The Pandemic Institute (TPI) & Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are offering a new PhD Studentship opportunity for 2025. This project will look to uncover the mechanisms controlling pneumococcal carriage and transmission. Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is the main cause of pneumonia and meningitis worldwide and despite the global implementation of vaccine programmes, the…
The Pandemic Institute are launching a new Public Steering Group to open up a discussion about all things pandemic. The new group will start in January 2025 and is run in collaboration with The Thinker Hub, who run community discussion groups focussing on ‘big’ questions and themes. The group is open to people based in…
To mark four years since Liverpool led the world’s first voluntary mass testing for Covid-19, The Pandemic Institute has collaborated with Professor Iain Buchan to produce a short film exploring the city’s response, and how we can use data-driven community testing in future pandemics. In November 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, large-scale community testing with…
A world leading facility committed to helping the world prevent, prepare, and respond more effectively to pandemics, here at The Pandemic Institute, we have recently celebrated three years of vital work to keep the public safe. Since opening in autumn 2021, the Institute has advanced research to predict and prepare for the next pandemic, as…
The Pandemic Institute has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Pharma Latch, a company formed to transform how to deliver injectables such as vaccines. Staff and researchers from Liverpool travelled to the Pharma Latch office in Dublin last week to formalise the partnership. Currently, the vast majority of vaccines are delivered into patients arms intramuscularly…
The World Health Organisation has announced the highest level of alert for mpox. This follows an upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa. Sweden’s public health agency has also recently recorded what it says is the first case of the more dangerous type…
The Pandemic Institute are pleased to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK National Measurement Laboratory at LGC (NML) at an event held in Liverpool last week. The partnership will bring the organisations together to work more closely on pandemic preparedness, as well as strengthen industry and academic links in the Liverpool City…
The Pandemic Institute has recently come together with The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections (HPRU EZI) and the Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI) in Oxford, to award almost £500,000 for research on Avian Influenza, in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Avian…
Join us on this May as we explore just what is so special about Liverpool, and why as a city we are leading the way in tackling infectious diseases. Pint of Science is an annual event that takes place across three nights, in 42 cities in the UK, and in 25 countries across the world.…
Director of The Pandemic Institute, Professor Tom Solomon CBE, recently took part in an event bringing together academia, industry and government to address scientific and technical opportunities and challenges in the North West region. Here, he shares his reflections on the ‘Preparing for Future Pandemics’ panel session. To tackle emerging infections effectively requires partnership of academia,…
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