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.
Photos: Moments of gratitude as COVID-19 vaccine rolls out
January 14, 2021
Physicians, nurses, researchers, medical staff, volunteers and countless others have been battling the COVID-19 pandemic on the frontlines for months. Now, with the COVID-19 vaccine starting to be distributed to eligible groups, the community is one step closer to seeing an eventual end to the pandemic.
School of Medicine holds virtual White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2024
January 13, 2021
On Jan. 8, first-year medical students at Tulane School of Medicine received their white coats at the official White Coat Ceremony.
Photos: Tulane rolls out COVID-19 vaccine
January 12, 2021
About 50 members of the Tulane community received their first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday in the J. Bennett Johnston Building.
Tulane University begins to administer COVID-19 vaccine to faculty, staff
January 12, 2021
On Tuesday, Tulane University began administering the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to faculty, staff and students of some of its schools.
Students get ready for spring semester at Arrival Center
January 11, 2021
Students began trickling into the Arrival Center at the Hyatt Regency Hotel this past weekend ahead of moving on to campus for the spring semester.
Tulane University to begin COVID-19 vaccine rollout
January 08, 2021
Tulane University has been designated as a COVID-19 vaccine provider site by the Louisiana Department of Health and will become one of the first universities in the state to begin administering doses of COVID-19 vaccine. The designation allows Tulane to receive vaccines directly from manufacturers and rapidly mobilize staff to provide immunizations for those in the university community who are eligible under state guidelines.