Ronit Freeman and the Freeman Lab were featured on the cover of Carolina Scientific, a quarterly research magazine, published by The University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. Carolina Scientific highlighted the Freeman Lab’s innovative and cost-effective GlycoGrip test strip, which is an alternative to the RT-PCR testing method used in laboratories to test for the presence of COVID-19… Continue reading Freeman Lab featured on Front Cover of Carolina scientific magazine
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Freeman Lab lauded for catalyzing SARS-CoV-2 Research
Funded by RCSA’s swift COVID-19 response, the biomolecular engineering expertise at the Freeman Lab is being lauded as a catalyzing project. Resulting from this award, the Freeman Lab has “developed, patented, and quickly brought to mass-market production a glycopolymer-based lateral flow assay for detecting SARS-CoV-2 and its rapidly emerging variants”. The COVID-19 Initiative is a… Continue reading Freeman Lab lauded for catalyzing SARS-CoV-2 Research
Lung mucus strategy to mitigate Covid-19 transmission and infection receives NSF RAPID grant
The Freeman Lab is part of a multidisciplinary team that has been awarded an NSF RAPID grant, to explore the critical role of airway mucus in the transmission, infection, and spread of the COVID-19 virus. You can read more about this award at the Innovate Carolina website here. While the world waits for a vaccine… Continue reading Lung mucus strategy to mitigate Covid-19 transmission and infection receives NSF RAPID grant