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COVID-19 antibody initiative receives $1.5 million to expand testing, launch 'virus radar'

June 8, 2020

The Co-Immunity Project, a groundbreaking collaboration to track and curb COVID-19 in Kentucky, has received $1.5 million from the James Graham Brown Foundation, as well as additional gifts, to expand community coronavirus testing and launch a pub

UofL researcher using internet searches to map the spread of COVID-19

June 5, 2020

When they’re feeling sick, many people turn to the internet. They Google their symptoms — headache, chest pain, shortness of breath — hoping to learn more about what’s happening in their bodies. 

UofL receives $3.8M to test new gene therapy for heart attacks

May 28, 2020

When someone has a heart attack, it causes muscle cells in their heart to die, and the heart cannot regenerate these cells.