COVID-19 research at UF Health WE ARE at the forefront of research into infectious diseases.
Over the past decade, the University of Florida has moved into the top tier of research universities by providing world-class faculty across 16 colleges with the resources they need to produce groundbreaking research and useful new products. UF Health, the university’s academic health center, plays a leading role in UF’s research enterprise, generating 52 percent of total research awards.
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EPI Creates High Throughput COVID-19 Testing Lab
In just 10 days a group of researchers, students and lab technicians across campus pulled together to assemble a high capacity COVID-19 testing lab in the Emerging Pathogens Institute
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA NEWS
Developing a next-generation coronavirus test for home use
Piyush Jain was headed home from another late night in his University of Florida lab when he got the word from his grad student — the rapid test they had been trying to develop for the novel coronavirus worked.
UF HEALTH COVID-19 RESEARCH AND NEWS
UF Health offers coronavirus testing for city of Gainesville employees
They drive the buses. They keep the lights on. They collect the garbage. In the face of the biggest public health emergency of the last century, they tirelessly do the…
UF mobilizes campus, Exactech expertise to make vital COVID-19 nasal swabs
For more information, contact Ken Garcia at kdgarcia@ufl.edu or 352-273-9799. When University of Florida Health needed a massive supply of nasal swabs for expanded COVID-19 testing, the solution was right…
UF Health cardiologist: COVID-19 might be a disease of the lungs and the heart
As researchers continue to unravel the mysteries of COVID-19, they are increasingly realizing the disease caused by the novel coronavirus often involves more than the lungs that it ravages. It…
UF researchers seek to improve safety of personal protective equipment for health care workers
Through a newly funded National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research, or RAPID, grant, University of Florida researchers in environmental and global health and in epidemiology are on a mission to…
uf health experts in the news
Piyush K. Jain pens article for Fast Company
Piyush K. Jain, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of the UF Health Cancer Center, explains why…
CNN talks to Drs. Kartic Cherabuddi and Juan…
Dr. Kartic Cherabuddi and Dr. Juan Vilaro discuss the complicated case of Enell “Trent” Porter who survived heart and kidney transplants, and…
Dr. Scott Brakenridge on CNN
Dr. Scott Brakenridge discusses evolving discoveries about novel coronavirus’ behavior, including the various ways it attacks its hosts.
UF EXPLORE Magazine
UF researchers respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
Read about the latest University of Florida research related to coronavirus.
