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  • 27 Mar

    DR LAURA MCCAUGHEY SHORTLISTED FOR ACADEMIC EMPLOYABILITY AWARDS

    The School of Infection & Immunity's Dr Laura McCaughey has been shortlisted in two categories in the Graduate Futures Institute Academic Employability Awards 2026, recognising the initiatives Complete Graduate, developed alongside Dr Anna McGregor, Dr Lesley Hamilton and Fiona Stubbs, and Business in the Biosciences, co-developed with Dr McGregor, Dr Nick Quinn, and Marion Anderson.
  • 24 Mar

    Dr Eve Smith raises awareness of juvenile arthritis on BBC Radio

    Dr Eve Smith recently appeared on BBC Radio Scotland’s Morning with Stephen Jardine to discuss juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic diseases affecting children, as part of the World Young Rheumatic Disease Day campaign on 18 March 2026.
  • 16 Mar

    Dr Mariana Ferreira Silva

    Dr Mariana Ferreira Silva has been awarded a Young Investigator Grant from the São Paulo Research Foundation to establish a research group at the University of São Paulo. Her five-year project will investigate how the ubiquitination system influences the life cycle of Toxoplasma gondii.
  • 12 Mar

    Professor Donal Wall delivers inaugural lecture

    Professor Donal Wall, Head of Bacteriology in the School of Infection & Immunity, delivered his inaugural lecture to friends and colleagues on Friday, 27 February 2026 in the Yudowitz Lecture Theatre of the Wolfson Medical School Building.
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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