Audrey John MD PhD
Infectious diseases physician, scientist, mentor, mom, Chief @CHOP_ID | lab goals: new ways to diagnose and treat infection | views my own | #PedsIDSky #IDSky #PedsSky
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD“gut-microbiome composition explained at least 20% of the variation in 35 breath compounds that they tested.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDA breath of #air could help diagnose #gut #microbiome disruptions ... | #VolatileOrganicCompounds | #VOC | #microbes | #biomarkers | #colon | #metabolites | Via the-scientist .com
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD🫁 Breath tests could help monitor gut health, new research suggests. Scientists detected more than 1,000 volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath, many linked to gut microbial metabolism. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.co... #HealthNews #Microbiome #Science
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDAnalysis of exhaled breath can identify gut microbial compounds, offering a potential noninvasive method to monitor gut microbiome health and detect conditions such as asthma. doi.org/hbkzrw
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDIn this piece I’m quoted about measuring volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath for disease diagnosis and understanding one’s microbiome www.prevention.com/health/a7014...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDImagine a near future where all you need to do is breath into your smartphone or a wearable and it will diagnose your health based on your microbiome! medicine.washu.edu/news/breath-...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD#Climate change could cause more than 500,000 #malaria #deaths in #Africa ... | #ClimateChange | #disease | #infections | #GlobalWarming | #GHGs | Via @sciencex.bsky.social
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDImportant study in @nature.com how climate change could impact malaria transmission in coming decades. An increase in malaria cases of over 100 million by 2050. The authors emphasize a need for climate resilient malaria countering measure. Climate change is real. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDChildren are dying in the US concentration camps www.cbsnews.com/news/anadith...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDAuschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
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- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDA Breath of Air Could Help Diagnose Gut Microbiome Disruptions Scientists can detect volatile organic compounds produced by gut bacteria in people’s breath. Image credit:© iStock.com, narcisa In the depths of the human colon, gut microbes help keep the body healthy by aiding digestion and…
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDJane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941 + Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures) + MacArthur Fellow, 1985 + Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991 + President, Biophysical Society, 2012 #WomenInSTEM
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDThe gut #microbiota shapes the human and murine #breath #volatilome www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenAccess #MicroSky
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDBreath-based diagnostics? @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social @odomjohnlab.bsky.social Gut bacteria influence the volatile organic compounds found in exhaled in host breath www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
- What does your breath tell you about your gut? 🫁🦠 Thrilled to share our latest work with Andy Kay at Wash U, just out in Cell Metabolism!
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDOnline now: The gut microbiota shapes the human and murine breath volatilome
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD📅 Jan 30 | 12 PM ET #Measles is rising with 2,400 US cases since Jan 2025, threatening elimination status @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social leads a panel w/ Lori Handy, @childrensphila.bsky.social & Liam Hicks, #AZDHS on what’s driving the outbreak & how to respond. Register brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDOur partners at CHOP’s Vaccine Education Center are cutting through the noise this season with 4 timely resources to help families make informed decisions. See the roundup ⤵️ policylab.chop.edu/blog/chops-v...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDft. Andrew Nelson, @SamGarfinkle, Colby Agostino, Daniel Kulp, Jesper Pallesen (@BB_UPenn), Zi Jie Lin, Joyce Park, Amber Kim, Kelly Bayrun, Madison McCanna, Kylie Konrath (@wistar.org) & @odomjohnlab (@chopresearch.bsky.social) @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD🧵 1/8 Too much news noise. But don’t forget: we’re about to launch the next Tuskegee Experiment. This time, on babies. Dr. Offit breaks down this wildly unethical study in his detailed substack. Highly recommend reading. I break down some of his main points in thread below
- open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. is about to launch a dangerously unethical experiment in West Africa.
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDChanges to the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule are prompting questions from the public. The #IDWeek2026 on-demand session, “Increasing Vaccine Confidence,” helps you navigate questions with clarity and compassion. Access now: cdmcd.co/4RpkB5
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDTens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.
