ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Last April, the University of Central Florida was awarded $200,000 by the National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research Award.
Since then, a team of researchers led by assistant professors Michael Kinzel and Kareem Ahmed have been working on a new cough drop or lozenge which could potentially avoid contamination of COVID-19. “It’s like one of the things you strive to do as an engineer, right?
How do you make life better for people,” Kinzel said. Kinzel and Ahmed came up with the concept for the lozenge while researching for a project about fuels and engines. “We changed the fuel property in general and by changing the fuel property you can get different behaviors,” Ahmed said. “This idea is actually the same