How the Ó³»´«Ã½ community is responding to COVID-19
Update June 12, 2023: COVID-19 is still with us, but the once-urgent need for PCR testing has subsided and can be addressed by other providers focused on diagnostics. So the Ó³»´«Ã½ is winding down its COVID-19 diagnostic testing program, with June 30, 2023 as the last day of operations. The Ó³»´«Ã½ continues to conduct research and develop technologies to better understand, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases.
As the COVID-19 pandemic presents increasing public health challenges, scientists from around the world have responded with openness and unprecedented speed, studying the SARS-CoV-2 virus and working to develop new diagnostic technologies, treatments, and tools for researchers. Scientists at the Ó³»´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard are contributing to this global effort in a variety of ways.
Below you will find videos describing the Ó³»´«Ã½ community's efforts to support clinical testing for COVID-19, expert seminars convened by the Ó³»´«Ã½â€™s Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, and more.
Videos & seminars
July 15, 2020
Ó³»´«Ã½ has created a novel automation system for COVID-19 test processing that is scalable, modular, and high-throughput. We serve the public health needs of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and surrounding areas.
The Ó³»´«Ã½ Global Health Initiative has launched a series of virtual talks focused on issues related to global health and COVID-19.
View more virtual talks from this series .
May 20, 2020
Core institute member Deb Hung, who is also co-director of the Ó³»´«Ã½â€™s Infectious Disease and Microbiome program, recently updated the Ó³»´«Ã½ community on what we know about the virus and the pandemic. Ó³»´«Ã½ president and founding director Eric Lander gives a brief introduction.
April 24, 2020
Appearing on Amanpour & Company with Walter Isaacson, Ó³»´«Ã½ president and founding director Eric Lander discusses the importance of reducing the infection rate, strategies that'll be needed, and what we’re learning in Massachusetts to guide decisions around saving lives and re-opening the economy.
Watch these videos to learn more about how the Genomics Platform transformed part of its next-generation sequencing center into a high-throughput COVID-19 test processing facility.
Infectious Disease & Microbiome Program seminar series: COVID-19
The Ó³»´«Ã½ Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program is hosting a series of weekly seminars dedicated to sharing information and ideas about the COVID-19 pandemic with the Ó³»´«Ã½ community and beyond.
View more virtual talks from this series here.
