Preparedness Platform
Preparedness Platform
Emerging viruses pose a significant threat to the health and wellbeing of the UK population. Increased contact between humans and zoonotic reservoirs due to anthropogenic change means that the likelihood of outbreaks is increasing. Strategies will be required to reduce the risk of outbreaks at source and to contain them once they are established, ultimately aiming better to understand, prevent, detect and respond to viral threats to human health.
The platform is designed to be flexible, to integrate core funded activities and externally funded projects that benefit from access to the underpinning infrastructure that includes expertise in genomics and bioinformatics, molecular virologists, clinicians embedded within the NHS, staff with joint appointments with the UK public health agencies, a serology laboratory, an outbreak biorepository, CL3 facilities and data linkage systems. This represents an unrivalled combination of resources and expertise.
Key contact: Paula Olmo (Preparedness Manager): Paula.Olmo@glasgow.ac.uk
Genomics- Next Generation Sequencing Group