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More than £700,000 in total has been awarded to projects including: one seeking to develop rapid, portable antibody testing; one following patients after hospitalisation for Covid-19; and one looking at how passengers on buses can be kept safe.

Funding comes from multiple sources including the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Coronavirus Response Fund (It’s All Academic campaign), Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøH Biomedical Research Centre (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøH BRC), and the Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund.

4 projects will also be co-funded by Moorfields Eye Hospital BRC (MEH BRC).

The 18 projects to receive funding are:

• COVID-19 post hospitalisation follow-up study, Professor Sam Janes     
• COVIDTrach; a UK national cohort study of mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients undergoing tracheostomy, Dr Nick Hamilton     
• Defining neutralising antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection, Dr Laura McCoy    
• Establishing a mechanism for Covid19 inflammatory disease, Professor Greg Towers
• How does SARS-CoV-2 affect the nervous system? (MEH BRC co-funded) Dr Ross Paterson and Dr Laura Benjamin
• Mitigating The Inequitable Effects Of Covid-19 Using Community And Cultural Assets (MEH BRC co-funded), Professor Helen Chatterjee
• Optimising 2020 secondary school transition processes during the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Sandra Leaton-Gray    
• Predicting beneficial versus harmful responses immune responses in COVID-19 (MEH BRC co-funded), Professor Lucy Walker
• Protein degraders of cyclophilin proteins as treatments for SARS-COV-2, Professor David Selwood    
• Rapid evaluation of vaccine-induced neutralising antibodies against SARS-CoV-2–Building Capacity, Dr Matthew Reeves    
• Rapid, portable, and scalable Covid-19 antibody testing (MEH BRC co-funded), Professor Stefan Howorka
• Reducing the risk of aerosols in dentistry and getting dentists back drilling Professor Ian Eames    
• Safety for Passengers in Buses, Professor Nick Tyler    
• Serological comparison of proven and suspected cases of COVID-19 pneumonia (SeroCOVID), Professor Jeremy Brown    
• The Impact of COVID-19 and Lockdown on Foster Carers and Children in Care, Dr Nick Midgley    
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health in Britain, Dr Nigel Field    
• The psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on NHS affiliated staff – monitoring response to the pandemic and the evaluation staff support programmes, Professor Rosalind Raine    
• You-COPE study: Youth COVID response personal experience: Tracking health and wellbeing amongst 16-24-year-olds in the UK during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Lee Hudson