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Combatting COVID-19: How Cambridge is tackling a global pandemic

Across Cambridge University, there is a huge wealth of knowledge and expertise feeding into the nationwide response to the spread of COVID-19.

This weekly webinar series presents the impressive diversity of activities being carried out by Cambridge researchers, the passion and the enthusiasm which this work is being delivered and, how collectively, Cambridge University is tackling the many challenges created by the global health crisis of our time. 

 

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Dr Sanjay Sinha  

Dr Sanjay Sinha

Episode 11: COVID effects on the heart

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Jonny Coates PhD

Episode 12: Preprinting a pandemic; the role of preprints in the COVID-19 pandemic

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Dr Frances Hall

  Dr Ahmed Alaa

Dr Frances Hall

Episode 9: A TACTICal Therapeutic Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Dr. Ahmed Alaa 

Episode 10: Global COVID-19 Scenario Planning and Policy Effects using Compartmental Gaussian Processes

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Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter

Episode 7: What are the risks of COVID? And what is meant by ‘the risks of COVID’

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Dr Estée Török

Episode 8: Chance favours the prepared mind: challenges and opportunities of conducting research during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Dr Olivier Restif

  Dr Claudia Schneider

Dr Olivier Restif

Episode 5: Bats in the limelight: where do pandemics come from and what can we do about it?

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Dr Claudia Schneider

Episode 6: COVID-19 risk perceptions, reactions, and psychological underpinnings around the world

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Professor Anthony Davenport

 

Professor Alan Short Professor Andy Woods

Professor Anthony Davenport

Episode 3: Localization and function of ACE2 in humans, a key protein for SARS-CoV-2 entry into cells

 

Professor Andrew Woods and Professor Alan Short

Episode 4: Designing ventilation for reduced aerosol dispersal in field hospitals (with applications for the Covid-19 Crisis)

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Dr Stephen Baker                       Waradon Sungnak

Professor Stephen Baker

Episode 1: Establishing a COVID diagnostics facility in an academic research laboratory

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Waradon Sungnak

Episode 2: Single-Cell Transcriptomics Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Entry Factors

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