Our Eco-immunology Deputy Branch Lead Professor Sheena Cruickshank writes in The Conversation about the large wave of respiratory tract infections over the past two months in countries like the UK and the US, which has led some to question whether COVID damages the...
Our Barrier immunology Deputy Branch Lead Dr Sean Knight has been awarded a BMA Foundation J Moulton grant for research into Long COVID.Up to 70 percent of patients hospitalised for COVID-19 pneumonitis have persistent symptoms several months after the acute...
Professor Sheena Cruickshank writes in The Conversation about the potential of inhalable and nasal vaccines to offer more durable protection against COVID-19 than regular shots.While conventional needle-in-your-arm vaccines induce a more systemic immune response,...
Prof Sheena Cruickshank, along with three other health experts, has written in The Conversation about the response to COVID thus far - what has worked well, what mistakes scientists and policymakers made, and what needs to be done to protect human health from here on....
Dr Elizabeth Mann appeared recently on BBC Woman's Hour to discuss offering low-dose Covid vaccines to children aged between 5-11 years in all four nations of the UK. You can listen to her appearance here Related...
Prof Sheena Cruickshank has written for The Conversation on the challenges posed by the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and how developing T-cell vaccines may be the key to unlocking long-term immunity from Covid: Many of the vaccines designed to date – including...
Our Director Prof Tracy Hussell appeared on BBC Radio Manchester with Michelle Dignan this morning to discuss the Omicron variant, the impact on cases within Manchester, the risks posed to the NHS, the cut to self-isolation to 7 days for those with a negative test...
On The Conversation, Professor Sheena Cruickshank writes that while COVID vaccine effects wane over time, they still prevent death and severe illness. Sheena says: “This, really, is the most important goal of vaccination – to stop people getting...
Dan Davis, Professor of Immunology at the University, is one of several experts to give their take on the pandemic to The Daily Mirror. He says it won't be over by October and we need to wait and see whether opening up in this way strongly affects viral transmission...
Professor Tracy Hussell speaks on the BBC World Service’s Health Check on what the pandemic means for children’s immunity in the long term. Prof Hussell understands concerns but feels there won’t be a big impact.Outlet: BBC World Service Related...
