Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sharath Srinivasan
25 June 2020“Without trust, we don’t flatten the curve,” says Sharath Srinivasan, whose work in developing countries has given him an acute insight into how people’s worldviews...
Tackling COVID-19: Professor Ravi Gupta
18 June 2020“This virus is probably going to be circulating for years - it will take a long time to sort out.” In a building that has...
Tackling COVID-19: Professor Jorge Goncalves
11 June 2020Jorge Goncalves is an expert in artificial intelligence and mathematical modelling of complex systems. With long-term collaborators based in Wuhan, China, when the COVID-19 outbreak started he seized the...
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sarah Caddy
04 June 2020Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Sarah Caddy was conducting research on a number of different viruses. “I was looking at how antibodies can neutralise rotavirus and...
Tackling COVID-19: Professor James Wood
28 May 2020“Cambridge’s infectious diseases community is making a huge contribution to tackling the pandemic,” says Professor James Wood. He leads several large-scale programmes at the University that rely...
Professor Andrew Fabian awarded Kavli Prize
27 May 2020Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has been awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, one of the world's most prestigious science prizes.
Tackling COVID-19: Karl Wilson
21 May 2020Operations Director Karl Wilson has helped lead a herculean effort to transform a standard laboratory into a bespoke testing centre, to aid the national response...
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sander van der Linden
14 May 2020“The psychology of pandemics was not on my research agenda, but I can tell you one thing: it is now,” says Dr Sander van der...
The Academy of Medical Sciences announces new Fellows for 2020
13 May 2020Six affiliates of the University of Cambridge are among 50 world-leading UK researchers who have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of...
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Freya Jephcott
07 May 2020“Complex social, political, economic and ecological forces not only drive infectious disease emergence, but increase our susceptibility to epidemics when they occur,” says Freya Jephcott. Her...