Clear immune markers remain a challenge, & is a core focus of our research. Ie we are looking at 40+ markers using high dimensional cytometry approaches and 'exhaustion' markers are not as clear-cut as it might seem... immune 'signatures' may be more informative & we focus on both adaptive & innate

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This week Dr Anna Brooks @drannanz.bsky.social and Rohan Botica from DysImmune Research Aotearoa followed up in response.

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Hi Karyn our study is for 16yrs+ sorry & still a bit tricky to recruit out of our region at the moment. I'm hoping there will be interest to also do <16yrs/children, however funding for biomed research has never been a priority. All the best with your 14yo + do check-out
www.longcovidkids.org

We did meet a few months back to discuss working together, yes. I'm just juggling a lot, so thanks for the reminder to touch base with them again! I'm aiming to visit Melbourne soon for colab purposes

It's mostly Auckland (UoA) at the moment due to funding constraints and logistics. We need blood samples processed back in my lab relatively quickly. We are working on doing fly-in-fly out day visits to other areas once 💰 allows 🙏🏽