At PolyBio, our Long COVID Research Consortium & related complex chronic illness projects are moving full speed ahead. We are also conceptualizing and supporting an increasing number of experimental medicine clinical trials, and working directly with MDs and the community to innovate patient care. On Friday May 16 we held an online Symposium where PolyBio-supported researchers presented updates on their projects. Video recordings of the presentations are below.
Spring 2025 Symposium

Amy Proal, PhD
PolyBio Research Foundation


Resia Pretorius, PhD
Stellenbosch University


Mark Painter, PhD
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania


David Price, MD, PhD
Cardiff University


Johan VanWyenbergh, PhD
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Michael Peluso, MD
University of California San Franciso


Nadia Roan, PhD
Gladstone Institutes/University of California San Francisco


Lael Yonker, MD
Harvard Medical School


Christopher Dupont, PhD
J. Craig Venter Institute


Gene Tan, PhD
J. Craig Venter Institute


Marcelo Freire, DDS, PhD
J. Craig Venter Institute


Michael VanElzakker, PhD
Harvard Medical School


Francis Eun Lee, PhD
Emory University


Timothy Henrich, MD
University of California San Francisco


Huaitao Cheng, PhD
Karolinska Institut


Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Yale University


Victoria Cortes Bastos, PhD
Yale University


Mario Murakami, MD
Harvard Medical School


Sara Cherry, PhD
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania


Saurabh Mehandru, MD
Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai


Esen Sefik, PhD
Yale University


Melanie Walker, MD
University of Washington


Steven Deeks, MD
University of California San Francisco


Shannon Delaney, MD
Lange Neurology


Shannon Stott, PhD
Harvard Medical School


David Izquierdo Garcia, PhD
Harvard Medical School


David Putrino, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


Silvia Lucena Lage, Ph.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease


Zian Tseng, MD
University of California San Francisco


Benjamin Readhead, PhD
Arizona State University


Max Qian, PhD
J. Craig Venter Institute


Daniel Chertow, MD, MPH
