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  • 5 Nov

    Professor Pasquale Maffia co-authors global heart study

    The School of Infection & Immunity's Professor Pasquale Maffia has collaborated on an international study consisting of more than 315,000 adults across 76 countries that has revealed gaps in heart disease prevention
  • 2 Nov

    Bringing Microbiology to schools across the west of Scotland

    Microbiology staff have been visiting schools across the west of Scotland as part of a new outreach initiative, led by Dr Liam Rooney in collaboration with Professor Nicola Veitch and Dr Ainsley Beaton.
  • 29 Oct

    PGR Poster Day 2026 Celebrates Student Research

    On Thursday, 8 October 2026, the School of Infection & Immunity hosted our Postgraduate Research (PGR) Poster Day in the Wolfson Medical Building with prize winners announced by PGR convenor Professor Richard Burchmore.
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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