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National consortium to study threats of new SARS-CoV-2 variants
The University of Liverpool is part of a new national research project to study the effects of emerging mutations in SARS-CoV-2.
Supported by £2.5 million funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the ‘G2P-UK’ National Virology Consortium will study how mutations in the virus affect key outcomes such as how transmissible it is, the severity of COVID-19 it causes, and the effectiveness of vaccines and treatments.
The consortium will bring together leading virologists from 10 research institutions including the University of Liverpool. They will work alongside the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium, which plays a world-leading role in virus genome sequencing, and Public Health England to boost the UK’s capacity to study newly identified virus variants and rapidly inform government policy.
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