UMass Lowell’s Fabric Discovery Center won a grant for nearly $131,000 from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Emergency Response Team to buy high-level, industry-standard testing equipment for PPE.

Faculty and students from the Biomedical Engineering Department are playing a key role in dramatically ramping up testing capacity for COVID-19 through their work on RADx, or the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics, a National Institutes of Health initiative.

Since the spring, the university’s Office of Research and Innovation has awarded three rounds of COVID-19 internal seed grants to 15 faculty-led projects, totaling more than $151,000 to faculty across all colleges.

A team of UMass Lowell researchers has invented a low-cost, portable and easy-to-use coronavirus diagnostic test that could deliver results in as little as five minutes.

Bob Ward ’71, ’12 (H), the president and CEO of ExThera Medical Corp., is using an innovative filter that he invented to capture and remove SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from the blood of infected patients. 

Bhupen Shah ’92, vice president of engineering for Maynard, Massachusetts-based Acacia Communications Inc., has tried to pay it forward, sharing his own practical knowledge with today’s UML students

Chetan N. Patel ’84 says he benefited from the hands-on experience in UML’s labs and from the supportive faculty. His professors were there not only to help with academics and research, but also with career and life advice.