# WCM-Rutgers NJMS CTU Supplement for COVID Testing

> **NIH NIH UM1** · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · 2020 · $300,000

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) Clinical Research Site (CRS) 31786 is
requesting $300,000 in funding to help support Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing. The CRS is part of the Weill Cornell-Rutgers NJMS
Clinical Trials Unit and has been a site for two Division of AIDS (DAIDS) funded clinical trials
networks: AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) and HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) for
fifteen years.
The program plans to provide SARS-CoV-2 testing by leveraging its existing relationships with
the local community and partnering with the clinical laboratory located at Public Health
Research Institute (PHRI), also a Rutgers facility to perform SARS-CoV-2 testing using the
Cepheid testing platform. The Cepheid COVID-19 testing platform has been developed at PHRI
with Cepheid and is one of the most sensitive tests currently available to detect SARS-Co-V 2
infection.
We will provide SARS-CoV-2 testing at the CRS, in an adjacent building and on a mobile van.
These testing locations are well-known and easily accessible to the community, healthcare
workers and other high-risk groups. We will also attempt to ensure that special populations such
as minorities and the LGBTQ community have access to the test. Finally, this will help the CRS
further strengthen its relationship with the community and allow the unit to provide an essential
service to this hard-hit community.
If funded, this project will allow us to rapidly increase the availability of SARS CoV-2 testing and
help contribute to the urgent need for additional COVID testing in an underserved community
located near the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10166397
- **Project number:** 3UM1AI069419-14S1
- **Recipient organization:** WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV
- **Principal Investigator:** ROY M. GULICK
- **Activity code:** UM1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $300,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-06-16 → 2021-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10166397

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10166397, WCM-Rutgers NJMS CTU Supplement for COVID Testing (3UM1AI069419-14S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10166397. Licensed CC0.

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