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CCBM / Physics Faculty Awarded UCOP Grant for Coronavirus Research

January 14, 2021

Physics professors Ajay Gopinathan and Linda Hirst and Chemistry Professor Michael Colvin are working on the UC Coronavirus Assembly Research Consortium, with Gopinathan as the co-PI. To understand how COVID-19 assembles itself into a viable virus, experts in biophysics, computer science and medicine will conduct experiments and computer simulations that have never before been performed on this virus. This knowledge can propel development of drug therapies that slow or destroy the virus.