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Read more at: Professor Michael Weekes

Professor Michael Weekes

Innate immune evasion by intracellular pathogens

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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) affects ~1/100 pregnancies and is the leading infectious cause of deafness and intellectual disability in children, and the most significant infectious cause of birth defects in the global North. There are only three anti-HCMV drugs; two of them have treatment-limiting side effects and all exhibit problematic drug resistance.


Read more at: Professor Stefan Marciniak

Professor Stefan Marciniak

The role of cellular stress in lung disease

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Read more at: Professor Gillian Griffiths FMedSci, FRS

Professor Gillian Griffiths FMedSci, FRS

Control of secretion at the immunological synapse 

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