NCI takes lead on serological test validation as cancer center joins COVID-19 fight

Deploying its HPV serology testing lab to validate COVID-19 assays is one of three ways NIH’s National Cancer Institute is retooling cancer research activities to take on the pandemic.

In a virtual advisory committee meeting Thursday, Deputy Director Douglas Lowy shared how NCI’s Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research will help validate COVID-19 serology tests, discover genetic determinants of susceptibility to severe disease, and screen for covalent inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 proteinases...