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Next Gen Program/Biomedical Sciences Researcher Gets COVID-19 Grant To Study Enzymes Critical for SARS-CoV-2 Replication

Next Gen Program/Biomedical Sciences Researcher Gets COVID-19 Grant To Study Enzymes Critical for SARS-CoV-2 Replication

Dr. Christopher Basler, professor and director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a $100,000 COVID-19 Fast Grant to study enzymes that are critical for the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Paid Sick Leave Mandates Hold Promise in Containing COVID-19, 2CI Researcher Finds

Paid Sick Leave Mandates Hold Promise in Containing COVID-19, 2CI Researcher Finds

Paid sick leave (PSL) mandates like those found in the federal government’s Families First Coronavirus Response Act may be helping to slow the spread of COVID-19, according to a new study by a Second Century Initiative (2CI) health economist at Georgia State and his colleague at Tulane University.

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On the Front Lines

On the Front Lines

Georgia State University faculty have joined the race to unravel how novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) operates and find effective treatments.

Faculty members are attacking the questions from the biomedical standpoint through work by virologists in the university’s Institute for Biomedical Sciences, epidemiological expertise through the School of Public Health, disease detector investigators through the Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, and more.

These researchers include faculty of the university’s Second Century Initiative (2CI), the predecessor program to the Next Generation Program, which seeks to build excellence in research and scholarship. Christopher Basler and Gerardo Chowell, both hired under 2CI, are making significant contributions to virology and epidemiology respectively.

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2CI Faculty Member Forecasts Novel Coronavirus Incidents Using Mathematical Epidemiology

2CI Faculty Member Forecasts Novel Coronavirus Incidents Using Mathematical Epidemiology

Public Health Professor Gerardo Chowell, a faculty member of the university’s Second Century Initiative (2CI), the predecessor to the Next Generation Program, has been quoted in local media regarding novel coronavirus during the COVID-19 pandemic and is creating updated coronavirus incidence forecasts.