Julie Messersmith, Executive Director for Research at Johns Hopkins, discusses her roles in the strategies involved in bringing multi-disciplinary researchers together to work on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. She shares information about  the program for coordinated response with 9 working groups that were formed shortly after Hopkins shut down non essential work and research. She also discusses testing at Hopkins, genomics work on both the virus and hosts, and  possible treatments in development at Hopkins.

You can find Julie on twitter @JMessersmith_JH and more information about Julie and her roles at Hopkins here: https://research.jhu.edu/our-team/julie-messersmith/

The Hopkins COVID-19 tracking page is of course here: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

In the episode we refer to Denis Wertz by first name only but you can find out more about him here: https://engineering.jhu.edu/chembe/faculty/denis-wirtz/