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Studying the immune response in bats to better understand COVID-19
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Published: 7 July 2020
Understanding how bats cope with viruses could help us develop COVID-19 therapies, according to in Knowable Magazine. One of our faculty members, Dr. Judith Mandl, was interviewed for the article and is currently studying the immune response of bats in her lab.