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Description: The variant hunters are helping us to understand how and why the COVID-19 virus is spreading, allowing us to fight back against the COVID-19 pandemic. Hear from some of the scientists behind the UK’s nationwide sequencing effort to track SARS-CoV-2. Sir Patrick Vallance (the government’s Chief Scientific Adviser) also describes how the expertise that came together during the pandemic is now recognised across the world – and why it’s crucially important to continue to sequence to be ready for future pandemics. This pioneering work is being carried out by the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium, which comprises numerous academic institutions, four public health agencies and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and is administered by the University of Cambridge. “Incredibly impressive, incredibly high quality and incredibly focused on the mission to make sure that as many people benefited from the science as possible,” Sir Patrick Vallance Read more: cam.ac.uk/stories/varianthunters Explore other COVID-19 research at Cambridge: cam.ac.uk/topics/covid-19 COG-UK: cogconsortium.uk Discover the latest research taking place at Cambridge and sign up to stay up to date with our films, podcasts, news and features. cam.ac.uk/news news.cam.ac.uk/p/6DCF-84G/subscribe-to-the-cambridge-digest