Genomic sequencing will track the new coronavirus, provide critical data for global biomedical researchers and give Arizona an edge in responding to the pandemic.

1,000 kits to collect samples to be tested for COVID-19 were created at UArizona Health Sciences, delivered to Banner-University Medical Center Tucson.

Students at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson help the homeless population amid concerns they will be hit hard by COVID-19.

Concerned about how the pandemic will impact the homeless population, University of Arizona Health Sciences students are screening Tucson’s homeless for symptoms of COVID-19.

Community-minded University of Arizona faculty and staff members are aiding an effort to address the face mask shortage that has challenged health care workers across the country because of high demand for personal protective equipment.

Sleep and critical care expert Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, is uniquely positioned to help engineers design and test 3D-printed medical masks.

Sleep experts say many people are experiencing deep vivid, memorable and realistic dreams during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Dreams are our brains' processing and organizing and integrating and making sense of things. We're dumped in this new environment and we're trying to figure out our place in it," said Michael Grandner, director the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.

Medical students just starting out in the business also have been jumping in. The University of Arizona and several other schools have let their fourth-year medical students apply for early graduation. “They could be a big help, you could unleash up to 200 newly meted physicians to go out on the frontlines and help,” University of Arizona President Dr. Robert Robbins said.

Jonathan M. Holmes, MD, a pediatric eye care and an alignment specialist, has been named the chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.