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Establishing a rapid and scalable high-volume facility for Covid-19 testing

  • Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
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Grant number: C19-IUC-029

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Funder

    UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof. Paul Freemont, Prof. David Sharp

  • Research Location

    United Kingdom

  • Lead Research Institution

    UK Dementia Research Institute

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Pathogen: natural history, transmission and diagnostics

  • Research Subcategory

    Diagnostics

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

Establishing a rapid and scalable high-volume facility for COVID-19 testing using a robotic testing platform able to perform reliable, high-throughput PCR-based testing at low cost.