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The COVID pandemic was the first global pandemic vaccination programme, and presented an opportunity to understand how immunity evolves after both infection and vaccination, and how this subsequently impacts viral evolution. The speaker will  present how we have used data from the UCLH-Crick Legacy study to better understand how immunity evolves, and the modelling approach taken with Adam Kucharski’s team at LSHTM to investigate more effective vaccination boosting strategies. 

As part of its Tackling Infections strategic theme UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is funding two multimillion-pound studies to progress understanding of viruses and how the immune system reacts to different challenges, with a focus on COVID-19. Click to read more...