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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.