A Look Back at Health Sciences’ COVID-19 Response and Relief Efforts

June 4, 2020
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Jennifer Uhrlaub, associate research scientist and laboratory manager in the Janko Nikolich-Zugich lab, loads samples into centrifuge in the Biosafety level 3 lab in April.

Jennifer Uhrlaub, associate research scientist and laboratory manager in the Janko Nikolich-Zugich lab, loads samples into centrifuge in the Biosafety level 3 lab in April.

The University of Arizona Health Sciences has been leading a comprehensive response to the novel coronavirus that caused a global pandemic. Researchers, students, professors and staff have jumped in to lead, create and enhance efforts to make an impact. From making masks to helping the homeless population of Tucson get medical care, community outreach efforts aimed to serve unmet needs. In the labs, scientists created kits to collect samples for active COVID-19 infection testing, and developed an antibody test to discover the reach of the virus. Revisit these efforts in a look back at the Health Sciences COVID-19 response efforts from mid-March through May 2020.