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While scores of Wayne State pharmacy and health sciences faculty, students and alumni are engaged in head-to-head battle with COVID-19 on the front lines, college researchers are relentlessly searching ...
Doctors, nurses and volunteers treating COVID-19 patients across the U.S. face a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). A group of students in the Wayne State University College of Engineering are working…
It’s hard to prepare for sudden change and distant threats don’t spur us to action. These are a few of the reasons why the world had a slow response to COVID-19, according to URC collaborating researchers Arash…
Samuel L. Stanley Jr., Mark S. Schlissel and M. Roy Wilson Michigan needs its great public research universities more now than ever. And we are bringing all of our resources to this fight.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the three universities that comprise Michigan’s University Research Corridor (URC) have launched themselves into finding a vaccine, a treatment for the virus, and recommendations for…
With the COVID-19 pandemic putting life as we knew it on hold, many Wayne State researchers are aggressively shifting their focus to addressing the virus. To date, researchers have proposed more than 60 research projects…
Orders to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic have led to more adults consuming alcohol and drugs to cope with stress. More than one in four adults (28%) said they have used alcohol or drugs to feel better,…
When the problems associated with COVID-19 infection first became apparent, Dr. Marilia Cascalho and Dr. Jeffrey Platt saw an opportunity to apply their previous and current research to the solving them.
COVID-19 antibody testing that’s portable, fast, cheap and highly precise—four attributes that are usually mutually exclusive—could be possible with a microfluidic device invented at the University of Michigan and…
With people getting anxious about restarting the economy, efforts are focused on using antibody testing to develop an immunity certification system that would exempt those who have the antibodies from social distancing…