UC Davis COVID-19 Research and Researchers in the News (Week of 6/22)

UC Davis COVID-19 Research and Researchers in the News (Week of 6/22)
 

Press Releases and News Outlet Pickups

UC Davis Press Release (6/22): UC Davis Researchers Adapt Amyloid Technology to Catch Coronavirus
Two researchers at the University of California, Davis, are adapting their technology for amyloid-based, self-organizing protein scaffolds to combat ...

UC Davis Press Release (6/23): Why Masks? To Protect Your Community
As COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions ease and more businesses, bars ... UC Davis experts have been warning about the need for masks and have ...

UC Davis Health Press Release (6/23): Defining paths to possible mother to child coronavirus transmission
UC Davis Health researchers took a critical step in defining the possible paths for the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing COVID-19 to get transmitted from the mother to her newborn baby.

UC Davis Press Release (6/25): Roadkill Declines as COVID-19 Continues
The report, published today on the UC Davis Road Ecology Center website, is the first evidence that wildlife-vehicle conflict decreased along with ...

UC Davis Press Release (6/25): Is the Food Supply Strong Enough to Weather COVID-19?
From agricultural experts and economists to legal scholars and psychologists who help us understand the temptation to hoard, UC Davis researchers ...

 

Other UC Davis Research and Research Studies in the News

Hundreds of at-risk California Filipinos not tested for COVID-19, UC Davis study finds
The Sacramento Bee
A new survey conducted by Filipino American researchers at the University of California, Davis shows that hundreds of...

Efforts at coronavirus vaccines and treatments abound
San Francisco Chronicle
the drug very well,” she said. Mesenchymal stem cells / UCSF and UC Davis Medical Center: UCSF Dr. Michael Matthay is leading a...

56% of wild animals in Vietnam’s restaurants have a coronavirus, study says
New York Post
of Agriculture, EcoHealth Alliance and One Health Institute of the University of California, Davis COVID-19 is a...

Hundreds of at-risk California Filipinos not tested for COVID-19, UC Davis study finds
Sacramento Bee
... at the University of California, Davis shows that hundreds of California's Filipino Americans are at risk for contracting the coronavirus, but have yet to ...

California Healthline Daily Edition
California Healthline
And there were 3,574 confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in state ... by Filipino American researchers at the University of California, Davis shows that ...

How Do We Prevent the Next Pandemic?
Outside
, according to researchers at the One Health Institute at the University of California at Davis. In fact, nearly 75 ...

Risk of coronaviruses increases as wildlife moves from farms to restaurants, study finds
The Independent
, Vietnam National University of Agriculture, EcoHealth Alliance, and One Health Institute of the University of California, ...

Gender Gap in Research Output Widens During Pandemic
The Scientist Magazine
most affected Like Carmichael, Kishana Taylor, a postdoc at the University of California, Davis, has been struggling to ......

We have to get serious about protecting California farmworkers during COVID-19
CALmatters
Cal/OSHA has issued guidelines, checklists and multilingual educational materials, as has the UC Davis Western Center for Agricultural Health and ...

 

UC Davis Researchers and Experts Providing Insight

Lisa R. Pruitt is Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor of Law

Christine Johnson, a University of California, Davis professor of epidemiology

Paul Knoepfler, stem cell researcher

Bradley Pollock, associate dean for public health sciences

Philip Barruel, the biosafety program manager for laboratory research

James R. Carey, professor in the Department of Entomology

Michael Wilkes, a professor of medicine and global health

William Ristenpart, chemical engineer

Brandee Waite, director of physical medicine and rehabilitation

Sima Asadi, a chemical engineer

Dean Blumberg, Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Jonna Mazet, an epidemiologist

  • The Economist: Pandemic-proofing the planet
    Carroll, Dr Daszak and Jonna Mazet, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Davis, put forward a proposal ...

Dr. Sarah Medeiros, emergency medicine physician

Marianne Bitler