Live Coronavirus Research Gets Underway at BU’s NEIDL
Virologist Robert Davey will screen thousands of drugs for effectiveness against COVID-19 infection
Scientists at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), led by microbiologist Robert Davey, this week started suiting up to conduct research on live samples of the novel coronavirus, the first team in Boston to start such work on the global pandemic.