This page aims to provide quick links to research resources and policies that are new as of COVID-19 or that are pre-existing but modified, and other information that may be of use to the Neuroscience Community. The ONR will continue to update this page as we learn new information.
Check the ONR Calendar for information on individual events.
Other central sources: COVID-19 information
- Med School entry: daily screening link; campus screening locations
- Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR)
- Arts & Sciences
- Brown School
- Human Resources (Employee wellness)
- Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences
- Institute for Public Health
- Libraries
- McKelvey School of Engineering
- Medical Campus
- WashU Crisis Response Fund
Cores/Shared Facilities/Research resources
- GEiC – open, limited
- Hope Center Cores open, limited
- Hope Center Animal Surgery Core – updated guidelines
- Literature Compilation re COVID-19 (WashU Med and Grad Students)
- mHealth (social media, wearables, etc to measure and improve health research and outcomes)
- Siteman Cancer Center Cores (updates, May 2020)
- Tissue Culture Support Center (TCSC) stockroom open 8-4p
Childcare
- Bright Horizons Back-Up Care Advantage Program
- Healthcare Workers Childcare Co-op (St. Louis area Grad and Med Students)
Virtual Meeting Options and IT support
Calls for items/input/research participants
- 2,000 volunteers needed to evaluate rapid COVID-19 saliva test (August 17-19)
- COVID-19 survivors: Sign Up To Give Convalescent Plasma
- COVID-19 vaccine trials-WashU
- COVID-19 vaccine trials-SLU
- STOP COVID Trial
- Call to Researchers for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including instructions on how to donate
Policies and Guidance
- Information Technology including remote access/telecommuting
- Operations & Facilities Med Campus re building access, parking, FedEx etc
- Financial Services including guidance on check requests, invoices, etc.
- Office of Information Security including scams, etc.
WashU in the news; WashU perspectives
- Two Washington U. doctors lead national effort to study new COVID-19 treatment (8/12/2020)
- Clinical trial focuses on reducing overactive immune response in COVID-19 (8/11/2020)
- Experimental COVID-19 vaccine prevents severe disease in mice (8/11/2020)
- Washington University, St. Louis County collaborate on COVID-19 survey (8/10/2020)
- Podcast: Can boosting the immune system, rather than suppressing it, work against COVID-19? (8/6/2020)
- Boosting immune system a potential treatment strategy for COVID-19 (8/4/2020)
- Brown School launches pandemic preparedness and response initiative (7/31/220)
- A COVID-19 vaccine, amazingly, is close. Why am I so worried? (7/31/2020)
- Podcast: Folding@home enlists computers to ID COVID-19 treatment targets (7/28/2020)
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- COVID-19 vaccine trials planned at WashU, SLU (7/21/2020)
- Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus (7/20/2020)
- Dr. Jessi Gold: Mask Anxiety (7/14/2020)
- St. Louis researchers continue to search for a COVID-19 vaccine (7/14/2020)
- Podcast: Wildlife surveillance may help identify the next pandemic (7/13/2020)
- Wash U Researchers Develop More Comfortable Saliva-Based Coronavirus Test (7/9/2020)
- McDonnell Academy supports COVID-19-related global research (7/9/2020)
- WashU Expert: Researchers focused on understanding virus transmission by aerosols (7/8/2020)
- Study to examine social media’s effects on stress during COVID-19 pandemic (7/6/2020)
- How To Safeguard Mental Health As Pandemic Becomes ‘A Really Long Haul’ (7/6/2020)
- Effort to screen potential COVID-19 antiviral drugs underway (7/1/2020)
- Folding@home’s fight against COVID-19 enlists big tech, gamers, pro soccer (6/25/2020)
- On the front lines: Intensive care physician Patrick Aguilar (6/23/2020)
- COVID-19 antibody tests evaluated as diagnostic test in low-resource settings (6/18/2020)
- Podcast: How do we safely navigate re-openings while coronavirus risks remain? (6/12/2020)
- Patients with COVID-19 donate specimens to advance research efforts (6/11/2020)
- Study: Researchers forecast stable, slightly declining levels of COVID-19 entering fall (6/10/2020)
- Researchers forecast stable, slightly declining levels of COVID-19 entering fall (6/10/2020)
- COVID-19 mouse model will speed search for drugs, vaccines (6/10/2020)
