The urgent need for integrated science to fight COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Negar Moradian; Hans D Ochs; Constantine Sedikies; Michael R Hamblin; Carlos A Camargo Jr; J Alfredo Martinez; Jacob D Biamonte; Mohammad Abdollahi; Pedro J Torres; Juan J Nieto; Shuji Ogino; John F Seymour; Ajith Abraham; Valentina Cauda; Sudhir Gupta; Seeram Ramakrishna; Frank W Sellke; Armin Sorooshian; A Wallace Hayes; Maria Martinez-Urbistondo; Manoj Gupta; Leila Azadbakht; Ahmad Esmaillzadeh; Roya Kelishadi; Alireza Esteghamati; Zahra Emam-Djomeh; Reza Majdzadeh; Partha Palit; Hamid Badali; Idupulapati Rao; Ali Akbar Saboury; L Jagan Mohan Rao; Hamid Ahmadieh; Ali Montazeri; Gian Paolo Fadini; Daniel Pauly; Sabu Thomas; Ali A Moosavi-Movahed; Asghar Aghamohammadi; Mehrdad Behmanesh; Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar; Saeid Ghavami; Roxana Mehran; Lucina Q Uddin; Matthias Von Herrath; Bahram Mobasher; Nima Rezaei

doi:10.1186/s12967-020-02364-2

The urgent need for integrated science to fight COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

J Transl Med. 2020 May 19;18(1):205. doi: 10.1186/s12967-020-02364-2.

Authors

Negar Moradian^{1

2}, Hans D Ochs^{1

3}, Constantine Sedikies^{1

4}, Michael R Hamblin^{1

5

6}, Carlos A Camargo Jr^{1

7}, J Alfredo Martinez^{1

8

9}, Jacob D Biamonte^{1

10}, Mohammad Abdollahi^{1

11}, Pedro J Torres^{1

12}, Juan J Nieto^{1

13}, Shuji Ogino^{1

14

15

16}, John F Seymour^{1

17

18}, Ajith Abraham^{1

19}, Valentina Cauda^{1

20}, Sudhir Gupta^{1

21}, Seeram Ramakrishna^{1

22}, Frank W Sellke^{1

23}, Armin Sorooshian^{1

24

25}, A Wallace Hayes^{1

26}, Maria Martinez-Urbistondo²⁷, Manoj Gupta^{1

28}, Leila Azadbakht^{1

28}, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh^{1

29}, Roya Kelishadi^{1

30}, Alireza Esteghamati^{1

31}, Zahra Emam-Djomeh^{1

32}, Reza Majdzadeh^{1

33}, Partha Palit^{1

34}, Hamid Badali^{1

35

36}, Idupulapati Rao^{1

37}, Ali Akbar Saboury^{1

38}, L Jagan Mohan Rao^{1

39}, Hamid Ahmadieh^{1

40}, Ali Montazeri^{1

41}, Gian Paolo Fadini^{1

42}, Daniel Pauly^{1

43}, Sabu Thomas^{1

44}, Ali A Moosavi-Movahed^{1

38}, Asghar Aghamohammadi^{1

2}, Mehrdad Behmanesh^{1

45}, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar^{1

46}, Saeid Ghavami^{1

47

48}, Roxana Mehran^{1

49}, Lucina Q Uddin^{1

50}, Matthias Von Herrath^{1

51}, Bahram Mobasher^{1

52}, Nima Rezaei^{53

54}

Affiliations

¹ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN),.
² Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 14194, Iran.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington and Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁴ Centre for Research on Self Identity, Department of Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
⁵ Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
⁶ Laser Research Centre, Faculty of Health Science, University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein, 2028, South Africa.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ University of Navarra, CIBERobn and IMDEA food, International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS), Navarra, Spain.
⁹ International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS), London, UK.
¹⁰ Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia.
¹¹ Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center (PSRC), The Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (TIPS), and School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
¹² Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain.
¹³ Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago De Compostela, Spain.
¹⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁵ Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁶ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁷ The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁸ Department of Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁹ Machine Intelligence Research Labs, Auburn, WA, USA.
²⁰ Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino Corso, Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Turin, Italy.
²¹ Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, University of California Irvine, California, USA.
²² National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
²³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, 02903, USA.
²⁴ Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
²⁵ Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
²⁶ A. Wallace Hayes, University of South, Florida College of Public Health and Institute for Integrative Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
²⁷ Internal Medicine and Infections Service, Hospital Puerta De Hierro, Madrid, Spain.
²⁸ Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
²⁹ Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³⁰ Child Growth and Development Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
³¹ Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
³² Department of Food Science, Engineering and Technology, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj Campus, Karaj, Iran; Transfer Phenomena Laboratory (TPL), Controlled Release Center, University of Tehran, Karaj Campus, Karaj, Iran.
³³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³⁴ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Drug Discovery Research Laboratorty, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India.
³⁵ Invasive Fungi Research Center and Department of Medical Mycology, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
³⁶ Fungus Testing Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, USA.
³⁷ Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia.
³⁸ Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
³⁹ Spice and Flavour Science Department, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India.
⁴⁰ Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁴¹ Population Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Center, Institute for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.
⁴² Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolic Diseases and, Padova Hospital, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
⁴³ Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁴⁴ School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, 686 560, India.
⁴⁵ Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
⁴⁶ Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁴⁷ Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P4, Canada.
⁴⁸ Faculty of Medicine, Katowice School of Technology, 40-555, Katowice, Poland.
⁴⁹ Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, USA.
⁵¹ Center for Type 1, Diabetes Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, USA.
⁵² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
⁵³ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), , . rezaei_nima@tums.ac.ir.
⁵⁴ Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 14194, Iran. rezaei_nima@tums.ac.ir.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has become the leading societal concern. The pandemic has shown that the public health concern is not only a medical problem, but also affects society as a whole; so, it has also become the leading scientific concern. We discuss in this treatise the importance of bringing the world's scientists together to find effective solutions for controlling the pandemic. By applying novel research frameworks, interdisciplinary collaboration promises to manage the pandemic's consequences and prevent recurrences of similar pandemics.

Keywords: COVID-19; Collaboration; Complex problems; Coronavirus; Interdisciplinarity; Public health.

Publication types

Historical Article
Review

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / pathogenicity
Biomedical Research / methods
Biomedical Research / organization & administration*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / therapy
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / methods
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / organization & administration*
Emergencies*
Health Services Needs and Demand*
History, 21st Century
Humans
Interdisciplinary Communication
Interdisciplinary Studies
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
Public Health / history
Public Health / standards
SARS-CoV-2