Post by Nadica (She/Her) on Jul 17, 2024 21:39:06 GMT
Your Support is Needed to Validate Long Covid Biomarkers
www.gofundme.com/f/your-support-is-needed-to-validate-long-covid-biomarkers?lang=en_US
$15,000 in funds will be matched through July 31, 2024. Donate now!
LCAP and Long COVID Foundation are excited to announce a chance for the community to fundraise and help validate a non-invasive Long Covid Biomarkers* test capable of FDA approval for clinical use and trials. With help from our grassroots activism, researchers in Belgium will be able to use donations gathered by this campaign to externally validate a set of universal Long Covid biomarkers for immune changes and SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence.
This research is nothing short of a miracle for those of us who’ve developed Long Covid and waited years for biomarkers.
Background
In 2024, Dr. Johan Van Weyenbergh, and his team of researchers, published a groundbreaking paper outlining results of a blood test that could identify Long Covid with 92% certainty using transcriptomic testing equipment that is widely available and can be FDA approved. The current test used in the study processes 800 genes to measure RNA viral load of SARS-CoV-2 and immune RNA at a cost that is roughly $400-$600 per sample. Your donations to this campaign will fund the second round of testing to validate the results discovered in Dr. Van Weyenbergh's research. This validation round will bring the research closer to FDA approval by funding over 100 additional tests from samples in the USA, UK, and France to be published in a new paper.
If our grassroots fundraising is successful, Dr. Van Weyenbergh believes the validated non-invasive biomarkers could be limited to a test of 50 genes, reducing the total cost of each sample in the future to $50-$100. This would radically change the ability of the NIH to run affordable validated biomarker tests in ongoing RECOVER trials and independent studies, as well as open access to more affordable Long Covid tests in clinical settings.
www.gofundme.com/f/your-support-is-needed-to-validate-long-covid-biomarkers?lang=en_US
$15,000 in funds will be matched through July 31, 2024. Donate now!
LCAP and Long COVID Foundation are excited to announce a chance for the community to fundraise and help validate a non-invasive Long Covid Biomarkers* test capable of FDA approval for clinical use and trials. With help from our grassroots activism, researchers in Belgium will be able to use donations gathered by this campaign to externally validate a set of universal Long Covid biomarkers for immune changes and SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence.
This research is nothing short of a miracle for those of us who’ve developed Long Covid and waited years for biomarkers.
Background
In 2024, Dr. Johan Van Weyenbergh, and his team of researchers, published a groundbreaking paper outlining results of a blood test that could identify Long Covid with 92% certainty using transcriptomic testing equipment that is widely available and can be FDA approved. The current test used in the study processes 800 genes to measure RNA viral load of SARS-CoV-2 and immune RNA at a cost that is roughly $400-$600 per sample. Your donations to this campaign will fund the second round of testing to validate the results discovered in Dr. Van Weyenbergh's research. This validation round will bring the research closer to FDA approval by funding over 100 additional tests from samples in the USA, UK, and France to be published in a new paper.
If our grassroots fundraising is successful, Dr. Van Weyenbergh believes the validated non-invasive biomarkers could be limited to a test of 50 genes, reducing the total cost of each sample in the future to $50-$100. This would radically change the ability of the NIH to run affordable validated biomarker tests in ongoing RECOVER trials and independent studies, as well as open access to more affordable Long Covid tests in clinical settings.