‘Long Covid’ tissue bank at UCSF aims to turn $3M into new research

The virus behind Covid-19 is playing a long game of hide-and-seek. Now scientists studying Long Covid at UCSF are getting $3 million to develop a tissue bank to seed a greater understanding of the virus’ devastating lingering effects.

The $3 million grant to support the long Covid tissue bank at the University of California, San Francisco, is part of a broader rollout of global efforts backed Thursday by $15 million from the LongCovid Research Consortium of the nonprofit PolyBio Research Foundation. Many of those projects are tapping learnings and platforms developed in the fight against the AIDS virus.