The NIHR Imperial BRC has established a new ‘virtual’ Theme, acting as a focal and coordinating point for all active and proposed research initiatives currently being directed towards the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 infection, across Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
We are aiming for every patient with COVID-19 disease who is admitted to our hospitals to be given the opportunity to be part of one of the research trials or studies that we are running at Imperial (subject to eligibility and consent). You can find out more about ongoing clinical research projects here.
In addition to coordinating and prioritizing research studies, the NIHR Imperial BRC is providing additional infrastructure and funding where required to support the delivery of these activities, including research nurses, clinical research fellows, and access to tissue samples, clinical data, and other platforms.
The NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative (HIC) is actively engaged and the ICHT Research Informatics team are collating data and reports on suspected and actual COVID-19 patients, prototyping a real-time tool to support clinicians on the front-line and to support recruitment into studies.
The Colebrook Laboratory, funded by an NIHR capital award, is one of the focal points at Imperial for the collection and analysis of samples from patients with COVID-19.
Relevant Links:
Ongoing clinical studies
Accessing data for COVID-19 research
London IVD Diagnostics Pathway
Key Individuals
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Professor Graham Cooke
Theme lead and Professor of Infectious Diseases -
Professor Wendy Barclay
Theme Lead & Chair in Influenza Virology -
Dr Andrew Edwards
Non-Clinical Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology -
Dr Anika Singanayagam
Clinical Lecturer -
Dr Aubrey Cunnington
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Disease -
Dr Christopher Chiu
Senior Clinical Research Fellow -
Dr Frances Davies
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer -
Dr Luke Moore
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer -
Dr Malick Gibani
Clinical Lecturer -
Dr Paul Randell
Infectious Diseases Consultant -
Professor Alison Holmes
Professor of Infectious Diseases -
Professor Anthony Gordon
Chair in Anaesthesia and Critical Care -
Professor Charles Bangham
Chair of Immunology -
Professor Darius Armstrong-James
Professor of Infectious Diseases and Medical Mycology -
Professor Faith Osier
Co-Director, IoI, Chair, Immunology & Vaccinology -
Professor Gad Frankel
Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis -
Professor Georgios Kassiotis
Professor of Retrovirology -
Professor Graham Taylor
Professor of Human Retrovirology -
Professor José R Penadés
Director MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology & Infection -
Professor Marta Boffito
Professor of Practice -
Professor Neil Ferguson
Professor of Mathematical Biology -
Professor Paul Freemont
Chair in Protein Crystallography -
Professor Paul Kellam
Professor of Virus Genomics -
Professor Robin Shattock
Chair in Mucosal Infection and Immunity -
Professor Rosemary Boyton
Professor of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine -
Professor Sarah Fidler
Professor of HIV medicine -
Professor Shiranee Sriskandan
Professor of Infectious Diseases -
Professor Sivaramesh Wigneshweraraj
Professor of Molecular Microbiology
