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Researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute have won a new $10 million, five-year “Expeditions in Computing” grant from the National Science Foundation to use innovative technological and scientific advancements to plan for, and respond to, epidemics and pandemics, including outbreaks of deadly novel viruses.

A University of Virginia biomedical engineering student is trying to tackle the world’s No. 1 cause of death on a genetic level.

Amy Mathers, who is working on a ground-breaking research project as part of her seed grant from the Center for Engineering in Medicine, was also instrumental in developing the new COVID-19 tests that are now being administered.

Computer science professor Madhav Marathe, a division director at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, leads a team to develop a no cost system that can project not just how many infections or deaths might result from the new coronavirus but also show how many intensive-care-unit beds or ventilators could be needed in a specific city.

The University of Virginia School of Engineering is a founding partner of a new national research center that is addressing these urgent challenges. The Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, known as CHEST, earned a prestigious designation as a National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center as of Oct. 1.

Computer science students James Yun and Soukarya Ghosh are the creators of the public service website TrackCorona, a COVID-19 tracking website proving to be a valuable public service for anyone who wants to know more about the development of the pandemic.

Madhav Marathe, a professor of computer science and biocomplexity, and a division director at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, discusses the novel coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic.