Join us on June 9 for the second session of Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community, a new webinar series hosted by ASCP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this session, “3D-Printed Nasal Swabs for the City of Austin’s COVID-19 Response – Texas State University,” Juan Gomez, PhD, a research associate in the Physics Department, will present a case study on how his team re-purposed existing and idle 3D printers at Texas State to produce nasal swabs in support of the City of Austin’s COVID-19 testing response. This innovative strategy helped to locally address the widespread supply chain bottleneck involving access to nasal swab observed early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Gomez will share his experience collaborating with the city and other academic centers to support this effort as well as successes, challenges, and lessons learned to better inform future public health emergency response supply chain manufacturing and management. The webinar will be from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. CDT. To join the this webinar discussion, please register at:
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