Associate Professor @Harvard Immunology, tissue biology, regeneration Proud mama www.ruthfranklinlab.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3mo54ao5w3c2j🎉 New preprint from @aybv.bsky.social, grad student extraordinaire!! He found an unexpected function for IFN-I: priming the lung epithelium for repair! (With some help from our beloved macrophages). Congrats to Alan and the rest of the coauthors! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Jun 2026 01:31 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo54ao5w3c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3mhonh5yqg22uNew preprint to share! Incredible collab w/ Fei Chen’s lab: developed in vivo CRISPR screening platform for 🫁 epithelium, allowing single cell perturbation in post-flu repair. Take a peek to see what we found! Huge congrats to the leaders of this work @daisyah.bsky.social & @sundakao.bsky.social 🎉 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.13.711474v1.article-metrics22 Mar 2026 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhonh5yqg22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3mgycf7rnq22fAnother fabulous pre-print from the McKinley lab! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Mar 2026 01:41 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgycf7rnq22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3mbuxhfdhec2u🎉🎉🎉 Can’t wait to see the amazing science that is sure to come from the Sullivan lab!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Jan 2026 02:42 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbuxhfdhec2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3m2udasjrx22vSo exciting to see this out!! More cool biology sure to come!! 🤩👀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Oct 2025 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2udasjrx22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3lyscqnah722hHad a fantastic visit @roswellpark.bsky.social for the Post-Doctoral Symposium!! So many inspiring scientists doing cool work! Grateful for the invitation! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2025 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyscqnah722hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3lwwfsyyqws2gCan’t wait to read this!! Sure to be a fantastic resource! #InterferonPower [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2025 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwfsyyqws2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3lubl7iv5hs2uExciting week! Congrats to @xuzhoulab.bsky.social, Ruslan Medzhitov, & coauthors on discovering a new mechanism to regulate inflammation!! 🎉 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742500735418 Jul 2025 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3lubl7iv5hs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3ltnnjmvhd22g🎉 Over the moon to share the first paper from my lab!! We discovered an unexpected role for the cytokine OSM in lung epithelial homeostasis and repair. 🧵 1/n https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi882811 Jul 2025 01:03 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltnnjmvhd22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3lsuaamwjck2qWas so much fun to catch up with some of my IMP family!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2025 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsuaamwjck2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3lqdzltgc6s2hToday was a happy day!! Very proud of Dr. Rodríguez-Morales and very proud to be a professor at Harvard!!30 May 2025 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqdzltgc6s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3lpam5rdws22fJust said goodbye to my NIH MIRA award. Really hurts to see the word “terminated” in writing. Even worse to see it next to the F31 awarded to a fantastic PhD student in my lab @aybv.bsky.social. I REFUSE to let this stop us!!!15 May 2025 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpam5rdws22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3lotfriu5gs27Our paper was accepted!!!!!! 🎉🥳 I can’t wait to share it with you all soon!!!10 May 2025 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3lotfriu5gs27https://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3loaao4byp22wThe first student from my lab defended her thesis today!!! Huge congratulations to Patricia Rodríguez-Morales, PhD!!!!! 🎉03 May 2025 02:02 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3loaao4byp22whttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3liikyl7h622pWhat a fantastic idea!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Feb 2025 00:57 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3liikyl7h622phttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3li6w34nzwc2vToday I did the same! First post on Facebook in years to share what we will lose and why everyone should care! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Feb 2025 04:48 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3li6w34nzwc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ruthfranklinlab.bsky.social/post/3lhw65thy6k27In honor of International Day of Women & Girls in Science, call your reps & remind them the importance of scientific research, innovation, and education (cuts & freezes affect everyone, not just scientists and universities!) Research=lifesaving treatments, medical care, clinical trials, jobs & more! https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/FASEB/Home11 Feb 2025 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:daz2zuc3dlc2pwc35etmrhou/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhw65thy6k27