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Featured research
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The PRINCIPLE Trial
The world's largest clinical trial of COVID-19 treatments for recovery at home, focusing on those most at risk of serious illness from COVID-19.
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Learning from diverse experiences of COVID-19
We aim to understand how people from diverse backgrounds have experienced COVID-19.
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SuMMiT-D
Developing a text message-based system to help people with type 2 diabetes to manage their condition.
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Face masks and exercise study
A streamlined crossover trial to assess the effects of wearing a face mask whilst exercising among healthy young adults
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OpenSAFELY analytics platform
OpenSAFELY delivers urgent results during the global COVID-19 emergency and demonstrates the power of modern, open computational data science techniques for healthcare
*Judged by the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014.