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.
Webinars to date - listen again |
Dr Sanjay SinhaEpisode 11: COVID effects on the heart |
Jonny Coates PhDEpisode 12: Preprinting a pandemic; the role of preprints in the COVID-19 pandemic |
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Dr Frances HallEpisode 9: A TACTICal Therapeutic Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Dr. Ahmed AlaaEpisode 10: Global COVID-19 Scenario Planning and Policy Effects using Compartmental Gaussian Processes |
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Professor Sir David SpiegelhalterEpisode 7: What are the risks of COVID? And what is meant by ‘the risks of COVID’ |
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Dr Estée TörökEpisode 8: Chance favours the prepared mind: challenges and opportunities of conducting research during the COVID-19 pandemic |
Dr Olivier RestifEpisode 5: Bats in the limelight: where do pandemics come from and what can we do about it? |
Dr Claudia SchneiderEpisode 6: COVID-19 risk perceptions, reactions, and psychological underpinnings around the world |
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Professor Anthony DavenportEpisode 3: Localization and function of ACE2 in humans, a key protein for SARS-CoV-2 entry into cells |
Professor Andrew Woods and Professor Alan ShortEpisode 4: Designing ventilation for reduced aerosol dispersal in field hospitals (with applications for the Covid-19 Crisis) |
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Professor Stephen BakerEpisode 1: Establishing a COVID diagnostics facility in an academic research laboratory |
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Waradon SungnakEpisode 2: Single-Cell Transcriptomics Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Entry Factors |