- Medical students assist health departments in tracking COVID-19 (6/4/2020)
- Suppression of COVID-19 spread is possible, suggests new model (6/2/2020)
- 4 Ways to Help if Your Kid Is Depressed (6/2/2020)
- On the front lines: Jessica Gold: Psychiatrist discusses mental health during COVID-19 pandemic (5/28/2020)
- Caution urged in interpreting COVID-19 antibody tests (5/26/2020)
- Experts urge caution in interpreting COVID-19 antibody tests (5/26/2020)
- On the front lines: Jay Piccirillo: Otolaryngologist discusses COVID-19-related loss of smell, taste (5/21/2020)
- COVID-19 study looks at genetics of healthy people who develop severe illness (5/20/2020)
- Global study to test malaria drug to protect health workers from COVID-19 (5/18/2020)
- Could COVID-19 Finally Destigmatize Mental Illness? (5/14/2020)
- Wash U doctor explains new COVID-19 complication in children (5/11/2020)
- Infectious diseases specialist describes how COVID-19 plasma therapy works (5/8/2020)
- Model predicts economic, public health repercussions of lifting quarantine before COVID-19 vaccine (5/8/2020)
- 4 ways to take care of your mental health during the coronavirus pandemic (5/6/2020)
- COVID-19 in-home monitoring program launched (5/5/2020)
- On the front lines in fight against COVID-19 (4/30/2020)
- The pandemic’s impact on older adults (4/28/2020)
- Emergency Operations Center responds to COVID-19 (4/28/2020)
- University launches “Ask the WashU Doctors” video series (4/27/2020)
- Laurie Punch held Facebook live event with the public–Stop the Virus (4/25/2020)
- University offers housing for front-line health workers, first responders (4/24/2020)
- What a sugar cube can teach us as we develop a coronavirus vaccine (4/23/2020)
- Maker Task Force works to protect front-line health-care workers (4/23/2020)
- Aerosol researchers at McKelvey School of Engineering tackle novel coronavirus (04/23/2020)
- St. Louisans Are Gardening To Manage Stress, Find Purpose Amid Coronavirus Isolation (4/21/2020)
- Social Distancing Is Working, But St. Louis Health Officials Warn Against Letting Up (4/20/2020)
- Federal funding for rapid COVID-19 test goes to McKelvey Engineering researchers (4/20/2020)
- Wash U. doctor discusses how Metro Area can move forward during pandemic (4/19/2020)
- Wash U doctor answers your coronavirus questions (4/19/2020)
- Our children and COVID-19 (4/17/2020)
- COVID-19 survivors needed to donate blood plasma (4/16/2020)
- Eric Lenze talks with KMOX Health Editor about the Coronavirus (4/14/2020)
- Podcast: Clinical trials launch to evaluate antimalarial, antidepressant drugs to treat COVID-19 (4/13/2020)
- Study to evaluate antidepressant as potential COVID-19 treatment (4/13/2020)
- Local COVID-19 patient gets experimental treatment based on century-old idea (4/11/2020)
- Clinical trial launches to evaluate antimalarial drugs for COVID-19 treatment (4/9/2020)
- McKelvey Engineering staff creating face shields for health care workers (4/6/2020)
- Medical Campus students mobilize to help health-care workers, community (4/3/2020)
- Loss of smell and taste can be only signs of coronavirus (3/31/2020)
- Doctor warns of a ‘brief window of opportunity that is rapidly closing’ to slow COVID-19 in Missouri (3/31/2020)
- First cell treatment to fight the coronavirus awaits FDA approval for clinical trial (3/31/2020)
- Coronavirus Vaccine in 18 Months? Experts Urge Reality Check (3/31/2020)
- WashU Experts: Coronavirus fact vs. fiction (3/30/2020)
- It’s Time to Get Serious About End-of-Life Care for High-Risk Coronavirus Patients (3/30/2020)
- A Personal Perspective on COVID-19 (3/29/2020)
- Overcoming COVID-19 in Guatemala (3/29/2020)
- COVID-19: International Student Perspective (3/29/2020)
- WashU Expert: Older Americans are not expendable (3/27/2020)
- Podcast launches with infectious diseases expert (3/26/2020)
- WashU Expert: Grieving in the time of a pandemic (3/26/2020)
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Coping during coronavirus (3/24/2020)
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FDA will allow doctors to treat critically ill coronavirus patients with blood from survivors (3/24/2020)
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Possible COVID-19 treatment: transfusion of antibodies from recovered patients’ blood (3/23/2020)
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Crowdsourced supercomputing project sets sights on coronavirus (3/19/2020)
