The battle against COVID-19 is a worldwide challenge unlike any in living memory. The Georgia Tech community has joined the fight, contributing our expertise, innovation, and indomitable spirit to the effort. Even as we remain committed to serving our students, faculty, and staff, we have accelerated our advancement of technology in response to our world's new reality.

The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative will infuse funding into early innovative technologies to speed development of rapid and widely accessible Covid-19 testing. The Center for Advanced Communication Policy's HomeLab will conduct usability testing wherever the novel test is intended to be used: in the home, in a clinic, in a pharmacy, or in the community.

IPaT’s PHDI (Protected Health Data Infrastructure) support for GTRI led project to design, develop, and operate HIPAA compliant tools for DPH Covid-19 sample collection, tracking, and lab reporting. Tied to state-wide surge efforts to increase Covid-19 testing capacity at Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-certified labs in research universities.

The goal of this project is to establish the efficacy of  the ozone disinfection units against model viruses and to test ozone treatment on personal protective equipment for function and appearance. Thanks to Professor Loren Williams, researchers learned of two companies that make disinfection units for clothing and equipment used by sports teams, the FBI, and the military.

To provide relevant evaluation of potential disinfection methods against the coronavirus, in case non-standard materials or methods are needed. Efficacy against two enveloped respiratory viruses (hRSV, influenza) will be assessed. Effects of the treatment method on performance of personal protective equipment can also be tested in collaboration with other Georgia Tech labs.

This project plans to use Georgia Tech facilities and personnel to develop, produce, and distribute RT-PCR master mix kits (reverse transcriptase and DNA polymerase enzymes), qPCR probes, and primer kits to State of Georgia Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) labs for Covid-19 testing.

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The objective of this project is to quickly transform the sensor system based on waveguide interferometry to a portable and field-usable ELISA test platform for rapid screening for the presence of antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 in blood.

This project aims to develop a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based strategy for viral detection, for the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) campus community. As students, faculty, and staff return to the campus for Fall 2020, the team hopes to implement their PCR-based strategy for campus-wide surveillance screening.

Develop a high-throughput polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method for viral detection, preferably without the need for RNA extraction prior to assay. Researchers will evaluate two platforms, which are Fluidigm and Biorad Drop Digital.

This is a project in collaboration with researchers from the University of Georgia to look at changes in the metabolome (the complement of metabolites in biological systems) in ferrets infected with SARS-CoV-2. The overall goals are: