Prajwal Gurung

@PrajwalGurung

Innate immunologist at the University of Iowa. We study innate aspects of Leishmania, sepsis and autoinflammatory diseases. JiuJitsu for life.

Iowa City, IA gurung.lab.uiowa.edu Joined April 2011

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Prajwal Gurung @PrajwalGurung Dec 2, 2020

Congrats Benoit and @KannegantiLab !!!! I saw the inception of this project and to see it completed such elegantly, WOW.
Galactosaminogalactan activates the inflammasome to provide host protection disq.us/t/3t8pk73

Prajwal Gurung @PrajwalGurung Nov 18, 2020

Congrats Thiru and the lab!!! Very proud to see this work published. We enjoyed discussing the preprint yesterday in our journal club.

Kanneganti Lab @KannegantiLab Nov 18, 2020

Congrats to @rajukarki16 and @bhesh82 on their first-authored paper online now @CellCellPress focused on the mechanism connecting #CytokineStorm and cell death in #COVID19, #sepsis, and other diseases. Excellent potential for therapeutic translation. We're all so proud of you!
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Prajwal Gurung @PrajwalGurung Oct 30, 2020

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
A tour de force by @KannegantiLab!! Congrats @rajukarki16 and @bhesh82. A synergistic role for TNF and IFNg in promoting COVID-19 pathogenesis. Several potential targets identified for COVID-19 including IRF1, STAT1, iNOS and regulators of PANoptosis. 💯

Prajwal Gurung @PrajwalGurung Oct 30, 2020

Congrats Raj and kanneganti lab!!!

raju karki @rajukarki16 Oct 30, 2020

COVID-19 cytokines and the hyperactive immune response: Synergism of TNF-α and IFN-γ in triggering inflammation, tissue damage, and death biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Prajwal Gurung @PrajwalGurung Oct 29, 2020

Congrats Paul and the Thomas lab!!!

Paul G Thomas @PGTimmune Oct 29, 2020

Quick summary of work we published on the role of lung fibroblasts after flu infection. Major take home: lung fibroblasts are decisionmakers, integrating “upstream” inflammatory signals from epithelia & converting them into changes in extracellular matrix
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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