The mission of the CVR is to carry out multidisciplinary research on viruses and viral diseases of humans and animals, translating the knowledge gained for the improvement of human and animal health.

The CVR’s research programmes cover the themes of emerging viruses, arboviruses, antiviral immunity, hepatitis C virus, viruses & cancer, structural virology, viral epidemiology & evolutionary dynamics, viral genomics and bioinformatics.

Dr Emma Thomson has recently been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship Award to support her own laboratory and continue her work on her work on T cell mediated evolution of the hepatitis C virus.