Wellcome Discovery Award of £5m to fund pioneering research to combat deadly diarrhoea

Gabriel Negreanu

The Ineos Oxford Institute has been awarded a £5 million Wellcome Discovery Award to develop vaccines against pathogens that cause diarrhoea - the third most common cause of death for children under five years of age. The work will be led by Professor Sam Sheppard , Principal Investigator of IOI’s digital microbiology programme. Current meta-genomic epidemiology can be expensive, time consuming, and complex. As we set up our international hubs, we hope to train a new generation of scientists