University of California, Davis (UC Davis) has received a $3.2 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study long COVID using total-body PET scans.
In the study, participants will be scanned with the school’s uExplorer scanner at baseline, four months, and eight months. Using F-18 AraG radiotracer in collaboration with San Francisco-based CellSight Technologies, the study aims to visualize how activated T-cells collect in different organs at different times, where blood vessel damage is occurring, and whether these processes are related to each other.
Negar Omidvari, PhD, assistant project scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is the principal investigator. The uExplorer scanner (United Imaging) was originally developed in collaboration with UC Davis professors, the school noted.
