Following the announcement that the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is being withdrawn Professor Sheena Cruickshank from the Lydia Becker Institute and Professor Christina Pagel from UCL have written a joint piece for the New Statesman about its development, ...
On Tuesday 12th March campaign group Ardwick Climate Action, with the support of The University of Manchester launched a new green walking route where local people can avoid the excessive pollution caused by motor vehicles.The scheme, close to Kale Street, will help...
Professor Sheena Cruickshank has set up a new Substack that will aim to put new research into context and make it more accessible for lay audiences. The research covered will be largely immunology based and for her first entry Sheena has written a piece on the latest...
Professor Sheena Cruickshank has provided her expertise for a new animation produced by TED-Ed on the causes of the common cold and whether a cure is even possible.On average, adults catch more than 150 colds throughout their lives. Even with similar symptoms, the...
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...
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....
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...
Prof Sheena Cruickshank was featured recently in The Guardian's 'Conversations with Experts' series to answer questions about the possibility of finding a cure for the common cold. Related...
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...
