*This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley for my Trial by Error project. If you appreciate my work and would like to help support it, here’s the link for this November’s campaign.
By David Tuller, DrPH
Lisa McCorkell is a co-founder of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, a group of people with Long COVID and associated conditions who are also engaged in conducting research into these illnesses. She has a masters in public policy from University of California, Berkeley, and was featured as one of Nature’s 10 people who helped shaped science in 2022. She is the co-author of several prominent Long COVID papers, most recently a commentary in Nature called “Long COVID research risks losing momentum—we need a moonshot.” (Her co-author is Michael Peluso, a physician and researcher at UCSF.) She and I recently spoke about how she views the current research situation and her prescription for what is needed to pursue this “moonshot.”