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KU Researchers developing quick turnaround COVID-19 Test

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Steven Soper, a KU Foundation Distinguished Professor with appointments in both the School of Engineering and Department of Chemistry is leading an effort to develop a quick-turnaround COVID-19 test that can be used at home. Soper’s team, which includes a half-dozen graduate students in bioengineering and chemistry, is repurposing “lab on a chip” technology he had previously developed to give doctors simple tools to more easily and quickly diagnose conditions ranging from stroke to colon cancer.

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Members of New Mexico INBRE work together to provide the WHO hand sanitizer, face shields and face masks to Native Communities in the state

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During this challenging time, it is more critical than ever to come together to help those most in need. Some of our recognized network members teamed up to distribute face masks and hand sanitizers to the needing New Mexico Native Communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This remarkable initiative started with New Mexico Tech and former INBRE student, Dr. Danielle Turner when she saw the recipe for the WHO Hand Sanitizer online and mentioned it to our NM-INBRE liaison at Tech, Dr. Snezna Rogelj.

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Bartelt-Hunt searching sewage for COVID-19

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Every Thursday morning, before most of campus is awake, University of Nebraska–Lincoln engineer Shannon Bartelt-Hunt and a small team of graduate students and building systems personnel can be found at various campus sites, lifting manhole covers and collecting sewage samples.

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Two South Carolina Researchers receive NIH Collaboration Award

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The South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE) is pleased to announce that a team of South Carolina biomedical researchers has received a National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) P20 collaboration award. This goal of this one-year funding opportunity is to encourage collaborations between NIGMS Institutional Development Award (IDeA) programs investigators while providing students a broad continuum of research opportunities. The team of Dr. Srikripa Chandrasekaran from Furman University and Dr. Lukasz Kozubowski from Clemson University were awarded $147,340 for their project entitled, “SC INBRE Collaborative Administrative Supplement – Role of Hsp90 in Resistance of Cryptococcus neoformans to Fluconazole.” Dr. Chandrasekaran is a current recipient of an SC INBRE Developmental Research Project Program award; Dr. Kozubowski is a member of the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center.

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