The Persistent Pathogen Paradigm: A Jeffersonian Brunch with Dr. Amy Proal

Jamie and I would love for you to join us for brunch with Dr. Amy Proal, microbiologist and co-founder and CEO of the PolyBio Research Foundation.

Amy's work explores the provocative idea that many chronic diseases, including Long COVID, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme disease, Alzheimer's disease, and the very mechanisms of biological aging may be driven by infections the body never fully cleared.

If this is true, implications reach well beyond the lab. We're gathering a small multidisciplinary group of scientists, investors, doctors, and philanthropists to discuss this topic ahead of the PolyBio Convergence Summit.

We will follow our usual format for our Jeffersonian brunches. After a short welcome from Amy, we'll hold a single, whole-table conversation.

To get us started, we'll ask:

"If many chronic diseases are unresolved infections, what should change in your world?"

No preparation is needed beyond a few minutes of thought.

Please let me know by Tuesday, November 10th whether you can join us. If you're coming, please send a sentence on what you'd most like to learn or explore to help guide the conversation.

Ethan