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World AMR Awareness Week 2025: After two successful phases, the Diagnostics for One Health and User Driven Solutions for AMR (DOSA) project has been refunded for a phase 3.

World AMR Awareness Week 2025: The article describes the process of co-creating a 'Youth Manifesto on AMR' which was launched in September 2024.

World AMR Awareness Week 2025: Higlighting some of the work and activities across the network that are addressing antimicrobial resistance.

World AMR Awareness Week 2025: A study led by researchers from the School of Biological Sciences has suggested the discovery of a new mechanism of resistance to common antibiotics could pave the way for improved treatments for harmful bacterial infections.

World AMR Awareness Week 2025: Special edition of our monthly Research Focus series to mark World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2025. #WAAW25

November 2025: Thanks to a generous gift from a private donor, the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is offering four fully-funded PhD studentships to understand the relationship between infectious agents and chronic diseases.

October 2025: A collection of publication highlights from Edinburgh Infectious Diseases over the past month.

October 2025: Low oxygen levels in the blood can alter the genetic makeup of key immune cells, weakening the body’s ability to fight infection, new research shows.

October 2025: Researchers have created pigs that are resistant to classical swine fever (CSF), a highly infectious and often fatal disease that poses a major threat to pig farming worldwide.

October 2025: Researchers have shown that a solid dose vaccine is effective at protecting pigs against a virus and therefore is a practical alternative to conventional vaccine delivery.

September 2025: A collection of publication highlights from Edinburgh Infectious Diseases over the past month.

September 2025: After an international search, Professor José Vázquez-Boland has been appointed the Editor-in-Chief of Animal Microbiology, a new journal launched by the American Society for Microbiology.

September 2025: A recent study involving researchers from the Centre for Inflammation Research on the effectiveness of a maternal RSV vaccine has been cited in the House of Lords, the Sun Newspaper and the UKHSA national RSV vaccination promotion materials.

September 2025: Dr Arun Prakash, a Darwin Trust PhD student, has been retrospectively awarded the prestigious award from the Royal Entomological Society for his 2021 thesis ''Immune Regulation Of Disease Tolerance And Immune Priming In Drosophila'.

August 2025: A collection of publication highlights from Edinburgh Infectious Diseases over the past month.

August 2025: A recent study involving researchers from the Roslin Institute shows how feeding preference may sustain transmission of mosquito-borne viruses.

August 2025: Many congratulations to Professor Gary Entrican from the Roslin Institute who has received the Zoetis IUIS VIC Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist Award at the 14th International Veterinary Immunology Symposium.

August 2025: The programme is aiming to enhance detection of disease outbreaks and to provide data that can inform implementation of potential treatments or interventions.

August 2025: A recent review has found that research into AMR in the environment needs to extend beyond wealthy countries and freshwater settings.

July 2025: A collection of publication highlights from Edinburgh Infectious Diseases over the past month.

July 2025: Claire Moulton-Brown, Thorunn Helgason and Sarah Reece from the School of Biological Sciences and Samantha Donnellan from Edinburgh Napier University have receieved funding awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) as part of a £729k investment to enable innovative research across a range of academic disciplines.

July 2025: Newly published Lancet One Health Commission involving Edinburgh researchers calls for a transformative, interdisciplinary approach to tackle global health threats like infectious diseases and climate change.

July 2025: Researchers from the Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies have discovered that a harmful strain of coronavirus causes a fast-spreading outbreak of a feline disease know as feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) which originated in Cyprus.

July 2025: Emily O'Reilly and Nadia MacArthur host a new podcast highlighting the work of The Fleming Fund Fellowship Scheme at the University of Edinburgh, which aims to support the professional development of practitioners and influencers to boost AMR workforce capacity.

July 2025: Researchers from the Roslin Institute have published a new study showing that Uganda's growing pig sector faces increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) risks.

July 2025: Professor Kenny Baillie from the Centre for Inflammation Research and member of the EID Executive Committee has been awarded an Honorary Membership of The Intensive Care Society for his significant contributions to intensive care medicine - especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.

June 2025: A collection of publication highlights from Edinburgh Infectious Diseases over the past month.

June 2025: Scottish Government has announced that it will provide up to £100,000 in match-funding to support commercialisation of a new vaccine against Louping Ill, a serious viral infection affecting sheep.

June 2025: Researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Leiden University analysed data from multiple studies and identified nearly 4,000 genes linked to the immune response to Staphylococcus aureus. These findings could guide the development of immune-based therapies to support or replace antibiotics in treating serious S. aureus infections.

June 2025: Research into basic protein structure has identified a new molecule that could lead to novel treatments for neurological disease, and open up applications in parasitology.