Title: Addressing unknowns of COVID-19 transmission and infection combining pathogen genomics and epidemiology to inform public health interventions
Research group: Molecular Epidemiology and Bacterial PathoGenOmics
An ambitious scientific project led by researchers from the National Scientific Research Council (Spanish acronym: CSIC) in partnership with 40 hospitals all over Spain will study the compared genomes of the new coronavirus from patients with COVID-19 in order to understand and predict the evolution and epidemiology of the virus. The study also aims to provide information to the public health authorities. The data produced will be stored in public repositories, as well as on the global NextStrain platform. The project has been given a budget of 740,000 euros and combines genomic data with clinical microbiology, epidemiology and phylogenesis. It is being led by the researcher, Iñaki Comas, from the Valencia Institute for Biomedicine (Spanish acronym: IBV-CSIC) together with the researcher, Fernando González Candelas, from the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio) of the CSIC and the University of Valencia, in partnership with the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research (Spanish acronym: FISABIO) of the Regional Government of Valencia.
Iñaki Comas Espadas, Fernando González Candelas
Llúcia Martínez Priego, Giueseppe D’Auria, Mireia Coscollá, Andrés Canut Blasco, Darío García de Viedma, Juan Alberola Enguídanos, Txema Marimón, Javier Aznar Martín, Antonio Rezusta López, Manuel Rodríguez-Iglesias, Mari Carmen Pérez González, Caridad Sainz de Baranda Camino.
Consejo Superior Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) - PTI Salud Global, Instituto de Sanidad Carlos III
