Zhenlan Yao: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- 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
- Quoted on
- Long Covid
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Aug 2026
“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.”
Where Zhenlan Yao 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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