University of Oxford Ramps Up COVID-19 Testing

The University of Oxford announced it has joined forces with Thermo Fisher Scientific to ramp up the university’s capacity to deliver 50,000 COVID-19 tests per day. Announced on November 10, 2020, the new rapid testing laboratory and jointly developed Thermo Scientific OmnipathTM Combi SARS-CoV-2 IgG ELISA test detects and quantifies antibodies against the coronavirus.

Dr. Richard Cornall, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Head of the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford said in a press release, 'The collaboration is one of a number of projects that we’ve been co-developing with Thermo Fisher and is particularly important because it secures manufacturing and testing capacity that is important for the UK in the next phase of resolving the pandemic.'