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  • 09 Feb

    School of Infection & Immunity Away Day 2026

    Over 150 colleagues attended our fourth annual School of Infection & Immunity Away day, held on Thursday, 29 January 2026 at the Glasgow University Union.
  • 05 Feb

    Sii ATHENA SWAN SILVER AWARD RENEWAL

    The School of Infection & Immunity is proud to announce that our Athena Swan Silver Award has been successfully renewed, extending the status until January 2031 and reflecting a commitment to advancing gender equality and an inclusive working environment.
  • 16 Dec

    BACTERIOLOGY TRIO AWARDED FUNDING GRANTS BY TENOVUS SCOTLAND

    Three researchers in the School of Infection & Immunity Department of Bacteriology - Dr Liam Rooney, Dr Justine Rudkin, and Dr David Mark - were recently awarded funding grants from Tenovus Scotland, each receiving support to deliver projects that explore new avenues within microbiology.
  • 15 Dec

    Sii WELCOMES NIGERIAN ABU DELEGATION TO DISCUSS PARTNERSHIPS

    Earlier this month, the School of Infection & Immunity, together with the wider College of MVLS, welcomed a delegation from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria. Their visit on Monday, 1 and Tuesday, 2 December, coordinated by Sii Professor Harry de Koning, aimed to explore potential partnerships and extend the ACENTD to include the interactions of neglected NTDS with certain non-communicable diseases.
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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