Centre for Immunology and Infection
A joint venture between the Department of Biology and The Hull York Medical School
CII news and press releases
News from the Centre
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Posted on Monday 20 May 2013
Seven members of the CII attended WorldLeish5, the 4-yearly international congress that brings together the global community of scientists and clinicians working on the leishmaniases, neglected tropical infections that are a research focus for the CII.
Posted on Thursday 9 May 2013
Erica Kintz, postdoctoral fellow in the Van der Woude lab in the CII, wrote an informative summary of the workshop "Standing up for Science" for the members journal of the Society of General Microbiology (Microbiology Today; February 2013).
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Posted on Wednesday 24 April 2013
Dr. Dimitris Lagos and Dr. Mark Coles provided interactive sessions to parents from local schools for a Wellcome Trust funded outreach program helping parents understand the science.
Press releases
Centre to give new dimension to fight against disease
Posted on 10 September 2010New facilities opening today (10 September) will help scientists in York develop drugs and vaccines to combat chronic diseases that devastate the lives of millions of people across the world.
Scientists take new step to understanding cell migration
Posted on 6 July 2010Research led by a scientist at the University of York and Hull York Medical School (HYMS) has thrown new light on the way organs migrate during development in the body.
New drugs hope to fight neglected tropical disease
Posted on 31 March 2010Scientists at the University of York, working with research colleagues in Dundee and Toronto, have made a breakthrough in identifying new treatments for a parasitic disease which proves fatal for tens of thousands of Africans each year.
Imaging technique sheds light on hidden world of inflammation
Posted on 12 March 2010New understanding of the way the body reacts to infection through the work of scientists at the University of York and the Hull York Medical School will help improve vaccines, drugs and the use of computer modelling in medical research.