44 projects
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COPLASMAVID -Atmospheric plasma treatments on textiles for virus decontamination and for increase...
In the context of the COVID19 pandemic, many countries in Europe suffer from critical shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as 'Filtering Face Piece' (FFP) masks and lab coats. In order to address this challenge, several initiatives throughout Western Europe are carried out to re-use the available equipment through decontamination or even sterilisation processes. So far, technologies such as chemical sterilization, irradiation technologies, UV exposure, supercritical CO2 or vacuum plasma have been tested and proved to be efficient against COVID19 contamination. However, they...
TraAct-DD - Track and Act with Data Donation #getout #stayout
Luxembourg is entering a gradual deconfinement phase. For this to be successful, it is critical that the country protect vulnerable people and build the trust of the population in going back to work, to school safely. It is also vital to identify asymptomatic COVID-positive patients and to wisely direct the (scarce) tests. If Luxembourg can manage this, epidemiological models indicate that a gradual release of the population may stem the pandemic and enable return to normal (#getout, #stayout). The ongoing debate at the government level indicates hesitation between blue-tooth tracing, ma...
Rapid large-scale decontamination of viruses using Engineered Water Nanostructures
Engineered Water Nanostructures (EWNS) are nanometer-sized droplets of ionized or charged water containing reactive oxygen species (ROS) which provide a highly effective, low cost, green, non-toxic of humans solution for rapid decontamination of microbes. Unlike harmful chemicals currently used in disinfectants, charged water has no effect on humans and has been found to be a safer alternative. Additionally, CDC has already added superoxidized (containing EWNS) water among the list of disinfectants found to be effective against viruses. In this project, we propose design, development, ...
Rapid Development and Initial Preclinical Evaluation of an Effective Candidate Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2
The current pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is a threat not only to global health but also to the economy since it is dramatically affecting the socioeconomic layers of societies around the planet. Thus, it will be critically important to advance in the production of an effective vaccine, which will be crucial for building up sufficient population-based immunity to efficiently curb the pandemic. While SARS-CoV-2 can infect everyone at all ages, it is mainly the elderly population that is most at risk of a fatal outcome. Elderly persons are charecterized by a declining immune function, known a...
FAREWELL to C19 (FAmily REsponse and WELL-Being impact of Covid-19
Lockdowns and the economic crisis induced by Covid-19 are imposing unprecedented constraints on families in terms of freedom of choice, consumption opportunities, time use, and social interaction. While working from home has become the norm, it also implies a dramatic increase in inequality among families, since people most likely to be working from home were already better off. The FAREWELL to C19 project aims to analyse how these effects concur with individual traits (such as age, gender, economic status, and resilience under uncomfortable circumstances) to shape people's preferences, eco...
COVID-19 and chronic diseases: national health care provider survey
COVID-19 is placing unprecedented pressures on healthcare systems. The current declared pandemic has urged healthcare professionals to reorganise profoundly their everyday practice while trying to maintain care for other patients. Since the 'lockdown' situation in Luxembourg, changes in the medical sector include the opening of advanced care centres, promotion of teleconsultations and restrictions on non-urgent health care. Pre-existing chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory disease are reported as being major risk factor for severe COVID-19 health outcomes (Jordan ...
COVID-19, MEntal HEalth, REsilience and self-REgulation (COME-HERE)
Humans are a social species, and their health, life and genetic legacy are threatened by social isolation. Like other animals, humans fare poorly when isolated. The preventive measures to contain the current COVID-19 outbreak limit all forms of physical social contacts to a minimum, more and earlier in some countries than in others. Differences exist also within the same country due to household composition and dwelling location. Social isolation is associated with ill health. In this project we will investigate which factors predict levels of psychological distress and well-being associate...
CORONASTEP+ - The value of sewage surveillance to provide new insights on the circulation of SARS...
Infection with SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of the current COVID-19 pandemic, is accompanied by excretion of the virus in the feces. Therefore, we assume that the quantification of SARS CoV-2 in sewage allows the prevalence of infections in the population to be monitored by wastewater-based epidemiology, particularly when clinical trial capacity is limited. The overall objective of the CORONASTEP+ project is to determine to which extent SARS-CoV-2 is present in domestic wastewater and to determine how far wastewater monitoring can be used to track and understand the circulation of SARS-...
