Interactions Members Assist in the Fight Against COVID-19

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Efforts against COVID-19

Many laboratories around the world, including Interactions members, are involved in the battle against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. We will maintain this page with updated news about their efforts.

Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory

  • Argonne’s COVID-19 research makes progress

    COVID-19 research at Argonne continues at the laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, to precisely determine the structures of the 28 unique proteins that make up the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. As these structures are determined, they are posted into an international Protein Data Bank (PDB), compiled by researchers around the world.

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory

CERN

CERN

CERN

DESY

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron

Fermilab

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

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Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (CNRS)

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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

  • INFN's (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) efforts to combat COVID-19

    The National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Rome, (or INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) has been working diligently to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

    See their concerted efforts, from computer simulation to ventilator fabrication, on the INFN COVID-19 Projects page.

  • "ANTI_COVID-LAB" was born in Catania to test fabrics for masks and anti-COVID-19 PPE

    The Anti-Covid Lab "has been developed by the University of Catania and by the National Laboratories of the South (LNS) of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics for the verification of the functional qualities of fabrics intended for the realization of masks and others PPE for the prevention of contagion in the COVID-19 emergency.

  • BIOMOLECULAR SIMULATIONS AND URGENT COMPUTING: THE ITALIAN CHALLENGE AT COVID 19

    Stop the virus before it can penetrate cells by neutralizing your Trojan horse. This is the challenge launched at COVID-19 by Sibylla Biotech, a spin-off of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and of the Universities of Trento and Perugia, which is working on the identification of an anti COVID-19 therapy with a technology unique that studies the behavior of proteins in a completely new way and quickly.

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Berkeley Lab to Conduct R&D to Improve the Nation’s COVID-19 Testing Capabilities

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is part of a multi-laboratory working group that recently received DOE Office of Science funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to conduct R&D to help improve the nation’s COVID-19 testing capabilities.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • COVID-19 Related Research at Berkeley Lab

    Scientists around the world are joining together to study the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 and to expedite the development of possible vaccines and treatments to prevent its infectious disease, named COVID-19. At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), some unique capabilities and facilities are being called into action quickly to assist in the national COVID-19 response.

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Nationaal Instituut voor Subatomaire Fysica

  • New Nikhef computer cluster will be used first to help fight the coronavirus

    Nikhef is dedicating their new and freshly installed computer cluster – which is still in its test phase – to the calculation efforts in order to fight the coronavirus. The datacentre is offering their computing power to the Rosetta@home project of the University of Washington, that tries to unravel the underlying protein structure with massive calculation nodes.

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Science and Technology Facilities Council

SLAC

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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SNOLAB

  • The US FDA authorizes the MVM within the scope of the emergency use authorization.

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorization to the ventilator designed by an international collaboration of nuclear and particle physicists, the Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM). This is an important step in getting the MVM ventilator to patients around the world who are suffering the respiratory effects of the COVID-19 virus.

  • SNOLAB collaborates on international ventilator project

    The Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM) design centres around the gas handling and control systems found in dark matter experiments combined with the 1961 Manley ventilator to produce a simple design. MVM uses readily available materials, eliminating supply chain limitations for more complex designs. It is open-source and can be accessed and modified by nations around the world in an effort to rapidly produce ventilators to address the immediate needs. 

  • Sudbury community 3D prints headbands for face shields

    Face shields are part of the recommended PPE for healthcare workers who may be exposed to COVID-19 through the course of their work ... Not only can the headband be printed quickly, but its design aligns with the spacing of a three-hole punch, allowing for a multitude of materials to be used for the shield itself, even “something as simple as a clear plastic report cover”.

SNOLAB

  • SNOLAB makes PPE donation to Health Sciences North

    With personal protective equipment for frontline workers being an immediate concern, SNOLAB has taken an inventory of cleanroom personal protective equipment onsite and brought much of it up from underground earlier this week. The science team has been in contact with Health Sciences North (HSN) to determine where we can help meet the needs of local healthcare workers. 

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TRIUMF

  • TRIUMF collaborates on international ventilator project

    The objective of the Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM) collaboration is to design, develop, certify, and build an open-source ventilator that is safe, powerful, yet gentle, on the lungs. TRIUMF has contributed across the board to the Canadian effort, including testing, certification, and design of the control module and associated software. In a recent important step for the MVM collaboration, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted Emergency Use Authorization for the MVM prototype in the United States.

Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center

  • UW–Madison astrophysicists donate computing resources to aid COVID-19 research.

    While IceCube remains operational, its home research center at UW–Madison, the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, WIPAC, is temporarily providing some of its available computing resources to Folding@home. This citizen-science distributed-computing project crowdsources computationally intensive tasks like simulating protein dynamics. Distributed computing projects like Folding@home combine the power of thousands of individual computers contributed by their owners to process different portions of data simultaneously, significantly speeding up their results.