Tag: COVID-19

CMB trainer Paul Ahlquist on stopping the next pandemic

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After more than a year of struggling against COVID-19, vaccines have been developed and deployed in record time and we are starting to see a rational path out of the pandemic. As momentous as this is, the truth is that COVID-19 is only one battle in an expanding, long-term war between humanity and viruses. We …

Congressional briefing on UW-Madison’s Rapid COVID-19 testing efforts

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The Office of Federal Relations hosted a briefing and virtual tour for congressional staff on UW–Madison’s work to develop rapid saliva tests for COVID-19 featuring CMB faculty trainers David O’Connor, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the School of Medicine and Public Health, and Thomas Friedrich, Professor of Pathobiological Sciences at the School of …