Deadly Rift Valley fever: new insight, and hope for the future
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
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.
Dr Andrew Grant Joins Quadram Institute on Food Safety
25 Jun2018 - Dr Andrew Grant, from the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge, is part of the Quadram Institute’s strategic research programme Microbes in the Food Chain.
Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan elected Fellow of The Royal Society
10 May 2018 - CID member Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society (2018). She studies tuberculosis disease pathogenesis in the zebrafish.
Oldest Genetic evidence of Hepatitis B virus found in ancient DNA from 4,500 year-old skeletons
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
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.
Excising Infection in the Surgical Environment [ExISE]
20 Jan 2018 - An interdisciplinary project led by CID member Professor Alan Short (Department of Architecture) is re-examining surgical operating theatre design with superbugs in mind.
Engineering better care: a systems approach to health and care design and continuous improvement
10 Dec 2017 - Professor John Clarkson (UoC Department of Engineering/CIDIRC) is first author of the report “Engineering better care: a systems approach to health and care design and continuous improvement".
International consortium awarded $1.65 million NSF grant for One Health study on bat-human interactions.
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.
Study clears important hurdle towards developing an HIV vaccine
Study clears important hurdle towards developing an HIV vaccine
2017 Big Data in Medicine - Tools, Transformation and Translation Meeting.
Big Data in Medicine - Tools, Transformation and Translation 2017 meeting was coordinated by Cambridge Infectious Diseases and Big Data on 4 July at Homerton College, Cambridge. Posted: 9 July 2017
One Health for a changing world: zoonoses, ecosystems and human well-being
Professor James Wood's issue on One Health free to access here: http://bit.ly/PTB1725 Posted: 29 June 2017
Research Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Social and Biological Dimensions- 2017 Meeting
Research Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Social and Biological Dimensions- 2017 was coordinated by Cambridge Infectious Diseases on 6th July 2017 at Clare College, Cambridge. Posted: 9 June 2017
Chris Howe from Cambridge University among 73 Fellows Elected to the American Academy of Microbiology
Chris Howe from Cambridge University among 73 Fellows Elected to the American Academy of Microbiology
Final biomedical trial on captive chimpanzees is first oral Ebola vaccine for saving wild apes
Final biomedical trial on captive chimpanzees is first oral Ebola vaccine for saving wild apes
Of cabbage and cows: increasing agricultural yields in Africa
Africa’s food requirements, along with its population, are growing fast. Three research programmes ask how a better understanding of viruses, parasites and the spread of disease can pave the way to improving agricultural yields.
New model could help improve prediction of outbreaks of Ebola and Lassa fever
Many of the major new outbreaks of disease, particularly in Africa, are so-called zoonotic infections, diseases that are transmitted to humans from animals. The Ebola virus, for example, which recently killed over 11,000 people across Africa, was most likely transmitted to humans from fruit bats.
Sad news of Professor Sir Patrick Sisson's death
We were very sad to hear that Professor Sir Patrick Sissons died earlier this week. Patrick was Head of the Clinical School as Regius Professor of Physic for 7 years up until 2012.