When the coronavirus pandemic forced Harvard University to ramp down almost all on-site operations, members of the Wyss Institute community refocused their teams, and formed new ones, in order to fight COVID-19 on its multiple fronts.
Part of these efforts include building new pieces of personal protective equipment that were delivered to frontline healthcare workers, developing new rapid and wearable diagnostics, using a drug discovery pipeline to identify and test FDA-approved drugs and novel compounds, and are advancing a vaccine platform that could give the ultimate protection against the virus.
Learn more: https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/news-the-wyss-institutes-response-to-covid-19-beating-back-the-coronavirus/
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University