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,…
One of the major tools in fighting infectious diseases is development of new vaccines, and we were pleased to take part in a recent Vaccine Strategy Workshop alongside colleagues from Liverpool and Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme. The two-day event on the 5th & 6th of March covered many aspects of vaccine work, from delivering new…
We have recently welcomed a visit from Dr Charles Huang, whose company Innova Medical Group provided the initial £10M philanthropic donation that founded the Institute in 2021. Liverpool was chosen to be the home of The Pandemic Institute (TPI) thanks to its unique ecosystem, hosting medical, veterinary, public health, tropical medicine and behavioural science schools…
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