iiCON is a world leading centre for infection innovation and R&D – working with industry, academics, and clinicians to save and improve lives around the world by supporting innovation and progressing the development of antimicrobial products and treatments.

After successful sandpit events in Liverpool and London earlier this year, iiCON (Infection Innovation Consortium) is excited to announce 11 new projects. These projects are focused on combating infectious diseases and have received a share of £1.5 million in funding from the UKRI as part of its ongoing work to support innovative ways of ...

Founding Director of iiCON and Professor of Tropical Medicine at LSTM, Professor Hemingway was appointed the Director of LSTM in 2001 and stepped down in 2019 having overseen a period of exceptional growth of the organisation.

iiCON provides access to eleven commercially sustainable specialist research platforms, co-developed and operated by our industrial, academic, and clinical partners.

iiCON Annual Report 2024 Click below to read and download our latest annual report, exploring achievements and activity from October 2023 to October 2024. Click here to download report

Operating across eleven commercially sustainable specialist research platforms, iiCON’s collaborative effort is directly reducing the global burden of infectious disease with a coordinated initiative to address key roadblocks in global R&D pipelines and strengthen and regenerate the global anti-infectives supply chain.

Lizzie is a business development manager at iiCON, focused on fostering strategic relationships and driving commercial partnerships for translational research. With a strong scientific background as a pharmacologist and a Ph.D in molecular and cell biology, Lizzie also has experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

iiCON’s Surfaces Platform supported the Ministry of Defence to validate a cheap, effective disinfectant, Virusend, that inactivates coronavirus in 60 seconds. The environmentally friendly antiviral spray underwent five weeks of rigorous testing within Category 3 …

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iiCON, in collaboration with LJMU and AFRIMS in Thailand, is developing a microwave sensor to assess the concentration of Etofenprox and Permethrin insecticides on military uniforms. The project is funded by the Deployed War-Fighter Protection (DWFP) program.