McMaster immunologist Manali Mukherjee wins 2026 Falling Walls Women’s Impact Award
Manali Mukherjee, associate professor at McMaster and AstraZeneca Chair in Respiratory Diseases, won the 2026 Falling Walls Women’s Impact Award in Berlin for research elucidating biological drivers of Long COVID and work toward a blood-based clinical test.
At the Falling Walls Science Summit (Berlin, Nov 6–9, 2026), Manali Mukherjee was named a 2026 Women’s Impact Award winner for research on Long COVID biology. Her Lung Autoimmunity and Biomarkers Laboratory at McMaster links persistent antinuclear autoantibodies a year after infection to ongoing symptoms, and is developing a straightforward blood-based approach to guide earlier clinical follow-up. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine and holds the AstraZeneca Chair in Respiratory Diseases; her team published findings in the European Respiratory Journal.
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