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  • 15 Jul

    Professor Simon Milling Appointed Good Research Practice Advisor

    Head of School Professor Julia Edgar is delighted to announce that Professor Simon Milling has accepted the role of Sii Good Research Practice Advisor, succeeding Professor Rick Maizels.
  • 10 Jul

    PROFESSOR WALL GIVES EVIDENCE TO COMMONS SCIENCE COMMITTEE

    School of Infection & Immunity Head of Bacteriology Professor Donal Wall gave expert oral evidence to the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology (SIT) Committee on Tuesday, 1 July 2025 as part of its inquiry into the UK’s microbiome research landscape.
  • 07 Jul

    EULAR CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH

    The School of Infection & Immunity's Musculoskeletal Research Team has been named a EULAR Centre of Excellence in Rheumatology Research at the recent congress held in Barcelona. The renewed status, awarded for 2025–2030, is a distinction the group has now held for a decade.
  • 03 Jul

    DR MEGAN MACLEOD'S SCIENCE INSPIRES ARTWORK

    School of Infection & Immunity Senior Lecturer in Immunology Dr Megan MacLeod partnered with artist Jane Topping for a well-received display at the Pint of Science ‘Creative Reactions’ event in May.
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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