Millions of people currently suffer from long-COVID, and an underappreciated symptom of this condition is headache.
As a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow, Olivia will develop a new model of headache in mice that will help us understand what causes headaches induced by viruses. She will use artificial intelligence to define how a mouse with a headache behaves, and use molecular biology to understand how viruses affect immune and sensory cells.
By providing new insights, the work could point the way to new therapeutics against long-COVID and headaches in general.
Interdisciplinary Pivot: Neuroscience to Neuroimmunology