The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory board voted to recommend that the government authorize Molnupiravir, an antiviral pill discovered by Emory University scientists, for Emergency Use Authorization to treat COVID-19 on Nov. 30. Molnupiravir works by causing mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus during replication. In its clinical trials, Molnupiravir was found to be 30% effective at [...]
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Emory Professor of Psychology Donna Maney and Yesenia Garcia-Sifuentes (26G), a student in Emory’s Graduate Program in Neuroscience, published a study on Nov. 2 which detailed misreporting of sex differences in biological sciences. According to Maney, there has been a push for all clinical and preclinical research to include males and females over the past [...]
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Emory University announced a new waste management partnership with Goodr on Nov. 16, a compost and landfill company that also serves Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and the Georgia World Congress Center. Chief Climate Change Officer and Associate Vice President Ciannet Howett said she hopes the partnership will help achieve the University’s goal of zero landfill [...]
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Increased virtual engagement has allowed more students to see college campuses without actually having to travel there. Emory University has said new online tours and information sessions have led to an increase in low-income and first-generation applicants to the school. At the University, 13% of the applicants for the fall 2021 class were first generation [...]
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Researchers at Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) published a paper on Oct. 21 detailing an artificial intelligence-based tool that is able to predict COVID-19 symptoms and suggest specific FDA-approved drugs. These researchers developed MOATAI-VIR (Mode of Action proteins and Targeted therapeutic discovery driven by Artificial Intelligence for Viruses) in the hopes [...]
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