Innovation Overground: COVID-19, part I (242)

Social distancing will not disrupt innovation! Join the Overground from home as they do their part to catalog how university innovation is addressing this historic pandemic. The crew discusses the multifaceted innovative response to COVID-19 coming from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, including a new approach to sterilize equipment using ultraviolet radiation, the early results of the Remdesivir clinical trial and a slew of other new inventions: face guards, intubation shields, aerosol mask filters, diagnostic kits and a COVID-19 screener app. Most importantly, learn the most comfortable (or maybe least uncomfortable) way to get a nasal swab! 

Featured Technologies:

UV cleaning technique (https://www.unemed.com/news/unmc-nebraska-medicine-reuse-ppe); Remdesivir trial (https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25531);
Intubation shield (https://www.unemed.com/product/intubation-box);
Infectious Aerosol Capture Mask (https://www.unemed.com/product/infectious-aerosol-capture-mask);
Infectious aerosol filter housing (https://www.unemed.com/product/infectious-aerosol-filter-housing)
mask filters https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25440;
diagnostic kits, https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25378;
COVID app https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=25379;
3D swabs https://www.ketv.com/article/local-3d-printing-company-creating-nasal-swabs-to-combat-testing-shortages/32074029;
COVID-19 technologies for licensing (https://www.unemed.com/product-category/covid-19) 

Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  

Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed 

Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/