- Should the US adopt Denmark's vaccine schedule for children? @jakescottmd.bsky.social argues no in a piece that points out the risks such a move would pose for American kids. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...
- A timely offering - Needed now more than ever....
- 💉 The Comprehensive Vaccine Education Program—From Training to Practice is a combined educational offering to help combat vaccine misinformation and address vaccine hesitancy. Access any of the 19 online modules by visiting: pids.org/education-tr...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research! For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in! I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply! 🧪🧠
- @hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025 Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDThe Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society has issued the following statement on our deep concerns regarding the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices December meeting and its impact on public health in the United States. pids.org/2025/12/05/p...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDA picture is worth a 1000 words. The birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines in the USA eliminated perinatally acquired hepatitis B infection from over 20,000 cases a year before the vaccine was introduced to <20 cases a year. The gaslighting by the current members ACIP is obscene, unethical and cruel.
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDThe Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting today to discuss newborn hepatitis B vaccines. Here's what you need to know.
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD💬Viewpoint: Eliminating universal hepatitis B birth dose vaccination risks an estimated 8% increase in annual perinatal #HepatitisB infections in the US, increasing preventable chronic disease burden. ja.ma/3Me0zHh
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDBecause of the hepatitis B birth dose and completion of the infant series of the vaccine, the U.S. has made significant progress in reducing chronic hepatitis B. Eliminating the birth dose would reverse this progress and put children's health at risk. Read more: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDNo more paylines at the NIH grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDHow awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDRegistration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDThree German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDIf you read and watch one thing today it should be this pice accompanying @agawande.bsky.social documentary. "As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDOur October member spotlight was Dr. Jeff Gerber. He is the Werner & Gertrude Henle Endowed Chair in Pediatrics in the Div ID @childrensphila.bsky.social & Prof of Peds, Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the Univ of Pennsylvania. Read our full profile at pids.org/2025/10/29/m...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDwww.inquirer.com/health/peanu... Thanks Philadelphia Inquirer!
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDMissed another parasitology webinar? 😩 I built a page to fix that — a community list of free online seminars anyone can add to! 🧫 Find and share virtual parasitology events here: www.parasitesrule.com/seminars
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDMapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female. Now out in Nature by Yan Yan, Lisa H. Verzier, Elaine Cheung, Flaminia Catteruccia and colleagues. #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDProud of the Penn faculty!!! www.inquirer.com/education/up...
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- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDThe fiscal year is over. So how was the NIH appropriation committed? A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDChildren and teens who had a Covid reinfection had a doubling of #LongCovid risk (PASC) and a significant increase in many other adverse outcomes (Figure) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD5-year-old Suza from #DRCongo should still be alive. Malaria is treatable, but medicine wasn't available when she needed it. Heartbreaking, urgent reporting from @washingtonpost.com shows how even brief interruptions in aid delivery can have dire consequences for vulnerable communities:
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDI can tell you from personal experience caring for children like this that pertussis in a young infant is one of the most wicked diseases you can imagine. It’s why we recommend that people get vaccination boosts both if pregnant or living in close proximity to young children.
- A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine. buff.ly/8epl2QS
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhD"The pigtailed girl who liked pretty dresses was battling malaria and desperately needed medication that could save her life. That medication, already purchased by a U.S.-taxpayer-funded program, was tantalizingly close... www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDThis is a truly remarkable finding: 17 years after introduction of the HPV vaccine, there was a decreased prevalence of HPV infection (and therefore decreased cancer risk) in both vaccinated AND unvaccinated individuals. Cancer prevention through herd immunity!!!
- Reposted by Audrey John MD PhDHowever, vaccines have had a substantial impact on reducing the incidence of many infectious diseases and have dramatically reduced mortality for specific infections. For example, vaccines account for 40% of the global decline in infant mortality since 1974 (Shattock, Lancet 2024).
