MRFF grant success to advance Long COVID care
Congratulations to MOBIUS researchers Distinguished Professor Brian Abbey, Professor Conor Hogan, and Dr Saimon Moraes Silva (La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science), who are investigators in Professor Stephanie Gras’ (La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science) successful Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grant.
The team have secured $1M in funding for ‘CRISP: Consumer-led Research Initiative on food and drink Sensitivity in PASC’.
Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), otherwise known as Long COVID, affects people whose symptoms persist for more than 12 weeks following SARS-CoV-2 infection and is estimated to impact more than 10% of Australians.
As there is no clinical diagnostic for Long COVID, patients are often left misdiagnosed, creating anxiety in the community as well as delaying healthcare for those impacted.
The CRISP project aims to identify novel biological markers of disease, which will support the development of diagnostic biosensors and contribute to improved clinical understanding and management of Long COVID.