Scientists at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow are combining their expertise to aid the global battle against coronavirus. The collaboration brings together world-leading researchers at Medical Research Council-funded units at both institutions to generate biological tools that will enable them to study the virus and identify ways of defeating it. The MRC Protein Phosphorylation […]
Researchers from Imperial have analysed the likely impact of multiple public health measures on slowing and suppressing the spread of coronavirus. The latest analysis comes from a team modelling the spread and impact COVID-19 and whose data are informing current UK government policy on the pandemic. The findings are published in the 9th report from […]
Vice-Chancellor Dr John Cater has commended Edge Hill staff for donating emergency supplies to the NHS. Emergency supplies provided by Edge Hill University colleagues have ensured a local NHS Trust can continue to sanitise and test surgical masks in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust contacted the University to […]
Schools, families and key partners will be helped through the COVID-19 pandemic by Edge Hill University’s new virtual learning hub. The Faculty of Education has created the new service to bring together a range of resources to support new ways of learning in these uncertain times. The resources support the whole educational journey – with […]
Supporting Newcastle Students Affected by COVID-19 These are unprecedented times, for Newcastle and for the world. Our clear priority is our students and keeping them safe and healthy. We recognise that students have had their study plans abruptly disturbed, but we will not let this disrupt or derail their future. To support our students, we […]
Scientists at the University of Sheffield, in partnership with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Virology team, have sequenced their first two genomes of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), with samples collected from patients treated in the UK.The genomes have been published to the international viral sequence database GISAID to help track the virus and investigate how it is […]
A study by the University of Southampton examining non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in China shows that a range of early, coordinated and targeted measures are needed to help significantly reduce its spread. Researchers in the population mapping group WorldPop ran complex modelling, using anonymised data on both human movement […]
SA group of St George’s primary care and infectious disease experts have produced new guidance for GPs on handling the current COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. Published in the British Medical Journal today, the guidance provides advice for GPs on how to manage possible cases of COVID-19. Professor of General Practice at St George’s and senior author […]
A new approach to testing for coronavirus (COVID19) is to be trialled by researchers here at the University of Leicester, which could determine whether a person is infectious or not – even before symptoms are present. If successful, the approach could greatly simplify large scale screening for the virus and curb the spread of the […]
An innovative breath collecting device developed by academics at Northumbria University, Newcastle, could revolutionise the way we diagnose diseases, such as the newly emerged strain of coronavirus, COVID-19 Northumbria University secured regional support and funding for the next stage of product and business development of technology which enables diagnosis of disease through breath collection. Research […]
