Ghose, RitobrataAranguren-Ibáñez, ÁlvaroArecco, NiccolòBalboa, DiegoBataller, MarcBeltran, SergiBenisty, Hannah, 1986-Bénard, AngèleBernardo, EdgarCarbonell Sala, SilviaCasals, EloiCiampi, LudovicaCondemi, LiviaCorvò, AlbertoCosín Tomàs, MartaCuenca-Ardura, MirabaiDuran Serrano, Juan ManuelEspejo Díaz, María IsabelFernández Callejo, MarcosGañez-Zapater, AntoniGarcia-Castellanos, RaquelGarrido, RominaHenkin, GilHermoso Pulido, AntonioHernandez-Alias, XavierHerrero Vicente, JorgeIngham, MatthewLim, Wei MingLlonch, SílviaMarmesat Bertoli, ElenaMiguel Escalada, IreneMontero-Blay, Ariadna, 1994-Navarrete Hernández, CristinaNeguembor, Maria VictoriaNí Chárthaigh, Róisín-AnaPardo-Lorente, NataliaPascual-Reguant, Laura, 1990-Pérez-Lluch, SílviaPerza, ReyesPesaresi, Martina, 1991-Picó Amado, DanielPifarré, PaulaPiscia, DavidePlana-Carmona, MarcosPonomarenko, JuliaRadusky, LeandroRivero, EzequielRogalska, MalgorzataTorcal Garcia, Guillem, 1991-Wojnacki, José2022-05-022022-05-022020Ghose R, Aranguren-Ibáñez A, Arecco N, Balboa D, Bataller M, Beltran S et al.From research to rapid response: mass COVID-19 testing by volunteers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation. F1000Res. 2020 Nov 16;9:1336. DOI:10.12688/f1000research.274972046-1402http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52956The COVID-19 pandemic has posed and is continuously posing enormous societal and health challenges worldwide. The research community has mobilized to develop novel projects to find a cure or a vaccine, as well as to contribute to mass testing, which has been a critical measure to contain the infection in several countries. Through this article, we share our experiences and learnings as a group of volunteers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain. As members of the ORFEU project, an initiative by the Government of Catalonia to achieve mass testing of people at risk and contain the epidemic in Spain, we share our motivations, challenges and the key lessons learnt, which we feel will help better prepare the global society to address similar situations in the future.application/pdfeng© 2020 Ghose R et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citedCOVID-19 (Malaltia)Genòmicainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.27497.1info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess