United Kingdom: NIHR Long Covid research funding decisions 2021-2

Appendix: List of funded studies

1. REACT Long Covid (REACT-LC), Professor Paul Elliott, Imperial College London - £5.4 million
2. Therapies for Long Covid in non-hospitalised individuals: from symptoms, patient-reported outcomes and immunology to targeted therapies (TLC), Dr Shamil Haroon and Professor Melanie Calvert, University of Birmingham - £2.3 million
3. Characterisation, determinants, mechanisms and consequences of the long-term effects of Covid-19: providing the evidence base for health care services (CONVALESCENCE), Professor Nishi Chaturvedi, University College London - £9.6 million
4. Non-hospitalised children and young people with Long Covid (The CLoCk Study), Professor Sir Terence Stephenson, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health - £1.9 million
5. Symptoms, Trajectory, Inequalities and Management: Understanding Long-Covid to Address and Transform Existing Integrated Care Pathways (STIMULATE-ICP), Professor Amitava Banerjee, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust - £7m
6. Long Covid multidisciplinary consortium: optimising treatments and services across the NHS (LOCOMOTION), Dr Manoj Sivan, University of Leeds - £3.4m
7. Hyperpolarised xenon magnetic resonance pulmonary imaging in patients with Long-Covid (EXPLAIN), Professor Fergus Gleeson, University of Oxford - £1.9m
8. Cognitive Impairment in Long Covid: PhEnotyping and RehabilitatiOn (CICERO), Dr Dennis Chan, University College London - £1.3m
9. Long Covid Personalised Self-managemenT support - co-design and EvaluatioN (LISTEN), Professor Fiona Jones, Kingston University - £1.1m
10. Remote Diet Intervention to Reduce Long Covid symptoms Trial (ReDIRECT), Dr David Blane, University of Glasgow - £1m
11. The immunologic and virologic determinants of Long Covid, Professor David Price, Cardiff University - £774,457
12. Quality-of-life in patients with Long Covid: harnessing the scale of big data to quantify the health and economic costs, Dr Rosalind Eggo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - £676,520
13. Percutaneous Auricular Nerve Stimulation for Treating Post-Covid Fatigue (PAuSing-Post-Covid Fatigue), Dr Mark Baker, Newcastle University - £640,180
14. Immune analysis of Long Covid to inform rational choices in diagnostic testing and therapeutics, Professor Daniel Altmann, Imperial College - £573,769
15. Understanding and using family experiences of managing Long Covid to support self care and timely access to services, Professor Sue Ziebland, University of Oxford - £557,674
16. Development of a robust T cell assay to retrospectively diagnose SARS-CoV-2 infection and assays as diagnostic and monitoring tools in Long Covid patients, Dr Mark Wills, University of Cambridge - £372,684
17. Using Activity Tracking and Just-In-Time Messaging to Improve Adaptive Pacing: A Pragmatic Randomised Control Trial, Professor Nicholas Sculthorpe, University of the West of Scotland - £437,398
18. Impact of Covid-19 vaccination on preventing Long Covid: a population-based cohort study using linked NHS data, Professor Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, University of Oxford - £233,115
19. Long Covid Core Outcome Set project (LC-COS), Dr Tim Nicholson, King’s College London - £171,285