News: Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine

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Business and Community |

New dashboard will include COVID-19 concentration data, information about variant testing, and more.

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Research |

Data from UNLV wastewater surveillance program predicts record number of COVID cases in coming weeks.

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Campus News |

A collection of news stories from 2021 highlighting UNLV’s continuing response to COVID-19 and faculty experts who have helped make sense of the pandemic and its impact to daily life. 

UNLV researcher Edwin Oh holds a pipette in his lab on campus.
Research |

Local partnership grows to 20 states; monitoring begins in October with implications for future influenza vaccine development.

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Business and Community |

As the pandemic tightened its grip on Nevada, the nation, and the world, UNLV responded in ways big and small. Members of the media also turned to UNLV's faculty experts for answers.

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Research |

Biostatistician Richard Tillett from the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine was part of a statewide team to identify a Nevada man infected twice by COVID-19 – the first documented occurrence in North America.

U.N.L.V. researcher Edwin Oh holds a pipette in his lab on campus
Research |

UNLV researcher Edwin Oh and collaborators implement wastewater surveillance programs to supplement coronavirus contact tracing efforts, help prevent outbreaks.

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Research |

Expanding research activity results in multiple grants and publications.

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Business and Community |

Food Genes and Me is a site and software that lets users figure out health risks and how to solve them within minutes.

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Research |

The public is invited to get a first-hand glimpse at innovation.

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Research |

That pain in your neck may be from your tablet device, how librarians help keep students in school, a research course that has undergrads digging up viruses, and more.

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Research |

Thirty-eight faculty will receive a combined $332,270 in seed funding for their research, scholarship, and creative activity.