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Why Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Don’t Block SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Human Lung Cells
By Katherine Seley-Radtke, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMBC The big idea A paper came out in Nature on July 22 that further underscores earlier studies that show that neither...
Posted: July 23, 2020, 7:07 PM
UMBC’s Dipanjan Pan receives two NIH grants to continue rapid COVID-19 testing research
Dipanjan Pan, professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering, has received two new grants from the National Institutes of Health to support research poised to improve COVID-19...
Posted: July 23, 2020, 3:42 PM
UMBC’s Fei Han, of The Hilltop Institute, receives grant to develop model predicting patients’ COVID-19 hospitalization risk
UMBC’s Fei Han has received a COVID-19 Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) award for research to help predict and reduce patients’ risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19. He will...
Posted: July 8, 2020, 5:38 PM
Medicine Without Borders
Coco Tang’s medical missions around the world would sound like a summer action movie if they weren’t a matter of life and death. Just behind the front lines of the battle of Mosul in Iraq,...
Posted: June 26, 2020, 7:19 PM
A Career of Putting Others First—Q&A with Nicki Fiocco ’11
If volunteer coordination is “all about finding the right person to do the right job,” as Nicki Fiocco ’11, geography and environmental systems, explains, then the Hogan Administration found the...
Posted: June 15, 2020, 6:17 PM
UMBC researchers receive NSF RAPID grant to speed COVID-19 detection through a deep neural network
A research team from UMBC and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) has received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to detect COVID-19...
Posted: June 11, 2020, 5:13 PM
UMBC’s Lucy Wilson, an infectious disease transmission expert, helps governors and the public respond to COVID-19
Governors across the United States have been working to determine what safe reopening might look during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the National Governors Association (NGA) needed experts to...
Posted: June 10, 2020, 8:29 PM
UMBC’s Dipanjan Pan develops rapid diagnostic test for virus causing COVID-19
A team led by UMBC’s Dipanjan Pan has developed an experimental diagnostic test to rapidly detect the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, potentially as early as the first day of infection....
Posted: June 9, 2020, 3:23 PM
Americans’ Deepening Financial Stress Will Make the Coronavirus a Lot Harder to Contain
By David Salkever, professor, Public Policy, UMBC Preventing deaths from COVID-19 depends on people who get it seeking treatment – which also allows authorities to track down whom they came...
Posted: June 2, 2020, 2:38 PM
Archiving the pandemic: ‘Coronavirus Lost and Found’ documents how we cope with catastrophe
By Rebecca A. Adelman, associate professor, media & communication studies, UMBC There is so much to mourn at the moment. Even those of us spared the worst of the coronavirus pandemic are...
Posted: May 28, 2020, 1:59 PM
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