Dr Emma Briggs is a molecular parasitologist specializing in Trypanosoma species, the protozoan parasites responsible for three Neglected Tropical Diseases: Human African Trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis, and Chagas Disease. She holds a Ph.D. in molecular parasitology from the University of Glasgow, where her research focused on the unusual genome of Trypanosoma brucei and its complex antigenic variation system.

An effective treatment for a deadly strain of meningitis could become more readily available in less developed nations as a result of research led by Professor Graham Sandford of the Department of Chemistry.

They are known as ‘kissing bugs’ and they spread a disease that rarely makes the headlines but infects up to seven million people worldwide.

The Centre for Global Infectious Disease is delighted to welcome it's newest member, Dr Liz Morris