COVID-19 Projects in Progress

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The Division of Biostatistics is currently working on projects to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more here.

Last updated: July 2, 2020

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On-Going Projects

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  • Dr. Shari Messinger

    May 12, 2020:
    Dr. Camilo Riccordi, Dr. Joshua Hare, Dr. Shari Messinger, and others are working on a project titled "Stem cell therapies for severe COVID-19 disease – a randomized clinical trial." Read more about the trial here: https://physician-news.umiamihealth.org/new-cell-therapy-trial-launches-for-patients-with-severe-covid-19/. 

  • Dr. Deukwoo Kwon

    April 3, 2020: 
    Dr. Kwon is interacting with the head of the emergency management team for Miami-Dade in terms of developing projections for disease spread and containment as a function of the various mitigation and containment strategies that they are imposing. This will help to assess how well their planned strategies are doing at any point in time. Contact Dr. Kwon at dkwon@miami.edu.

  • Dr. J. Sunil Rao

    May 12, 2020: 
    Dr. Naresh Kumar, Dr. Rao, and Dr. Jayaweera Dushyantha are working on a project titled  "Assessing reductions in environmentally induced disease burden due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic: an unexpected reboot."
    May 12, 2020:
    Dr. Rao and Dr. Daniel Diaz-Pachon are working on a project titled, "Correcting for COVID-19 detection bias." 
    May 12, 2020:
    Dr. Chunming Dong (Cardiology), Dr. Xi Huang (Sun Yat-sen University, China), Dr. Robert Myerburg (Cardiology), Dr. Savita Pawha (Immunology), and Dr. Rao (2020) are working on a NIH R01 grant submission titled "Multi-omics approaches to predict severe COVID-19 disease." 
    May 12, 2020:
    Dr. Rao is co-editing a special issue of International Statistical Review (ISR) on COVID-19, together with Nalini Ravishanker (UConn) and Scott Holan (University of Missouri). They are targeting the August issue of the ISR journal. This issue will include papers on topics not always familiar to mainstream statisticians including SIR and extended SIR models, social network models, agent-based models, and small area estimation. ISR is the flagship publication of the International Statistical Institute. 

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