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Two NAU research centers receive Flinn Foundation funding to support COVID-19 response

Posted by Heather Tate on June 16, 2020

C. Todd French in his labScientists at two Northern Arizona University research centers—the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI) and the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER)—recently received grants totaling $175,000 from the Flinn Foundation in support of projects directed at responding to the COVID-19 threat.

Researchers in PMI are internationally recognized for their… 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, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU research team sees major shift in relationship between state-by-state traffic and COVID-19 cases, offering insights into outcomes of lockdown policies

Posted by Heather Tate on June 9, 2020

The upper left panel shows that during the month of March 2020, the decline in traffic across the US coincided with the rise in COVID-19 cases. The country responded in a uniform fashion. The lower panel shows how that correlation in traffic-COVID-19 broke down with traffic rising in most states but COVID-19 cases rising in… Read more

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

NAU pathogen scientist collaborating on vaccine that could prevent and treat COVID-19

Posted by Heather Tate on June 1, 2020

C. Todd French working in his lab,C. Todd French, assistant professor of biology and leader of Northern Arizona University’s new COVID-19 Testing Service Center (CTSC), is working with scientists at Vault Pharma, an emerging biotechnology company, to test candidate vaccines against the novel coronavirus. Through a multi-institutional public-private partnership linking the company with UCLA, NAU and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, French is… Read more

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

Scientists collaborate across NAU’s research centers to create new physics-based technology for COVID-19 detection

Posted by Heather Tate on May 14, 2020

Miguel José Yacamán sitting at a computerOne of the most challenging aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the lack of testing needed to detect and trace infections—and without adequate testing, government officials do not have the data they need to make the best possible decisions in the interest of public health.

In addition to being in short supply,… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications - ¡MIRA!, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU bioengineer develops 3D simulations of sneezing, coughing to help motivate social distancing during COVID-19 pandemic

Posted by Heather Tate on May 13, 2020

Amir Arzani in lab with studentsNot convinced yet that keeping your distance and wearing a mask is worth the trouble? Perhaps scientific evidence to the contrary will help.

Amir Arzani, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is director of the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab, which studies the mechanisms behind initiation and progression of different cardiovascular diseases, developing computational models… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Mechanical Engineering

PMI’s undergraduate research program at NAU prepares students for real-world challenges with hands-on experience studying diseases—including COVID-19

Posted by Heather Tate on May 5, 2020

Dawn Birdsell and students in the PMI labAt a time when the world is gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for trained student researchers in the biomedical field may have never been greater. That’s why the unique undergraduate student research training program offered by Northern Arizona University’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI), established through the… Read more

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

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