CO Funded Research Projects | Academic Bodies | Statutory Organisations | Charities

Since 2013 the Trust has provided funding to a wide range of academic bodies, statutory organisations, charities, voluntary groups, social housing associations, local authorities, and others that meet our chosen areas of focus for research.

Below you will find details of all our funded research projects, including final reports, where we have them.

Click here to read all the papers published following CORT-funded research projects.

Category
A&E Air quality Airplanes Alcohol Alzheimers Ambulances Babies Biomarkers Biomass Boats Canals Cardiovascular Cars Charcoal Coroners Data Collection Dementia Diagnosis Doctors Domestic gas appliances Emergency department First responders Fuel poverty Gerentology Healthcare professionals Heart Housing survey Human brain Indoor environment Lived experience Long-term exposure Low income homes Low-level poisoning Medical examiners Mothers Narrow boats Neurology NPIS Nurses Older people Open flue appliances Paramedics Post mortem Pregnancy Pyrolysis Research Rivers Solid fuel Survivors Toxicity Travellers Treatment Vehicles Ventilation Veterans Victims experience Vulnerable households

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Sheffield Hallam University

2019

Sheffield Hallam University - The Impact of Low-Level CO Exposure on the Human Brain

While we understand the danger of CO poisoning, much less is known about health damage caused by persistent low-level CO poisoning. This is important, ... Read more

Completed

Newcastle University

2019

Newcastle University - Identification of Protein Markers in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Following Carbon Monoxide Exposure – Phase II

Making a diagnosis of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is difficult, particularly if the healthcare professional does not have a raised suspicion that C ... Read more

Completed

University College London

2019

University College London - Unravelling the Mechanism of Carbon Monoxide Toxicity (Part 1)

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning causes morbidity and mortality around the world and remains common in the UK. CO leads to hypoxia (lack of oxygen) by f ... Read more

Completed

University College London

2019

University College London - Unravelling the Mechanism of Carbon Monoxide Toxicity (Part 2)

This project studied the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidative stress in the mechanism of neuronal cell death induced by carbon monoxide ... Read more

Imperial College

2019

Pilot study: determining biological effects of low level exposure, developing novel biomarkers and therapies in in vivo animal models of CO toxicity - supplement

This project will address key gaps in the scientific knowledge with the objective of addressing the issue of low-level CO toxicity and the social its ... Read more

Completed

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2019

Screening for Carbon Monoxide Exposure in Emergency Departments (EDCO Extension Study)

Both acute and chronic carbon monoxide (CO) exposure can produce a wide variety of non-specific clinical features, all of which can mimic other pathol ... Read more