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Disease ecologist awarded $3.5 million to build revolutionary epidemiological platform

Posted by Heather Tate on June 20, 2022

Joe Mihaljevic talking and writing on whiteboard

EpiMoRPH envisioned as collaborative online “hub,” making forecasting epidemics vastly more transparent and reliable

Mathematical modeling—which combines math, statistics, computing and data—is a critical tool for public health professionals, who use it to study how diseases spread, predict the future course of outbreaks and evaluate strategies for controlling epidemics.

As… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, COVID-19, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, TGen

Two scientists awarded prestigious Scialog grants supporting new research to detect, mitigate emerging animal-borne infectious diseases

Posted by Heather Tate on December 14, 2021

New initiative supports building a collaborative community of early-career scientists

Crystal Hepp holding container with mosquitosJason Ladner holding specimenZoonotic diseases—caused by germs that spread between animals and people—are very common. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three of every four new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals—for example, scientists… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU team finds US greenhouse gas emissions decline during COVID lockdown 3x greater than previously reported

Posted by Heather Tate on May 3, 2021

Scientists build reliable, real-time emissions estimate system to inform, correct public policy as nation takes on new reduction targets

CO2 emissions illustrationThe COVID-19 pandemic has altered energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally and continues to influence emissions as the response to COVID-19 evolves. Reliable data that can provide a real-time update of emissions has been difficult to acquire… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, COVID-19, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute to test Allarity Therapeutics drug as potential therapy for new, highly infectious Coronavirus Variant B117

Posted by Heather Tate on January 26, 2021

Allarity Therapeutics of Hørsholm, Denmark, today announced plans to further test the antiviral activity of stenoparib, its PARP inhibitor, against SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7, also known as B.1.1.7(the “British variant”), at the COVID-19 Testing Service Center (CTSC) of Northern Arizona University’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI), a leading U.S. infectious disease testing center.

The virus variant was labeled “Variant of Concern 202012/01” by Public Health England (PHE), an agency of the UK Department of Health and Social Care, in a publication… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU-TGen study results show COVID-19 virus triggers antibodies from previous coronavirus infections

Posted by Heather Tate on January 19, 2021

Jason Ladner working in labThe results of a study led by Northern Arizona University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest the immune systems of people infected with COVID-19 may rely on antibodies created during infections from earlier coronaviruses to help fight the disease.

COVID-19 isn’t humanity’s first encounter with a coronavirus, so named because… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Biological Sciences, TGen, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU researchers develop K-12 school COVID-19 transmission tracking protocol

Posted by Heather Tate on January 12, 2021

When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, K-12 schools were among the first operations to close in order to prevent community spread in the US.

As schools slowly begin to reopen for in-person classes throughout the country, there is still sparse information about COVID-19 mitigation strategy adherence, including physical distancing, mask wearing, and hand washing, among students in school.

Ricky Camplain and Nanette “Gigi” Lopez, both assistant professors with Northern Arizona University’s Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Health and Human Services, COVID-19, Department of Health Sciences

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