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Eight inspiring women who work in infection

March 2024: Read the piece - published on International Women's Day 2024 - which highlighted the work of eight women researchers at Imperial who are working to understand challenges in infections affecting in women and what can be done to combat them. 

Event summary: Novel diagnostics for infectious diseases

In March 2024, leading experts from academia, industry and the public sector came together to share insights into novel diagnostics for infectious diseases. Read about the innovative technologies presented & the common themes that emerged.

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Meet seven researchers working to end TB

March 2023: On World TB Day 2023, the Institute interviewed seven researchers working to end TB through understanding immune response & HIV co-infections, prioritising interventions, improving diagnosis, implementing latent screening programmes

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How to fight fungal infection: the path of yeast resistance

September 2023: Read about fungal science researchers exploring the impacts of fungi on human health, wildlife, natural ecosystems, food security, and global trade policies.

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Retrovirology Symposium - July 2023

A celebration of 60 years of collaborative HTLV-1 and HIV research

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Blog post: Dr Fadil Bidmos on bacterial meningitis vaccines

Learn about Dr Fadil Bidmos's work to develop novel and cheap-to-produce vaccines against bacterial meningitis

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World Malaria Day Workshop - April 2023

A workshop to discuss the most important aspects of achieving Zero Malaria

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Podcast: Fighting TB with maths

Mathematical modeller Professor Nimalan Arinaminpathy on India’s TB elimination program to optimise interventions

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World Encephalitis Day 2023: Meet the researchers

Dr Nick Davies and Dr Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu talk about their encephalitis research

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World Hepatitis Day blog

Blog post: World Hepatitis Day 2022 - Highlighted research

Read selected highlights of hepatitis research being undertaken by Imperial researchers

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Blog post: Celebrating black infection scientists

A look at the impact of influential black scientists throughout history and the research of current Imperial scientists

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Impacts of AI on AMR: Common themes and challenges

Event summary: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR): Common themes and challenges that emerged

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Novel diagnostics for infectious diseases

Event summary: International experts assemble to explore diagnostics for infectious diseases.

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Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week - November 2023

Drug Resistance – Dr Frances Davies and Dr Elita Jauneikaite

Our first blog in the series is about drug resistance and features Dr Frances Davies (clinical microbiologist whose research focuses on developing new ways to tackle AMR) and Dr Elita Jauneikaite (Research Lead for priority pathogens).

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Precision prescribing and antibiotics decision-making

Our second blog of the series focuses on precision prescribing and antibiotics decision-making. It features Dr Timothy Rawson (Research Lead for Precision Prescribing Theme at the NIHR) and Dr Nina Zhu (Research Lead for Population Health & Policy Theme in the HPRU).

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AMR Awareness Week - nov 2023

Diagnostics:Dr Gerald Larrouy- Maumus and Dr Jesus Rodriguez

Our third blog of the series focuses on Diagnostics and features Dr Larrouy-Maumu’s work focuses on TB and Dr Jesus Rodriguez Manzano’s group are developing and implementing innovative methods for molecular diagnosis of infectious disease and AMR.

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The importance of AMR: A look back at AMR week 2023

We are at a turning point in history: if we fail to change the trajectory of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), by 2050 we face up to 10 million annual global deaths from AMR. Research, solutions, and action in the clinic and at the global political scale are critical to preventing this catastrophe. To finish this blog series, we look at a few more examples of AMR research being undertaken at Imperial.

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