Image: SARS-CoV-2 by Alissa Eckert MSMI and Dan Higgins MAMSNews & Events
News of exciting successes, grants, presentations and prizes from our members posted here regularly
OUR NEWS & EVENTS
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CIRG in the spotlight!
CIRG has been featured in the NHS Lothian Connections newsletter on pages 4 and 5 with a focus on GeoSentinel !
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UK Vaccine Network Conference 2025
CIRG members chair session at UKCVN Conference 2025
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NHS Lothian R&D Conference 2025
CIRG team presented posters and delivered talks at the NHS Lothian R&D Conference
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International Nurses Day
Happy International Nurses Day to all our nurses
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We are on Bluesky!
Keep up with what the team are doing by checking our our Bluesky page
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Join the Register
CIRG is always looking for healthy volunteers to become involved in studies
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New CIRG Paper
Congratulations to CIRG members, Anna Gordon and Claire Mackintosh, on their recent publication
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New Journal Article Published
Congratulations to our former research fellow Alexandria Chung and Clinical Director of RIDU Claire Mackintosh on their recent publication on addressing the needs of people who inject drugs
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JOIN THE TEAM
We are now looking for our Clinical Research Fellow for 2025-2026 !!
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Publications Page
We are excited to share all the amazing research done by our talented CIRG members.
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SUPERNOVA Results Published
Results of the SUPERNOVA trial, worked on by Dr Oliver Koch and the CIRG team, have been published in The Lancet.
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Annual Report 2023-24
Read our CIRG review of the year
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New Fellow
Angus McCance joins CIRG
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AMT abstracts all over AMR
The antimicrobial management team have had 3 abstracts published in JAC-AMR
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EID Symposium
CIRG members attending the Edinburgh Infectious Disease Symposium
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Claire Mackintosh Publishes 2 New Papers
Dr Mackintosh has recently published 2 articles
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Laurenson co-author for genome sequencing TB paper
Dr Ian Laurenson is one of a global collection of Drs to write a new paper guiding best practice public health standards for whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Dr Moncayo-Nieto published in a new paper
Dr Olga Lucia Moncayo-Nieto has a new paper published ‘Extrapulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: a guide for the general physician’ in the journal of Clinical Medicine
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Recruitment
CIRG is always looking for healthy volunteers to become involved in studies – and is now actively recruiting!
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Annual Review
CIRG’s Annual Review 2022-2023
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NRS Trainee Research Day
A free, in person Infection Trainee Research day on Wednesday 8th November 2023
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AMP UTI Reflections
Carol Phllips’ reflection and overvew of their attendence at the BSAC UTI Conference
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AMP presents at BSAC UTI conference
Carol Philip supported by CIRG fund
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Red 4 Research
16th June 2023 is #Red4Research
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VIBRANT Study collected all samples
The VIBRANT study has collected all of it’s required 200 samples
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NIHR Associate Principal Investigator Scheme
Dr Hopkin’s shares his experience after completing the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator Scheme for our CIRG run project “Improving Outcomes in Necrotising Otitis Externa (IONOE)”
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CIRG Supports Clinical Fellow
CIRG supports Dr Sugrue in attending the ECCMID Conference
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Valneva Vaccine Results Published
The results from the Valneva vaccine trial have been published in The Lancet! Dr. Iain Page is mentioned as one of the Valneva phase 3 trial group
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Article Publication
A fascinating paper recently published in The Journal of Viral Hepatitis. The paper features WGH’s Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Katherine Davidson as one of the paper’s authors
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Two New Studies Recruiting
CIRG has started recruiting to two new exciting studies
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The AIDS Era; an oral history of UK health care workers
CIRG Study Coordinator Sheila takes part in project documenting nurses experience of working in the AIDS Era
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Clinical ID Research During COVID-19: A First-Hand Account
GIRG’s Research Coordinator and Lead Nurse, Sheila Morris, gives her account of leading an ID research team during the COVID-19 pandemic in this webinar recording
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New Pre-Print from the RECOVERY Trial
New Results from the RECOVERY Trial suggest that baricitinib can reduce the risk of death in hospitalised COVID-19 patients
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New Research Publications
Two recently published papers authored by CIRG members
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Letter Published in the BMJ
‘Clinicians and researchers must advocate for evidence based drug policy’
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New Publication in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Daptomycin susceptibility testing and therapeutic use in enterococcal bloodstream infection (EBSI) in a setting with high rates of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm)
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HEAL-COVID Webinar Series
Keep up to date with the latest clinical research on COVID-19 with this exciting seminar series organised by the HEAL-COVID trial team
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Living Through Covid – The City Turned Upside Down: Launch event
Our Clinical Director, Dr Claire Mackintosh, took part in this creative exploration of the early stages of the pandemic through the eyes of frontline staff in the homelessness sector and people experiencing homelessness
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FIS 2021 – CIRG wins a poster prize!
CIRG members recently attended Federation of Infection Societies 2021 Annual Conference (FIS 2021)
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FIS 2021 – CIRG goes on Tour
CIRG members will be presenting their work at the upcoming Federation of Infection Societies 2021 Annual Conference (FIS 2021) in Manchester (5 November) and Online 8 and 9 November 2021
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Largest Ever Global Study of Tuberculosis Identifies Genetic Causes of Drug Resistance
Using cutting-edge genomic sequencing techniques, researchers from the CRyPTIC consortium have identified almost all the genomic variation that gives people resistance to 13 of the most common tuberculosis (TB) drug treatments
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COV-Compare Study Update – Encouraging News
Valneva Reports Positive Phase III Trial Results for their Inactivated, Adjuvanted COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate VLA2001
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Presentation at 31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Alice Hailwood recently presented her work with CIRG member Sandeep Ramalingam, in collaboration with colleagues from University of Edinburgh at the 31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
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AMR fame for the Western General’s sewage!
Analysis of hospital sewage favourably reviewed in Frontiers of Medical Microbiology
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NHS Lothian Starting to Recruit for HEAL-COVID
This new trial aiming to impact on long-term effects of COVID-19 has begun recruiting at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, and St John’s Hospital
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REGENERON reduces mortality from SARS CoV2
Further therapeutic options for COVID-19
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RECOVERY Trial Wins Award
More accolades for this novel trial!
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AZD2816 Trial Gets Underway
AZD2816 is a modified version of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, that has been made specific for the Beta SARS CoV-2 variant
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CIRG member calls for equity in academic institutions
Striving for equity helps to promote excellence
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RECOVERY Trial Concludes Aspirin Arm
RECOVERY trial finds aspirin does not improve survival for patients hospitalised with COVID-19
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COV-Compare COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Up and Running
A phase III trial of Valneva’s new COVID-19 vaccine is now up and running here in Edinburgh
OUR PROJECTS
The CIRG’s activity goes from strength to strength. View our exciting portfolio of diverse research projects.
