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Ben Dalziel's team receives $2 million grant to expand TRACE-COVID-19 nationally

Ben Dalziel's team receives $2 million grant to expand TRACE-COVID-19 nationally

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University researchers have received a $2 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to create a national TRACE Center that will expand the OSU’s COVID-19 public health project to other states.

The center will harness the power of public health departments, universities and other institutions around the country to help measure the prevalence of the virus that causes COVID-19 by combining community surveillance sampling, wastewater analysis, viral sequence data and mathematical models of SARS-CoV-2 prevalence that OSU TRACE researchers have developed.

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