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  • 09 Dec

    PROFESSOR SHEINER RECEIVES £3.3MILLION WELLCOME DISCOVERY GRANT

    Professor Lilach Sheiner has been awarded a Wellcome Discovery grant of over £3.3million to investigate the biology of Toxoplasma mitochondria and decipher its function during animal infection and persistence.
  • 03 Dec

    Microscopic, single cell differences found in lungs of COVID-19 patients in Mala

    Research led by the School of Infection & Immunity has revealed previously unobserved differences in the inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in patients who live in Malawi compared to those in western countries.
  • 28 Nov

    RESEARCH UNCOVERS ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT INFECTION TREATMENT

    New research led by the School of Infection & Immunity's Professor Andrew Roe and Dr David Mark has shown that the compound aurodox can reduce virulence in multiple gram-negative pathogens, paving the way for it to be used to treat a wide range of antibiotic-resistant infections.
  • 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.
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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