Long Covid sufferers to benefit from £6.8 million research YORK researchers are part of a team who have been awarded £6.8 million to conduct the largest clinical study of long Covid over the next two years. A major new consortium involving the University of York has been awarded the money by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR. The consortium is led by Professor Ami Banerjee from University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and University College London and is made up of more than 30 researchers, health professionals, patients and industry partners from over 30 organisations working together under the banner of STIMULATE-ICP (Symptoms, Trajectory, Inequalities and Management: Understanding Long-Covid to Address and Transform Existing Integrated Care Pathways).