Ridhima Wadhwa

Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Newark, New Jersey (US) job with Dr Tania Wong | 12848863 Rutgers is currently seeking a Postdoc Research Scientist to join the Center for Immunity and Inflammation (CII) at the New Jersey Medical School.

🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc!
Seeking expertise in spatial metabolite imaging and/or mass spectrometry to study how host metabolism shapes immune responses. If you're creative, collegial, and excited to push boundaries, we’d love to hear from you. Please share!

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Grateful to the team whose expertise and collaboration made the review possible- @taniawong.bsky.social, Eric Tang, Lok Yin Roy Wong.

Airway immunometabolic responses during pulmonary bacterial and viral infections Wadhwa et al. examine how respiratory bacterial and viral pathogens exploit host metabolism to evade immune responses and influence disease outcomes. They underscore the need for deeper insight into i...

Thrilled to share our latest review is now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social. Here, we explore the critical role of metabolism in shaping the outcomes of bacterial and viral respiratory infections.
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I’m so excited to share that my paper on the role of itaconate in allergic airway disease and asthma has just been published in @allergy-eaaci.bsky.social!

You can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#itaconate #allergy #asthma #immunometabolism #innateimmunity

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com!

We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨

Huge team effort!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How Staphylococcus aureus Exploits a Host Metabolite to Cause Pneumonia Staphylococcus aureus is a formidable foe in healthcare settings, a leading cause of pneumonia that contributes significantly to illness and death worldwide. This ubiquitous bacterium, a common coloni...

How does S. aureus turn a toxic metabolite into a survival tool? Rutgers-led research shows its enzyme FumC converts fumarate into fuel for growth, biofilm, & virulence—opening doors for new anti-pneumonia drugs. go.njmicrobe.org/8MQv9B #Microbiology #Pathogenesis #StaphAureus #AntimicrobialTargets

Grateful to be a co-author on the study showing how fumarate metabolism by host and pathogen promotes pneumonia. Itaconate synergises with fumarate and drives staphylococcal adaptation.👇

🚨New Preprint Alert!
Delighted to have been a small part of the study showing the role of fumarate metabolism in host and pathogen contributes to pneumonia infection.
Check out the link below to know more about #immunometabolites in promoting #S.aureus #pulmonary #adaptation.👇

Great work showcasing acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1 (ACC1) as a metabolic checkpoint in Treg biology. Increased acetyl-CoA levels drive increasing histone acetylation at the Foxp3. Under inflammatory conditions, fatty acid inhibition promotes the induction and long-term stability of Tregs.

c-kit and IL-17A-expressing ILC2s in sputum from individuals with severe asthma exhibit features of both ILC2s and ILC3s
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...