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RAPID: Higher Accuracy and Availability of COVID-19 Testing and Monitoring via Post-CT Ima — NSF Award to Virginia Polytechnic Ins

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented health crisis in the United States. Given the lack of an effective vaccine or drug in the short term, testing techniques with high accuracy and availability are needed to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak through expansive deployment. However, the current genetic-based tes

Award titleRAPID: Higher Accuracy and Availability of COVID-19 Testing and Monitoring via Post-CT Ima
Award ID2031215
AwardeeVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
CityBLACKSBURG
StateVA
Amount obligated$150,000
Principal investigatorWuchun Feng
ProgramCOVID-19 Research
Start date06/15/2020
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented health crisis in the United States. Given the lack of an effective vaccine or drug in the short term, testing techniques with high accuracy and availability are needed to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak through expansive deployment. However, the current genetic-based test for COVID-19 involves many different materials (e.g., swabs, tubes, and chemical solutions), of which certain ones are in short supply at different times in different places acro
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