Tulane develops test that can detect COVID-19 that nasal swabs miss
February 26, 2021
Tulane University researchers have developed a highly sensitive blood test that can detect COVID-19 in rare cases when infections were missed by nasal swab PCR tests, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Krewe of House Floats
February 12, 2021
The Krewe of House Floats, started by a casual suggestion on the internet to decorate one’s house as a Mardi Gras float, quickly sprang into a full-blown movement.
Researchers unravel what makes someone a COVID-19 super-spreader
February 09, 2021
Researchers at Tulane University, Harvard University, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have learned that obesity, advanced age and COVID-19 infection correlate with a propensity to breathe out more respiratory droplets — key spreaders of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Dean LaVeist, Black health experts call for Black Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19
February 08, 2021
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Dean Thomas LaVeist authored a New York Times op/ed signed by 59 other Black health experts from the National Academy of Medicine urging Black Americans to get vaccinated.Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Dean Thomas LaVeist authored a New York Times op/ed signed by 59 other Black health experts from the National Academy of Medicine urging Black Americans to get vaccinated.
Tulane University will remain test-optional for 2021-22 applicants
February 08, 2021
For the second consecutive year, Tulane University will remain test-optional for students applying this fall for a spot in Tulane’s 2022 entering class. Going “test-optional” means these students will not be required to submit test scores for the SAT or ACT as part of the Tulane admissions process.
Virus hunter: 'We have to double down' to fight COVID-19 variants
February 04, 2021
Tulane Microbiology Professor Robert Garry, PhD, talks about what the new variants mean for transmission and how they may impact the next phase of the pandemic.
Effort to prevent, treat COVID-19 gets a boost
February 04, 2021
Work on a new COVID-19 drug by a Tulane University School of Medicine researcher is getting fast-tracked. Jay Kolls, MD, a professor of medicine and pediatrics, the John W. Deming Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine, and director of Tulane’s Center for Translational Research in Infection and Inflammation, has received a $100,000 Fast Grant for his research to create a drug that prevents the COVID-19 virus from entering healthy cells.
Everything you wanted to know about the COVID-19 vaccines
February 04, 2021
Dr. Ronald Blanton, chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, answers common vaccine questions.
The economics of a pandemic
February 03, 2021
When COVID-19 sent countries into a global lockdown last year, Engy Ziedan, PhD, assistant professor of economics at the School of Liberal Arts, suspected she would measure the economic fallout.
COMPASS study seeks to measure community spread of COVID-19 in general population
February 03, 2021
The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is conducting COVID-19 testing at public locations around Orleans and Jefferson parishes for the nationwide COMPASS Study – Community Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Study (CoVPN 5002).
Tulane University to lead national research partnership to speed up COVID-19 vaccines and drug discoveries
February 03, 2021
The National Institutes of Health has selected Tulane National Primate Research Center to lead a new partnership between the seven federally funded National Primate Research Centers to combine their efforts to accelerate promising COVID-19 vaccine and drug research.
Tulane School of Social Work to offer virtual panel on COVID-19 and marginalized populations
January 25, 2021
Tulane School of Social Work panel to discuss how underserved communities can be part of the COVID-19 vaccine conversation.
Students back on campus for first day of spring 2021 semester
January 20, 2021
Tulane’s campuses brimmed with excitement as students began the spring semester.
Tulane identifies potential animal model for studying severe COVID-19 infections
January 19, 2021
For the first time, Tulane University researchers have identified and replicated a little understood, hyperimmune response in nonhuman primates that could one day lead to treatments to rescue patients with severe cases of the disease. Their findings were published in The American Journal of Pathology.