From the University of Maryland School of Public Health
A $9.4 million gift to the University of Maryland will help fund a daring research initiative aimed at creating the next great public health revolution—innovative and affordable systems that provide clean, safe indoor air and prevent the spread of respiratory infections.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s cryptocurrency gift from his Balvi Filantropic Fund—the largest of its kind to UMD and among the largest crypto donations ever given to a U.S. university—will support the School of Public Health’s research into germicidal ultraviolet light (GUV) led by the Public Health AeroBiology Laboratory (PHAB Lab). Operating with the flip of a switch, the GUV systems could one day be an indispensable and ubiquitous measure to eliminate COVID-19, influenza and other highly contagious pathogens from the air more quickly and effectively than ventilation and filtration alone.
