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Research and Innovation
Existing research by the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis informs understanding of the COVID-19 outbreak and Diamond Light Source allows scientists to design and develop compounds that may lead to clinical drugs to tackle it.

In March 2020, UK Research and Innovation announced the launch of a website to explain the scientific evidence and the facts about the virus, the disease, the epidemic, and its control, in a bid to dispel misinformation. The editorial team come from University of Oxford, European Bioinformatics Institute, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Imperial College London, University of Glasgow and King’s College London.

UK Research and Innovation also announced £20 million for rapid response R&D projects such as a project to develop a vaccine and another to test the viability of existing drugs to treat the virus as well as COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium to deliver large-scale, rapid sequencing of the cause of the disease , and £50 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which supports MERS-CoV and COVID-19 vaccine development efforts.

Innovate UK announced £20 million funding for innovative businesses and is also working closely with Formula 1 and a collective of UK-based teams, engine manufacturers and their respective technology arms as part of Project Pitlane to co-ordinate its work.