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A first phase of testing will begin April 30 in Pima County and will include 3,000 health care workers and first responders.

"The first infections came out in December,'' said Deepta Bhattacharya, an associate professor at the Department of Immunobiology at the school's college of medicine.

In just one hour on March 17th the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US increased by about 600. 
UArizona President to Have Blood Drawn for COVID-19 Antibody Testing

After his blood draw, Dr. Robert C. Robbins will announce plans for the university’s fall semester. Appointments for this first round of testing for 4,500 people in Pima County are filled. No walkups.

Thirteen research teams will address various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic with financial support from rapid-turnaround seed grants supplied through the BIO5 Institute and state funding. 

The Johnson Lab is proud to announce that we have been awarded $60,000 for our COVID-19 Rapid Turn-Around Seed Grant proposal, The Use of Novel Copper Ionophores to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Persistence 

2019 Seed Grant winner Sam Campos is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona researching the Modulation of Intrinsic Immune Pathways by Oncogenic Papillomaviruses

 

Graduate students dream of their dissertation defense, the culminating moment when they present years of research in front of their doctoral committee members, peers, family and friends.

Felicia Goodrum Sterling is a virologist, president-elect of the American Society of Virology, and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

The University of Arizona is partnering with the state to analyze blood samples to determine who has been exposed and develop antibodies against COVID-19.
UArizona Researchers Pivot to Tackle COVID-19, Splitting More Than $500,000 in Funding

Thirteen research teams will address various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic with financial support from rapid-turnaround seed grants supplied through funding from the state and University of Arizona BIO5 Institute.

For his part, the  doctor and immunobiologist Janko Nikolich-Zugich of the University of Arizona School of Medicine says that "Older people are not so good at reacting to microorganisms that they h

“Older people are not as good at reacting to microorganisms they haven’t encountered before,” physician and immunobiologist Janko Nikolich-Zugich of the University of Arizona College of Medicine to

Click above to listen to part 1 of Treating the Virus, featuring Deepta Bhattacharya, immunologist at the University of Arizona whose lab is making a coronavirus antibody test. 

The antibody tests build upon the work of UArizona Health Sciences researchers and BIO5 Institute members Dr. Janko Nikolich-Žugich, professor and head of the Department of Immunobiology, and Deept

UA College of Medicine and the Department of Immunobiology developing antibody tests for COVID-19. Developing 250,000 much needed tests to check for immunity to #COVID19.


UArizona Partners with State to Provide COVID-19 Antibody Tests

The state investment will allow UArizona to test 250,000 of Arizona’s front-line workforce.

Most of the U.S. has state-mandated shelter in place orders to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, most of us are already asking when will life return to normal?

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