The COVID-19 pandemic touched so many aspects of science and medicine, it’s not possible to share details about every contribution made by investigators at Cincinnati Children’s.
In fiscal 2021 alone (ended June 30), our faculty authored or co-authored more than 225 peer-reviewed publications exploring the many impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on our lives. Here are some of the most-shared contributions:
Jeffrey Whitsett, MD, and Minzhe Guo, PhD, were among a group of investigators with the NHLBI LungMap Consortium and The Human Cell Atlas Lung Biological Network that combined data from more than 30 studies to publish an extensive single-cell analysis of COVID-related “entry genes.” The study, published March 2, 2021, in Nature Medicine, reported that the gene ACE2 and accessory proteases TMPRSS2 and CTSL are needed to produce severe respiratory distress from infection.