April 30, 2020

Dis-Box is an ultraviolet box designed by a group of University of Cincinnati engineering students that may help extend use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers at Cincinnati’s Crossroad Health Center. UC family medicine professor Christine O'dea put a call for help when faced with a shortage of PPE and the engineering students and their professor Mary Beth Privitera answered the call.

April 28, 2020

April 24, 2020

April 23, 2020

Dr. Kenneth Sherman, director of the University of Cincinnati Division of Digestive Diseases, is using a $48,000 pilot grant from the UC College of Medicine, to examine the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the pathogen of COVID-19, in liver cells to determine patterns of injury and understand resulting innate immune responses.

May 4, 2020

The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center is joining the international hunt to uncover knowledge about the coronavirus. The UC center will focus on an area it is far too familiar with: patients with cancer.

April 28, 2020

The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is collecting specimens from COVID-19 patients to be stored in a biorepository as part of the Cincinnati COVID-19 Repository (CCR) effort. The specimens will be used by researchers to learn more about the COVID-19 infection and possible treatments and preventions for not only this disease but possibly diseases of the future.

June 4, 2020

June 3, 2020

Donald Lynch, MD, will conduct an observational study of 150 heart valve replacement patients at UC Medical Center and the University of Kentucky. These patients will undergo TAVR, a procedure in which a catheter-mounted valve is inserted through a small incision in the groin and is minimally invasive compared to open heart surgery. Patients who consent to participate in the study will have blood drawn before the procedure begins, prior to discharge and during clinic follow-ups to determine what biomarkers are predictive of short- and long-term clinical outcomes.

June 3, 2020

Richard Becker, MD, director the University of Cincinnati Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, spoke with Science magazine writer Catherine Matacic for a story that looks at the impact COVID-19 has on blood vessels in the body.

June 4, 2020

The COVID-19 Watcher, developed by two University of Cincinnati students, displays data from every county and 188 metropolitan areas in the country. Features of the dashboard include ranking of the worst affected areas and auto-generating plots that depict temporal changes in testing capacity, cases and deaths. The COVID-19 Watcher can provide the public with real-time updates of outbreaks in their area. The app pulls in data from the New York Times, which has been tracking COVID-19 cases since January, and merges it with sources from the U.S. Census to map cases for each county and metropolitan area.