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Secure Homomorphically Encrypted National Registry of COVID-19 Recovered Plasma Donors
Phone: (617) 294-9269
Email: aziz.boxwala@elimu.io
Phone: (617) 294-9269
Email: aziz.boxwala@elimu.io
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Type: Nonprofit College or University
PROJECT SUMMARY
Treatment with convalescent plasma (CP) was recently approved by the FDA for seriously ill patients of
COVID-19. There are many institutions and hospitals that have implemented CP programs, but they all face
the challenge of finding sufficient and appropriate donors. The constraints of matching, imbalances in supply
and demand, and privacy concerns pose several challenges to engage donors. Considering multiple
stakeholders (patients, donors, hospitals), we will develop new algorithms based on multikey homomorphic
encryption to protect the privacy of patients and donors, with additional functionality to simplify the registration
process, and conduct optimization for plasma donation (of patients who recovered from COVID-19). We are
dedicated to the public good and will make freely available the code / resources developed within the
framework of this project. If we succeed, our project will build a secure national registry for potential plasma
donors and may save many lives.Narrative
We are proposing a novel platform for convalescent plasma donation with integrated privacy protection and
resource optimization. The goal is to remove the barriers and concerns for COVID-19 recovered patients to
donate their plasma to save severely ill patients. This supplement grant extends our parent project with
innovative homomorphic encryption model and a customized design to meet this urgent need.
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