News Archives: January, 2021
COVID-19 Rapid Test Under Development at KU moving closer to Commercial Readiness
An at-home COVID-19 test developed by researchers at the University of Kansas is moving toward commercial production.
University-licensed compound selected as candidate against COVID-19
Kansas State University is continuing to help in the fight with a licensed technology against coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
University of Delaware Professor Juan Perilla is featured in the New York Times: If You Squeeze the Coronavirus, Does It Shatter?
Of all the pandemic questions bedeviling scientists, the one that Juan Perilla is asking might be among the strangest: If a shrunk-down hand were to squeeze the coronavirus, would it squish, or would it shatter?
Two new monoclonal antibody outpatient treatments for COVID-19 target older people and those with additional medical conditions.
Two new monoclonal antibody treatments for outpatients with COVID-19 are being tested at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Known as BRII 196 and 198 and produced by Brii Biosciences, these investigational treatments are both monoclonal antibodies designed to block the ACE receptor, the protein that enables the virus to enter human cells, in the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
WVU Public Health professor aims to better understand the needs of pregnant women with substance use disorder through telehealth data
Dr. Brian Hendricks, a research assistant professor with the West Virginia University School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, is trying to better understand the needs of a historically underserved population in West Virginia — pregnant women with substance use disorder. Hendricks plans to explore telehealth utilization rates, barriers to use and the potential advantages for pregnant women with substance use disorder.
UH Mānoa startup among national solar innovation semifinalists
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa startup is shining in a national competition designed to energize U.S. solar manufacturing. Hawaiʻi Innovation Lab is among 20 teams representing 12 states that have been selected to advance into the semifinals of the American-Made Solar Prize, a $3 million competition funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Each team won $50,000 and will continue to the next phase of competition.
UMaine students’ curriculum design projects highlight past, present of the ‘Everglades of the North’
Two University of Maine undergraduates are designing place-based education materials and K–12 curricula about the Grand Kankakee Marsh in Northern Indiana as part of a National Geographic Society grant.