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Congratulations to Sneha and George on their new paper:"A computationally designed antigen eliciting broad humoral responses against SARS-CoV-2 and related sarbecoviruses"Sneha Vishwanath et al. ‘A computationally designed antigen eliciting broad humoral responses against SARS-CoV-2 and related sarbecoviruses.’ Nature Biomedical Engineering (2023).…

Friday Sept 22th, 12 noonLocation: LT1 (Lecture Theatre 1) - Department of Veterinary MedicineTitle: “Clec9A-targeting as a pathogen agnostic vaccine platform for pandemic vaccine response”Speaker: Dr Sylvie Alonso, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases Translational Research Programme (ID TRP); Co-Director, Department of Microbiology & Immunolo…

PhD candidate Angalee Nadesalingam and colleagues at the LVZ publish the article, Vaccination and protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 omicron variants in people with immunodeficiencies, in Lancet Microbe, discussing what we know about poor responsiveness to COVID-19 immunisation. See the open access comment here.

Merry Christmas! Wish you all the best. 

The 19th annual Lab of Viral Zoonotics retreat was hosted yesterday by Dr Tiley at Queen’s College Cambridge.  Subjects ranged from Zoonotic Hemorrhagic Fever viruses, mechanisms of RNA virus persistence, increased susceptibility to bacterial co-infections, computational biology and accelerated vaccine design. Professor Heeney was grateful for the …

The LVZ starts a new lab initiative in October funded by EVAC/Innovate UK for emerging viral vaccines

University of Cambridge MRC Doctoral Training ProgrammeFully funded PhD studentships available to commence in October 2017.Deadline to apply 1st Dec.Click here for details, eligibility and how to apply.

The LVZ has set the date for its exclusive virology retreat for 2017. Stay tuned