Viruses and Chronic Aging: Building a Research Community by Amy Proal | Devcon SEA
Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM
Did you know that mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammation, and cognitive decline are directly accelerated by viruses? In fact, the viruses that infect us over a lifetime are technically not even alive, and therefore must “hack” our human cellular metabolism machinery to do anything at all. This talk will overview the first-ever global collaborative network studying & treating chronic viruses as drivers of aging, including how certain lifespan-promoting drugs may help combat viral activity. Speaker(s): Amy Proal Skill level: Intermediate Track: [CLS] d/acc Discovery Day: Building Towards a Resilient Utopia Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/
Speakers
Dr. Proal is a microbiologist and President/CEO of PolyBio Research Foundation: a non-profit working to study and treat infection’s chronic consequences across conditions including long COVID, Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, and even human aging. Dr. Proal also serves as Research Director for the Mount Sinai Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness, the world’s first open-source long COVID clinic with a decentralized model enabling community co-design.