Biochemistry professor Yufeng Tong and team have received CIHR funding to tackle new ways of fighting COVID and variants
A team of UWindsor professors developing novel ways to detect COVID and limit the spread of its variants has been awarded $500,000 from a federal agency that funds health research.
The WE-Spark COVID-19 Dashboard can detect outbreaks of COVID-19 in real time.
Jackie Fong leads staff member Elizabeth Fidalgo Da Silva through the MyCap app as part of a pilot project to screen campus volunteers for COVID-19.
Researchers will expand their study screening for COVID-19 to include up to 400 campus volunteers.
Chemistry professor Kenneth Ng will study the proteins that manage how coronaviruses replicate and infect, to prepare to battle emerging variants.
Chemistry professor Kenneth Ng will study the proteins that manage how coronaviruses replicate and infect, to prepare to battle emerging variants.
Mike McKay, executive director of UWindsor’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, has received another $540,000 in funding for his research program that uses samples from wastewater treatment plants as an early warning system for COVID-19 outbreaks. The funding is part of a $12 million investment by the province to support and expand the network of researchers analyzing wastewater across Ontario.
A UWindsor research team received $540,000 to test samples from wastewater treatment plants as an early warning system for COVID-19.
Jackie Fong leads staff member Elizabeth Fidalgo Da Silva through the MyCap app as part of a pilot project to screen campus volunteers for COVID-19.
The COVID Surveillance Platform study will test the saliva of campus volunteers for COVID-19.
Biochemist John Trant is heading up a research team exploring the behaviours of disease-causing proteins.
Biochemist John Trant is heading up a research team exploring the behaviours of disease-causing proteins.
Professors Jalal Ahamed, Mitra Mirhassani, Simon Rondeau-Gagné, and Yufeng Tong have received $50,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to design a portable device to test for COVID-19, replacing the need for samples to be sent to a laboratory for analysis.
A team from the University of Windsor is designing a portable device to test for COVID-19.
UWindsor professor Yufeng Tong is researching a new COVID-19 testing kit and engineering simulated genetic material to test the accuracy of diagnostic kits already on the market.
A UWindsor researcher is working to improve the accuracy of kits to test for COVID-19.
Two UWindsor professors of chemistry and biochemistry are among the participants in a WCRG Think Tank on October 26.
