As the world continues to deal with the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Annual Reviews is dedicated to providing context for the deep personal, social, and cultural impacts we are all experiencing. Last week, we hosted our first online panel to discuss the benefits and risks of social interaction during a time when isolation is an important step to halt the spread of disease.
This week, we continue our online series by hosting an interview of a prominent researcher who is studying the genetic factors that contribute to the severity of COVID-19. As a valued member of the Annual Reviews community, we sincerely hope you’ll find these discussions useful and we invite you to watch, ask questions, and share with colleagues. If you would like to receive future event announcements, please opt in here.
Topic: Genetic Factors Contributing to the Severity of COVID-19
Thursday, April 23, 2020 @ 1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific
Join us for an online interview with Russ Altman and Jean-Laurent Casanova.
One of the mysteries of COVID-19 is why it develops as a severe, life-threatening disease in a small proportion of otherwise healthy people, while the vast majority of healthy individuals experience mild or even no symptoms.
Please join Dr. Casanova, who is now leading a project to identify the genes that predispose individuals to severe forms of COVID-19 in conversation with Dr. Altman, a leading medical bioinformatics researcher and Editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science. Dr. Altman also hosts the radio show The Future of Everything.
The Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanism of Disease has recently published an article by Dr. Casanova and his co-author Laurent Abel that further describes how infectious agents and genetic susceptibility must coincide for life-threatening diseases to develop.