School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

International Research Team to Look at How to Best Restore Degraded Enviroments

International Research Team to Look at How to Best Restore Degraded Enviroments

Pioneering Trial Offers New Treatment Hope for Dogs with Epilepsy

Pioneering Trial Offers New Treatment Hope for Dogs with Epilepsy

Common Human Gene Mutations Linked to a Range of Health Conditions

Common Human Gene Mutations Linked to a Range of Health Conditions

SBOHVM plants a new forest at Cochno farm

A ceremony celebrated the planting of 20,000 trees  at our research farm in the north-west of Glasgow

A MULTINATIONAL £6M PROJECT TO DEVELOP A NOVEL PARASITE VACCINE FOR SHEEP

Prof Collette Britton will work with a team of international researchers on a vaccine to control worm infections.

Flu pandemics are followed by recurrent outbreaks for around two decades

• Influenza pandemics cause a persistent increase in influenza mortality risk lasting around two decades according to new research analysing historical data from the 19th and 20th centuries

SBOHVM and UofG to lead mosquito surveillance in Scotland in the light of climate change

A £1.25 million grant will help to imrpove our understanding of the potential risk of mosquito-borne disease in Scotland due to climate change

QS 2023 Rankings by subject

Veterinary science and life sciences maintain a strong record in the QS World Rankings by Subject 2023.

Microphones could help track disease risk in the wild

Our researchers have shown how sounds recorded by low-cost microphones could be used to help track infectious disease risks in the rainforest and in other rapidly changing landscapes.

Brains of stranded dolphins show signs of Alzheimer's disease

The brains of three different species of stranded dolphins show classic markers of human Alzheimer’s disease.

Britvic Kindness & Leadership, 50 Leading Lights campaign 2022

Congratulations to Prof Dan Haydon who has been listed as a leading light for leadership with kindness.

Congratulations go to Dr Christina Faust who has received a 2022 L'Oreal-UNESCO Award Fellowship at the Women in Science UK and Ireland Rising Talents Awards

10 Years of Naturally Speaking Part 2 - A look back at some of our favourite blogs

10 years of Naturally Speaking

Part 1 - a look back at some of our favourite podcasts

Dog rabies persists despite low virus prevalence

An important study from Professor Katie Hampton demonstrates that dog rabies continues to persist despite low prevalence and attempts to combat the disease.

ScotPEN Wellcome grant to raise awareness of ticks & tick-borne disease across Scotland

A £67k Scottish Public Engagement Network (Wellcome) grant will help to empower people to make informed decisions about accessing the outdoors.

The Fight Against Malaria

IBAHCM and School of Chemistry scientists develop 'the holy grail' method to identify the ageing mosquitos which cause malaria

Biodiversity is facing the repayment of debts and credits

A new method suggests that past landscape changes can cast a shadow on future bird biodiversity.

Dog vaccination essential for preventing rabies spread to humans and animals

New research led by IBAHCM in collaboration with Ifakara Health Institute and Imperial College London, shows how vaccination in dogs reduces the spread of rabies in humans and animals.

UofG part of global program to understand zoonotic viral disease ‘spill over’

The University of Glasgow is joining a global five-year program to understand and address threats posed by zoonotic viral diseases that can “spill over” from animals to humans, such as SARS-CoV-2, in an effort to reduce risk of infection, amplification, and spread.

Looking for Zoonotic needles in a viral haystack

IBAHCM & CVR team develops and validates machine learning models that ranks viruses by their ability to infect humans ("zoonotic potential") using only their genome sequence.