently lacks a cure. Eduardo Villablanca studies how inflammation starts and heals in the intestines, with the aim to find new tr...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Creeping fat-derived mechanosensitive fibroblasts drive intestinal fibrosis in Crohn’s disease strictures #IBD www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Creeping fat-derived mechanosensitive fibroblasts drive intestinal fibrosis in Crohn’s disease strictures
A significant complication of Crohn’s disease (CD) is intestinal fibrosis, which narrows the bowel lumen to form a stricture. Creeping fat (CF) is the…
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The gut microbiota directs vitamin A flux to regulate intestinal T cell development @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Extremely proud of @xinxinluo.bsky.social for winning the Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize 2025! Awarded “for her groundbreaking work on inflammation, tissue damage & repair in the intestine, with innovative methods & impactful collaborations.” So proud! 👏 news.ki.se/xinxin-luo-r... @ki.se #IBD
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
If you want to contribute to strategic areas of data-driven research within the Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) program in Sweden, three of the DDLS research area expert groups are now seeking additional members! Join us in helping shape data-driven research. www.scilifelab.se/news/express...
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Expression of interest call: Three of the DDLS research area expert groups now seek additional members
Are you an established expert within Data Driven Cell and Molecular biology, Epidemiology and biology of infection or Evolution and Biodiversity research, three of the four strategic areas for data-dr...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
IL-25-induced memory type 2 innate lymphoid cells enforce mucosal immunity Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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IL-25-induced memory type 2 innate lymphoid cells enforce mucosal immunity
IL-25 treatment induces persistent adaptation of the small intestine, which is maintained by ILC2s with functional and epigenetic qualities of immune memory. Effector-memory ILC2s arise in multiple ti...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
🎉 Huge congratulations to @immunologyking.bsky.social & @maurogaya.bsky.social for an outstanding @embo.org workshop: adaptive immunity in barrier tissues Brilliant science, inspiring discussions, and friendships that make it one of the best!
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Great analogy to illustrate the question @carlanowosad.bsky.social is pursuing on her lab: how GC are form and how GC cells find their way to their specific locations #embo workshop Basel #immunalogy
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Glycan shielding enables TCR-sufficient allogeneic CAR-T therapy: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Glycan shielding enables TCR-sufficient allogeneic CAR-T therapy
SPPL3 deletion modifies glycosylation on primary T cells, reducing allogeneic immune responses without impairing tumor control by anti-CD19 allogeneic CAR-T cells. SPPL3-null, TCR-sufficient anti-CD19...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
#Bcells are emerging as key players in #IBD, far beyond a T-cell story. From IgA protection to pro-inflammatory subsets, we highlight how understanding B cell diversity can unlock precise #Immunotherapy in #IBD. Check Fran and Bianca's review 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.im...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thrilled to welcome Irene Salinas to our lab for her sabbatical! A true role model scientist who has already energized us with inspiring discussions in evolutionary immunology. Looking forward more exciting scientific explorations and great conversations together #ScienceCommunity #Collaboration
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Sten Linnarsson @sten.linnarsson.org · 25/06/2025
A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Breast milk IgG engages the mouse neonatal immune system to instruct responses to gut antigens | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Breast milk IgG engages the mouse neonatal immune system to instruct responses to gut antigens
Maternal antibodies fundamentally regulate gut immunity in the developing infant, yet the mechanisms underlying this process remain elusive. We found that maternal immunoglobulin G (IgG), ingested in ...
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New lab uniform
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Achille Broggi🧪👨🏼‍🔬🔬 @achillebro.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Thanks so much to Mathias Hornef, Oliver Pabst and Heike for organizing the beautiful #EMIG2025 in @rwth.bsky.social . This nice picture really captures the mood of this amazing conference. @ejvillablanca.bsky.social @gmagrilab.bsky.social
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
No se lo pierda! Pasaporte Ciencia | Capítulo 5 | Suecia www.13.cl/programas/pa...
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Pasaporte Ciencia | Capítulo 5 | Suecia
Sitio web oficial de Canal 13, primer canal de transmisión chileno en transformarse en una casa editorial que traspasa sus contenidos a todas sus plataformas como Internet, radio, cable y eventos mult...
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