Infection Research

Bats are natural hosts of many viruses, including coronaviruses, yet much remains unknown about how these viruses persist and spread in bat populations, especially in countries like Uganda that are rich in bat diversity.

This Medical and Life Sciences Research Fund project led by Dr Pooja Agarwal aims to employ nanocarrier based drug delivery of anti-TB drugs in macrophages.

Prosthetic joint infections have a huge impacts on patients’ quality of life and healthcare systems worldwide. The goal of this Medical and life sciences Research funded project is to aid accurate diagnostics for S. aureus bone and joint infections.

Supported by the Medical and Life Sciences Research Fund, Research Scientist Emma Braybrook at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire will use data from Covid-19 patients to monitor, characterise and ultimately predict Covid-19 pathology and devise intervention strategies. The proposal uses extensive expertise and facilities at the hospital and Warwick University to improve disease understanding and management.

The Medical and Life Sciences Research Fund is supporting this collaboration between Warwick University Schools of Engineering and Life Sciences to use bacteriophages as tools to detect bacteria. This novel and potentially effective system could help developing countries and those who lack access to advanced biomedical testing facilities with a cheap and rapid device for the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial infections.

The Medical and Life Sciences Research Fund grant awarded to Mr Jeffrey Cheng at Warwick School of Life Sciences will be used to research cutting edge sequencing methodologies along with human gut mimics to investigate Clostridioides difficile infections and identify bacterial proteins which are important for establishment of infection.