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  • 17 Mar

    Professor Lilach Sheiner Receives Prestigious C.A. Wright Medal

    Sii's Professor Lilach Sheiner was honoured with the prestigious C.A. Wright Medal by the British Society for Parasitology for her outstanding contributions to the discipline at the joint British-German-Swiss Parasitology Societies Spring Conference on Friday, 14 March 2025.
  • 06 Mar

    IWD 2025 - Leadership in Sii

    To celebrate International Women's Day 2025, the School of Infection & Immunity's Athena SWAN co-chair Dr Parini Mankad has written an article celebrating the fact that the senior positions of Head of School and Centre for Virus Research Director are held by female academics for the first time.
  • 26 Feb

    Professor Ho Hosts Landmark Gastroenterology Experts Gathering

    New School of Infection & Immunity Professor of Gastroenterology Gwo-Tzer Ho recently hosted a landmark Crohn’s Futures Meeting over the course of three days in January 2025
  • 14 Jan

    CVR's Dr Scott Authors Important New Long-Covid Report

    The Centre for Virus Research's Dr Janet Scott has co-authored a national report evaluating NHS Scotland Long-COVID Services and concluding that this long-term condition requires ongoing care, similar to other chronic illnesses.
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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