Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.
J Biomol Tech. 2021 Dec 15;32(4). doi: 10.7171/3fc1f5fe.87a00931.
Shared research resources, also known as core facilities, serve a crucial role in supporting research, training, and other needs for their respective institutions. In response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, all but the most critical laboratory research was halted in many institutions around the world. The Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities conducted 2 surveys to understand and document institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from core facility perspectives. The first survey was focused on initial pandemic response and efforts to sustainably ramp down core facility operations. The second survey, which is the subject of this study, focused on understanding the approaches taken to ramp up core facility operations after these ramp-down procedures. The survey results revealed that many cores remained active during the ramp-down, performing essential COVID-19 research, and had a more coordinated institutional response for ramping up research as a whole. The lessons gained from this survey will be indexed to serve as a resource for the core facility community to understand, plan, and mitigate risk and disruptions in the event of future disasters.
共享研究资源，也称为核心设施，在支持其各自机构的研究、培训和其他需求方面发挥着至关重要的作用。为应对冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行，世界上许多机构除了最关键的实验室研究外，其他所有研究都已停止。生物分子资源设施协会进行了 2 次调查，从核心设施的角度了解和记录机构对 COVID-19 大流行的应对措施。第一次调查侧重于大流行初期的应对措施以及可持续降低核心设施运营的努力。第二次调查，也就是本研究的主题，重点是了解在这些降速程序之后，核心设施运营恢复的方法。调查结果表明，许多核心设施在降速期间仍然保持活跃，进行着至关重要的 COVID-19 研究，并且在整体上有一个更协调的机构应对措施来恢复研究。从这次调查中获得的经验教训将被编入索引，作为核心设施社区的资源，以便在未来发生灾害时了解、规划和减轻风险和中断。
