A multidisciplinary team at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston working to combat the COVID-19 virus has a system that will unlock researchers’ ability to more quickly develop and evaluate developing vaccines, diagnose infected patients and explore whether or how the virus has evolved.

Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch are collaborating with the clinical trial laboratory services organization Q2 Solutions to make a new assay test available that will streamline the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.

No parent ever wants to have to take his or her child to an emergency department or to a stay in a hospital. When the need arises, having to drive far from home can make a difficult experience even worse. With that in mind, two health care institutions with long histories of service to the region are teaming up to expand access to pediatric care in a space designed just for children.

More than 2.5 million people in the United States alone experience a traumatic brain injury, or TBI, each year. Some of these people are plagued by a seemingly unrelated cascade of health issues for years after their head injury, including fatigue, depression, anxiety, memory issues, and sleep disturbances.