{"656477":{"#nid":"656477","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Inside the High Stakes Race to Test the Covid Tests","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOver the last two years, a group of researchers at Georgia Tech, Emory University, and Children\u0026#39;s Healthcare of Atlanta\u0026nbsp;has played a key, but largely hidden, role in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ngetting Covid tests into the hands of Americans, working with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nih.gov\u0022\u003ENational Institutes of Health\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fda.gov\u0022\u003EFood and Drug Administration\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;We kind of functioned as their eyes and hands to answer the\u0026nbsp;question, Do these tests work?\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/petitinstitute.gatech.edu\/wilbur-lam\u0022\u003EWilbur Lam\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/bio\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Essentially, we\u0026rsquo;re testing the tests.\u0026rdquo; College of Sciences contributors to the Georgia Tech\/Emory\/CHOA collaboration include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gregory-gibson\u0022\u003EGreg Gibson\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Regents Professor, Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of\u0026nbsp;Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics, and IBB member; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/petitinstitute.gatech.edu\/steve-woodard\u0022\u003ESteve Woodward\u003C\/a\u003E, senior assistant director, core facilities, IBB; and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/petitinstitute.gatech.edu\/andres-garcia\u0022\u003EAndr\u0026eacute;s Garcia\u003C\/a\u003E, IBB executive director. Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;Surveillance Testing\u0026nbsp;also participated\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;sample collection and sequencing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-03-18 17:31:09","changed_gmt":"2022-03-18 17:31:09","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/15\/health\/covid-testing-variants-emory.html?","dateline":{"date":"2022-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"497","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"190028","name":"covid tests"},{"id":"2305","name":"Emory University"},{"id":"9721","name":"Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta"},{"id":"10645","name":"Greg Gibson"},{"id":"14681","name":"Wilbur Lam"},{"id":"167422","name":"Steve Woodard"},{"id":"539","name":"Andres Garcia"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}