Columbia COVID Tech Innovation Group

Current Focus Areas

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Face Shields

Breathing and ventilation support

• Invasive shared ventilator
• DIY Non-invasive ventilator
• Air filters (e.g. HEPA) for ventilator

Isolation Devices and PAPR

• Intubation Box

Sterilization of Materials

• UV and heat sterilization of masks

Disposables

• Sample collection swabs
• Sanitation Wipes

Diagnostics and Testing

• Rapid/point of care test kits

Patient Monitoring

• Temperature Monitoring

Disease Monitoring and Contact Tracing

• Machine Learning/Computational Methods for Understanding & Mitigating Spread

Adjusting to the New Normal (Living, Learning, Working Remotely)

• Virtual Campus

Goals

The COVID Tech Innovation Group has two tracks: 

1. addressing needs identified by healthcare workers combating coronavirus 
2. tackling unprecedented challenges prompted by wide-scale societal disruption

The team provides a collaboration platform for participants from engineering, science, healthcare, medicine, public health, business, and policy. In the short term, this group works to increase supplies of personal protective gear and other urgently needed medical equipment, while cataloging critical research topics that require longer-term research and development, such as rapid diagnostic tools and potential therapeutics. At the same time, the team looks for opportunities to mitigate long term impacts on product supply chains, financial systems, and emerging challenges to social infrastructure.

Additional Efforts

Columbia University

• Columbia Researchers Against COVID 
• COVID-19 Student Service Corps (CSSC) 

New York State

• NYS COVID-19 Technology SWAT Team

Research and Data

• University Libraries COVID-19 datasets 
• EVPR COVID-19 research funding opportunities

PPE Donation

For PPE Donations, email [email protected]

Contact Us

The Columbia COVID Tech Innovation Group can be reached at [email protected].