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Apply for CID Summer Studentship 2025

4 April 2025

Cambridge Infectious Diseases is offering undergraduate students a studentship to pursue an 8-week project this summer. A grant of £2,500 is provided to cover living costs during the duration of the project. Any undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge or University of East...

One Health Policy engagement workshop for Early Career Researchers

11 June 2024

Are you an early career researcher passionate about making a real-world impact with your work? Do you aspire to effectively communicate your research to policymakers and contribute to the health and environmental policy landscapes – both in the UK and internationally? Then this workshop is tailor-made for you! Join us for...

Registration and call for abstracts OPEN: Cambridge Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium 2024 - 4th March, Robinson College

19 January 2024

Registrations are OPEN for the next Cambridge Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium, on the 4th March 2024. This will be an in-person event, at Robinson College. For those unfamiliar with it, the annual symposium is a one-day event in which CID brings together its members to learn about the network's research. There will be...

Applications are NOW OPEN for the INEOS Oxbridge Doctoral Initiative 2024 entry

16 November 2023

The INEOS Oxbridge Doctoral Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance is a programme that integrates the expertise and capabilities of two Universities that are globally recognised for excellence in health science research. This is funded by the IOI with studentships fully funded for 3.5 years (fixed term). 3 studentships will be awarded in Oxford (DPhil) and 4 will be awarded in Cambridge (PhD), with students will be encouraged to train in both Universities. This provides the chance to experience the best of both academic environments and their established networks.

Pilot to monitor wastewater at the West Hub

6 October 2023

The University of Cambridge's Estates Division is working with Untap Health to monitor the collective health of West Hub users during Michaelmas term. The two-month pilot project (from 2 October to 1 December) will use innovative technology to monitor the health of the whole community for selected pathogens, in real-time, using a single test station, in the outgoing sewage.

INEOS Oxbridge Doctoral Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance – Applications open for 7x studentships starting Oct 2023

9 January 2023

The INEOS Oxbridge Doctoral Initiative is a programme from the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research (IOI), University of Oxford and University of Cambridge to train the next generation of outstanding scientific champions to tackle the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). We are now accepting applications. Application Deadline: 20 January 2023 at 11:59pm GMT Start Date: October 2023

“Nature finds a way…” How activation of a hidden pathway can help a respiratory pathogen survive in the infection environment

22 November 2022

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Saarland (Germany) have performed a systemic analysis of the metabolism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa – a WHO “critical priority pathogen” responsible for causing serious airway infections in humans – and have identified an unusual and unexpected mechanism that...

Meet the winner: Asta Hobbs-Hart and the persister behaviour of S. suis – Summer Studentship 2022

13 October 2022

Context Every year, Cambridge Infectious Diseases organises a competition for undergraduates to submit research proposals for a summer studentship . This summer, CID awarded the grant to Asta Hobbs-Hart , a BA student in Natural Sciences. We have asked her about her summer project experience. Why did you decide to apply...

New doctoral research funding initiative to tackle antimicrobial resistance – Ineos Oxford Institute for AMR, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge

1 June 2022

A new Oxbridge PhD programme: The Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research (IOI) has this week launched a new doctoral initiative with the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge, to train the next generation of cutting-edge antimicrobial resistance researchers. The successful candidates will be fully...

Meet the winner: Smart Probiotics to fight Antimicrobial Resistance – AMR Sandpit 2021

20 April 2022

Last November 2021, Cambridge Infectious Diseases hosted a Research Sandpit focused on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) topics. The event was directed to the early career researchers in the network and CID offered a pump-priming grant to the best proposal coming up from the Sandpit. Here, we are interviewing the winners.