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Rutgers Launches Genetic Testing Service for New Coronavirus
Rutgers’ RUCDR Infinite Biologics has launched a test for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and is using its automation experience and infrastructure to test as many as tens of thousands of samples daily. Read the Full Article.
Students’ Unique Platform for Face-Shield Production Hits Close to Home
For the students behind The CommonHealth Project — a collaborative, community-based initiative aimed at rallying volunteers for production and distribution of urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) — the pandemic is deeply personal. Mark Pothen ’22, a...
Schools across the university are collaborating to create face shields and intubation boxes
In the largest university-wide initiative to protect frontline hospital workers, the RU 3D PPE project is bringing together more than 70 people from the School of Engineering, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers Robert...
Webinar on Covid-19, Aging, and Mental Health
Listen to a conversation between geriatric psychologist Elissa Kozlov and her father, Herbert Kozlov RC’74, about the mental health of our aging population during the COVID-19 pandemic. To register.
Rutgers Expert Discusses Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Study
A team of researchers led by a Rutgers bioethics expert are arguing in a new paper for the use of a human challenge study that they say could shave months off of a novel coronavirus vaccine timeline. The paper, coauthored by Nir Eyal, director of the Rutgers Center...
An easier coronavirus test is within spitting distance
Andrew Brooks, a Rutgers University molecular neuroscientist, remembers clearly having a long nasopharyngeal swab stuck up his nose in search of evidence of a virus. “It was terrible,” he recalls. “It felt like someone was poking the front of my brain.” Now Brooks,...
Evelo Biosciences, Rutgers University, and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Announce Submission of IND for a Phase 2 Study of EDP1815 in COVID-19 Patients
Evelo Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:EVLO), Rutgers University, and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital today announced the submission of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for an Evelo-sponsored Phase 2 clinical study evaluating the safety and efficacy of...
Researchers Propose Treating COVID-19 Patients With Psoriasis Drug
Scientists are researching if a drug that’s being tested to treat a skin condition can also help keep COVID-19 patients off ventilators. The drug, labeled as EDP1815, was being tested on psoriasis patients, but Dr. Reynold Panettieri, vice chancellor for translational...