COVID-19 and Emerging Pathogens Research Fund Results

 

INVESTIGATOR	DEPARTMENT	PROJECT TITLE	AMOUNT
Hyo-Jick Choi	Chemical & Materials Engineering	Virus inactivating salt‐coated mask to prevent transmission of COVID‐19	$35,000
Shokrollah Elahi	Dentistry	Investigating the effects of dexamethasone on ACE2 expression as a therapeutic approach against SARS-CoV-19 infection	$35,000
Basil Hubbard	Pharmacology	Small-molecule inhibitors of Nsp15 for the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2	$35,000
Paul Jurasz	Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences	Angiostatin: A potential novel biomarker of COVID-19 underlying pathophysiology	$35,000
Greg Tyrrell	Laboratory Medicine & Pathology	Developing a safe subunit vaccine for COVID-19 by using convalescent plasma to identify immunogenic epitopes	$35,000
Reinhard Vehring	Mechanical Engineering	Glass stabilization of an adjuvanted subunit coronavirus vaccine via spray drying	$35,000
TOTAL			$210,000