Cambridge Infectious Diseases

Research

Infectious disease research at Cambridge explores host-pathogen interactions to improve prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

WHO Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Evolution and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Collaborating with Public Health from an academic setting

Antimicrobial Resistance Research

Antimicrobial Resistance Research at the University of Cambridge

oneHealth Research on bat zoonoses

12 Sep 2017 - The USA National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1.65 million to a One Health bat research project on which co-investigator Dr. Olivier Restiff (UoC/CIDIRC) will explore disease in relation to landscape change.

Enabling Technologies - Diagnosing Deadly Diseases

Prof. Lisa Hall's Group works on diagnosing deadly diseases - bringing together expertise in diagnostics, synthetic biology, microbiology and parasitology, colloidal science and manufacturing engineering.

Surgical Operating Theatre Design

An interdisciplinary project led by Professor Alan Short (UoC Department of Architecture /CIDIRC) re-examining surgical operating theatre design with superbugs in mind.

Jobs

Find information on positions at University of Cambridge that relate to infectious diseases

Recent Publications

Author Correction: Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period.

Suppression of costimulation by human cytomegalovirus promotes evasion of cellular immune defenses.

Label-Free Analysis and Sorting of Microalgae and Cyanobacteria in Microdroplets by Intrinsic Chlorophyll Fluorescence for the Identification of Fast Growing Strains.

Upcoming Seminars

Thu 27 Sep 18:00: Behaviour Change by Design Annual Lecture 2018

Wed 03 Oct 16:00: Title to be confirmed

Fri 05 Oct 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Andrew Morris - Title TBC BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

More talks

CID Annual Symposium 16 Nov 2018

Seeking infectious diseases researchers who think outside the box. Lets mingle.

Save the date epirecipes Hackathon at the Alan Turing institute

epiRecipes Hackathon at the Alan Turing Institute, London.

What we do

Cambridge Infectious Diseases is an Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. We promote an interdisciplinary approach to addressing the challenge of reducing the burden of infectious diseases globally. Our virtual network crosses all six schools of the University and sector leading institutes across Cambridge.

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Latest news

Deadly Rift Valley fever: new insight, and hope for the future

Jul 20, 2018

Health control measures alone could be ineffective in the long term fight against the deadly Rift Valley fever which affects both humans and animals, a new study involving CID member Prof James Wood reports.

Professor Julia Gog awarded University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor Impact Award

Jul 10, 2018

10 July 2018 - CID member Prof. Julia Gog (DAMTP) received a University of Cambridge Vice Chancellors Impact Award for her work to produce mathematical modelling that helps predict how UK populations move and interact, and consequently how and where a virus would spread.

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