News

Half of Ebola outbreaks undetected - 13 June 2019

14 June 2019

Research by Dr Emma Glennon and CID colleagues published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases identifies how small outbreaks of Ebola are treated locally and often go undetected by public health infrastructure.

Dr Martin Welch, and his collaborator Dr Anthony Sifuna, have been awarded a GCRF Networking Grant - 31 Jan 2018

10 June 2019

Dr Martin Welch, and his collaborator Dr Anthony Sifuna, have been awarded a GCRF Networking Grant. Dr Martin Welch, and his collaborator Dr Anthony Sifuna from the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya, have been awarded an Academy of Medical Sciences’ Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)...

Expansions of medicine donations are not the only solution to improving treatment of neglected tropical diseases - 25 May 2019

3 June 2019

Research by Dr Goylette Chami and colleagues Published in Lancet Infectious Diseases identifies how to integrate mass drug administration into universal health coverage packages.

Ancient faeces reveal parasites in 8,000-Year-Old Village of Çatalhöyük - 02 June 2019

3 June 2019

Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms in the ancient inhabitants of Turkey shows whipworm infected this population of prehistoric farmers.

Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Identified through Study on Untreated Sewage 2 April 2019

30 May 2019

A study published in Nature Communications on 8th March has shown how studying genes related to antimicrobial resistance in untreated sewage can identify the spread of antimicrobial resistance in healthy populations

Cambridge groups and their work on vaccines

17 May 2019

Register now for a Legal Innovation Symposium to Support the Development of Antimicrobial Drugs.

17 May 2019

This symposium will explore the complex interactions between law and antimicrobial research and development. Advancing our understanding of this ecosystem will help design a better legal toolkit to promote antimicrobial innovation and limit the impact of resistance on global health.

International Women's Day 2019

6 March 2019

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2019, CID is delighted to highlight the recent work of just a few of our principal investigators. If you are looking for new collaborators, speakers and chairs for conferences or panels, then do take a look through the CID Directory.

Round Up: Research Groups studying TB at the University of Cambridge

26 February 2019

World Tuberculosis Day 2019 takes place on Sunday 24 March, with the theme “It’s time”. CID shares a selection of work from the University of Cambridge around this disease.

Epirecipes Hackathon CID/Harvard/Alan Turing Institute

22 January 2019

Over 40 international researchers and students attended the Epirecipes Hackathon, which was co-sponsored by CID thanks to generous support from the Isaac Newton Trust. The event aimed to implement as many different epidemiological models as possible in a variety of computer languages.