Infectious ideas

1 July 2008

Two project grants have been awarded to researchers at Imperial College London through the Immunology and Infectious Disease stream.

Dr Maria-Gloria Basanez will explore how the differences in cattle and human density affects the spread of onchocerciasis (river blindness), which is transmitted by a black fly. Dr Matthew Fisher and colleagues will study Penicillium marneffei, the only Penicillium fungus to cause serious disease in humans, to find out what makes this particular fungus pathogenic.