Welcome to the COVID19 information page offered by the basic science departments at the University of Michigan.
Learn more!
Other Useful Resources
The Federation of American Scientists
The Federation of American Scientists has a site where you can type in a question for a scientist to answer!
Virology podcasts
This Week in Virology podcasts 582, 584-602, and more are found at this site. UM’s Kathy Spindler is one of the hosts of this podcast which follows new literature and has interviews with top researchers. The podcast is found here.
Michigan Medicine website
Michigan Medicine publishes this website which tracks cases at our hospital and has other useful information. Best viewed through Google Chrome
The University of Michigan Office of Research
The University of Michigan Office of Research has compiled a page of information related to COVID 19 including FAQs, stories about research at UM, an index of research happening at UM, and funding opportunities:
University of Michigan School of Public Health
The University of Michigan School of Public Health has also compiled a page of useful coronavirus information and updates found here.
Immune podcast
The immune podcast has 2 good episodes related to COVID 19 with more to come. Check out #29 and #30 at this link.
Taubman Library
Taubman Library offers a searchable website to provide documents related to the best evidence for clinical Care for COVID 19 at this site.
N95 filtering
A scientific consortium for the data-driven study of N95 filtering facepiece respirator decontamination can be found here.
Research! America
Research! America maintains a website here. This website has interviews with NIH Director, Dr. Francis Collins and Professor Emeritus, Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy, and Director, UCSF Precision Medicine at UC San Francisco, Dr. Keith Yamamoto as well as information on the NIH initiative: Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) and the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Initiative. Research! America is also an organization that supports biomedical research with advocacy.
Michigan Health Lab Blog
Features on research and insight from UM experts can also be found on the Michigan Health Lab Blog. Be sure to check out this post in particular
Q&A regarding Coronavirus vaccine platforms!
Dr. Beth Moore provided the following presentation to help explain the vaccine platforms and address concerns regarding vaccines.
To suggest content for this website or ask questions, please contact Bethany Moore, Interim Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at bmoore@umich.edu.