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BA.2, driven to near-zero levels by BA.5, still haunt us, spawning monstrous viruses that, after vanishing for months, burst forth, gnarled & hideous, in novel antibody armor. The latest, which I found skulking around India, has 13 spike mutations. 1/28 github.com/cov-lineages/p…

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I’m a scientist. Every time I hit "post," I hesitate. Not because I doubt the science. But because I know what’s coming....1/

Three recent papers uncovered the intricate interactions between bat merbecoviruses and the ACE2 receptor. In Cell Host & Microbe we summarise these findings and lay out the plausible evolutionary scenarios they may imply! 🦇🦇 doi.org/10.1016/j.chom…

Last month there was an announcement that I thought was a major advancement in world health, but it got little attention. I thought I would tell you all a little bit about it and why it is so important. 1/25

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…

No one talks about the garbage island in the Pacific. But it’s larger than France, Germany, and Spain combined. And it’s leaking toxic chemicals into the fish you eat. Here’s what you were never told about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch:

Glorious Cambridge in Spring…

We find that the closest-inferred ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 likely circulated in western China (Yunnan, Sichuan, or Guizhou), and that of SARS-CoV-2 in Yunnan, China, or Northern Laos, overlapping with contiguous karst and cave landscapes extending through these regions.

Beautiful work clarifying the evolutionary history of SARS-related CoVs as they circulated in their bat reservoirs across Asia, from a world-class team of scientists

Explore the Ray Dolby Centre, the state-of-the-art new home of the Cavendish Laboratory Cavendish Laboratory and a major asset for the University, the city and the country🔬 youtube.com/watch?v=I4oNPR…

Incredibly honoured to be taking up an exciting new chair of Global Health here at Cambridge and co-directorship of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Global Health Institute based out of Hong Kong in partnership with HKU and International Vaccine Institute (IVI). HKU Public Health Cambridge University

In historic move, ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ Member States approve 20% funding increase and 2026–27 budget who.int/news/item/20-0…

UK yet to reach former heights in winning Horizon Europe funds. The UK performed well in its first year back in the EU’s research funding programme, but has not yet bounced back to winning funding at the rate it did before #Brexit, EU data show. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

📃 NEW PUBLICATION | The immune system’s energy sensor revealed in new research Research from Fletcher Lab shows that RNF213 senses ATP to trigger immune defence, revealing a link between energy and immunity. nature.com/articles/s4146… Arda UofG MVLS Nature Communications UofG Sii

**NEW Doctoral Training Programme just launched!!** This exciting programme on Microbial Genomics for Health Protection is joint between IMIBirmingham Uni of Birmingham and UKHSA UK Health Security Agency 9 brilliant projects available!! birmingham.ac.uk/research/centr…

Our latest paper is out on MDA5 variants that increase risk of chronic inflammation but protect from autoimmune disease. Work from a fantastic team shows these variants dampen the antiviral response via loss of RNA binding & increased ATPase activity. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Thrilled to have delivered a talk on innate immune cell cycle and viruses at the Singapore Society for Immunology Conference in my new role as co-director of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Global Health Institute. More discussions to follow as we develop our new institute in Asia.

At the European HIV & Hepatitis European Meeting, Barcelona, a never-to-miss Congress with friends and passionates on HIV resistance. #EUHIVHEP 2025

📢 A big day for African health research: the African Population Cohorts Consortium has formally launched! Hosted by Science for Africa Foundation and funded by Wellcome APCC brings together 40+ cohorts across 16 countries in Africa to drive health research and policy. 🧵(1/2)