COVID-19 studies jointly funded with UKRI
The following COVID-19 research projects have been awarded funding jointly by the NIHR and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Studies identified as 'CRN supported' are part of the portfolio of nationally prioritised Urgent Public Health Studies.
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| Name | CRN supported | Type | Host organisation | Chief Investigator | Award | Start date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Care response to Domestic Violence and abuse (DVA) in the COVID-19 pandemic | No | Health care service management | University of Bristol | Professor Gene Feder | £262,804 | October 2020 |
| The COVID-19: Clinical Neuroscience Study (COVID-CNS) | No | Clinical characterization and management | University of Liverpool | Dr Benedict Michael and Professor Gerome Breen | £1,986,056 | October 2020 |
| Curating UK COVID-19 diagnostics data to catalyse research and innovation | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | University of Nottingham, University of Dundee, University of Edinburgh Public Health England and HDR UK | Dr Philip Quinlan, Professor Emily Jefferson, Professor Aziz Sheikh and Dr Susan Hopkins | £4,048,599 | October 2020 |
| Inflammation in Covid-19: Exploration of Critical Aspects of Pathogenesis (ICECAP) | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | University of Edinburgh | Christopher D. Lucas | £393,795c | September 2020 |
| An analytical framework for Test, Trace and Isolate in the UK: optimising and targeting deployment alongside other measures | No | Epidemiological studies | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | Professor Elizabeth Fearon | £412,720 | September 2020 |
| Understanding and mitigating the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on NHS staff in England (NHS CHECK) | Yes | Epidemiological studies | King's College London | Professor Simon Wessely | £398,200 | September 2020 |
| SCAMP-COVID19: a school-based cohort study of COVID-19 secondary impacts on mental health | No | Epidemiological studies | Imperial College London | Professor Mireille Toledano | £304,217 | September 2020 |
| COVID-19 Mapping and Mitigation in Schools (CoMMinS) | Yes | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | University of Bristol | Professor Caroline Relton | £2,648,787 | September 2020 |
| The impact of COVID-19 and associated social restrictions on people with learning disabilities, their families and social care support workers | No | Health care service management | University of Lancashire and University of Warwick | Professor Chris Hatton and Professor Richard Hastings | £757,294 | September 2020 |
| Safety and lower airway immunogenicity of two candidate Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) vaccines administered to the respiratory tract | No | Candidate vaccines R&D | Imperial College London | Dr Chris Chiu | £579,784 | September 2020 |
| Development and manufacture of an improved replication-deficient simian adenoviral vector to prevent COVID-19 | No | Candidate vaccines R&D | Vaccitech Ltd | Dr Tom Evans | £155,829 | September 2020 |
| Transmission, pathogenesis and immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 in frontline healthcare workers: a national longitudinal cohort of 1320 participants | No | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | University of Nottingham | Dr Ana M Valdes | £725,268 | September 2020 |
| Nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | No | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | Dr Gwen Knight | £128,026 | September 2020 |
| Suppressing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in public spaces through surface engineering | No | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | University of St Andrews | Professor Peter Wahl | £270,977 | September 2020 |
| Self-harm rates, clinical contact and risks of suicide and early death before, during and after the COVID-19 peak: cohort study of linked health data | No | Epidemiological studies | University of Manchester | Professor Roger Webb | £158,713 | August 2020 |
| Intersections of ethnicity, gender, poverty, and mental health in adolescence in the context of COVID-19 | No | Epidemiological studies | King's College London | Professor Craig Morgan | £321,366 | August 2020 |
| Optimising Wellbeing during Self-isolation (OWLS) | No | Epidemiological studies | University of York | Dr Emily Peckham | £195,813 | August 2020 |
| Enabling Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to provide efficient remote treatment for child anxiety problems in the COVID-19 context | No | Clinical characterization and management | University of Oxford | Professor Cathy Creswell | £495,052 | August 2020 |
| Efficient geostatistical sampling to estimate the fraction of the population recovered from COVID-19 | No | Epidemiological studies | University of Warwick | Dr Samuel Watson | £34,383 | August 2020 |
| Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Care Home Pathways, Outcomes and Safety of Care | No | Clinical characterization and management | Lancaster University | Professor Jo Knight | £252,446 | August 2020 |
| Development of a natural transmission model of COVID-19 | No | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | Dr Stuart Dowall | £392,057 | August 2020 |
| Controlling COVID19 through enhanced population surveillance and intervention (Con-COV): a platform approach | No | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | Swansea University | Professor Ronan Lyons | £826,352 | August 2020 |
| ISARIC Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK (CCP-UK) - a companion study for patients with Cancer and COVID-19 (CCP-CANCER-UK) | No | Clinical characterization and management | University of Liverpool | Professor Palmieri and Dr Lance Turtle | £342,158 | August 2020 |
| AERosolisation And Transmission Of SARS-CoV-2 in Healthcare Settings (AERATOR) | Yes | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | North Bristol NHS Trust | Dr Nick Maskell | £432,785 | August 2020 |
| Investigating SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in North London Communities | No | Social sciences in the outbreak response Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection |
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | Dr Michael Marks | £251,240 | August 2020 |
| The contribution of occupational exposures to risk of COVID-19 and approaches to control among healthcare workers (COPE-Birmingham) | No | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | University of Birmingham | Professor Peymané Adab | £444,883 | August 2020 |
| United Kingdom Research Study into Ethnicity And COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers (UK-REACH) | Yes | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | University of Leicester | Dr Aarti Pareek | £2,146,067 | August 2020 |
| Developing and Delivering targeted SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) health interventions to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities living in the UK | No | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Professor Aftab Ala | £370,734 | August 2020 |
| Investigating incidence, severity and risk factors for COVID-19 in BAME and Migrant groups to inform public health action | No | Epidemiological studies | UCL | Dr Robert Aldridge | £1,396,357 | August 2020 |
| Transmission of COVID-19 in Kids (TraCK) | Yes | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection | Imperial College London | Professor Shiranee Sriskandan | £267,388 | August 2020 |
| The UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (UK-CIC): a UK underpinning platform to study immunology and immunopathology of COVID-19 | Yes | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | University of Birmingham | Professor Paul Moss | £6,499,686 | August 2020 |
| Demographic, multi-morbidity and genetic impact on myocardial involvement and its recovery from COVID-19: the COVID-HEART study | Yes | Epidemiological studies | University of Leeds | Professor John P Greenwood | £775,095 | August 2020 |
| Evidence-Based Supported Digital Intervention for Improving Wellbeing and Health of people living in Care Homes (WHELD) During COVID-19 | No | Clinical characterization and management | University of Exeter | Professor Clive Ballard | £1,231,436 | July 2020 |
| What TRIage model is safest and most effective for the Management of 999 callers with suspected COVID-19? A linked outcome study (TRIM) | No | Clinical characterization and management | Swansea University | Professor Alan Watkins | £361,401 | July 2020 |
| Ethnicity and COVID-19: investigating the determinants of excess risk in UK Biobank | No | Epidemiological studies | University of Leicester | Prof Thomas Yates | £127,042 | July 2020 |
| Development and Evaluation of a Training Package to support the Remote Assessment and Management of People with Movement Impairment and Disability | No | Health and care delivery | University of Plymouth | Professor Jennifer Freeman | £222,670 | July 2020 |
| The production and application of SARS-CoV-2 reverse genetic systems to facilitate vaccine development and biosafe drug discovery platforms | No | Candidate vaccines R&D | University of Bristol | Dr Andrew Davidson | £205,978 | July 2020 |
| Modelling the dynamics of viral load to reveal mechanisms of protection in COVID-19 | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | Imperial College London | Dr Aubrey Cunnington | £196,129 | July 2020 |
| COVID-19: Assessing the vulnerability of the fetus to SARS-CoV2 infection across development | No | Clinical characterization and management | UCL | Dr Mattia Gerli | £33,324 | July 2020 |
| Prognostic models for COVID-19 to support risk stratification in secondary care | No | Epidemiological studies Clinical characterization and management |
University of Birmingham | Dr Nicola Adderley | £103,304 | July 2020 |
| Longitudinal immunological and multi-omic profiling of haemodialysis patients | No | Clinical characterization and management | Imperial College London | Dr James Peters | £588,823 | July 2020 |
| A rapid realist review of community pharmacy support for the public health agenda during the COVID-19 pandemic and future health emergencies | No | Epidemiological studies | Aston University | Dr Ian Maidment | £86,134 | July 2020 |
| Quantifying the association between COVID-19, ethnicity and mortality: A cohort study across three UK national databases | No | Epidemiological studies | University of Oxford | Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox | £222,670 | July 2020 |
| COVID-NURSE. The development, testing and evaluation of a COVID-19 fundamental nursing care protocol: a randomised controlled trial | No | Clinical characterization and management Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection |
University of Exeter | Professor David Richards | £433,957 | July 2020 |
| Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 study: a national consortium to understand and improve long-term health outcomes (PHOSP-COVID) | Yes | Epidemiological studies Clinical characterization and management |
University of Leicester | Professor Chris Brightling | £8,532,684 | July 2020 |
| Liverpool COVID-19 Drug Interactions | No | Clinical characterization and management | University of Liverpool | Prof Saye Khoo | £66,177 | June 2020 |
| Ensuring that COVID-19 trials consider ethnicity: the INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework for randomised trials | No | Clinical characterization and management | University of Aberdeen | Prof Shaun Treweek | £15,172 | June 2020 |
| COVID-19 National DiagnOstic Research and Evaluation Platform (CONDOR) | Yes | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | University of Oxford and University of Manchester | Professor Gail Hayward and Professor Richard Body | £1,424,687 | June 2020 |
| Humoral Immune Correlates for COVID-19 (HICC): defining protective responses and critical readouts for clinical trials of vaccines and therapeutics | Yes | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | University of Cambridge | Professor Wilhelm Schwaeble | £1,587,288 | May 2020 |
| Urgent research and surveillance on COVID-19 using the new OpenSAFELY secure platform across 55 million patients' full linked primary care records | No | Epidemiological studies | University of Oxford | Dr Ben Goldacre | £1,301,399 | May 2020 |
| Mathematical modeling and adaptive control to inform real time decision making for the COVID-19 pandemic at the local, regional and national scale | No | Epidemiological studies | University of Warwick | Dr Michael Tildesley | £243,132 | May 2020 |
| Rapid evaluation of the COVID-19 pandemic response in palliative and end of life care: national delivery, workforce and symptom management (CovPall) | No | Health and care delivery | King's College London | Professor Irene Higginson | £280,949 | April 2020 |
Call 2
| Name | CRN supported | Type | Host organisation | Chief Investigator | Award | Start date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A protease activity profiling strategy to inhibit cell-to-cell transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | University of Oxford | Dr Sumana Sanyal | £213,137 | April 2020 |
| Understanding environmental and airborne routes of transmission | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | Public Health England | Allan Bennett | £337,435 | April 2020 |
| Understanding the dynamics and drivers of the COVID-2019 epidemic using real-time outbreak analytics | No | Epidemiological studies | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Dr John Edmunds | £492,766 | April 2020 |
| nCoV: A global registry of women affected by COVID-19 in pregnancy, understanding natural history to guide treatment and prevention | Yes | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics Clinical characterization and management |
Imperial College London | Professor Christoph Lees | £253,257 | April 2020 |
| Spatial heterogeneity in transmission and the impact of interventions: a mathematical modelling approach | No | Epidemiological studies | University of Exeter | Dr Leon Danon | £220,403 | April 2020 |
| Rapid co-design, implementation and evaluation of a digital behaviour change intervention to improve hand hygiene and limit spread of the COVID-19 outbreak | No | Social sciences in the outbreak response. Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection |
University of Southampton | Professor Lucy Yardley | £249,056 | April 2020 |
| nCoV: Understanding the dynamics of policy development and healthcare worker behaviour in the UK during the Covid-19 public health emergency | No | Social sciences in the outbreak response | University of Liverpool | Professor Sally Sheard | £294,488 | April 2020 |
| Virus Watch: Understanding community incidence, symptom profiles, and transmission of COVID-19 in relation to population movement and behaviour | Yes | Epidemiological studies Clinical characterization and management |
University College London | Professor Andrew Hayward | £3,248,052 | April 2020 |
| A mixed-methods evaluation of advice on isolation and health-seeking to contain transmission | No | Social sciences in the outbreak response Infection prevention and control, including health care workers’ protection |
Public Health England | Professor Isabel Oliver | £413,418 | April 2020 |
| Estimating severity from multiple data sources using Bayesian evidence synthesis | No | Epidemiological studies Clinical characterization and management |
University of Cambridge | Dr Anne Presanis | £180,599 | April 2020 |
| Early Assessment of COVID-19 epidemiology and Vaccine/anti-viral Effectiveness (EAVE II) | No | Epidemiological studies Clinical characterization and management |
University of Edinburgh | Professor Aziz Sheikh | £372,229 | April 2020 |
| Coronavirus STORY (Serum Testing of Representative Youngsters) | Yes | Epidemiological studies | University of Oxford | Professor Matthew Snape | £573,070 | March 2020 |
| nCoV: Serological detection of past SARS-CoV-2 infection by non-invasive sampling for field epidemiology and quantitative antibody detection | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics Epidemiological studies |
Imperial College London | Professor Richard Tedder | £429,983 | April 2020 |
| Platform Randomised trial of INterventions against COVID-19 In older peoPLE (PRINCIPLE) | Yes | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | University of Oxford | Professor Christopher Butler | £1,706,580 | April 2020 |
| Development of an NHP model of infection and ADE with COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | Public Health England | Professor Miles Carroll | £445,738 | April 2020 |
| Healthcare Workers: an in depth virological analysis and behavioural study during the outbreak | No | Candidate vaccines R&D | University College London | Dr Eleni Nastouli | £1,463,791 | April 2020 |
| Understanding Chinese government containment measures and their societal impacts | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics Clinical characterization and management |
University of Glasgow | Professor Jane Duckett | £333,963 | April 2020 |
| Gig workers: unsung heroes and a strategic role in the UK national response to the COVID-19 pandemic | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | University of Manchester | Professor Martie van Tongeren | £337,913 | April 2020 |
| Strengthening & Accelerating the Global Research Response to COVID-19 by Sharing Methods and Knowledge Between Countries, Networks and Organisations | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | University of Oxford | Professor Trudie Lang | £299,860 | April 2020 |
| saRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics | Imperial College London | Professor Robin Shattock | £1,724,708 | April 2020 |
| Development of an ovine polyclonal immunoglobulin therapy against COVID-19 | No | Virus: natural history, transmission and diagnostics Epidemiological Studies |
Public Health England | Dr Stuart Dowall | £445,720 | April 2020 |
Call 1
| Name | CRN supported | Type | Host organisation | Chief Investigator | Award | Start date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nCoV: Rapid Clinical Development of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 | Yes | Candidate vaccines R&D | University of Oxford | Professor Sarah Gilbert | £2,174,848 | March 2020 |
| COVID-19 multi-arm, multi stage adaptive clinical trial (RECOVERY) | Yes | Candidate therapeutics R&D | University of Oxford | Professor Peter Horby | £2,106,034 | March 2020 |
| Repurposing FDA-Approved Drugs for Treatment of 2019-nCoV-induced Disease | Yes | Candidate therapeutics R&D | Queen's University Belfast | Professor Ultan Power | £295,625 | March 2020 |
| COVID-19: Enabling availability for clinical use of 1 million doses of adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine by summer 2020 | Yes | Candidate vaccines R&D | University of Oxford | Dr Alexander Douglas | £411,388 | March 2020 |
| ISARIC - Coronavirus Clinical Characterisation Consortium (ISARIC-4C) | No | Clinical characterization and management | University of Edinburgh | Dr Kenneth Baillie | £4,908,946 | March 2020 |
| nCoV: Developing CoV-bnMABs for therapy of highly pathogenic coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2 | Yes | Candidate therapeutics R&D | Imperial College London | Professor Xiao-Ning Xu | £614,426 | March 2020 |