We focus on how pathogens interact with their hosts at the molecular and cellular level, with the aim of designing better diagnostics, vaccines, and drugs.
Department of Infection Biology and Microbiomes
We focus on how pathogens interact with their hosts at the molecular and cellular level, with the aim of designing better diagnostics, vaccines, and drugs.
We are working to find new methods to control insects and other arthropods that transmit deadly diseases to humans, livestock and pets.
We are working to improve the diagnosis and treatment of parasitic infections in animals. These include being the sole providers of a unique serological test for liver fluke in horses. Find out more about our veterinary parasitology diagnostic services.
We're continually developing successful collaborations across our broad range of research areas.
The Centre is built on the success of the international clinical vaccine research conducted in Malawi in rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines. Covering a wide range of human and animal pathogens, the Centre promotes the global prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases.
The UK-ICN supports global co-ordination for the delivery of collaborative scientific research and sustained long-term one health approach to better investigation of coronaviruses, improved surveillance, and social policies.
Liverpool Veterinary Parasitology Diagnostics (LVPD) offers a broad range of specialist tests for parasitic diseases in animals, from domestic and zoological species to livestock and wildlife.
In a collaboration with Bayer AG and L’Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement, Cameroon, we have shown that a drug called emodepside can kill adults of a worm infecting African cattle, which is very closely related to the human river blindness parasite.
We are performing surveys of wild birds in Malaysia and Thailand to determine if they may carry Orientia-infected chiggers.
Our research into digital dermatitis aetiology, epidemiology and control in multiple species has led to widely used PCR diagnostic tests and significant changes in national and international veterinary and livestock industry policies and practice for digital dermatitis control.
The Tick Cell Biobank houses a collection of most of the continuous cell lines derived from ticks of medical and veterinary importance available worldwide and develops novel cell lines from ticks and other arthropods.
