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Zhenlan Yao

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

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Zhenlan Yao: key facts

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Academic
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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
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Long Covid
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04  The signal · where Zhenlan Yao sits on long covid

Ranked 26= of 100 voices quoted in the press on long covid, level with 74 others on 1 citation.

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  1. 1Professor Dmitry PshezhetskiyAcademicProfessorial Research Fellow, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia8
  2. 2=Dr Charles Shepherd portraitDr Charles ShepherdClinicianTrustee and Honorary Medical Adviser, The ME Association5
  3. 2=Dr. Ewan Hunter portraitDr. Ewan HunterBusiness leaderChief Data Officer, Oxford BioDynamics Plc5
  4. 26=Melody LiAcademicassociate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and member of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center1
  5. 26=Pablo AlvarezAcademicco-first author of the study and a former graduate student in Li's lab1
  6. 26=Zhenlan YaoAcademicco-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 University1
  7. 26=Rob WüstAcademicmovement scientist at the VU1
  8. 26=Professor Daniel AltmannAcademicprofessor of immunology at Imperial College London1

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What Zhenlan Yao has said

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Where Zhenlan Yao has been quoted

  1. 01A lesser-known SARS-CoV-2 protein may offer clues to long COVID symptomsnewsroom.ucla.edu · 5 Aug 2026

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“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 postdoctoral researcher in Li's lab, who will soon begin a research assistant professorship at Hong Kong University · Long Covid · newsroom.ucla.edu · 5 Aug 2026 · Read the article

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