Nottingham University Hospitals' Clinical Pathology team: against COVID-19 ^Hospital

University of Nottingham is Partner of the project 'COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium'
'COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium' is a collaboration between the NHS, Public Health England and other UK public health agencies, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge and other academic institutions.

Project: COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium
Research Group: Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
Project Description: The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium aims to increase the current capacity for SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequencing in the UK. This sequencing data will be used to understand the epidemiology and spread of the virus, and to monitor and evaluate interventions for COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2 genomic data will be integrated with NHS electronic health records and other existing genomic data to generate insights into susceptibility to COVID-19. From within the DPHPC, Professor John Danesh is a member of the COG-UK Steering Group, Dr Ewan Harrison will serve as the Scientific Project Manager and Dr Michael Chapman will lead the health informatics component.

Contributors:
Professor Matt Loose, Academic Lead for DeepSeq, Developmental and Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Professor Jonathan Ball, Professor of Molecular Virology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

The team is working closely with the Clinical Pathology team at Nottingham University Hospitals. The University of Nottingham next generation sequencing platform, DeepSeq, is providing sequencing expertise and the Virology groups are helping support access to samples.
https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/clinical-pathology/
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/deepseq/

https://www.cogconsortium.uk/about/