Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Cardioimmunology
Urbana, IL
Joined January 2018
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Taejoon Won retweeted
One week to go until AIC2026 abstract submission and early 🦤registration deadlines! See below for a live feed of my lab members working on their drafts 😺
Taejoon Won retweeted
Our new paper -enjoy myocarditis in 3D reconstructed by CODA -beautiful twitorial with videos by first author Abdel Daoud @AbdelDaoud20503
Truly grateful and honored to be awarded the AAI Young Investigator Award @ImmunologyAAI @autumnimmuno (2/2)
Congratulations to all of the recipients of #AIC2025 Wallace Fellowships, @ImmunologyAAI Young Investigator Awards, and @mssociety Travel Awards!
Truly grateful and honored to be awarded the AAI Young Investigator Award @ImmunologyAAI @autumnimmuno (1/2)
🏆 We're thrilled to announce the 2025 AAI Young Investigator Award winners!
Meet the future of #immunology! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 AAI Young Investigator Awards. These brilliant young scientists have been recognized for their groundbreaking research, securing their spots as the first authors of the top abstracts in their Workshop categories.
Check out the full list of winners who are pushing the boundaries of science! 👇
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The first review paper from Won Lab @VetMedIllinois is just out! We discuss the role of autoreactive T cells and autoAbs in lupus myocarditis and propose CAR-Treg cells as a potential therapy. Excellent work by Yushan, Katherine Murphy, and @YuFanHung! nature.com/articles/s12276-0…
Lab picture day at @VetMedIllinois with the amazing Won Lab team - Yushan, Kate, @YuFanHung, Max, and Kacy! (2/2)
Lab picture day at @VetMedIllinois with the amazing Won Lab team - Yushan, Kate, @YuFanHung, Max, and Kacy! (1/2)
Congrats to Kate for winning the Outstanding Lightning Talk Presentation Award at PATH Graduate Student EXPO 2025! Your hard work and dedication deserve this award.
Taejoon Won retweeted
Commentary on our paper in Nature: nature.com/articles/s41584-0…
Our latest study on PAD4 in arthritis (doi.org/10.1002/art.43168) is highlighted in Nature Reviews Rheumatology. Excited! @DrCihakovaD @CamilleJaime5 @Wjo0826
Great work! Thanks you all for your hard work and dedication to autoimmune research. @2025 Research Day
Taejoon Won retweeted
Our new paper is out with @TaejoonW Anti-Peptidylarginine-4 Autoantibodies Derived from Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Exert Pathogenic Effects by Activating Monocytes and Exacerbating Inflammatory Arthritis - PubMed
Taejoon Won retweeted
Mouse model and in vitro study investigated the pathogenic role of anti-PAD4 autoantibodies in RA, suggesting a model where anti-PAD4 antibodies primarily target monocytes triggering an inflammatory cascade
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doi.org/10.1002/art.43168
ALT Anti-Peptidylarginine-4 Autoantibodies Derived from Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Exert Pathogenic Effects by Activating Monocytes and Exacerbating Inflammatory Arthritis. Graphical abstract created with BioRender
Taejoon Won retweeted
Proposed mechanism of rheumatoid arthritis disease exacerbation by anti-PAD4 antibodies
ALT Proposed mechanism of disease exacerbation by anti-PAD4 antibodies. This model is based on our complementary in vitro and in vivo data showing that anti-PAD4 antibodies preferentially bind monocytes in mice and humans (A), stimulate the release of pro-inflammatory chemokines by human monocytes (B), result in increased immune cell infiltration into arthritic joint in CIA mice (C), including an increased proportion of T cells producing IL-17A, TNF-α, and IFN-γ (D), which can induce an activated and invasive synovial fibroblast phenotype (E-F).
Taejoon Won retweeted
Our new paper on ICI myocarditis is out. I am very proud of this work, congratulation to the whole team and first author
@HannahKalinoski
In our new paper @PNASNews we show that previous cardiovascular disease increases susceptibility to ICI-myocarditis development by recruiting autoimmune myosin specific TRM cells to the heart!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
@DrCihakovaD @TaejoonW @AbdelDaoud20503
Taejoon Won retweeted
In our new paper @PNASNews we show that previous cardiovascular disease increases susceptibility to ICI-myocarditis development by recruiting autoimmune myosin specific TRM cells to the heart!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
@DrCihakovaD @TaejoonW @AbdelDaoud20503
Taejoon Won retweeted
@CircRes The Interface Between #Cardioimmunology, #Myocardial Health, and #Disease Compendium Alert!
#Autoimmune #Myocarditis, Old Dogs and New Tricks ahajrnls.org/4aXuwlG
Authored by Drs. @TaejoonW, EJ Song, HM Kalinoski, JJ Moslehi, & @DrCihavovaD
