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Mice that received antibodies from Long COVID patients showed symptoms including pain and dizziness, a Yale-led study has found.
- July 18, 2024Source: TIME
How has the risk of contracting Long COVID changed over the years, as the virus has evolved and almost everyone in the U.S. has gotten vaccinated, infected, or both (sometimes many times over)?
- June 18, 2024Source: SolveCSF.org
Solve President and CEO Emily Taylor, Chief Scientific Officer H. Timothy Hsiao, and Director of Advancement Ilise Friedman recently visited Yale School of Medicine’s Center for Infection & Immunity (CII), the Center Director, Sterling Professor Akiko Iwasaki, and her research team, as coordinated by Dr. Nicole Darricarrère, CII’s Scientific Program Director, in New Haven, CT. The Solve delegation honored Professor Iwasaki with an award to recognize her contributions to the study of infection-associated chronic conditions and illnesses, and delivered an invited talk to the Iwasaki Lab to elaborate the power of the Solve Together Real-World Platform to accelerate biomedical research for post-acute infection syndromes, such as ME/CFS and Long Covid.
- June 14, 2024
The Yale PAX LC Trial’s decentralized, participant-centric design makes it more efficient and cost-effective than standard clinical trials, its investigators say.
- May 16, 2024Source: TIME
Akiko Iwasaki, an immunobiologist at the Yale University School of Medicine, is working with Michael Tal at MIT to map an immune profile of chronic Lyme, analyzing patients’ blood and saliva samples to search for biological markers that may differentiate people who have long-term symptoms from those who don’t.
- April 17, 2024Source: TIME Magazine
Women's Health Research at Yale Investigator Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, has been named to the TIME100, TIME Magazine's annual list of the most influential people of the year from around the world.
- February 22, 2024
Yale's Center for Infection & Immunity, directed by Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, will lead the funded research.
- January 23, 2024Source: The New Yorker
People with post-viral illnesses often feel shut out of the scientific establishment. Two renowned Yale researchers are attempting to bring them in.
- January 03, 2024Source: Spiegel Gesundheit
Yale professor Akiko Iwasaki is one of the world's best immunologists. Here she reveals how she fights against toxic bosses, what could help those suffering from Long Covid and why she still wears a mask to this day.
- October 31, 2023
The term post-acute infection syndrome refers to chronic diseases that occur after an acute viral, bacterial, or parasitic infection, including chronic Lyme and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Yale School of Medicine is investigating the many questions surrounding post-acute infection syndromes in its new Center for Infection & Immunity.