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  • 06 Oct

    PROFESSOR NICOLA VEITCH APPOINTED NEW DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION

    Head of School Professor Julia Edgar has announced that Professor Nicola Veitch has been appointed Director of Education for the School of Infection & Immunity, officially succeeding current DoE Professor Olwyn Byron on Friday, 10 October 2025.
  • 06 Oct

    DR LAURA MCCAUGHEY LEADS ON FUTURE SKILLS SYMPOSIUM REPORT

    Dr Laura McCaughey has co-authored a new Future Skills Framework report - the key output from the Future Skills Symposium, held at the University of Glasgow in June and jointly supported by the School of Infection & Immunity and SULSA.
  • 22 Sep

    PROFESSOR NICOLA VEITCH DELIVERS INAUGURAL LECTURE

    The inaugural lecture of Nicola Veitch, Professor of Bioscience Education and Parasitology in the School of Infection & Immunity, took place on Thursday, 11 September 2025 - an event that drew a full house to the Yudowitz Lecture Theatre of the Wolfson Medical School Building.
  • 22 Sep

    CENTRE FOR PARASITOLOGY SELECTED TO HOST BSP INTERNATIONAL MEETING

    The University of Glasgow Centre for Parasitology (CfP) will host the British Society for Parasitology (BSP) Spring Meeting from Tuesday, 7 April to Thursday, 9 April 2026.
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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