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Today Made Smarter and UK Research and Innovation launch two funding competitions for Britain’s most innovative businesses to come together to develop world-leading digital technologies to boost supply chain productivity and resilience to turbo-charge the COVID recovery.

Today, UKRI and NIHR are announcing £8.4 million funding for one of the world’s largest studies into the long-term physical and mental health impacts of coronavirus on hospitalised patients.

Six projects that combine data from blood tests, tissue analysis, imaging techniques, genetic profiles and medical history, will share a £13 million grant from UKRI’s industrial strategy challenge fund.

UK Research and Innovation Chief Executive Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser has welcomed the publication of the government’s R&D Roadmap.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) welcomes today’s announcement by Business Secretary Alok Sharma of £300 million investment in world-class research infrastructure across the UK.

The ‘RECOVERY’ trial has released preliminary results showing lopinavir/ritonavir, an antiviral drug commonly used to treat HIV, had no significant mortality benefit in hospitalised COVID-19 patients.

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, has today (Saturday 27 June) launched a new fund to help cutting-edge companies of all sizes recover, grow, and drive a re-building economy.

UK Research and Innovation has announced it will deploy £180 million of funding for organisations to sustain UKRI grant-funded research and fellowships affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is part of a wider package announced by Government to support the continuation of research and innovation activities.

Seven major new research and innovation projects will boost economic growth and benefit people across central Scotland, Northern Ireland, south Wales, and three areas of England.  

As the pandemic progresses, the nature of the research questions that need to be addressed is evolving rapidly. UKRI is therefore moving to a new way of managing proposals to its COVID-19 open call. Proposals continue to be accepted on a rolling open basis.

 Sir Mark Walport gives his final open letter to the research and innovation community

Testing for coronavirus infection could become quicker, more convenient and more accurate, following the launch of a multicentre national programme of research that will evaluate how new diagnostic tests perform in hospitals, general practices and care homes.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today, 24 June, published harmonised diversity data for funding applicants and recipients of research council grants over the past five years.

On August 14 last year, the US-based National Science Foundation's LIGO, part -funded by the STFC, and the European Virgo detector picked up a gravitational wave signal from the merger of two astronomical objects.

UKRI has received a number of letters about the support we are providing to our post-graduate research students in response to Covid-19. Today we have published our reply to one of these letters.

The Pirbright Institute, working in collaboration with the University of Oxford have successfully shown that two doses of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine produce a greater antibody response than a single dose in pigs.

The first healthy volunteer has received a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers led by Professor Robin Shattock at Imperial College London. The phase I trials were funded by UKRI as part of the UKRI/DHSC/NIHR COVID-19 rapid research response.

Higher rates of severe COVID-19 infections in black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) populations are not explained by socioeconomic or behavioural factors, cardiovascular disease risk, or by vitamin D status.