London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: against COVID-19 University
Entity: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Category: University
Description: The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a public research university in Bloomsbury, Camden, and a constituent college of the University of London that specialises in public health and tropical medicine. On successful completion of their studies, its students gain a University of London degree. The institution was founded in 1899 by Sir Patrick Manson, after a donation from the Indian Parsi philanthropist B.D. Petit. Since its foundation it has become one of the most highly placed institutions in global rankings in the fields of public health and infectious diseases. The LSHTM's mission is to contribute to the improvement of health worldwide through the pursuit of excellence in research, postgraduate teaching and advanced training in national and international public health and tropical medicine, and through informing policy and practice in these areas. The annual income of the institution for 2018–19 was £247.5 million of which £167.6 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £267.8 million. In 2015 and 2016, US News Best Global Universities Rankings ranked the LSHTM as 3rd in the world for social sciences and public health, ranking behind only Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. The School also ranked 29th in the world for clinical medicine, 20th for immunology and 39th for microbiology, contributing to an overall ranking of 114th in the world, 38th in Europe and 10th in the UK. In the 2015 CWTS Leiden Ranking, the LSHTM has been ranked top university in Europe for research impact in all fields, ahead of Oxford and Cambridge. The School is also ranked 6th overall in the world for impact based on the top 1% of published papers in all fields, after MIT, Harvard, Caltech, Stanford and Berkeley, 3rd in the world for biomedical and health sciences, after only MIT and Caltech, and 5th in the world overall for collaborative research. In 2008, the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirmed the School as a world leading centre for research. The School has been ranked one of the top three research institutions in the UK in the Times Higher Education Table of Excellence, which is based on the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
1. Project: Coronavirus Response - Active Support for Hospitalised Covid-19 Patients (CRASH-19)
2. Project: The COVIDENCE UK study
Summary: Queen's University Belfast, Queen Mary University of London, King’s College London, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the University of Edinburgh and Swansea University are working on the COVIDENCE UK study, which will help identify who is most at risk of contracting COVID-19 and why some people become more ill than others with the disease.
3. Project: 'Coronavirus: the science explained'
Summary: To provide a website for the public with reliable, detailed, and up-to-date science information on coronavirus and COVID-19. Project details are available at the UKRI webpage. The project is led and funded by UKRI team.
Glasgow researchers at MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research:
Professor Massimo Palmarini
Professor Margaret Hosie
Dr Sema Nickbakhsh
Partner organisations:
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Imperial College of London
King's College London
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
University of Oxford
