Cambridge Infectious Diseases

Researcher Directory

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Research

Infectious disease research at Cambridge employs systems biology approaches to explore host-pathogen interactions and make the scientific advances needed 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

AMR Research

Antimicrobial Resistance Research at the University of Cambridge

oneHealth Research

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.

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

miR-155 induction is a marker of murine norovirus infection but does not contribute to control of replication in vivo.

Stapled peptides as a new technology to investigate protein-protein interactions in human platelets.

Pathogenesis of bat rabies in a natural reservoir: Comparative susceptibility of the straw-colored fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) to three strains of Lagos bat virus.

Upcoming Seminars

Tue 19 Jun 10:00: GLOW Conference 2018 Registration deadline: 31 May 2018

Wed 20 Jun 10:15: Structural studies of a DNA unwinding machine

Wed 20 Jun 10:15: Architecture of PIKK Kinases and their molecular mechanisms of regulation

More talks

Immunology and CID PhD and Postdoc Day at the Biomedical Campus 7 June 2018

Empowering Early Career Researchers

What we do

Cambridge Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Centre (CIDIRC) is a leading international hub for research and teaching that focuses on infectious diseases and the impact these have on national and global health.

Our virtual network crosses all six schools of the University and provides a central resource for anyone interested in Infectious Diseases at the University of Cambridge, including researchers, affiliated institutes, commercial partners, national and international collaborators.

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Latest news

Oldest Genetic evidence of Hepatitis B virus found in ancient DNA from 4,500 year-old skeletons

May 11, 2018

09 May 2018 - An extinct strain of the human Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been discovered in Bronze Age human skeletons found in burial sites across Europe and Asia.

Major Funding for Cambridge to transform health through data science

Feb 07, 2018

07 February 2018 - Major Funding for Cambridge to transform health through data science. Making game-changing improvements in people’s health by harnessing data science at scale across the UK.

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