University Ghent
Functionele analyse van geïnfiltreerde T-cellen in longen van ernstig zieke coronapatiënten / Analyse de cellules T infiltrées dans les poumons de patients atteints d'une forme grave du Covid
2022
Gent
Supported project of Linos Vandekerckhove : functional analysis of T cells infiltrating the lungs of severely ill COVID-19 patients - espite intensive research efforts all over the world, how the SARS-CoV-2 virus destroys lung function and why this happens only in selected patients remains incompletely understood. Unexpectedly, we found that lungs of severely ill COVID-19 patients are infiltrated by a subset of
white blood cells that are normally only present in the lymph nodes. With this project we aim to conduct additional functional assays to understand how these cells impact on COVID-19 disease severity