A major collaborative data science effort now underway at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to aid understanding and response to COVID-19 began with an email from a yoga instructor. Brian Yandell, interim director of the American Family …
Month: April 2020
Plasma from recovered coronavirus patients tested as therapy at UW Health
A COVID-19 patient at UW Hospital has received the first transfusion of plasma from a local patient who donated it since recovering from the disease. The UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and …
Online platform from UW-Madison matches health care facilities with face shield manufacturers
Hospitals around the world are scrambling to secure enough personal protective equipment to safeguard their workers while treating COVID-19 patients, and manufacturers large and small are retooling their production lines to try to fill the …
UW School of Pharmacy Produces Hand Sanitizer For UW Health
With hand sanitizer in short supply around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy’s Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station team is producing hand sanitizer for UW Health. Although the Zeeh Station focuses on supporting drug …
UW–Madison, FluGen, Bharat Biotech collaborate to develop coronavirus vaccine
An international collaboration of virologists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the vaccine companies FluGen and Bharat Biotech has begun the development and testing of a unique vaccine against COVID-19 called CoroFlu. CoroFlu will build …