Brookhaven National Lab researchers are gathering experimental capabilities and computational resources in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deciphering the key characteristics of the virus that causes COVID-19 and using experiments and computational methods to identify promising drug and vaccine candidates — those are but some of the efforts underway at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.
The laboratory is also exploring options to help supply medical professionals with critical protective equipment.
“Brookhaven Lab has exceptional resources for addressing some of the most urgent scientific and logistical challenges of this pandemic,” said John Hill, director of Brookhaven Lab’s National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), who is chairing a working group to coordinate the Lab’s COVID-19 science and technology efforts, and is serving on a team coordinating the COVID-19 research across all the DOE national labs.
“The speed with which the entire scientific community is attacking this problem is amazing,” he said, “and the whole lab, whether working off-site or on, is part of this effort.”
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