MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

Recent News

• 02 Dec

  RSV vaccination during pregnancy reduces the risk of infant hospitalisation

  New research shows that infants under three months old, whose mothers received the RSV vaccination during pregnancy, had around 80% reduced risk of hospitalisation due to an RSV infection, compared to infants whose mothers were unvaccinated.
• 28 Nov

  Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans

  Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, one of the body’s ways of stopping viruses in their tracks.
• 19 Nov

  CVR’s Prof Antonia Ho awarded Fleming Prize by the Microbiology Society

  The Microbiology Society has announced that Antonia Ho, Professor and Honorary Consultant of Infectious Diseases at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR), has won this year’s Fleming Prize.
• 27 Oct

  Scientists use AI to learn the intricate language of biomolecules

  Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can help translate the language of proteins