On Mar. 18, 2020, StartX, a non-profit startup community of more than 1500 Stanford faculty and alumni founders, announces the launch of its StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force and the mobilization of its breakthrough medical companies providing solutions for the prevention, diagnostics and treatment of the novel coronavirus.

The group of leading scientists, physicians and professor entrepreneurs collaborated on outreach to government agencies, regulatory bodies and healthcare systems in the interest of public health.