2020 Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Winter Lecture

We were delighted to host our Annual Winter Lecture,  given by Dr Kenneth Baillie on Wednesday 25 November.

9 months of discovery:  How we found out why people die from Covid-19

Watch the lecture again here

Kenneth is a Principal Investigator in the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh and an Academic Consultant in Critical Care Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

On Sunday 2 February 2020 Kenneth and his lab diverted the bulk of their resources towards the research response to Covid-19, and ever since have been involved in several national and global projects tackling the disease:

• Leading the GenOMICC study in the UK (setting up recruitment in new sites, building and distributing thousands of recruitment packs to hospitals)
• Leading the ISARIC 4C study (together with co-leads Calum Semple and Peter Openshaw)
• Leading global harmonisation in observational outbreak research (the ISARIC CCP)
• Contributing to WHO Panels (Clinical Management; Research Prioritisation)
• Providing advice on trials and supportive care to UK Government (NERVTAG)
• Caring for patients in various ICUs and infectious disease units in Edinburgh and Glasgow.