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  • 04 Dec

    DR EVE SMITH HELPING SHAPE THE FUTURE OF LUPUS CARE

    Dr Eve Smith recently co-led an important milestone for paediatric rheumatology: the International Treat-to-Target (T2T) Consensus Meeting for childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) - a two-day workshop supported by the Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre for Children (EATC4Children) and held in Liverpool over Tuesday, 11 and Wednesday, 12 November.
  • 04 Dec

    Sii RESEARCH SHORTLISTED FOR ARTHRITIS UK AWARD

    The School of Infection & Immunity is delighted to report that research by Dr Lucy MacDonald, Dr Aziza Elmesmari, Dr Domenico Somma, and Jack Frew, under the leadership of Professor Mariola Kurowska-Stolarska and Dr Stefano Alivernini, has been shortlisted in Arthritis UK’s Research Highlight of the Year 2025 competition.
  • 25 Nov

    STREICKER LAB RESEARCH ON VAMPIRE BAT RABIES FEATURED ON BBC

    The Centre for Virus Research's Streicker Group was recently featured on BBC TV, radio, and website, highlighting their research on vampire bat-transmitted rabies in Latin America.
  • 24 Nov

    PROFESSOR HO FEATURES IN CATHERINE McEWAN FOUNDATION PODCAST

    Professor Gwo-Tzer Ho recently joined MVLS colleague Professor Konstantinos Gerasimidis on the Catherine McEwan Foundation’s podcast to discuss the latest advances in Inflammatory Bowel Disease research. The episode offers an engaging look behind the scenes of IBD research and is available to view now on YouTube.
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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