A research team, led by Swansea University College of Engineering, are developing a pilot online marketplace designed to optimise manufacturing supply chain networks and create a new industry wide business model. Swansea University says this new platform will seek to better connect manufacturers and suppliers, enabling a streamlined product/process sourcing and selection service tailored to … Continue reading New engineering partnership to develop digital marketplace to improve the manufacturing supply chain

A team from Population Data Science at Swansea University is to join a network of forty one partners from thirty countries as part of the Population Health Research Infrastructure (PHIRI), a new mechanism for organising and sharing information on Covid-19. MediWales reports the Swansea University team, led by Professor Ronan Lyons, has secured over €220,000 … Continue reading Swansea University team to join EU project to organise and share information on coronavirus

A review by Swansea University academics has found that older, poorer people, who are socially distanced from their doctors or pharmacists, suffer more adverse drug reactions (ADRs) than the general population and that systematic monitoring is needed to protect these patients suffering from reactions which could result in over-sedation, falls, or drug induced Parkinsonism. The … Continue reading Older, poorer people at greater risk from adverse drug reactions

The Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB) project has been recognised in the 2020 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. It received the Readers’ Best High Performance Computing Collaboration award for its role in supporting the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium. The consortium is a UK wide partnership working to sequence SARS-CoV-2 virus genomes to … Continue reading Computing system for Covid-19 sequencing analysis wins major award

Work to identify a main contractor for a new life science and wellness village in Carmarthenshire is expected to get underway in January. WalesOnline reports the rebranded project, called Pentre Awel, will feature a range of buildings and facilities at Delta Lakes, Llanelli. Clinical services will be delivered there, including physical rehabilitation, and space provided … Continue reading Contractor to be sought for £199m life science and wellness village in Llanelli

A pilot programme monitoring coronavirus in Wales’ sewage systems is finding that virus spikes in the community can be detected in local waste water. The Welsh Government says the programme, launched in June, is now monitoring twenty sites across Wales and covers 80% of the Welsh population. Researchers from Welsh universities were the first to … Continue reading Waste water signals local Covid-19 spikes

Welsh Government Innovation is supporting FSG Tool and Die Ltd to scale up the production of visor frames for frontline staff in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Business Wales reports FSG, in collaborations with Swansea University, responded to the urgent need to develop certified, safe visors that were effective and quick to manufacture. Through design, … Continue reading FSG Tool and Die scales up production of visors

New real time analysis demonstrating the spread of Covid-19 in Wales has directly informed the One Wales response to coronavirus. MediWales reports the modelling demonstrates the value of a real time spatio-temporal inferential mapping platform for public health efforts during the emergence and spread of infectious diseases. The project has prototyped and delivered data infrastructures … Continue reading Geospatial modelling to predict coronavirus prevalence at community level

Family carers for children and adults with intellectual disabilities have reported rates of mental health problems under lockdown that are up to ten times higher than parents without those responsibilities, according to a new study. Swansea University reports the carers were five times more likely to report severe anxiety, and between four and ten times … Continue reading Mental health problems among family carers up to 10 times higher during lockdown

The Welsh Government have announced funding for the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University to develop a unique approach to next generation PPE in the fight against viruses. Swansea University reports the new equipment is designed to achieve protection from viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, which is predominantly transmitted via inhalable respiratory droplets. The … Continue reading Welsh Government funding for next generation PPE