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Tamara Tilburgs
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The Tilburgs lab at Cincinnati Children’s investigates the fascinating mechanisms of maternal-fetal tolerance and placental immunity in humans. All views are my own.
🚨 We're hiring a Postdoc to investigate the fascinating mechanisms of maternal-fetal tolerance & immunity!
If you're passionate about immunology, and ready to make discoveries, apply here: //https://lnkd.in/g2HyCd-W
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October 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Delighted to change Assistant to Associate today!! Can't believe how lucky I am to work at an amazing place, with incredible mentors, super talented trainees, & tons of friends and collaborators on my favorite placenta projects!! I may need to take an extra long Labor Day weekend to celebrate 🥂
August 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I am honored to be on this week's Immunology Podcast to discuss placental tolerance & immunity in pregnancy!
Check out our latest episode!

Dr. Tamara Tilburgs (@ttilburgs.bsky.social) from @cincychildrens.bsky.social talks about the mechanisms of immune tolerance during pregnancy!

Listen now: bit.ly/3H7ZM8H
July 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Very excited to be on the Immunology Podcast!
We can't wait to chat with Dr. Tamara Tilburgs (@ttilburgs.bsky.social) from @cincychildrens.bsky.social next week!

Her research focuses on #ImmuneTolerance during pregnancy. Learn more: bit.ly/3GWu0eI
July 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Delighted with our new publication showing how natural microbial exposure of pregnant mice enhances T cell diversity and residency at the maternal-fetal interface and resembles human decidual immune populations with increased fidelity.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...
July 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thanks, Stephen!!
Congrats Nina, Pietro and @ttilburgs.bsky.social @cincyresearch.bsky.social
Granulysin-high decidual NK cells in macaques and humans share signatures of immune defense
www.cell.com/cell-reports... @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Delighted with my labs new publication on how decidual NK cells utilize the anti-microbial peptide granulysin for immune defense of placental tissues! ❤️
July 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Granulysin-high decidual NK cells in macaques and humans share signatures of immune defense: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Granulysin-high decidual NK cells in macaques and humans share signatures of immune defense
Prasanphanich et al. demonstrate that granulysin-high decidual natural killer cells (dNKs) of rhesus macaques and humans share conserved signatures of antimicrobial defense and immunoregulation. Moreo...
www.cell.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Great news to start my day!! ✨️🥂✨️
June 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Incredible story! Thank you for highlighting this one ❤️
Another story you can find in my book, Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work, is that of Mary Papanicolaou:
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
May 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Congratulations Nathan and Team!! Very cool paper!!
New in STM, check out our integrative bulk & single-cell long-read analysis to discover and test new therapies in leukemia. We developed OncoSplice, to define new splicing defined subtypes and predict regulators. PRMT5 inhibition partially rescued mis-splicing & inhibited leukemic growth. More soon!
Splicing regulatory dynamics for precision analysis and treatment of heterogeneous leukemias
Broad dysregulated splicing in AML partially phenocopies splicing factor mutations, is prognostic, and can be pharmacologically reversed.
www.science.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Sooooo true... 🤣🤣🤣
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by Tamara Tilburgs
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Can't wait to read this one! Congratulations Krish & Team!!
B cell repertoire of children with atopic dermatitis exhibit altered IgE maturation associated with allergic food sensitization
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@cincyresearch.bsky.social @krishnaroskin.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
To keep me sane & centered, I made and fussed over this big clay pot last night! This morning, I feel refreshed and ready to focus on science! I think I may need more of this for a while...
March 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Thank you Dave and Sebastiaan, for writing this nice piece about Frans! “Carpe Diem" and "Daar zit wel muziek in" will be my favorite words remembering Frans!
doi.org/10.3389/ti.2...
Frontiers Publishing Partnerships | In Memoriam Frans H. J. Claas
was the first to show that an increased level of HLA triplet mismatches was associated with an increased chance of de novo donor-specific antibody (dnDSA) fo...
doi.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Congratulations Liza & team!!! Can't wait to read this one!
In extremely premature infants, immune cell trajectories are distinct from those of full-term infants over the first 60 days of life
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Reposted by Tamara Tilburgs
@labwaggoner.bsky.social @cincyresearch.bsky.social are the first to describe how liver protein prothrombin prevents fatal immunopathology during chronic virus infection in mice. buff.ly/A6szRmm
March 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Thanks for sharing this data, Jeremy! Looks absolutely terrifying to me...
Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications.

The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
March 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Reposted by Tamara Tilburgs
February 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The positive economic benefit of Cincinnati Children's on Ohio is at risk
cincinnatichildrenshospitalmc.us.newsweaver.com/1m1vhmv4sc/m...
February 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Can anyone please sue them for this and open the federal register? Our R01 scored a 10th percentile and should have gone through council in January... It is insanely stressful to run a lab these days...
February 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Reposted by Tamara Tilburgs
Excellent Info Graphic. Share everywhere!
February 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Agree!
Medical research funding is usually both public (NIH) and private (pharma), i.e. the TV drug ads

Preterm birth & preeclampsia research is almost entirely non-industry

Most pharmaceutical companies avoid pregnant patients like the plague.

So freezing NIH essentially freezes our field
#MedSky
February 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted by Tamara Tilburgs
Exactly 😡
February 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM