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24 Aug 2022

Women in COG: in Conversation with Dr Mariana Viegas

On Thursday 22nd September, at 13:00 – 14:00 BST, we will be hosting our next ‘Women in COG’ event featuring Dr Mariana Viegas, professor of clinical virology  at the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina, and coordinator of the Argentine Consortium for SARS-CoV-2 Genomics (PAIS project).

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17 Aug 2022

New research reveals how Omicron bypasses the human immune system

A new study by an interdisciplinary group of scientists and clinicians from across the UK has demonstrated that the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is capable of significant evasion from neutralising antibodies. The findings – enabled by COG-UK support – were recently published in a leading scientific journal, Nature Microbiology.

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11 Aug 2022

Why the REACT programme provides a model for future pandemic responses

When the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, there were many unknowns about how SARS-CoV-2 would spread through the population. But what scientists did know was that effective surveillance would be critical to understanding disease rates and spread, and to mitigating the impact of the virus. We spoke to Graham Blakoe, a Project Manager at Imperial College London, who is working closely on the REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) Programme, one of the national studies to which COG-UK has contributed.