Global engagement
We are committed to the University’s global engagement and internationalisation strategy. This page highlights our global engagement projects and updates about our latest activities and outputs.
Our researchers collaborate with institutes across the globe in countries including, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Russia, Vietnam and several European countries.
Spotlight project
COVID-19: The risk of SARS-2 establishing itself in animal reservoirs
We are currently working with collaborators in the Kerala State Government Forestry service and the sequencing company Scigenom to screen Indian Wildlife (horseshoe bats and carnivores) for SARS-like viruses. The project has been funded by the BBSRC as part of UKRI’s COVID grants scheme and aims to determine if SARS spill-over from the human population into wildlife is occurring as well as what coronaviruses wildlife in this location already carry and whether these have the potential to infect people. There is a critical lack of data on wildlife virology in Southern India despite it being an area of very high biodiversity. This is a critical knowledge gap in predicting future pandemic virus emergence difficult and this project will provide crucial data to fill that gap.
Latest updates
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- This project used a multidisciplinary biomedical and social approach to investigate distinct properties of LASV sequences that may be linked to virus emergence and spread.
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- We are using a novel approach (next-generation phage display) to identify peptides that mimic the small regions of virus proteins that are specifically recognised by antibodies during infection.
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- The key outcome from this project will be the development of a prototype vaccine to protect piglets against Streptococcus suis, based on the targeting of virulence determinants that circumvent the porcine innate immune response.
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- Researchers from the Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Science, Pharmacy and Engineering have been developing additive manufacture technologies to repair the devastating injuries sustained by individuals that have survived poaching.
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- An ESRC funded project to identify the role of working equids on the families that are dependent on them. This collaborative project involves CES Universidad in Medellin, Colombia, alongside World Horse Welfare, a UK charity working in a number of overseas countries.