COVID-19
COMET Study
Under leadership from Pulmonary Division physician-scientists at UCSF and ZSFG the COMET Study (COVID-19 Multi-Phenotyping for Effective Therapies) has enlisted an interdisciplinary team of scientists and frontline healthcare workers to study COVID-19. The purpose of this study is to better understand how it affects the immune system, why it causes difficulty breathing, and why some people become sicker than others. Learn more about the study at the COMET Study official website and the COMET Study page on this site.
Other COVID-19 Related Research
Greenland Lab
The Greenland lab is investigating novel therapies for COVID-19. With excess tissue obtained at the time of lung transplantation, we are using epithelial air liquid interface culture models to study therapies that may inhibit infection, cell injury, and cytokine storm.
Reiter LabThe Reiter lab in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics is mapping SAR-CoV-2 infection, replication and transcriptional responses in human airway epithelial cells in collaboration with several other groups here at UCSF. In addition, they are investigating whether a nonstructural protein produced by SARS-CoV-2, NSP13, interacts with centrosomal proteins to control viral replication. |