Data Partners & Cohorts

Find out more about the COVID-19 cohorts the CO-CONNECT team have on-boarded onto the Cohort Discovery Search Tool.

By 27 October 2022, the CO-CONNECT Project has successfully onboarded 50 datasets onto the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway and 13 data sets into the Cohort Discovery Search Tool, including 12 COVID-19 research cohorts.

View the full list of CO-CONNECT's datasets on the HDR Innovation Gateway

Who were our Data Partners?

Our Data Partners were the data custodians that we worked with. They were in charge of managing and protecting the cohorts that CO-CONNECT made discoverable on the HDR Innovation Gateway’s Cohort Discovery Search Tool. The profiles below tell you a little bit about each of these cohorts and their data custodians.

Please note, we have only listed cohorts that are currently live and searchable on the Cohort Discovery Search Tool.

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ISARIC 4C

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ISARIC 4C Name: International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium – Comprehensive Clinical Characterisation Collaboration (ISARIC 4C) Principal Investigator: Professor Peter Openshaw (Co-lead) Leading Institutions: Imperial College London HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Platinum The team at ISARIC 4C have been preparing for a respiratory pandemic years before the global spread … Read More

COVIDsortium

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COVID-Consortium: Front Line Impact of COVID-19 Name: COVID-Consortium (COVIDsortium) Principal Investigator: Professor James Moon Leading Institutions: University College London, Barts Charity  HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Gold Work in COVIDsortium began the day of the UK’s first lockdown in March 2020, and recruited its first 400 participants 9 days later. It is a … Read More

TRACK-COVID

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TRACK-COVID Name: TRACK-COVID Principal Investigators: Professor John Danesh and Professor Emanuele Di Angelantonio Leading institution or organisation: University of Cambridge (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Silver The TRAC-COVID study aims to provide a better understanding of the biological and environmental risk factors of COVID-19, … Read More

PANTHER

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Pandemic Tracking of Healthcare Workers Name: Pandemic Tracking of Healthcare Workers (PANTHER) Leading institution or organisation: University of Nottingham, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Gold The PANTHER study explores why some people with COVID have symptoms (symptomatic) and others do not (asymptomatic). It also looks at … Read More

Generation Scotland

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Generation Scotland Name: Generation Scotland Principal Investigator: Professor David Porteous Leading institution or organisation: University of Edinburgh HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Gold Launched in 2006, Generation Scotland looks at the health and well-being of volunteers and their families. The study aims to examine the lives of their participants from childhood … Read More

NIHR BioResource

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National Institute for Health and Care Research’s BioResource Name: NIHR BioResource Leading Institution or organisation: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Platinum The NIHR’s BioResource is a national resource that supports public participation in research, and was set up as a collaborative effort between clinicians and … Read More

GASP

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Genetics of Asthma Severity & Phenotypes Name: Genetics of Asthma Severity & Phenotypes (GASP) Principal Investigator: Professor Ian Sayers Leading institution or organisation: BREATHE, University of Nottingham Key Funding: Asthma UK HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Silver The GASP project was set up in 2013 to create a large cohort … Read More

Follow-COVID

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Follow-COVID Name: Follow-COVID Leading institution or organisation: University of Dundee HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Platinum The Follow-COVID study aims to identify the long-term consequences and future healthcare needs of people who became ill with severe cases of COVID-19. To do this, researchers a monitoring more than 100 patients from across … Read More

Co-Stars

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COVID-19 Staff Testing of Antibody Response Study Name: COVID-19 Staff Testing of Antibody Response Study (Co-Stars) Leading institution or organisation: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Gold The Co-Stars study began in April 2020, with the hospital performing serological antibody testing on around … Read More

ACE Cohort

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Asymptomatic COVID19 in Education (ACE) Cohort Name: Asymptomatic COVID-19 in Education (ACE) Leading institution or organisation: University of Nottingham, University of Cambridge, University of Cardiff HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Silver At the start of the 2020/2021 academic year some education providers established in-house testing facilities.These specialised sites were created in response … Read More

ALSPAC

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Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Name: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC); Children of the 90’s  Principal Investigator: Professor Nick Timpson Leading institution or organisation: University of Bristol HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Ranking: Silver ALSPAC, which is more commonly known as Children of the 90’s, is … Read More

MATCH

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MATCH Name: MATCH Principal Investigator: Professor James Chalmers Leading institution or organisation: University of Dundee HDR Innovation Gateway Metadata Rating: Platinum MATCH was set up to help report on the prevalence of COVID-19 infections in healthcare workers. This is important as people in these roles are at great risk of … Read More