Eadie, Ewan
Hiwar, Waseem
Fletcher, Louise
Tidswell, Emma
O’Mahoney, Paul
Buonanno, Manuela
Welch, David
Adamson, Catherine S.
Brenner, David J.
Noakes, Catherine
Wood, Kenneth
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department for Health and Social Care (2020/092, 2020/092, 2020/092, 2020/092, 2020/092, 2020/092)
Article History
Received: 15 September 2021
Accepted: 7 March 2022
First Online: 23 March 2022
Competing interests
: EE, WH, LF, ET, PO’M, CA and KW declare no competing interests. DJB and other coinventors have a granted US patent entitled ‘Apparatus, method and system for selectively affecting and/or killing a virus’ (US10780189B2). Columbia University (the parent institution of DJB, DW and MB) has licensed aspects of filtered UV light technology to USHIO Inc, and has received a research gift from LumenLabs, a company producing Far-UVC sources. CN has received funding from EPSRC, HM government and the Department for Health and Social Care for projects on COVID-19 transmission and mitigation, and she is a member of the UK government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and multiple working groups through which she has advised across UK government departments during the COVID-19 pandemic.