David Zemmel
Trinity Medics – A Year Fighting COVID-19
Around the world, Trinity medics stepped forward to join the effort to combat COVID. Where there was need, you would often find Trinity alumni close at hand. We could not be more proud of everything they have done – we owe them our heartfelt thanks. ARDO asked members of the Trinity Medics’ Association to send us their reflections and here we share just some of their contributions during this pandemic. The importance of scientific research and collaboration across the world has been clearly demonstrated over the last 18 months as what seemed like every laboratory in every country in the world threw all of the resources they could at the challenge of trying to find out more about COVID-19. “I run a research laboratory on Adaptive Immunity at a teaching hospital in Milan, where COVID-19 hit particularly hard in early March 2020”, Prof Marinos Kallikourdis (1997) told us. “We have been studying the combined immune and cardiological effects on patients who were hospitalised and then had persistent effect after the virus was eliminated from their system (post-COVID syndrome). The work is still ongoing, but it may potentially be of significance for everyone who went through the infection, irrespective of severity.” T R I N I T Y A N N UA L R ECOR D 2021 53
ALUMN I ASSOCI AT IONS
Back in February 2020, as the world was becoming increasingly aware of a new virus COVID-19, the Trinity Medics’ Association was putting the final touches to the plans for their annual dinner at Trinity. As the COVID situation developed, this dinner became the first of many College events to be cancelled during the pandemic.
