Entries by KQ Liverpool

£500k awarded for research to combat bird flu

The Pandemic Institute has come together with The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections (HPRU EZI) and the Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI) in Oxford, to award almost £500,000 for research on Avian Influenza, in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Avian Influenza, […]

KQ Liverpool to embark on five-year city region skills programmes backed by Innovation Zone funding

KQ Liverpool is set to invest £1.26m, matched by funding from the city region’s Innovation Zone, to scale up its groundbreaking innovation skills and outreach programmes over the next five years. It will also bring forward new partnership programmes to target underprivileged communities and address issues around digital barriers, social mobility and access to opportunities […]

Liverpool pupils blast off for special book reading

Liverpool schoolchildren were treated to a sneak preview of a new science and innovation story based here in the city. Pupils from LIPA Primary School listened intently as author Natalie Reeves-Billing read Animates Liverpool, a tale of a team of seven animal inventors who crash land in the Knowledge Quarter Liverpool innovation district and embark […]

New £1.5 million novel technologies initiative launches to accelerate new approaches to infection transmission

Companies and research groups with novel solutions to tackle infection transmission will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the UK’s infection response and bid for funding through a new initiative to stimulate innovation. The Infection Innovation Consortium: iiCON, a consortium led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has been appointed by UK Research […]