All Posts: COVID-19

• Georgetown Applying Patented Technology to Develop Fast and Accurate COVID-19 Test

  (August 6, 2020) — After studying the results of a myriad of diagnostic tests used around the world for the virus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, Georgetown University Medical Center biochemist Mark Danielsen, PhD, thinks he has a solution for making a better test — one that can deliver faster results and be accurate.  It’s a […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, SARS-CoV-2

• Georgetown Physician Calls for Formal Inquiry Into U.S. Handling of COVID-19

  WASHINGTON (August 5, 2020) — A complete understanding of how the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a public health disaster will require a full investigation akin to the 9/11 Commission, says a Georgetown University physician, writing in a BMJ Opinion published today. The author, Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP, is professor of family […]

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• Using Zoom, NHS Undergraduates Teach Health Literacy in Alaska Literacy Program

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• Clinical Research Staff Rise to the Challenges Posed by Pandemic

  (July 31, 2020) — Running clinical research can be complicated under normal circumstances but it’s especially arduous during a pandemic. Despite the difficulties, the clinical research teams at Georgetown have worked tirelessly, remotely and on campus, to continue supporting researchers and study participants. “Our team as a whole really stepped up to do this, and […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: clinical research coordinators, clinical trials, COVID-19, Huntington's disease

• Get to Know Georgetown’s COVID-19 Researchers

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• SOM Alumna Channels Cura Personalis Lessons to Psychiatric Care During Pandemic

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• NHS Professor Part of Global Collaboration Behind New COVID-19 Legal Database

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• NHS Alumna, Now Texas Family Nurse Practitioner, Sees COVID-19’s Impact on Cardiac Care

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• Medical Student Makes a Difference by Donating Convalescent Plasma

  (July 17, 2020) — When Tanvee Singh (M’22) started feeling sick in March, she thought her asthma was acting up. As her symptoms worsened, she was diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Determined to find a silver lining in her experience, Singh donated plasma at the NIH Clinical Center when she […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: convalescent plasma, COVID-19, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, service to others

• New COVID-19 Policy Mapping Tool and Database Released to Help Inform Decision-making

  WASHINGTON (July 16, 2020) — Amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and in anticipation of outbreaks intensifying over the summer, the experts behind COVID-Local.org have launched a new policy mapping tool and comprehensive database. The tool allows community and national leaders to measure their phased reopening and ongoing local disease spread against the impact of […]

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