The evolution of SARS-CoV-2, from bats to humans, shows a slow rate of change
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:15:00 GMT
UofG establishes interdisciplinary network to further links with Malawi
Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:00:00 GMT
UofG part of global program to understand zoonotic viral disease ‘spill over’
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:55:47 BST
Community led response to COVID-19 in Colombia
Key funding
- "Quelle fièvre?" Reducing the risk from pathogens causing febrile illness in Guinea; US Department of Defense, £106k (2022-25).
- Rift Valley Fever; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), £500k (2022-24).
- Understanding the DNA replication programmes of the African trypanosome and Leishmania; Wellcome Trust, £1.6million (2022-27).
- STRESS-MALAWI: strengthening resilience against sleeping sickness in Malawi; Medical Research Council (MRC), £299k (2022-24).
- Advancing infrared and AI-based techniques for real time mosquito age-grading and evaluation of malaria vector control interventions in Africa; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, £866k (2022-24).
Research news
- Pioneering UofG researcher recognised by Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Six UofG academics recognised in Queen's birthday honours
- UofG part of new UK Coronavirus immunology consortium to address key unanswered questions about immunity and COVID-19
- Researchers identify evolutionary origins of SARS-COV-2
- Scientists identify cat infected with SARS-COV-2 in the UK
- Malaria mosquito research could provide new control tools
- Risk of viruses emerging in humans may not depend on their animal host
Key publications
- Rabies shows how scale of transmission can enable acute infections to persist at low prevalence, Science (2022)
- Zoonotic causes of febrile illness in malaria endemic countries: a systematic review. Science Direct (2020)
- Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Microbiology (2020)
- A microsporidian impairs Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes. Nature (2020)
- Viral zoonotic risk is homogenous among taxonomic orders of mammalian and avian reservoir hosts. PNAS (2020)
PhD opportunities
- Animal Ecology
- Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Microbiology
- Parasitology
- Systems Biology
- Virology
Relevant Courses
Glasgow is an international leader in One Health research.
We seek to improve human and animal health by addressing questions that arise as a result of the many and diverse interdependencies between these two domains.
One Health approaches cannot be confined to the study of either human or veterinary medicine, or even to a combination of the two. Instead, the effective resolution of health questions depends critically on understanding the complex biological and social, economic, political and environmental contexts in which those questions are embedded. With the growing recognition of the importance of multimorbidity, this area of research has expanded to include the study of interactions between infectious and non-communicable disease.
These complex issues are most powerfully addressed through interdisciplinary collaborations. At Glasgow, researchers from human and veterinary clinical medicine are closely integrated with life scientists, and interface with social and physical scientists to deliver world-changing research. We work both across the Global South with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Tanzania and Malawi, and in Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Our collaborations have made a significant impact on key national, global health and veterinary agendas.
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