Rikeish R Muralitharan MD, PhD
Research Fellow @FZMarques lab, @monashbiol Gut microbiome. Immune system. Diet. SCFAs. Hypertension. he/him
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- Thank you for the recognition! Grateful for the support from @fzmarques.bsky.social and Malindi, PhD student, lead coordinator for the study. Also to High BP Foundation for the seed funding!
- Congratulations to our next #ECIExcellence2025 nominee, @rikeish.bsky.social from Monash University, on launching his first clinical trial, GRAINS-BP! This study investigates how dietary fibres and SCFAs may lower blood pressure through the gut–brain axis.
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- 🚀 Big milestone achieved! GRAINS-BP trial is officially underway as we’ve randomised our first participant. Huge thanks to @fzmarques.bsky.social, our collaborators, funders, and PhD student Malindi. 🙌 For more information and recruitment, please check out www.marqueslab.com/trials
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- 🧠🦠Can the gut communicate with the brain to regulate BP? Our latest review explores how microbial metabolites (SCFAs) may regulate BP via the gut–brain axis. A promising new frontier for hypertension treatment. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1042/CS20...
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- Reposted by Rikeish R Muralitharan MD, PhDCongrats @rikeish.bsky.social for your immunofluorescence image making it to the cover 👏👏👏 www.ahajournals.org/journal/res Also read the ‘Meet the first author’ and accompanying editorial (thanks @annetkiraboc1.bsky.social 👏👏👏) Paper and 🧵 👇 www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....
- I am super proud and excited to share my latest publication, out now in @ahajournals.bsky.social (www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...)
- Super excited to join @ahajournals.bsky.social Hypertension as an #ECR editorial assistant!
- Reposted by Rikeish R Muralitharan MD, PhDInteresting breakdown by @fzmarques.bluesky.social & @rikeish.bsky.social on how the gut #microbiome shapes #bloodpressure of their paper published in #CircRes. 📝 Blog: www.marqueslab.com/post/underst… 📄 Paper: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/��� #Hypertension @ahajournals.bsky.social
- @rikeish.bsky.social & I wrote a short blog about the key lessons from our paper published in Circulation Research, looking into how the gut #microbiome regulates #bloodpressure via gene-by-environment interactions Paper: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... Blog: www.marqueslab.com/post/underst...
- I am super proud and excited to share my latest publication, out now in @ahajournals.bsky.social (www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...)
- We and others have previously shown that SCFA supplementation can reduce BP but underlying mechanisms were unclear. Here we show that SCFA-receptors are protective in hypertension in the Ang II model.
- Reposted by Rikeish R Muralitharan MD, PhDThe impact of a non-industrialized ("Restore") diet plus a key microbe on improving cardiometaboiic health markers and reducing body-wide inflammation, from a randomized trial www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellpress.bsky.social open-access
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- Reposted by Rikeish R Muralitharan MD, PhD🔔🧪 #Women, even in well-represented #scientific fields, are up to 40% more likely than men to leave #research within 20 years (Nature News). Urgent #action is needed to close the #scissor-shaped curve. #WomenInSTEM #genderequity #diversity #STEM www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Why are microbiome studies poorly translated or reproducible? We wrote an editorial to highlight the importance of considering and minimizing confounder effect in gut microbiome studies. @fzmarques.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/cardiovascre...
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- The CV sector has created a joint submission for the @nhmrc urging them to reconsider the proposed changes to the eligibility requirement for Emerging Leadership (EL) applicants. Please read and make your own submission before Dec 4 ozheart.org/joint-submis...
