Biomedical Engineer (UConn Health) & Entrepreneur (Lubris) ... all things PRG4/lubricin, Dad, Husband, and lover of ketchup chips. Tweets are my own.
Farmington, CT, USA
Joined March 2015
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What’s embarrassing is pretending Trump’s latest toddler tantrum toward Canada is presidential rather than profoundly stupid.
Steve conveniently left out the part where I said Americans would rather Trump focus on the war, gas prices, measles, and food recalls. So here it is.
I'm excited to share I've been promoted to Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at UConn Health! Thanks to all my trainees, collaborators, colleagues, mentors, and chairs for their work and support in making this happen 😀.
Excited to have work presented at #ORS2026 in collaboration with @A_Markovics from RUSH University on the effects of full-length recombinant human #PRG4 in a murine model of spondyloarthritis! Podium presentation first thing Sunday morning, 8AM in Ballroom B, come check it out.
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Congrats to Erica Ely @erica__ely for her tour-de-force paper showing the roles of both Piezo1 and Piezo2 ion channels in pain and joint damage in post-traumatic osteoarthritis! Fantastic work by the whole team. arthritis-research.biomedcen…
New PRG4 paper on aging! The molecule that never ceases to surprise: Serum PRG4 down with age. Deficiency results in decreased survival in mice and accelerated skeletal aging in M mice. Great work by former PhD student @ATang029 and awesome collaborators. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4053…
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A US judge has blocked a policy that would have, beginning today, slashed billions of dollars of funding annually for US research institutions, including universities and hospitals. The action is in response to a lawsuit filed by 22 US states earlier today contending that the policy was illegal.
go.nature.com/3WTNp4G
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Our lab (lnkd.in/eiANadY3) at UConn have now several available positions for Postdocs in vaccine delivery, microneedles, immunology, and microfabrication. PhD students are welcomed too. If you are interested, please email me (nguyentd@uconn.edu) with a CV.
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Less than two weeks to the 2024 SFB Northeast Symposia at Northeastern University. Don't forget to register!
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What if I told you that I co-founded a startup in 1987 that obtained world-wide rights to GLP1 as a metabolic Rx, collaborated with Pfizer to show key activities, & abandoned it in 1990 when Pfizer lost interest? I tell the previously untold tale in an open access paper now up in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Enjoy! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9…
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So excited for this amazing lineup of speakers for the @SFBiomaterials Northeast Regional Symposium @Northeastern! 🤩 Today is the last day to register at the discounted price 👀Many thanks to co-chairs @AmbikaBajpayee @ANKoppes & our organizing committee! See y’all in Boston 👋
ALT Pictures of people who will be giving talks and logos for sponsors.
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Andre de Grasse anchors Canada to 4x100m GOLD in Paris! 🇨🇦 #ParisOlympics
📺 NBC & Peacock
Excited to share @LubrisBio’s full length recombinant human #PRG4 (#rhPRG4) / #lubricin drug product is released for an upcoming #dryeye clinical study in Australia. Packing and labelling is complete, and we’re ready for distribution upon ethics committee approval. Stay tuned!
Proud of the #PRG4 #lubricin manufacturing progress made working with @LubrisBio & @AvidBioservices the past 2+ years = a 500L GMP run. Eye drop bottles now filled as we push towards the clinic and 2 GRAMS (!) of #rhPRG4 leftover for future preclinical research the next 5+ years.
