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Gender Equity Post-COVID-19 ISeptembermmunology 2020 | ISSN 1356-5559 (print) News Gender equity post-COVID-19: coordinating our efforts to preserve diversity UK Coronavirus The UK Our first fully Immunology Immunological Open Access Consortium: Toolbox: journal Immunotherapy bringing immunology a hub for veterinary www.immunology.org together immunological reagents Advances 2 ADVERTISEMENTS 1 CytoFLEX, Kaluza and Duraclone are for research use only. Not for diagnostic purposes. All other products identifi ed are not for use in diagnostic procedures. The CytoFLEX, MET ONE 3400, PAT700, Multisizer 4e, Vi-CELL XR, Vi-CELL MetaFLEX, and Kaluza are designed to support GMP compliance. The Multisizer 4e, Vi-CELL XR, and Vi-CELL MetaFLEX are for Laboratory Use Only. © 2018 Beckman Coulter, Inc. All rights reserved. Beckman Coulter, the stylized logo, and the Beckman Coulter product and service marks mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Beckman Coulter, Inc. 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Here, we look back at what we’ve been the impact of COVID-19 on gender inequity. doing to continue supporting our members Members from the Australian and New and feeding into public discussion around Zealand Society for Immunology provide COVID-19, including our three webinar a perspective from Societies, EMCRs and series and our new infographics on PCR educators, and how we can plan for the future. and antibody testing for COVID-19. We also Additionally, we hear from Professor John take a look forward at our role in the UK Hammond and other experts about the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium, a Immunological Toolbox, a community-driven new and exciting project for the immunology initiative to facilitate veterinary vaccinology community that will provide an overarching and immunology research. On pages 14–15 picture of the immunology of COVID-19. he discusses how it can help you in your In this issue we’re proud to research, and how it will become an essential present Immunotherapy Advances, our resource for researchers, veterinarians and first fully Open Access journal which is now clinicians. open for submissions. Head to pages 16–19 to meet Professor Tim Elliott, the Founding Teresa Prados Editor-in-Chief. 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With this significant investment from UKRI Here for all our members and NIHR, immunologists can now work together at a national scale to improve our The BSI, of course, is here to support all knowledge of the immunology of COVID-19 our members in all areas of immunology – an aspect that is critical for long-term research, at every career stage and in all control of this pandemic. sectors. The rest of our large portfolio of work to support you and to represent Expert COVID-19 taskforce immunology to the wider world continues Our expert immunology and COVID-19 unabated. This includes our careers taskforce continues to work hard to make work, our various webinar series and our sure immunology is put firmly centre stage engagement work. I also look forward to and appropriately recognised in policy bringing you news shortly of the virtual discussions and public debates around scientific conference we are planning to COVID-19. Our most recent output was a bring our community together later in briefing note for policymakers on ‘Long- the year. Please do also check out and term immunological health consequences support our new open access journal, of COVID-19’, which contained a summary Immunotherapy Advances. We’re very of our knowledge to date and a number proud of this new addition to the BSI of recommendations for future research. family – you can find out more and read an Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, This work has been extremely well- interview with Editor-in-Chief Professor immunologists have been at the forefront received in both policy and patient circles. Tim Elliott on page 16. of research efforts into COVID-19 and, It has had an impact across the political Thank you again to all our members as BSI President, I am very proud of spectrum and has led to us engaging for your ongoing support and, as always, how our community has stepped up to at a high level with the bodies tasked please do not hesitate to get in touch if this challenge. The BSI is there for you with responding to the pandemic, such you have new ideas about how the BSI can every step of the way and, over the last as the Joint Biosecurity Centre. You can support you. Keep up the good work in few months, we’ve been working hard read the full briefing note on our website these difficult times. to support our members and the wider at www.immunology.org/coronavirus/ immunology discipline, and to make sure immunology-and-covid-19. With best wishes that the voice of immunology is prominent I have now handed over the reins of in the public arena. chairing this committee to BSI Trustee, Arne Akbar Professor Deborah Dunn-Walters, who will President UK Coronavirus Immunology take our work in this area forward. I would British Society for Immunology Consortium like to thank all of the taskforce members Email: [email protected] The new UK Coronavirus Immunology for their input to date – it really has made Consortium (UK-CIC) launched at the end of August. This is an innovative ©NIAID-RML CC BY-2.0 research initiative, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and supported by the British Society for Immunology. It will bring together 19 UK immunology centres in an unprecedented collaboration to answer key questions around the immune response to COVID-19. It aims to deliver meaningful public health benefit within 12 months to increase our ability to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The BSI exists to promote and support excellence in immunological research and clinical practice. By working with UK- CIC, we aim to support UK immunology as a whole to collaborate at a national level to answer the big outstanding questions around how the immune system interacts with SARS-CoV-2, with a view to improving diagnosis and treatment as well as supporting the quest to find a vaccine. Through supporting this inclusive approach across the whole immunology community, we will aim for a lasting Immunology News | September 2020 5 VIEW FROM … The BSI has been busy delivering other THE CHIEF exciting initiatives, not least our career development webinars which included a EXECUTIVE brilliant session on equality, diversity and inclusion. In addition, we have a feature Welcome to another issue of Immunology piece on pages 21–23 on the impact of News! These continue to be challenging COVID-19 in gender inequity. This thought- times for us all, and I can’t emphasise provoking article focuses on how to plan for enough that your BSI is here to support the future and what universities, funding you and do everything we can to champion bodies and Societies can do to help. The our members and immunology as a BSI needs to and is committed to doing whole. It’s wonderful to start seeing labs more on equality, diversity and inclusion. and workplaces open up so that many of We are working with our Forum and Board you can start to get your important work of Trustees to develop the action plan and underway again, but we know that many will be letting you all know about what difficulties still remain. Which is why we will more we will be doing in this space. shortly be surveying our membership to And finally, it has been a delight to see be able to get an accurate picture of what our existing journals shine (page 9) and things are like on the ground and what picture of infection and COVID-19 disease in to expand our journal family by launching more the BSI can do to support you all.
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