Associate Professor Juan Du earned her PhD from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, where she researched HPV in related cancers. During her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, USA, she developed a novel recombination-based genetic engineering method for bacterial drug delivery. Since 2016, she has led her own group at Karolinska Institutet, focusing on the microbiome in women's health. She serves as a reviewer for prestigious journals like Nature Communications and Genome Medicine, and for European grants such as the ERC, and is actively involved in translating research findings into clinical applications.