COVID-19

The Pistoia Alliance is calling for organisations to support a new mentorship scheme to tackle issues around inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) after a survey found that women are significantly more disadvantaged than their male counterparts during Covid-19.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have used a large-scale human genetics study to identify drug targets important for managing Covid-19 in its early stages.

Open Orphan, a specialist pharmaceutical services clinical research organisation (CRO) has been approved to develop the world’s first Covid-19 human challenge model, which will take place in the UK.

A £2 million-pound high-performance computing (HPC) system at the University of Hull is playing a crucial role in enabling COVID-19 research

AMD and Penguin Computing have donated systems totalling seven petaflops of compute power to researchers as part of the AMD HPC Fund for COVID-19 research.

PRACE is joining the battle against COVID-19 by providing 195 000 000 core hours – to the first ten research projects awarded under the Fast Track Call for Proposals to support the mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

L7 Informatics and Contamination Source Identification (CSI) have announced a partnership to accelerate the implementation of testing for COVID-19 patient screening