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.
Events
- January 22, 12pm: COVID-19 and Diverse Communities: A Panel Discussion Focused on ORE Efforts (speakers include Joyce Balls-Berry, PhD MPE (WashU Neurology))
- January 28, 10am: “Glaucoma and COVID-19…Affecting People’s Lives in Similar Ways”
- February 4, 4pm: “Bioengineering for COVID-19: Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) at Unprecedented Speed and Scale”
- Watch recordings in Box: WUSM COVID-19 Vaccine Town Halls December 21 | December 9
Learn more about vaccinations » - Watch recording, Dr. Anthony Fauci, WashU Medicine Grand Rounds (1/7): “Insights into the COVID-19 Pandemic”
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
Virtual Meeting Options and IT support
Calls for items/input/research participants
- Participants needed for COVID-19 vaccine trial
- COVID-19 Impact on Older Adults and Caregivers: Seeking participants
- Global trial to evaluate whether MMR vaccine can protect front-line health-care workers
- Novel clinical trial launched to test multiple therapeutics to treat COVID-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
Funding Opportunities
- Google Cloud Research Credits
- More on the OVCR COVID-19 website
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
- COVID-19 impact on pregnant women focus of NIH grant (1/15/2021)
- Rapid blood test identifies COVID-19 patients at high risk of severe disease (1/15/2021)
- Studies will evaluate COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among health-care personnel (1/14/2021)
- Doctors test popular anti-depressant to see if it fights off Covid-19 (1/11/2021)
- Fauci gives COVID-19 update to School of Medicine faculty, staff, students (1/7/2021)
- Fauci to discuss COVID-19 during online med school event Jan. 7 (1/4/2021)
See more
- How the pandemic is shaping our 2021 resolutions — and what experts want you to keep in mind (12/29/2021)
- Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us (12/29/2020)
- Podcast: Vaccines have arrived but COVID-19 treatments progressing much more slowly (12/29/2020)
- Answering Your Patients’ Questions About the COVID-19 Vaccine (12/22/2020)
- Researchers to work with parents, teachers on COVID-19 testing communications (12/21/2020)
- Historic, hopeful moment arrives as COVID-19 vaccinations begin on Medical Campus (12/17/2020)
- COVID-19 patients at higher risk of death, health problems than those with flu (12/15/2020)
- Podcast: COVID-19 vaccines around the corner (12/9/2020)
- COVID-19, losing one’s sense of smell and regaining it (12/1/2020)
- COVID-19 cases could nearly double before Biden takes office (11/23/2020)
- Young people with disabilities focus of COVID-19 testing grant (11/19/2020)
- Podcast: Preparing for winter and the holidays under the shadow of COVID-19 (11/17/2020)
- Study: Respiratory failure in COVID-19 usually not driven by cytokine storm (11/13/2020)
- Fluvoxamine may prevent serious illness in COVID-19 patients (11/12/2020)
- Pollution and pandemics: A dangerous mix (11/12/2020)
- Masks don’t just save lives, they also boost economy (11/9/2020)
- Cornea appears to resist infection from novel coronavirus (11/3/2020)
- Washington University begins recruiting participants for phase 3 COVID-19 investigational vaccine clinical trial (10/30/2020)
- Safe Holiday Travel (WashU) (10/30/2020)
- Podcast: Preventing COVID-19 among unhoused people (10/22/2020)
- Immune modulator drugs for COVID-19 focus of major NIH clinical trial (10/16/2020)
- Podcast: The making of a fast, accurate saliva test for COVID-19 (10/1/2020)
- Podcast: COVID-19, social media and those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (9/16/2020)
- Neurological Complications of COVID-19 (9/4/2020)
- COVID-19 disproportionately affects developmentally disabled (8/28/2020)
- Novel clinical trial launched to test multiple therapeutics to treat COVID-19 (8/27/2020)
- Identifying emerging diseases focus of new international collaboration (8/27/2020)
- Washington University develops COVID-19 saliva test (8/26/2020)
- Podcast: Where does life in the U.S. stand six months into the pandemic? (8/25/2020)
- Nasal vaccine against COVID-19 prevents infection in mice (8/21/2020)
- 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)
- Patti Lab awarded NIH grant for COVID-19 research (8/6/2020)
- 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)
- 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)
