TRIF-Leveraged UArizona COVID-19 Research and Innovation

The Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) that helped launch BIO5 in 2001 continues to catalyzes effective, cross-disciplinary bioscience research and innovation at the University of Arizona. In the past 19 years, over $50M has been invested in building critical facilities and research services that UArizona researchers are leveraging today to quickly and robustly respond to the current COVID-19 crisis. TRIF allows the flexibility to pivot and repurpose campus resources to engage in the complex fight against COVID -19, drawing on faculty expertise, campus facilities, logistical assets, research labs, and campus staff and leadership to provide immediate assistance in the battle against the pandemic.