Melody Li: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and member of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center
- Quoted on
- Long Covid
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Aug 2026
“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.”
Where Melody Li has been quoted
- A lesser-known SARS-CoV-2 protein may offer clues to long COVID symptomsnewsroom.ucla.edu · 10 Aug 2026
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