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Science is key to fight Corona virus and its' impacts
Many scientific disciplines are essential in fighting the Corona virus and reducing the number of fatalities. The Institute for Computational Mechanics & Center for Computational Biomedical Engineering, headed by Prof. Wall, together with the TUM-spinoff company Ebenbuild (https://www.ebenbuild.com/), are able to contribute with their internationally unique expertise in modeling the human respiratory system and by combining AI with medical imaging & other clinical data as well as with physics-based simulation. One of the driving forces for these research efforts was the search for a better understanding and an improvement of mechanical ventilation for patients suffering from acute respiratory failure (ARDS, i.e. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome). This is exactly what severe cases of COVID-19 are developing. Recent studies showed that 20- 30% of all ventilated COVID- 19 patients develop ARDS. Perhaps more importantly, it has been shown that among those patients who die from COVID- 19, over 90% had ARDS. Recently, a documentary on a German TV program (sorry, only in available in German) also highlighted parts of our efforts, watch here: https://www.sat1.de/regional/bayern/nachrichten/covid-19-wie-bayerische-wissenschaftler-gegen-das-virus-kaempfen-clip
See also the announcement of TUM here:
https://www.tum.de/nc/die-tum/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/details/35968/
as well as a press announcement of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy here:
https://www.exist.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/DE/EXIST-Start-up-Ebenbuild.html