The Mansour Lab

The Mansour Lab at MGH focuses on developing novel cellular diagnostics and therapies for invasive fungal infections. Affiliated with HMS and CIG.

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Dr. Amir Arastehfar presenting his research at IDWeek 2023: The Clinical Implications of High Echinocandin Persistence of a Major Fungal Pathogen and Development of a Rapid and Convenient Approach to Determine Echinocandin Persistence

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Dr. Michael Mansour presenting the multi-center randomized controlled trial ProSAVE at IDWeek 2023

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Farnaz Daneshnia presenting her research at IDWeek 2023: Biofilm and Aggregate Formation as an Efficient Strategy Used by C. parapsilosis to Persist Echinocandin Treatment and Evade the Innate Immune Cells

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Dr. Anna Apostolopoulou presenting at IDWeek 2023: A man in his fifties with a 2-month history of a swollen and tender calf

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Emma Yvanovich presenting her research at IDWeek 2023: Using CRISPR/Cas9 to dissect the regions of MLL/AF9 that are critical for myeloid immortalization

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Kyle Timmer presenting his research at IDWeek 2023: Optimized hematopoietic stem cell source for the ex vivo production of mature human neutrophils as a potential cell-based therapy for neutropenia

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Nathan Jeffries presenting his research at IDWeek 2023: A Focused Screen Identifies Essential Genes Enabling Increased Expansion in Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Generate Human Neutrophils

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Daniel Floyd presenting his research at IDWeek 2023: Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Augment Neutrophil Function to the Human Fungal Pathogen, Candida albicans

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Dr. Johnny Atallah presenting his research at IDWeek 2023 on CT-ProET-1 and sFlt-1 as predictors of clinical outcomes in COVID-19

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The ProSAVE Team celebrated the conclusion of the multi-center randomized controlled trial

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Congratulations to Johnny for being one of the final winners at the annual MGH Scientific Advisory Committee meeting for his work on host transcriptional profiling in patients with fever

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Learn more from Dr. Michael Mansour @MKMansour_MDPhD during his talks at #IDinAdults2023.

The deadline to receive the early registration discount is only NINE DAYS away!

✅https://t.co/SG4G8FOIfb

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@Johnnyatallah96 @UConnIM @MGHMedicine @AUBMC_Official Congratulations Johnny! Amazing job!

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Nothing like a little breakfast before tackling cold room clean-up! Nice job everyone 😃👍

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An amazing study by Kyle Timmer exploring a new multiparametric assay capable of determining several key neutrophil functional responses at once! Nice job Kyle!

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Congratulations to Johnny Atallah for his new publication looking at transcriptional signatures in patients presenting with fever to the emergency department!

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The Mansour Lab was thrilled to speak at 3 sessions during ID Week 2022 in Washington DC last week. Fantastic presentations by Dr. Michael Mansour, Dr. Johnny Atallah, and Vahe Panossian on their research of procalcitonin and MR-proADM. #IDWeek2022

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Fantastic work by Adam Viens from the lab showing Syk-independent accessory pathway responsible for neutrophil responses to Candida

Great work, Adam!

TLR Signaling Rescues Fungicidal Activity in Syk-Deficient Neutrophils.
Viens AL et al. J Immunol. 2022 Apr 1.

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Exciting new paper from the lab showing the impact of neutrophil precursors as a cellular therapy for invasive fungal infection in neutropenia.

https://t.co/XhTc7v8g7U

Our cover image for this JLB issue:

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@MKMansour_MDPhD Proud of this excellent work!
https://t.co/38aNVguSWG