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  • 08 Nov

    NEW DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

    Head of School Professor Julia Edgar has announced the appointment of Professor Andy Roe as our new Director of Research following Professor Rick Maizels' decision to stand down.
  • 07 Nov

    Sii Academics Win Inaugural Microbiology Society EDI prize

    We are delighted to share the news that the School of Infection & Immunity's Professor Nicola Veitch and Dr Leighann Sherry alongside Dr Victoria Paterson and Dr Stewart White (both SBOHVM) have been awarded the inaugural Microbiology Society EDI prize.
  • 04 Nov

    PROFESSOR SHEINER'S RESEARCH REACHES OVER 10 MILLION PEOPLE

    The School of Infection & Immunity's Professor Lilach Sheiner recently shared her groundbreaking research with a Chinese television audience of over 10 million viewers in an interview for a segment on popular programme ‘Seeking Truth in News’.
  • 01 Nov

    Sii 2024 PGR INDUCTION EVENT

    The School of Infection & Immunity held an induction event for our latest cohort of PGRs on Thursday, 10 October 2024, marking the beginning of their academic journey with the aim of integrating our new researchers into the Sii community and providing them with essential resources for their studies.
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University of Glasgow leads COVID-19 research response in Scotland

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT

The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) is at the heart of COVID-19 research response in Scotland and the UK

Deadly parasites create unique cellular structures to survive

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 07:08:00 GMT

Scientists have solved a key parasitic puzzle, revealing the unique and complex structures toxoplasmosis and malaria parasites make in order to survive in different hosts.

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Animal African Trypanosomiasis

Glasgow is collaborating with other universities to tackle this devastating parasitic disease.

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The evolution of SARS-CoV-2, from bats to humans, shows a slow rate of change

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:15:00 GMT

Scientists looking at the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have found that since December 2019 – and for the first 11 months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic – there has been very little ‘important’ genetic change observed in the hundreds of thousands of sequenced virus genomes.

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Schistosomiasis

Our researchers have adopted an interdisciplinary approach to tackle this neglected tropical disease in Uganda