Aug. 7, 2021
Joint state effort to dig more deeply into Covid-19 variants in Western New York
A University at Buffalo lab will share a $20 million infusion to identify more Covid-19 variants as part of a partnership between the state and five specialized labs across New York.
The effort will help medical providers and the public learn more quickly when a new variant emerges, and which variants become dominant in more pockets of the state.
“It allows us to sequence more and to sequence more broadly,” said Jennifer Surtees, a UB biochemist who co-directs the university Genome, Environment and Microbiome Community of Excellence, or GEM.
Sequence data generated also will help build understanding of how different variants impact Covid-19 illness, therapies or vaccine evasion and efficacy, helping inform public health recommendations and interventions.
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