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PolyBio-supported study uncovers plasma signatures associated with long COVID respiratory symptoms

Medford MA, April 28, 2025 — A new PolyBio-supported study published today in Nature Immunology sheds light on the biological underpinnings...

PolyBio-supported study reveals long-term immune and metabolic damage after COVID-19 infection

New preprint study reveals profound and long-lasting biological disruptions that can follow a SARS-CoV-2 infection, including changes connected to altered metabolism...

Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation donation expands PolyBio Long COVID program

Funds will support exploration of SARS-CoV-2’s potential to drive cancer, as well as continued work delineating persistence of the virus in...

PolyBio’s Message to Science Innovators: Curbing Persistent Infection is Great Challenge of Our Times

Medford, Mass., April 7 2025 – Dr. Amy Proal’s participation in two recent major conferences on scientific innovation highlighted a growing...

Cutting-edge Recommendations Provide Treatment Path for Millions of Long COVID Patients

In a new report, global experts outline key considerations to address persistent SARS-CoV-2; provide a roadmap to test critical new long...

New research illuminates link between chronic infection and Alzheimer’s Disease, paving the way for potential antiviral treatment

A new study published in Nature Communications has unveiled a crucial connection between chronic infection with Cytomegalovirus (HCMV), and the development...

PolyBio-supported study first to document dysfunctional natural killer cells in long COVID

PolyBio-supported study finds reduced percentages of cytotoxic natural killer cells in people with long COVID. The immune dysfunction might facilitate SARS-CoV-2...

New grant to PolyBio further expands long COVID blood biomarker study

For the second consecutive year, funding will expand a Harvard Medical School-based project documenting immune, coagulation, and blood vessel abnormalities in...

PolyBio supports & helps conceptualize long COVID rapamycin clinical trial

The trial will test a low dose of the drug rapamycin in participants across a 3-month period. Analysis of participant blood...

PolyBio/Mount Sinai collaborators open state-of-the-art center for patients with Long COVID and related conditions

PolyBio’s support for the clinic includes development of innovative clinical trials, a “clean air” technology infrastructure, and a continued focus on...

$1M PolyBio donation will expand UCSF LIINC study to ME/CFS

Advanced technologies will be used to study critically important – yet understudied – biological factors in ME/CFS patients whose illness began...

“Multiple hit” model shows that COVID protein potentiates subsequent infection-related neuroinflammation and other physiological problems

PolyBio-supported study in rats demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2 protein activity drives longer-term vulnerability to another infection, augmenting physiological problems such as neuroinflammation,...

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