University Wins £500k Grant to help Combat COVID-19 in Uganda
The University of Salford’s School of Science, Engineering &
Environment has been awarded more than £500,000 to address the threat of
COVID-19 in Uganda.
The project is funded by UK Research and Innovation through the UK Government’s
Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and the Newton Fund.
This funding is one of the 20 projects that have been announced
by the UKRI aimed at developing solutions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19
for some of the world’s most disadvantaged people.
Prof Richard Birtles, chair in biomedicine, said: “We will be
sharing the knowledge and experience gained by COVID-19 laboratories in the UK
over the past six months with Ugandan microbiologists to accelerate reliable
testing in the country.
“This is important, not only to help their national pandem...