Immuno-matrix Branch Lead Professor Judi Allen spoke with presenter Lukwesa Burak at the BBC World Service about an 8cm worm found alive in the brain of an Australian woman. Professor Allen explains how a worm normally found on the skin of a python made its way to the...
We are a teeming mass of interconnected microbes and the impact of this microscopic universe on our health, our minds, even our moods, is profound. Professor Sheena Cruickshank joined an expert panel at Wellcome’s Reading Room in London as part of the BBC World...
Professor Sheena Cruickshank provided her expertise for an ITV 1 Tonight special on how to boost your immune system, which aired on the 10th of February.The programme looked at the recent flu and cold epidemic in the UK - the worst in a decade - with a focus on how...
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,...
Our Life course Branch Lead Dr Peter Arkwright appeared recently on the EMJ Podcast for Healthcare Professionals and was interviewed by their Editor Evgenia Koutsouki. They discussed; Dr Arkwright’s fascinating career - including the defining moment of his practice so...
Prof Dan Davis has written in The Sunday Times about the recent controversy surrounding the 'Monkeypox' virus, with the WHO finding the name stigmatising, and the importance of considering the broader impact when naming diseases/conditions. Dan traces the history of...
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...
