I work in the Department of Pathology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Although it’s now closed I’m still here, along with others from the Division of Virology and volunteers from the Department of Medicine. We’re supported by two great Lab Managers, who take it in turns to come in and keep the labs operational. Without them, and the staff working from home placing urgent orders, we’d be in a very difficult position. I gained experience in setting up rapid diagnostics and in viral genetic sequencing when working on the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and the recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I’m lucky to have a great team of people here in Cambridge, including Dr Luke Meredith who has recently returned from a very stressful six months in South Sudan where he was a World Health Organisation Coordinator for Ebola and COVID-19 testing. During the COVID-19 pandemic we are sequencing the coronavirus in real time. We collect samples from the...
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