Theme 2 - the role of antibodies in Covid infection

The Legacy Study will utilise a unique bank of over 400,000 coronavirus samples at the Crick, gathered as part of the institute's testing partnership with many north London healthcare facilities, including UCLH. Scientists and clinicians will aim to understand the coronavirus and how it behaves in individuals - how the virus is transmitted between people, how later stages of the disease develop and how the body's immune system attempts to control the virus. ... "With informed consent, samples will be matched with individuals to establish how factors like age, sex, ethnicity, and past and current medical histories, impact the risk of infection. Participants will also be invited to give regular swab and blood samples over two years, to better understand how emerging variants and vaccination affect risk of infection and how the body responds." - from Crick news article August 2021.