MD, PhD, principal investigator at Boston Children's Hospital

“Although many no longer think of COVID being a problem, up to 50,000 Americans died of COVID in [the] 2025-2026 respiratory season and some estimates suggest over 10 million U.S. adults suffer from long COVID. We need to help these patients recover with the best outcomes.”

AMS researcher and co-lead

“the findings suggest that patients should not be treated as though they have simply lost their fitness”

associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and member of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center

“Coronaviruses are notorious for encoding proteins that antagonize the body's natural antiviral defenses. When SARS-CoV-2 first appeared, almost nothing was known about it, so we wanted to find out whether it was using the same playbook.”

co-first author of the study and a former postdoctoral researcher in Li's lab, who will soon begin a research assistant professorship at Hong Kong University

“We set out looking for a protein that suppresses the immune response, and we found the opposite. It was surprising, but it lines up with what we already know about COVID-19: The virus dampens the immune response early on, then overactivates it later — and that's when a lot of the tissue damage happens.”

co-first author of the study and a former graduate student in Li's lab

“It's critical to keep studying COVID-19 so that we can constantly improve patient care — not everyone responds well to vaccines, and people who are immunocompromised often have limited treatment options. These studies can also help us prepare for future coronavirus outbreaks.”

PhD, lead of the study's Clinical and Data Coordinating Center and leads the PVP-Data Management and Analysis Core

“This is the largest and most comprehensive biomarker study of COVID-19, in which we followed more than one thousand patients, collected more than 200,000 samples, and generated more than one billion data points over the course of a year for this public resource.”

Professor in the psychology department at Stony Brook University

“While we cannot know for sure the actual role of stress in the development of Long COVID, or the perceived condition in these women, our study illuminates the gaps in diagnosis and healthcare for women by capturing experiences of symptoms that may not have been formerly recognized by their healthcare providers.”

Professor in clinical data science at UCL and honorary consultant cardiologist at University College London Hospitals and Barts Health NHS Trusts

“Lead author Dr. Amitava Banerjee of University College London in London, U.K., and colleagues investigated whether pre-clinic MRI could identify organ impairment early enough to guide care.”