Infection & Immunity

students in a lab

Study

Close up of windows on the BHF Biomedical building

Explore

Infection & Immunity news

  • 15 May

    Sii-led research project secures £22,000 funding award

    A research project led by Sii's Dr Rebecca McHugh has been awarded £22,000 in funding from the Hannah Dairy Foundation. The work will address neonatal calf diarrhoea - the most common disease affecting young dairy calves, and a major concern for animal welfare and farm productivity.
  • 14 May

    DR LAURA McCAUGHEY INITIATIVE WINS ACADEMIC EMPLOYABILITY AWARD

    An initiative co-led by the School of Infection & Immunity's Dr Laura McCaughey has won an award at the Graduate Futures Institute Academic Employability Awards 2026 in London on Thursday, 30 April. Developed alongside Dr Anna MacGregor, Dr Lesley Hamilton, Fiona Stubbs and six student interns, it came out on top in the Co-created Employability Initiatives category.
  • 12 May

    Sii PROFESSOR HARRY DE-KONING HELPS FACILITATE NEW UofG-ABU MoU

    The University of Glasgow and Ahmadu Bello University have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding during a two-day visit coordinated by the School of Infection & Immunity's Professor Harry de-Koning. ABU is located in Zaria, Nigeria and has a student body of around 50,000, making it the largest university in Africa’s most populous nation.
  • 05 May

    Sii researchers help uncover how deadly parasite evades the immune system

    Sii researchers Professor Richard McCulloch and Dr Jane Munday have contributed to a study showing how Trypanosoma brucei evades the immune system through DNA-driven antigen changes. Led by Monica Mugnier and Jaclyn Smith at Johns Hopkins University, the work included key input from the Centre for Parasitology pair.
Full News & Events listings

The University of Glasgow is home to one of the UK’s leading centres for the study of pathogens of medical and veterinary importance.

We are key contributors to the  and the Scottish Infection Research Network, with access to state-of-the-art applied genomics, proteomics and imaging facilities. 

We possess world-leading expertise in microbiology and parasitology. 

World-changing research

Discover some of our world-leading research in virology, parasitology and microbiology.

Campus
Campus

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.

Longhorn cattle in Africa

Animal African Trypanosomiasis

Glasgow is collaborating with other universities to tackle this devastating parasitic disease.

Coronavirus image
Coronavirus image

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.

Boats on Lake victoria, Uganda

Schistosomiasis

Our researchers have adopted an interdisciplinary approach to tackle this neglected tropical disease in Uganda