A two-week interruption of treatment with the immune-suppressing drug methotrexate results in twice as many antibodies being produced in response to a COVID-19 booster jab, according to the team of researchers behind the VROOM study.
A first-of-its-kind modelling study from a team of researchers at Imperial College London has quantified the impact of COVID-19 vaccines on a global scale, estimating that 19.8 million out of a potential 31.4 million deaths were prevented in the first year after the vaccines were introduced.
Moderna, the US pharmaceutical and biotechnology company behind the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, has announced plans to open a state-of-the-art research and manufacturing centre in the UK, as part of a ‘strategic partnership’ with the UK Government.
New research from a team led by researchers at Imperial College London has found that infection with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 only results in a rather weak immune response against re-infection with Omicron, even in people who are triple-vaccinated.
Latest findings from the PITCH study suggest that continued protection against severe disease from COVID-19 in fully vaccinated people may be largely down to a sustained T cell response.
We would like to extend our warm congratulations to all those who were recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours on 1 June for their contribution to research on the COVID-19 vaccines.
New findings from the COV-AD study team have shown that people with immunodeficiency are considerably less likely to generate antibodies to fight COVID-19 following vaccination.
A large-scale study led by the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and Southampton and the UK Health Security Agency, has found that COVID-19 vaccines protect people with cancer less well than they do the general population, and that this protection wanes more quickly.
A new study carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), has found that people who are vaccinated after being infected with COVID-19 are less likely to experience the symptoms of Long Covid. It is the largest study of its kind to date.