Congratulations to Emily Wasserman, MD on receiving a $25,000 award from the HHV-6 Foundation for her project entitled, Association of Multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children and chromosomally integrated HHV6.
For this project, Dr. Wasserman and her team at Weill Cornell Medicine will determine the prevalence of chromosomally integrated human herpes virus 6 (ici‐HHV6) in a cohort of patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS‐C). HHV‐6 reactivation has been associated with hyperinflammatory states and a recent case report identified ici‐HHV6 in a patient with MIS‐C. Dr. Wasserman believes an association between ici‐HHV6 and MIS‐C would shed light on the pathogenesis of MIS‐C and hyperinflammatory responses to SARS-CoV2.