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Robotic testing platform helps to scale up COVID-19 testing capacity
Imperial team has repurposed robotic technology normally used for synthetic biology research to help with testing for COVID-19. read more
Webinar: What will our recovery look like?
23 July 2020 – 12:00 – 13:00 Hear Professor Jonathan Haskel, renowned British economist & Bank of England Monetary Policy committee Member, talk through the economic modelling of the initial recession and the lessons for the recovery. read more
COVID research news shared with international community
The Imperial Global Science Policy Forum (IGSPF), attended by 300 delegates from global universities, Embassies, and industry focused on Imperial's role in the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. read more
Imperial’s COVID-19 vaccine explained
As the first trials of Imperial’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate got underway in June, Professor Robin Shattock, Dr Katrina Pollock and Dr David Owen explain how the vaccine works, how it’s being trialled, and plans to help it reach populations around the world, if it proves to be effective in protecting people against COVID-19. read more
Imperial Tech Foresight event
Intentional Creations virtual conference – Malleable Matter, on Thursday 25 June 2020 – looks at the limitations, or opportunities, of the materials underpinning the technology itself. read more
Electric Insights quarterly report – Jan-Mar 2020
Commissioned by Drax and delivered by Dr iain Staffell and team, the quarterly Electric Insights reports analyse raw data made publicly available by National Grid and Elexon, which run the electricity and balancing market respectively, and Sheffield Solar. read more
Case studies
Hepatitis C genotype and drug resistance testing
Genotype and resistance testing for new direct-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs designed to treat Hepatitis C virus (HCV). read more
Putting science into Sci-Fi
When Left Bank Pictures (producers of The Crown and Lost) were looking for someone to give their Sci fi adventure, ORIGIN, a touch of realism - they called upon Imperial Consultants. Thanks to his previous work with filmmakers, writers and artists, they were introduced to Dr Roberto Trotta, a theoretical cosmologist renowned for taking on the unusual - and gifted in translating ‘science-speak’ into layman’s terms. read more
New early warning system for European debt default
Capco, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated solely to the financial services industry, has today unveiled a new early warning system for European debt default, resulting from a project facilitated by Imperial Consultants. read more