{"id":208133,"date":"2020-05-12T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?p=208133"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:36:01","slug":"acing-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2020\/05\/12\/acing-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Acing the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julia has been working behind-the-scenes to bring a new at-home self-collection kit for LabCorp\u2019s COVID-19 diagnostic test into the hands of the health-care workers and first responders who need it the most.<\/p>\n

She leads the molecular diagnostics department at LabCorp\u2019s Raritan, New Jersey, lab, where she was able to rapidly scale up and validate an at-home collection kit that was the first authorized for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m a nerd who is into biology, but when I first learned about the coronavirus, I immediately thought, ‘I have a feeling a few months from now, I\u2019m going to be testing this by the thousands.’<\/p>\n